Yorkton This Week

You get what Dwain Lingenfelter and the NDP are doing.

Do up those supper dishes early tonight, Wednesday, September 15, and join the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society for our first regular meeting at 7 p.m. at Yorkdale Student Centre.

Culture Days is taking place September 24-26 as part of the larger Culture Week in Saskatchewan celebration.

Yorkton Council passed amendments to the City's Municipal Development Plan and its Zoning Bylaw to make way for a major housing development on the old Fairview School property. The project by Terra Developments Inc.

Yorkton Council approved submitting the names of four long-time City employees for Meritorious Service Awards at the 2011 Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association convention.

Both football teams at the Sacred Heart High School (SHHS) have gotten themselves off to impressive starts now that high school football in Yorkton is now fully running on all levels. The juniors pounded Esterhazy also at home, last Wednesday.

For two decades two relics have hung around our yards and gardens. They've followed us to three different homes. A skull, white as chalk, porous as fine sponge, and a single deer horn. The horn doesn't get much notice, but the skull raises curiosity.

With the unanimous support of Yorkton Council at its regular meeting Monday, six historic markers will be installed throughout the downtown area.

The Yorkton Tribal Council has a new director of education. Last week, Ross Brown took over the position vacated after a long tenure by former director Don Pinay.

The art piece which was commissioned as a legacy to the Olympic Torch Run passing through Yorkton earlier this year has been installed on the southeast corner of the curling rink at the Gallagher Centre.