Yorkton This Week

SASKATOON – The University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Department of Drama—the oldest drama department in Canada and the Commonwealth—is celebrating its 75th anniversary with a series of virtual events beginning June 1, 2021.

On Friday, May 28, a 65-year-old male and a 73-year-old male travelled to the Porcupine Forest north of Kamsack. At 9:42 p.m.

On May 30, at approximately 1:58 a.m., Kamsack RCMP were responding to a call when they came across a damaged motor vehicle in the ditch beside Highway #8, north of Kamsack. The vehicle appeared to have rolled several times.

The Southeast Senior Baseball League is about to kick-off its 2021 season, albeit with a shortened schedule and fewer teams. “We’re going to give it a go,” said Mark Jacobs with the Parkland Pirates, one of four teams in the league this summer.

With the display at the Gallagher Centre revitalized and expanded, and museum artefacts being catalogued this summer, the Yorkton Sports Hall of Fame and Museum reported on a very active year at its annual general meeting held May 26.

Action has started in the Richardson Pioneer Men's Fastball League Western Cycle Division. The Rosebud Royals met the Rosebud Jr Royals in a recent exhibition double header. Game one was a pitchers’ battle featuring James Holowaty and Koby Faubert.

When the Yorkton Film Festival handed out its hardware last week, it was the film Captive which walked away the big winner.

The Health Foundation of East Central Saskatchewan held their Annual General Meeting on May 19, in the offices of the Foundation at 41 Betts Avenue in Yorkton.

For many of us, wildlife is the symbol of nature conservation. This isn’t surprising; humans have lived closely with other living things for most of our history.

To research undocumented deaths and burials in residential schools in Saskatchewan