Yorkton This Week

Vaccinations given pass 300,000 mark

The Saskatchewan Rattlers, member club of the Canadian Elite Basketball League (CEBL), today announced their three selections in the 2021 CEBL U SPORTS Draft. The Rattlers selected Nervens Demosthene with the first overall pick in the draft.

Study highlights opportunities and advantages of new technology

The Kinsmen Club of Yorkton surprised a local town with a donation to help them with a massive upcoming project. The club donated $50,000 to the Town of Canora to replace their current swimming pool.

On March 23, at 11:38am two male subjects and a female subject entered a business on Hamilton Road in Yorkton, SK. Video surveillance captured one male subject switching his jacket and pants in the men’s wear section.

A local senior’s home gave its residents a little pick me up late last week. The Bently Retirement Home hosted a drive-true, in partnership with the local Dairy Queen, to give its residents some ice cream.

The COVID-19 pandemic has rained on Craven’s music festival parade, again.

Spring of course is the time of renewal, and typically that includes governments unveiling their latest budgets, the City of Yorkton passing its budget recently and last week the Saskatchewan Party presenting its plan for spending and revenues provin

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Regina – New Democratic Leader Ryan Meili again asked the Saskatchewan Party government in question period on April 12 about moving front-line workers to the head of the line for the COVID-19 vaccine.