Yorkton This Week

It was a good Father’s Day golf outing for Yorkton’s Dick DeRyk.

The town of Moosomin passed its budget on Wednesday, and has dropped its mill rate by half a mill, from 12.5 mills to 12.0 mills, in an effort to recognize the downturn in the economy due to Covid-19.

Multiple canola plant counts done about a month after seeding will provide a report card on the seeding operation and help with planning for the rest of 2020.

In alignment with the Government of Saskatchewan’s Re-Open Saskatchewan plan, the Saskatchewan Apprenticeship and Trade Certification Commission (SATCC) is gradually re-starting services that were paused due to COVID-19.

Bridge2Food event builds on success in Saskatoon last year

Starting June 23, while supplies last

There are 20 new cases of COVID-19 in Saskatchewan to report on June 21, 2020, bringing the provincial total to 746. Eighteen of the new cases are in the South region and two are in the Far North region.

So last week’s review mentioned my favoured cribbage variant was King’s Cribbage so I thought it was only natural to review it this time around. I have sought out cribbage variants over time, and have 10-12 stacked in the game room.

The Golden Sheaf Awards have named their best film of the 2020 Yorkton Film Festival, and it goes to Mr. Berry, a profile of math teacher and tutor Brij Berry from Prince George, B.C.

He’s ninety-six now, living in a residential care facility in B.C. I can’t call him on the phone anymore. He hears very little and struggles with dementia. Until my sister mentions my name, he doesn’t speak of me.