Yorkton This Week

The vast majority of businesses throughout Canada have felt the impact of Covid-19 over the last two months.

Esterhazy council has approved the 2020 Operating Budget, with the mill rate to remain at 6.5 mills on the current assessment and the commercial mill rate factor to remain at 1.7.

Municipalities in the Esterhazy-Rocanville area will be receiving an additional $1,150,000 in potash tax sharing this year, with RMs receiving up to $384,000 more than last year, and towns receiving up to $49,000 more than last year.

On April 29, the Yorkton Detachment received a complaint of vandalism at M.C. Knoll School. Two sheds had been spray painted, likely during the previous night.

Yorkton’s Salvation Army Food Bank has received a financial ‘shot-in-the-arm’. The Louis Dreyfus Company, Yorkton has presented the Food Bank with a donation of $5,000.

Also 17 new confirmed cases

It all began with a wrestler. Barry Bradshaw, who was just recognized by the Easter Seals National Volunteer Awards for his decades of work with Snowarama, said that it was Whipper Billy Watson that got it all started.

National Volunteer Week was marked across Canada this week (April 19 to 25). In Canada volunteering is deeply ingrained to the point it is a part of our identity as Canadians.

After a case of COVID-19 was diagnosed at James Smith First Nation, Kinistin Saulteaux Nation Chief Greg Scott and the rest of the band council decided to lockdown their community. The lockdown came into effect on April 5.

Saskatchewan’s big game draw opens on May 1. Hunters have until midnight on May 25 to submit their online applications.