Yorkton This Week

Parkland College has made the difficult decision to cancel the Dollars for Scholars Golf Classic for 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It’s kids aplenty this spring at Jim and Stacey Young’s farm south of the city. While Stacey reports they have one miniature goat the rest of her herd are dairy or meat goats. “No! We don’t eat them,” she said.

Sunday was delivery day for dozens of birdhouses going out to residents in the city. Greg and Leone Ottenbreit delivered most of the ‘Cancer is for the Birds 2020’ fundraiser birdhouses on the weekend.

There are always new role playing games popping up, and some have the most-interesting themes.

If people don’t praise God, scripture says, the rocks will cry out. I’d like to hear that. I wonder what praise would sound like, crackling from sharp granite edges.

“Sauntering, Thoreau-style" Written by Victor Carl Friesen Published by Your Nickel's Worth Publishing Review by Shelley A. Leedahl $25.

Arrows in a Quiver: From Contact to the Courts in Indigenous-Canadian Relations by James Frideres Review by Ben Charles $39.95 ISBN 9870889776784 Indigenous-settler relations, sovereignty, and legalities have a long and tumultuous history in Canada.

Steps taken to improve canola seed emergence willimprove the return on investment for seed and can improve overall crop profitability.

NOTE: This piece was originally published on the www.heritagesask.ca blog I was not surprised to hear that some of the first reported shortages in grocery stores was (after toilet paper, a subject worthy of its own cultural study) yeast and flour.

The University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization-International Vaccine Centre (VIDO-InterVac) has been awarded $23 million to fast-track efforts to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce