Yorkton This Week

The Town of Esterhazy held its council meeting on March 25, 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Council allowed the press to listen in via phone conference to encourage social distancing.

Municipal investments in infrastructure needed

You know it is spring when you see the geese, crows and eagles returning, as well as local municipal public-works staff out preparing for spring run-off.

Marjorie Dech, who writes under the pseudonym Marsha Olivia Meadows, has a new book. A book from the author has become a rather regular occurrence. “I published my first novel in 2013.

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The wind was brisk Saturday afternoon in the city. And most people in Yorkton appeared indoors as they continue self-isolating in the face of COVID-19.

As of April 4, 2020, Saskatchewan has 11 new, confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the provincial total to 231 reported cases. Currently, there are four people in hospital in the province.

Churches might be locked down during the COVID-19 crisis, as people are not permitted to gather in groups of over 10 people, but local churches are finding ways to keep in touch with their congregations. Yorkton This Week spoke to Rev.

It’s difficult to be hopeful and positive these days, but perhaps if we focus on our upcoming gardens, we might be uplifted. The British poet Alfred Austin once said “ The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature.

“Even when I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, you are with me,” we read in the beloved twenty-third Psalm. In these fear-heavy days, God still walks and talks with us. And when some of us sicken, and some die, he is there too.