Yorkton This Week

As of March 22, 2020, the province of Saskatchewan has eight new, confirmed cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 52 reported cases. • Thirty-three cases are confirmed and 19 cases are presumptive positive.

Dungeon crawling adventures in board game form are not new. Nor are deck-builders with a few dozen in various forms amid the board games out these days.

Whatever the circumstances, sings Canadian musician Big Dave McLean, in his gravelly, Louis Armstrong-ish voice, “there will always be a change.” A friend didn’t expect her perfect grandchild to be stillborn.

Scaredy Cali by Jessica Williams Illustrated by Nathan Monção Published by All Write Here Publishing Review by Michelle Shaw $11.99 (softcover) ISBN 9781999539702 Cali is afraid of lots of things.

Dr. Gordon Asmundson, a psychology professor at the University of Regina, has received $400,000 in funding for his research project COVID-19: The Role of Psychological Factors in the Spreading of Disease, Discrimination, and Distress.

And, helping support the food bank

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With the widespread cancellation of events and activities in our city, Yorkton This Week is looking for some good ideas or suggestions for photos, stories or features about people in our community.

The Roy Romanow Provincial Laboratory (RRPL) now has the ability to do confirmatory testing for COVID-19. As a result, all of the new cases reported today have already been confirmed and we will no longer be reporting on presumptive cases.

Yorkton and District Community Foundation has accepted donations of $52,000