Yorkton This Week

Expanded Public Health Order for mandatory self-isolation, gatherings

It appears over the next few weeks I may just have to leave a big blank space when it comes to sports since almost every league in North America and beyond are on shutdowns because of the potential of games to be the site of transmission for COVID-19

The Patrick family had roots in Canada since 1822, when they emigrated from Ireland to Québec. They had moved to Ontario by the time Thomas Patrick was born in 1864.

If there has ever been any doubt that the marketplace for agriculture products can change overnight it has certainly been reaffirmed over the last week or 10 days.

Three upcoming events hosted by the Yorkton Exhibition Association will be either cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

One of the major items in the 2020-21 Provincial Budget for Yorkton was $750,000 towards planning for renovations at Yorkton Regional High School.

Toilet paper is an interesting industry. Basically, toilet paper is something that is well known. Each individual person uses roughly the same amount each year, so demand can be easily tracked.

The Yorkton RCMP are requesting the public’s assistance in locating two males who were reported missing from Yorkton, Saskatchewan between Tuesday, March, March 17 th , 2020 and Wednesday, March 18 th , 2020.

The Yorkton Curling Club has made donations to three local groups as a way of saying thank you. The curling club wanted to give back to the community because of the great volunteer support it received during the recent 2020 Meridian Canadian Open.

Consider what’s going on all through Canada — and North America: Conservatives are finding themselves uniting under big tents while those on the left are most squabbling and setting up their own tiny encampments.