Yorkton This Week

While it seems increasingly difficult to find a crew to delve into role playing games these days, they hold a special place for me.

There are times when as a sports fan I want to be very, very excited about some tidbit of news that I have found, but now into the 60th year since my birth I have come to realize even the best news in sports can quickly fizzle, so a certain healthy l

Are you starting to think spring? The Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be having their next meeting on Wednesday, March 18, 7 p.m. at SIGN on North Street.

Compare leading varieties based on days to maturity, lodging, height and yield with the Canola Performance Trials (CPT) online database at canolaperformancetrials.ca. Results from 2019 trials are now loaded into the system.

One of the world’s most horrific environmental disasters—the 1950s and ’60s mercury poisoning in Minamata, Japan—may have been caused by a previously unstudied form of mercury discharged directly from a chemical factory, research by the University of

The Yorkton Hyundai Terriers travelled to Humboldt for action tonight (Friday). The hometown Broncos started the scoring in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League contest early with Tristan Shewchuk hitting the twine 1:10 into the contest.

Yorkton Regional High School student Connor Watrych has been awarded a major scholarship. Watrych was one of 88 students travelling to Toronto the weekend of Feb. 2, to interview in the final selection process for the Loran Scholarship Foundation.

A Valentine’s Social was held Friday in Yorkton. The event included a pork loin supper with all the fixings. Music was planned for after the meal, including a singalong. The social was hosted by Westview United Church.

Grade 1 students from St. Paul’s School in the city distributed some special Valentine’s Friday.

Interested students at Saltcoats School are getting some additional hands-on education regarding nature. “It’s really just an off-shoot of our birding group (Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association),” explained Rob Wilson.