Yorkton News Review - Archive

The end of February will be marked with the sound of snowmobiles. The Yorkton Sno-Riders are the host of the 2015 Provincial Snow­mobile Festival on February 27 and 28.

The Yorkton Community Clubhouse is beginning to take shape. The change room and washroom facility at Century Field has been in the works since 2009, and construction has finally begun.

The Yorkton Film Festival is proud to announce the continuation of our OPEN Cinema program for the 2014 – 2015 Screening Year. Join us at the Yorkton Public Library as we open up the film vaults and bring out some of the best.

Sela Campbell has been appointed Chairperson to the Theodore Housing Authority Board of Directors along with the new appointments of Margaret Lewis and Donna Zastrizny. Other members of the board of directors are Linda Quinton and Val Blades.

February is Heart Month, and the Heart and Stroke Foundation is kicking off a month of fund raising in the community. Their goal, to see more people survive heart attack and stroke.

The Yorkton Friendship Centre has been feeding local children with their hot lunch program since August, but now they need help. The issue is with the protein for the meals they make, as the program is running very low on meat.

As many Canadian retailing incumbents celebrate the closing of over 130 stores Target nationwide, some wonder what’s next for the retail industry in Canada, and not just in food. Target’s venture into Canada was nothing short of a fiasco.

Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is ambitious. Government, she argues, needs to play a bigger role in “nation building.

Saskatchewan has always been a bit weird about strip clubs. Having a stripper near alcohol has only been allowed for a year, but ever since cities have been working hard to avoid actually allowing such a thing to happen within their limits.

To the Editor: Sharply dropping oil prices and a weakened Canadian energy sector are revealing the limited, ineffectual na­t­ure of Stephen Harper’s economic policies. Those policies, focused almost exclusively on that one sector, are too narrow.