Yorkton News Review - Archive

The federal government has suspended the use of the temporary foreign worker program for the food service industry, pending investigation into alleged abuses of the system by restaurants in the country.

The Yellowhead Flyway Birding Trail Association gathers nature-lovers in the region every year to meet and discuss topics surrounding the great outdoors. This year, the annual YFBTA Symposium was held in Yorkton at St. Gerard's Hall.

One of Yorkton's top young athletes earned major provincial recognition recently as Sacred Heart Saints and Yorkton United Football Club standout Rita Fetsch won Saskat-chewan Soccer's Youth Player of the Year award, capping off a year where she help

To the Editor: With an abundance of natural resources, and a bustling agriculture industry, trade is vital to the Saskatchewan economy.

As legends go, Atari's mass dump of cartridges of their game E.T. was always a good one.

To the Editor: Long thought by most people to belong to the bad old days of polio and smallpox, measles is making a resurgence in Canada due to complacency in the public about vaccinations. Almost daily we hear of new outbreaks.

Don Messer's Jubilee was a Canadian institution, and one of the top rated programs in the country's history during its run in the 1960s.

One would think it would be strictly a matter of common sense but unfortunately accidents can, and do, happen, even right here in Yorkton. Trains are powerful machines yet for whatever reason, people sometimes fail to respect that fact.

They say money can't buy happiness but at this point in life, I'd sure be willing to put that saying to the test.

The Yorkton United Football Club (YUFC) tried something new this year when the club fielded a team from Yorkton to compete in the month-long World Cup Soccer Tournament in Regina.