Yorkton News Review - Archive

Local contractor awarded tender

The Health Foundation Charity Golf Classic had a big year in 2013, breaking one million dollars in total funds raised in fourteen years.

Parkland College awarded $85,800 in internal scholarships to 71 students from across East Central Saskatchewan at its awards ceremony at the Painted Hand Casino in Yorkton on March 26.

Yorkton country artist Jackie Guy has a big year coming up in 2014, and it has already begun on a high note. Guy is up for Female Vocalist of the Year at the Saskatchewan Country Music Awards. This is not the first time she has been up for a SCMA.

While there may be snow on the ground, spring is officially on its way as the 2014 Major League Baseball season kicked off with Opening Day on Monday.

To the Editor: Doctors treating addicts from Vancouver's Downtown East Side have been asking the federal government to extend a trial program under which they were allowed to write prescriptions for diacetyl morphine.

Yorkton has joined eight other cities across the province to announce the week of March 30 to April 5 as Transgender Awareness Week.

It's been a looooong winter and one that seemingly has no end. With tax season underway, post Christmas bills still lingering, job woes and who knows what else a person might have on their plate, there is the potential to start feeling the blues.

Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau dropped an F-bomb at a charity boxing event, causing thousands to scatter to their social network of choice to weigh in on what they think of a prominent politician's profanity.

We, the baby boomers, will change the demographics of the community more than any generation before. We will make an impact on the community, our province and the country.