Yorkton News Review - Archive

The YRHS Raiders football team had another big weekend as they continued their undefeated start to the season with a 46-1 win over Weyburn on Saturday.

To the Editor: There has been a powerful outpouring of affection and respect for the late Peter Lougheed - and rightly so. As Premier of Alberta and a political leader of national stature, he helped to change our country for the better.

With the death of a gas station attendant in Ontario, who was killed trying to prevent a gas robbery, national attention is being focused on ways to protect people in the profession. In B.C.

One week into being officially open and the Brodie Avenue Skatepark/Walking park was put to full use on Saturday as B3 Extreme and the Yorkton Skateboard Club hosted its annual Freedom Tour and skate competition.

September 28-30 is Culture Days in Yorkton. Culture Days is a collaborative, Canada-wide volunteer movement to raise awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities.

City donates land for new trades/technology centre

World Breastfeeding Week Canada is October 1 - 7, 2012 and Sunrise Health Region has activities planned throughout the week to celebrate breastfeeding and to promote the theme of "Understanding the Past, Planning the Future.

Quite often people will approach me with column ideas. It's usually a complaint or beef that someone would like to express to get a point across and also a matter they feel would be of interest to the general public.

Yorkton is growing, and city manager David Putz recently took the opportunity to talk about what's happening in the city and where it is going to go at a recent Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

To the Editor: Since the start of the month Saskatchewan has Canada's lowest provincial minimum wage. At $9.50 an hour it pays someone working 40-hours per week $19,700 for an entire year, which is below various poverty measurements.