Yorkton News Review - Archive

Yorkton's SecurTek Pioneers have provided funding in the amount of $8,000 for a new therapy program now available for patients who have suffered a Stroke or Heart Attack.

"While I don't think I can do everything that needs to be done, I can certainly do my share.

Recently, I was treated to a presentation by yet another expert who believes the world's climate is going to hell in a hand basket. The message for agriculture is adapt, adapt, adapt.

It was an up and down week for the Harvest. Fortunately, it ended on a high note. The Harvest ended an abbreviated two-game losing streak with a 4-0 victory, Sunday, versus the Saskatoon Blazers.

The undefeated Sacred Heart Saints took another step closer to first place in the East Central 9-man Football Conference with a 17-7 victory over Fort Qu'Appelle last Thursday.

The beauty of rivalry games is that prior wins and losses don't carry any weight. The high-flying Terriers found that out the hard way last Friday, as they were downed by the Melville Millionaires 2-1, in a shootout, at the Farrell Agencies Arena.

A summertime robbery has resulted in two local residents being charged. On June 3 2010, two masked suspects, armed with a firearm, entered Family Pizza in Yorkton, and robbed the lone employee at gun point.

After two years of touring, things are looking up for David Newberry, who released his first formal record this year on Vancouver's Northern Electric imprint (Rodney Decroo, Pointed Sticks, Violet Archers, Herald Nix).

Crop farmers who are unable to access their granaries in order to haul their product due to wet or flooded road and fields now have more time to repay cash advances under the Advance Payment Program (APP).

The Cab Clothing/Yorkton Regional High School (YRHS) Female Athlete of the Month for March, Kyla Bassing-thwaite, is a Grade 12 student at YRHS.