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The Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be holding their AGM and supper meeting on Wednesday, November 20. This meeting is for current members only and their guests. Members, if you have any questions, please call Liz at (306) 782-2830.

Ah the football playoffs, a time that the unexpected happens with amazing regularity. First off, a tip of the Roughrider toque to the Yorkton Regional High School Raider Gridders on winning a provincial championship.

I’m in a little bit of a quandary over this week’s report, friends.

While there is much that is positive about social media in terms of staying connected with friends, or being in touch with like-minded people in terms of hobbies and interests, it is far from an ideal medium for news about happenings in our world.

The Scandinavian Canadian Land Company had first come to Yorkton to set up an office in 1903 in the building next to the Dunlop Block at #27 Broadway Street East. D.M. Frederickson of Chicago was president and John D.

Monday, we commemorate the 101st armistice. Such occasions seem to have less meaning to recent generations, as we lose generations’ first-hand understanding of the meaning sacrifice and the meaning of country.

In Ontario, there is now a ban on cell phones in the classroom. To be clear, I am not against actual teachers banning phones from their classroom.

The 31st edition of the Grain Millers Harvest Showdown has come and gone, with far too many in the city having not taken the opportunity to walk through the displays. That does not mean crowds were not good.

Sometimes, probably without consciously trying to do it, politicians can end up parroting the rather obvious. Such was the case when the Saskatchewan government delivered its latest Throne Speech. Not surprisingly the Speech, delivered by Lt.-Gov.

Nature Conservancy of Canada