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Youth housing project completed

Youth housing project completed

Yorkton Transitional Homes for Youth Inc. last week celebrated the opening of its new housing project in Yorkton: the first of its kind outside of the province's major cities.
Snow house

Snow house

Russell Yasinowski lives north of Yorkton. Retired from farming. he was looking for something to take up some time in the winter, and last year started sculpting with snow.
Area man missing

Area man missing

RCMP in Yorkton are providing the following information regarding an aboriginal man reported missing from their detachment area on February 17: Harold Gordon Smoke, age 38.

Donated equipment at heart of radiology improvements

Recent improvements to the health region's diagnostic imaging systems are a feather in the cap of the Ministry of Health, but The Health Foundation of East Central Saskatchewan wants to remind residents it was local donations that made the upgrades p

New tech to save waste heat

SaskEnergy pipeline subsidiary TransGas, together with partner companies Found Energy and Innovative Steam Technologies (IST) will use an innovative technology designed to capture the waste heat of compressor station engines and convert it to useable
Never too cold to play

Never too cold to play

Brandon Coleman, Lindsay and Kayla Kitsch braved the chilly temperatures on Sunday to dig a tunnel through a massive snowbank in their grandparents front yard on a city street in Yorkton.
Boredom activists hold world rally

Boredom activists hold world rally

Two hundred boredom "activists" gathered in London in December at James Ward's annual banal-apalooza conference, "Boring 2010," to listen to ennui-stricken speakers glorify all things dreary, including a demonstration of milk-tasting (in wine glasses

More provincial dollars to fund surguries

Saskatchewan's government is providing more than $40 million in additional funding for the Saskatchewan Surgical Initiative this year, so that more patients receive surgery sooner.

More babies born

Saskatchewan experienced an increase in the number of live births in the province in 2010. To date, there have been 14,978 live births registered in Saskatchewan in 2010, compared to 14,536 for 2009.

Health region CEO hunt begins

After more than a six-month interim period, the Sunrise Health Region is moving ahead with plans to recruit a new chief executive officer. The health region's first CEO, Joe Kirwan, departed suddenly on July 31 of last year.
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