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The 29 riders of the Heart and Stroke Big Bike in Norquay on June 24 raised a total of $9,125.

Once again the reading awards were the highlight of the Canora Junior Elementary School awards assembly on June 23. All the students except the Kindergarten students participate in the accelerated reading (AR) program.

It might seem unlikely that someone born and raised in Yorkton might end up playing professional rugby in Australia, but Nolan Johnstone is hoping to write this rather unique story.

Andréa L’Heureux and Rick Scott Prairies Tour 2015 - Hymns For Her in Prairie Bloom. Introducing a new Canadian singer/songwriter in a duo with a veteran folk artist.

It was a near capacity audience that filled Westminster Memorial United Church on June 14 to hear the Kamsack Community Choir’s spring concert entitled Colour My World.

New Horizons Friday Night Dance, 78 First Ave. N, Yorkton, Sk. Great night of dancing. Everyone is welcome. Time: 8:00 p.m. - 12:00 a.m. Admission includes lunch. Music by: Ron & Sandra Rudoski, June 26. Contact Peter at 306-782-1846.

Ten Sturgis Kindergarten students celebrated a milestone with a graduation ceremony on June 18.

A team comprised of members of the communities of Keeseekoose and Cote First Nations was the top fundraising team at the Kidney Foundation of Canada walk in Yorkton on June 14. The team raised over $1,300, said Kristal Whitehawk.

Members of the family of a surveyor in whose name a lake at Duck Mountain Provincial Park was named picked their way through the bush to visit that lake.

Property owners in the RM of Cote are paying nearly half a mill more in taxes this year than they paid in 2014. Council approved a budget during its meeting of May 8 which called for a tax rate of 13 mills.