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Muffins and meetups
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Parents, students, and teachers bonded over hot coffee and tasty breakfast snacks last Friday morning. Yorkdale Central hosted its ‘Mugs and Muffins’ event on
Sept. 7, giving the school community a chance to learn about each other as the new school year began.
Suspect in carjacking arrested By Devin Wilger Staff Writer A suspected carjacking in Yorkton has led to charges. David Allan Shepherd was charged
with Robbery, Theft, Uttering Threats, Forcible Confinement and a provincial Traffic Safety Act offence in relation to an incident that took place outside a restaurant on Broadway Avenue in Yorkton on the evening of Sept. 8.
The accused approached a young person and forced them to drive away from the location, taking them to an ATM and forcing them to withdraw cash, said the RCMP in a release. They then drove south, and the victim was
able to escape in Whitewood, Sk. The accused fled in the victim’s vehicle. The RCMP sought out the public’s assistance in finding Shepherd, and he was arrested in Regina. He is currently remanded in custody.
YRHS saves local Terry Fox Run By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer When Roby Sharpe received a telephone call telling him the annual Terry Fox Run was not going to happen in Yorkton, it didn’t sit right with him. “It would have been the first time in 38 years,” he said. So the Yorkton Regional High School counsellor called the Terry Fox Run office to find out details. The problem was a lack of a local organizing volunteer he was told. Sharpe said the local high
school holds its own Terry Fox Run, scheduled for Friday, and he suggested the community could simply piggy back on the school’s effort. “They wanted it to be on Sunday,” he said, adding a lot of schools organize runs outside community effort. “I thought ‘we can’t not have it in Yorkton’,” he said, adding the run has special meaning since student Chad Young had the same cancer as Fox, losing his leg, and ultimately his life. So Sharpe talked to Chad’s siblings Ben and Chelte about the situation.
It’s close to the community and the school. — Chelte Young, co-event manager “We decided we could probably do it at the school,” he said. “It’s close to the community and the school,” said Chelte, who said she and her brother
were eager to take on a sort of ‘project manager’ role for the walk. Ben echoed his sister’s sentiments. “It’s obviously an event very
dear to the community,” he said, adding having a brother whose journey paralleled Fox’s so closely. So the school will host the community run this Sunday, with registration beginning at 12, and the run at 2. People are also encouraged to pre-register online by following the links at ww.terryfox.org Run staff will be on-hand Sunday to collect the pledges. A hotdog lunch will be offered following the run, and Yorkton Co-op has come onboard to help with supplies for the barbecue.
safeTALK workshops being held By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Part of the money which was raised through the Elias Giannoulis Memorial Hockey Tournament went to Christ the Teacher School Division (CTTSD)
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to help train people in the safeTALK program. Kerri Shear, with CTTSD, said they were one of three recipients, the others being the Good Spirit School Division and SaskAbilities, of funding which was to target mental health sup-
port in the community. The safeTALK program fits that focus as it is a half-day alertness training that prepares anyone 15 or older, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. Shear explained that
she and Scott Musqua took training in June to be instructors of the safeTALK program, which focuses on helping people in the community help others. The program helps those taking the course better understand what
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might be indications someone is having suicidal thoughts. “It teaches how to ask that question,” said Shear, adding people often feel uncomfortable, or scared to ask another person if they are thinking about suicide.
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“It’s a very difficult thing to say,” he said. But, people should understand asking the question does not suddenly put the idea in someone’s head. “And, you’re not making the situation worse by
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