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Colour for a cause The Habitat for Humanity Colour Fun Run was held Sunday at Yorkdale Central School, with a substantial turnout of runners. Even though the weather itself was
grey, the group made their own colour, then going on a run as a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity which raised more than $10,000.
Terriers, league cut ties with Mulhall By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Greg Mulhall is done with Junior hockey in Saskatchewan for the current season. Mulhall who started the season as a forward with the Yorkton Terrier was serving a 25-game suspension imposed by the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League, (SJHL), following a hit on Melville Millionaire goaltender Berk
Berkeliev which left the netminder with a severe head injury in a game played in Melville. Now both the Terriers and the SJHL have severed all ties with Mulhall, meaning he has been released by the team and ousted from the league for the remainder of the 2019-20 season. The most recent sanctions against the 19-year-old were imposed after a video surfaced “with Greg Mulhall speaking with disrespect and profanity
laced words” towards Berkeliev, noted a brief release on the SJHL website. Terrier head coach Mat Hehr told Yorkton This Week late Monday that “obviously it’s an unfortunate situation.” While not having more to say specific to Mulhall’s release Hehr did suggest this was a situation he hoped other young people, not just hockey players will gain something from. “Hopefully for everybody this is a
good learning tool,” he said. Hehr said with social media and camera phones life is increasingly under a microscope for everyone. “Even when I was a player just 10-years ago, we were just getting cellphones,” he said. Now everyone has one and is taking pictures and videos which are posted to the world via social media. “You have to be careful,” he said.
Council consolidating its awards By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer The City of Yorkton will be consolidating and expanding the awards it may bestow upon local citizens after a decision by Yorkton Council at its
regular meeting Monday. “The Citizen Recognition Awards (CRA) Committee was established in January 2018 in efforts to revitalize the City of Yorkton’s Meritorious Service Awards Policy which had
a purpose to establish criteria for recognizing citizens to be presented with a civic award, new awards as well as special Saskatchewan Centennial awards for 2005,” explained Jessica Matsalla – Director
of Legislation and Procedures, with the City at the meeting. The original policy, created in May of 2005, set terms of reference for calling nominations for Awards for a citizen’s awards and Youth Citizen
Award. “The Meritorious Service Award policy sat stagnant for many years when in 2017, it was reviewed and revised into what is now the Citizen Recognition Awards Policy. The
revised policy offers more breadth to process for the same basic concept, including the nomination criteria, timelines, and provision of a panel to adjudicate nominations,” said Matsalla.
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City to develop parks strategy By Calvin Daniels Staff Writer Councillor Randy Goulden wants the City to develop a strategy to create safe play zones around City parks, with a
focus on parks with play structures, spray parks and outdoor rinks. With that in mind Goulden made a formal Notice of Motion to the regular meeting of Council Monday.
In the notice Goulden wrote; “The City has undertaken recent park improvements such as the spray park and outdoor rink at Ukrainian Pioneer Park as well as the recent construction of a play structure
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in Tupper Park, which opened last week. These improvements are meant to encourage families and children to go outside, be active and socialize with their neighbors to create a sense of community and a
safe space. “These spaces see many families and young children enjoying the outdoors. Sometimes children become distracted
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