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Dick DeRyk

Everybody's grandma

June 26, 2026 8:00am 1:00

Sherry Whitehawk has eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. For most grandparents that’s where the counting stops. Not so for Sherry.For clarification: many still know her as Sherryl and still call her that, bu...

She was Canada's first female plumber

May 06, 2026 9:00am 26 min

When Linda Cymbalisty married Joe Skomorowski, they set their sights on leaving Winnipeg and setting up their own plumbing shop in a rural town. And that included quitting university and becoming a plumber herself!As it ...

The long forgotten Terrier junior hockey team

April 09, 2026 7:00pm 53 min

In 1997 Gene Krepekavich, the longtime Yorkton Terrier booster, volunteer and club president for six seasons published the history of the first 25 years of the junior Terriers hockey team. It starts with the 1972-73 seas...

Snowarama started as a bumpy ride in a highway ditch

March 02, 2026 7:00am 59 min

A local fundraiser that started in a snowy highway ditch has grown into an event that refuses to slow down, and now includes wheeled riders in the desert. We follow the history of Yorkton’s Snowarama from a 1977 ride spa...

Duval Lang: High school football to professional live theatre

February 04, 2026 7:00am 44 min

Duval Lang, known to many as Duve, has been immersed in Calgary live theatre for 46 years now. He ended up there for university, and has called it home ever since, other than when he travelled the world as an actor.But i...

Ruth Shaw: her story and the stories she wrote

January 08, 2026 1:00pm 42 min

To the many newer residents of Yorkton, the name Ruth Shaw likely isn’t recognizable. But to those who lived here in the latter half of the previous century, the name, and the woman who bore that name, was an unassuming ...

Five Yorkton teens: the road from here to elected office

December 16, 2025 8:00am 57 min

They were typical teenage boys when they lived in Yorkton in the 1970s, 80s, and into the early 90s. They came from different backgrounds, attended school here, took part in a variety of activities, pursued different goa...

About Dan the Storyman, Poetree and Friends, and ultra running

November 20, 2025 9:00am 36 min

Dan Calef was, and sometimes still is, Dan the Storyman, known locally as the story-telling head of the Yorkton public library from 1983 to 1999. He looked after story time for kids, and told stories on local television ...

Food security and 15 tons of potatoes

October 18, 2025 11:00am 32 min

In the summer and fall of 2025, several factors came together, one of them out of the blue, to tackle and do more about hunger and food insecurity in Yorkton.The first was in early summer when the city of Yorkton hired a...

Yorkton Psychiatric Centre was a first (and cutting edge) in 1964

September 11, 2025 4:00pm 53 min

Those working in the field of psychiatry and mental health treatment across Canada and the United States came to Yorkton in 1964 and 1965 in large numbers to see for themselves how a new way of treating mental health pat...

Kristopher Grunert: the magic of photography

August 20, 2025 4:00pm 51 min

Kristopher Grunert was born and raised on the family farm on Orkney Road, a short drive northwest of Yorkton. His parents, sister and he lived on land first established as the Grunert homestead in 1888. Farming, however,...

Sigga Houston: the purposeful life of a pioneer doctor

June 22, 2025 2:00pm 50 min

Dr. Sigridur (Sigga) Christianson Houston and her husband Dr. Clarence Joseph (CJ) Houston operated a medical practice in Yorkton for nearly 50 years, after a year in Watfort City, North Dakota. Both were graduates of th...

Metro Prystai: his life in his words

May 20, 2025 11:00am 48 min

The hockey career of Yorkton’s Metro Prystai has been well documented. He had a storied career with the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings over a span of 12 years in the 1940s and 50s, scoring the Stanley Cup winni...

Yorkton, the volleyball factory of the 1980s

April 14, 2025 11:00am 1:01

When it comes to Yorkton sports dynasties, the dominance of Yorkton volleyball teams and players in the 1980s stands out. Senior hockey had a good run with the Terriers winning three league titles and four provincial cha...

Alexa tells us about forensic pathology

March 14, 2025 9:00am 31 min

We haven't asked Siri, the Apple virtual assistant, about forensic pathology. But we did ask Alexa -- no, not Siri's counterpart at Google, but Alexa Haider, who  graduates this spring after four years of studies at Tren...

The changing face, and faces, of Yorkton

February 17, 2025 7:00am 1:14

Almost sixty years ago, when I first came to Yorkton, it was a very "white" community where the names were predominantly Ukrainian, German or British, reflecting the founding and early settlement of this part of the prai...

Not your conventional clergyman

January 22, 2025 11:00am 36 min

Shawn Sanford Beck -- born, raised and educated in Yorkton and area -- is now a pastor with the United Church in Saskatoon with a special mission. He was an Anglican priest, a position he left due to some unresolved conf...

Hamton SK: only memories and ashes remain

December 12, 2024 8:00am 26 min

The village of Hamton is like many Saskatchewan communities between Yorkton and Canora… still on the map, but not really there anymore. But to say there is nothing left of Hamton is a mis-statement. It looks that way fro...

Teaching sustainability and learn-by-doing in remote Africa

November 14, 2024 7:00am 45 min

Lesotho, a landlocked country in southern Africa, is home to about two million people, including Ivan Yaholnitsky, whose family name is familiar in the Yorkton area. The Yaholnitsky family farmed south of Mikado. Ivan we...

Yorkton and computers: back in the early days, and now

October 23, 2024 7:00am 41 min

It's almost 50 years since the first computers started being used in Yorkton. We talked with Andy Balaberda, the first local computer teacher, and Rick Coleman; he and Warren Gamracy were very early entrants into the bus...

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