It is K-Anthony’s first JUNO Awards nomination. “It is also the first time that a Jamaican native has been nominated in this category of the JUNO Awards, so it is such a great honor and achievement for Jamaica and especially for K-Anthony,” said Sharon Rurak, of Yorkton who is part of the musician’s management team. K-Anthony moved to Yorkton in 2013 with his wife Kamelia who was a nurse at Yorkton Regional Health Centre and with their daughter Nia. The nomination was not exactly expected. “I was very surprised by the JUNO nomination,” K-Anthony told Yorkton This Week via email. “This is a far way from where I first started from . . .
However, that is presently not the case, nor is it likely to be in the next couple of years. “We don’t have a staffing problem now. We did, we have had staffing concerns, but not now,” said Ross Fisher, Executive Director with the Health Foundation, who first brought the proposed move to the attention of Yorkton This Week. Fisher said last fall three new microbiology laboratory technician students began training and will soon have completed that and will be offered positions here. In addition, four techs are “coming back off mat (ernity) leave,” said Fisher. And while there has been concerns about aging staff retiring, Fisher said he has learned only one technician is eligible to retire in the next two years, and that individual has indicated they are not looking to leave at this time.
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John Telford Halldorson passed away on Sunday July 7, 2013 at the Yorkton Regional Health Centre with his daughter, Deb by his side. John Telford Halldorson was born February 14, 1941 on a farm near Kamsack, SK to Harry and Anne (nee Chernoff) Halldorson. John grew up on the family farm and attended school at The Prairie Queen School in Kamsack. After completing Grade 8 he worked many odd jobs as a labourer. He then gained employment with some seasonal work for the Department of National Resources (DNR). John attended school in Moose Jaw and Saskatoon where he achieved his Journeyman s Mechanic Certificate. Then from 1965 to 1968 he worked for International Harvester in Regina, and in 1968 he moved to Yorkton to work for the Department of Highways until he retired in 1996. John was united in Holy Matrimony to Florence (nee Barisoff) on October 9, 1965 in Kamsack. During their 17 years of marriage they were blessed with two children; a son Douglas, and three years later a daughter, De
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Mar 12, 2021 3:01 PM
The Canadian Union of Public Employees says the Moe government is considering plans to cut services to the microbiology lab at Yorkton Regional Health Centre. The union calls it a betrayal of rural health services that will increase wait times for diagnostic services.
Sandra Seitz, president of CUPE Local 5430 says, “Rural health services have been struggling under this provincial government, and the cutting of microbiology lab services would further erode rural health care services in Saskatchewan,” She says, “Having to send samples to Regina would double the wait time for test results meaning rural patients are at a greater risk of delayed treatment.”