Yorkton Stories
A podcast hosted by Dick DeRyk about people and events, past and present, in Yorkton, Saskatchewan Canada, sponsored by Harvest Meats and Grain Millers Canada.
Podcasting since 2023 • 39 episodes
Yorkton Stories
Latest Episodes
Five Yorkton teens: the road from here to elected office
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 goals, and left when they c...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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57:26
About Dan the Storyman, Poetree and Friends, and ultra running
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 in a show that ended up ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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36:24
Food security and 15 tons of potatoes
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 barriers to acce...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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32:13
Yorkton Psychiatric Centre was a first (and cutting edge) in 1964
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 patients was being implemen...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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53:28
Kristopher Grunert: the magic of photography
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, was not in Kris’ future...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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51:09