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 • 41 episodes
Yorkton Stories
Latest Episodes
Duval Lang: High school football to professional live theatre
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 in Yorkton, in the...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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46:49
Ruth Shaw: her story and the stories she wrote
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 but powerful force and v...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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42:19
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