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YORKTON - The past few weeks in our city have been a veritable blur of activities, giving residents and visitors a huge range of things to do and enjoy.

Whether you attended the recent Yorkton Exhibition Association Summer Fair, the Canada Day celebration at the Western Development Museum, weekly June Days organized by YBID at City Centre Park, YTC’s National Aboriginal Day festivities, the RCMP Musical Ride or so many more that the list is too long for this space, Yorkton has certainly been living up to its slogan ‘Where Good Things Happen’.

Things may have skewed a bit to holding events in June this year, at least those which were held in front of the Legacy Co-op Grandstand because there are plans to undertake phase two of its construction – the finishing touches – in the coming weeks. That will mean the grandstand will go from a gathering place for events to construction site, so activities were a bit compressed this year.

Of course having a lot of events at the grandstand in just a few weeks did not seem to stop people from coming out, so that was a good thing.

That we have had so many things to do locally is perhaps an opportune occurrence in the summer of 2022 given the price of fuel which has put a definite damper on thoughts of travel. With the price for a litre of regular gasoline hovering around the $2 per litre level for weeks now anytime one can stay home and have fun rather than heading down the highway seems a prudent thing to do.

Perhaps we will come to appreciate anew all that our city has to offer, and that would be a positive thing. Too often we think the best things happen elsewhere while we actually have a lot of enjoyable outings right here in Yorkton.

That our busy June and now into July has happened we seem to finally be emerging from months of being largely shut-in in the face of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

There is no doubt there was a pent up desire by many to just get out the front door and be with other people in a setting which was relaxed and fun and in recent weeks crowds have been good for the whole range of happenings locally.

Of course there is some suggestions we might see COVID reappear in a more significant way in the coming months. These things do seem to be somewhat cyclical in nature and since they also tend to mutate with new variants always seeming to pop up, it is unlikely we have seen the final impact of the pandemic.

What will that mean in the coming months is of course an unanswerable question at this point, but as we continue to gather and enjoy our summer for the first time in three years, we shouldn’t exactly abandon all thoughts of COVID.

After all, some level of vigilance in terms of our own health, and the health of our community is never wasted.