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Media Release for CPKC Train – December 5, 2023
Yorkton, SK
The CPKC Holiday Train (formerly the CP Holiday Train) is returning to Yorkton to celebrate its 25th season of visiting communities across the CPKC network and helping those in need. The 2023 Holiday Train is scheduled to stop in Yorkton on Tuesday, December 5 from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. on Livingstone Street and Fourth Avenue (behind the Cornerstone Credit Union.) A concert by ‘Anyway Gang’ will be put on, and hot chocolate and hot dogs will be available for a donation with all proceeds to go towards the Yorkton Salvation Army. Holiday train co-chairs, Mayor Mitch Hippsley, and Councillor Randy Goulden state: “We are so excited to have the CPKC Holiday Train back in Yorkton, and we encourage everyone to come out and enjoy this festive experience! Yorkton has had the Holiday Train come through in 2019, and done virtually in 2021, and we are back in person for 2023. At this time of year, we are looking for donations of healthy non-perishable food items, or cash to go to the Yorkton Salvation Army as admission to the train/ concert. We support the CPKC’s efforts to collect food items that are healthy, because, regardless of circumstance, everyone should have access to healthy, nutritious food.” Thanks to the generous support of great communities like Yorkton, the Holiday Train has raised over $22.5 million and over 5.1 million pounds of food since 1999 to help people struggling with food insecurity. With Yorkton’s help, we can continue to raise food, money and awareness for people facing hunger issues in our Community and across North America.
We have a couple of radio contest winners also riding the train into Yorkton from Bredenbury! Thanks to GX94 and the Fox for running this contest.
A screening of Rocky Mountain Express will happen at the Yorkton Film Festival, at the Godfrey Dean Cultural Centre - 49 Smith St. E., at 1:15 p.m. just after the Holiday Train leaves Yorkton. The film, which takes audiences on a steam train journey through the Canadian Rockies, and highlights the building of a nearly impossible transcontinental railway, is being screened, free of charge, in honour of the CPKC Holiday Train stopping in Yorkton. All are welcome.
Hippsley and Goulden also state they would like to thank all the community groups and businesses that have stepped up to support the Holiday Train’s 2023 Visit, including Yorkton Tribal Council, Royal Ford, The Bentley, The Cornerstone Credit Union, SHHS Student Volunteers, Cloud Nine Coaches, the Banks with Salvation Army receptacles, GX94 and The FOX FM radio stations, Yorkton This Week, Parkland Search And Rescue (PSAR) City of Yorkton staff,
Hippsley goes on to state: “We are so proud and appreciative of the contributions that our community groups that are always there to help out in a heartbeat and give back.”
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