Opinion

At the regular meeting of Yorkton Council Monday, with little fanfare, but unanimous consent, appointments to Council committees for 2020 were approved.

If you attended any of the curling draws Yorkton hosted last week, you know you got to witness the best the sport has to offer. I’m not a big fan of the sport.

Chess is, for myself, one of the first real games I learned to play. It forms part of the foundation of my love of board games along with crokinole, cribbage and rod-hockey, with checkers deserving of an honourable mention.

Playing cards was a focal point of cultural activity in my house as I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. It was such a known pastime that some high school kids in the area would play games such as Kaiser and Smear at noon hours.

Playing cards was a focal point of cultural activity in my house as I grew up in the 60’s and 70’s. It was such a known pastime that some high school kids in the area would play games such as Kaiser and Smear at noon hours.

“That’s NO serving dish,” the Preacher said. With emphasis. Christmas dinner, 2019. We’d planned to have it at our daughter’s home, a five minute drive from us, but the grandbeans had become quite ill, though well prayed for and taken care of.

It seems that colds, coughs and the flu have run rampant these last few weeks, hopefully you have not been afflicted! Home remedies often praise ginger as a good cure-all.

Last week is ending my ramble I mentioned the sport of kabaddi.

There is little doubt that waste plastics are a major environmental contaminant these days. That is not to suggest all plastics need to be abandoned and forgotten.

An acute housing crisis in Yorkton began as early as 1942, lasting until after the war into the late 1940s.