Opinion

The other day I visited a long-time friend of mine, and together we lamented the state of political discourse today. Steve and I have known each other since somewhere around 1992, give or take.

When Statistics Canada released the crime severity index statistics for 2016, in July 2017, it showed there was more serious crime in Yorkton for the second straight year.

To the surprise of many in the face of the rhetoric of American president Donald Trump, a new North American trade deal has been hammered out. The reaction has been generally positive, at least in this country among farm organizations.

I saw one of my high school teachers in Regina a while back who told me that he reads my columns with great interest.

When I learned about a former parishioner’s death from a mutual friend, the Preacher and I didn’t question whether to attend her funeral. Of course we’d go. Dorothy’s family (name changed) regularly attended our last church.

The days are definitely shorter, and if your garden clean-up is done, our garden season for this year is done! But you know gardeners! We’re always thinking ahead to next year, and it won’t be long till we start getting the 2019 seed catalogues.

This ad in the Yorkton This Week newspaper of June 23, 1982 gives us a history of telephone service in Yorkton over a period of 79 years — 1903 to 1982. 1903 — First time that Yorkton subscribers are able to use a telephone.

I have been thinking about the film Eraser recently. It hasn’t been because it’s a particularly great film – it wasn’t – but instead because it seems to be a completely forgotten film. I imagine most people don’t actually remember Eraser exists.

“Huh, they weren’t kidding,” I thought to myself last Wednesday. “Gary Oldman’s haircut really does look like two melted cobwebs fused to a bowling ball.