Opinion

Maybe you were in one of the northbound cars I met on Highway Nine between eight and eight-thirty that Monday morning. You couldn’t have known, and neither could I, that with every rotation, all five bolts on my front tire, driver’s side, got looser.

Months ago, I vanquished my pint-sized enemy, banishing him to obscurity on my desk. Now, as the temperature soars and BBQ fundraisers demand coverage, I’m discovering that he may be exacting a long-awaited revenge.

In July of 1919, the YORKTON AUTO CLUB held an old time dance and bon fire party at York Lake as their annual big celebration. A supper was served followed by dancing in the War Veterans Pavilion.

Recently I was on one of the more notable social media sites and there was a post that was drawing a lot of attention (mostly disgust). The post was about baking bread containing flour made from ground-up cockroaches.

It continues to amaze me how modern-era game designers can still come up with ideas for games that “feel” as though they could have been created a few centuries ago. And the games offer mechanics which work and provide a fun gaming experience.

I remember once on a playground, my brother was there with his son, doing what you typically do with your kids – running around the playground equipment, encouraging them to try the slide, general dad stuff.

You can’t blame people for tuning out of politics because of the sneaky, self-serving and mealy-mouthed way politicians sometimes do things. But maybe part of the problem is we don’t give enough credit to politicians when they do behave honourable.

Thursday, Jun. 21 is the longest day of the year for 2018.

Everyone’s a tough guy on the internet. That’s what life is like in our tech-driven world of ever-increasing online communication these days.

The 1966-67 Yorkton Collegiate Institute Yearbook, Impressions ’67 was incorrectly published under the title, Yorkton Regional High School, which had not yet opened.