Opinion

Some of my readers have asked about my Sweet Sixty Project – putting together sixty feminine hygiene kits for use by the organization Days for Girls (www.daysforgirls.org), in honour of my sixtieth birthday.

It is easy to get stuck in a familiar routine of cheese balls and bread dips when planning, or going to, such an event. I hope this appetizer recipe can help rescue you from that beaten path.

The next meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be on Wednesday, February 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the SIGN building on North Street. Our topic will be ikebana. When you and I get together, I often suggest we share a cup of tea.

I just did something that I thought I would never do: I joined Twitter! Now I, along with millions of others, can add my two cents worth to the conversation (which is really nothing considering the status of the now defunct penny in Canada).

If there weren’t already lots of reasons to dislike new U.S. President Donald Trump, he seems to be providing new ones each day. Trump added to his bombast in his presidential inaugural address by suggesting that Americans were living in carnage.

We just endured the first Friday the 13 th of this year. The next Friday the 13 th will be in October. Marion believes that Friday the 13 th is a lucky day for her, so she bought a few lottery tickets.

In my mind, there has never been a more critical moment than now to act for our brothers and sisters in need.

And so it begins. The Donald Trump era. From the first episode of The Apprentice to his inauguration speech, President Donald Trump has been the subject of constant public scrutiny and critique.

It would have been more than a decade ago that two people who had been doing missionary work stopped in the office and I was assigned the interview.

No one can suggest Canadian farmers are being complacent in terms of producing crops. In fact, the farm sector in Canada has been very proactive in setting targets to increase the amount of crop grown on an acre of land.