Opinion

Dear Editor: It recently came to my attention that the choir program at the Regional High School has been cancelled. If that is the case, I’m in shock. I am also very biased. Music changed my life...

Dear Editor: I was shocked to hear that the choral program is to be cut at the Yorkton Regional High School. There is not room here to state the documented benefits of music education for our young people.

The demise of the choir program at Yorkton Regional High School has created a chorus of voices calling for all involved to rethink the change.

Let us dispense with the notion that rural Saskatchewan people are generally racist towards First Nations people. Right now, this seems to an all-too-common perception that is neither true nor helpful when it comes to finding solutions.

Whenever I hear of someone who has the ability to speak several languages, I am at once filled with admiration and envy.

A man goes to the doctor and says, “Doctor, you’ve got to help me. If I touch my arm, I feel a terrible pain. If I touch my leg, same thing. If I touch my head, fierce pain. What can I do?” “I think I can help you,” the doctor says.

Recently I have spent some free time flipping through livestock pages on the Internet. It is for me something of a reflective process. I grew up on a farm with a primary focus on livestock.

I have a problem. I know it’s a problem because it’s been labelled a problem in this world. Absolutely everyone has heard the saying, ‘Talking to yourself is a sign of insanity.’ My mother used to tease me about it all the time.

This last while, there have been many things which occupy our attention. The kind of weather we have been having is one of them. Then there is the Olympics filling in the good portion of the days in August.