Opinion

A man who lives on an aboriginal reserve in Quebec once described how he went out for milk one day, came home and saw a death threat scrawled on his driveway.

I caught the last whiff of summer fragrance the other day when I emptied out the last of our herb pots.

Cold and flu season is upon us, which means, of course, that the snake oil peddlars are back in action. This past weekend I saw the first of what I am sure will be a non-stop barrage of TV ads for Cold-FX.

Welcome to Week LXXV of 'Fishing Parkland Shorelines'. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Kelly Friesen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

Further to Crime Diary from last week ("Was the Latham decision just?" Yorkton This Week, October 18, 2013), I want to talk a little bit more about sentencing.

What weighs less than a paperclip, tastes terrible and can travel thousands of kilometres without a map? Hint: this delicate critter is tawny-orange with black veins and white spots and has been mysteriously absent from Canada this summer.

It was one of the government announcements we have all been waiting for here in Yorkton, Premier Brad Wall stepping forward last week with $10 million on funding for a new Trades and Technology Centre for Parkland College.

On October 11, Judge Darin Chow of the Yorkton Provincial Court handed Trevor Latham a suspended sentence with 18 months probation for sexual assault.

Just because our gardens are done doesn't mean that we gardeners are settling back in our easy chairs with our fuzzy slippers on not yet, anyway! The next meeting of the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society will be on Thursday, October 17 at 7: