Opinion

The Yorkton Cardinals seem to have found themselves stuck somewhere between the proverbial rock and a hard place as the team tries to extradite itself from a rather substantial debt (see story this issue).

Forgive me in advance for being a little more cynical this week than I usually am in this space.

Seniors in the Parkland Valley area often lament on how “things were” in years past. There is reason for that. Many of today’s seniors grew up in an era when the rural population was much higher.

Seniors in the Parkland Valley area often lament on how “things were” in years past. There is reason for that. Many of today’s seniors grew up in an era when the rural population was much higher.

The surgeon waved my comments aside. “Your eyes are perfect. You could legally fly a plane.” “No, sir,” I responded. “I couldn’t.

There are games that you sit down to play and quickly wonder how it is the game was not created half a century ago given the simplicity of rules and the basic concepts of the game. Triad by Klaus Nehren was just such a game.

This year is a leap year, and this Saturday is our “extra” day! What is a leap year? As the earth hurtles through space and travels around the sun, the whole cycle takes 365 days, five hours and 48 minutes.

With about 20-games remaining for most teams, the National Hockey League’s trade deadline came, and went Monday.

The only details on the photo are: Harry Prystai, March 1950. Source of photo: City of Yorkton Public Works. City of Yorkton Archives. This edition of History Corner originally ran in the March 3, 2010 issue of Yorkton This Week.

RE: Outlook Potato Festival Kudos are extended to the volunteers who are organizing the Potato Festival in Outlook. Anytime people gather to bring a community together for fun and economic gain is to be recommended.