Opinion

“Wow. That’s quite a lineup,” my friend said, as we took our place at the end of the queue snaking down the street from the theatre. Over three hundred people packed the place that evening, every ticket sold.

In the wake of last week’s collision between a train and a fuel truck, Facebook commentary suggested it might be a good idea to put more controls across that crossing at Highway 9.

With the August long weekend just around the corner, many residents across Saskatchewan will be on the road travelling to their holiday destinations.

That the Saskatchewan NDP is struggling outside the major cities is no secret. This has been the plight of the NDP for decades now — a problem that can hardly be laid at the feet of relatively new leader Ryan Meili.

We did it! Those are the words written on the pool fundraising thermometer announcing that the initial fundraising goal had been met. More than $1.5 million raised to give Outlook a facility that has generated so much excitement and unbounded pride.

Hanging on to a community’s history is important. But, it’s not always easy. Levi Beck was once a very influential local businessman with a truly magnificent home that would be a gem historically if it were standing today.

It’s important to take a step back from your daily life every now and then, to take a breath and remove yourself from “the routine”. These next two weeks are exactly what that’s all about for my coworkers and myself.

Since Pandemic became a huge board game hit, there have been other games were you cooperatively battle to deal with various diseases. Build a Cure is one of those. “You and a group of scientists were caught in a nuclear test failure.

My childhood church closed last week. Amalgamated, actually. It seems a kinder word. The few remaining members and attendees voted to take their worship, along with their pastor, across BC’s Fraser River to merge with a larger church.

There is a very unique language, the language of flowers. Over the centuries, flowers have taken on different meanings, and the people of the time knew and understood these meanings.