Opinion

When our youngest daughter went from using open-style lockers to ones requiring combination locks at school, we knew she would resist. So one afternoon we had her practice over and over again.

Numerous times over the course of this past year, number one daughter’s first year in high school, we, her parents, have implored her to take a backpack to school.

Numerous times over the course of this past year, number one daughter’s first year in high school, we, her parents, have implored her to take a backpack to school.

I was standing in front of a massive line-up of people on Canada Day who were eagerly waiting to be granted access to something that has been years in the making.

It might not be new in terms of a challenge facing agriculture, but it is one that certainly needs to keep bubbling on the front burner in terms of a response.

“The reason grandparents get along so well with their grandchildren,” I heard someone say, tongue firmly planted in cheek, “is that they have a common enemy.” Our six live about an hour from us.

If you are interested in a mini-gardening-vacation, you might want to be part of the Saskatchewan Horticultural Association (SHA) gardening tour, July 14 – 16.

Going a little bit off on a tangent this week, it seemed appropriate to spend this week’s column on a great event three members of our highly informal Meeple Guild attended recently.

Over the past week to 10 days, at least in the Yorkton region we have received what my grandfather would have termed a million dollar rain. For grain producers conditions coming out of spring seeding were generally on the dry side of things.

I spent the month of February with my daughter and sister on a mission trip in Romania.