Opinion

This past weekend saw quite the spectator sports extravaganza in our household. Between the Waste Management golf tournament, the Scotties curling playoffs, and the NFL Super Bowl, it was a sports lover’s dream Sunday.

The first time I saw two person curling, I saw a brilliant idea. It wasn’t the mixed doubles event at the Olympics, it was the Iron Man Bonspiel held at the Yorkton Curling Club.

Yorkton This Week’s editorial staff takes readers on an explorative journey around the Internet, searching out the best in videos, podcasts, webcomics, music and anything else that catches their collective eyes which might interest our readers.

On February 14, a 19-year old young man walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the small city of Parkland, Florida and started spraying bullets.

If you do put a little love in your heart, what does the song say will happen? And the world will be a better place.

Dear Editor: There is a new, “Gender and Sexual Diversity” policy being drafted and rolled out to our schools. It states that “trans(gender)-positive content” will be taught in all subject areas and for all grade levels.

Education is clearly the foundation on which young people build not only their personal futures, but collectively the future of our local community, province, country, and ultimately the world.

One morning a young woman saw her neighbour hanging the wash outside. “That laundry is not very clean,” she said. “She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.” Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Young love – I remember it well. Heartflutters, crazy mood swings, electric touches, skin on fire and passionate messages transmitted across the room by eye contact alone.