Opinion

One of the most challenging aspects of researching your family history is that quite often you find your family tree is growing close to a brick wall! Just when you think you are moving along and family information is falling into place, you hit a br

Ever since creation, two corresponding questions have risen, set, and risen again. Like the sun and moon, they loom large on the horizon of human thought. "Who is God?" and "Who am I?" The Bible records that God created man(kind) in his own image.

Our planet is an ever-changing sphere of wonder and mystery. By studying sediments, ice-core samples, trees, and fossils, scientists have been able to piece together some of its phenomenal history and evolution.

A gardener's work is never done! We may be done pulling up the last of our flowers, and perhaps transplanting some plants that we want to bring in for the winter, but for those gardeners who plant glads, dahlias and begonias, there is still some work

For an election that didn't look like it would provide much for rural Saskatchewan, there have been a surprising amount of goodies.

Racism and discrimination are not words you expect to suddenly become the centre of a provincial election in Saskatchewan in the year 2011, and yet here in the Yorkton constituency they have become just that.

Dear Editor: A recent CBC news article illustrates some disturbing views, held by the Yorkton Saskatchewan Party politician, on First Nations people. The negative reader comments that follow the article are just as alarming.

By all the usual measurements, this has already been a very different Saskatchewan election campaign than maybe we're used to seeing. In fact, you may have trouble recognizing it as a Saskatchewan election at all.

The Yorkton and District Horticultural Society has their regular meeting tonight, October 19, 7:00 p.m. in the Sunshine Room, SIGN, North Street in Yorkton.