Opinion

Most young families don't need to make room for walkers, wheelchairs, leg braces and restraints. My parents did so, and willingly. All during my childhood, they welcomed both mentally and physically disabled foster children into our home.

If it were simply a matter of where a political party leader was from, election results would be a lot different, wouldn't they? Take the 2011 Saskatchewan provincial election in which the NDP were wiped off the map in rural Saskatchewan.

Arctic sea ice has already melted to a record low this year, in thickness and extent. And summer's not over yet. According to the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, record melt has occurred for the past six years.

Gardeners, circle Wednesday, September 19 on your calendar and make plans to attend the first regular meeting of the new year for the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society.

Dear Editor: Kudos to Terri Lefebvre Prince, Heritage Researcher, City of Yorkton. Terri has researched, written and corrected much of the past history of Yorkton.

The strength of the Internet is also its weakness. The good: It is unfiltered, giving people an unprecedented access to ideas that may have been previously unavailable.

The other day, I sat down in a lawn chair in our back yard and looked around.

So is it ever okay for a premier to seemingly switch direction and go against something he seemed to vehemently oppose and even campaigned against? Well, sometimes it's not only okay but also the necessary and smart thing to do.

Welcome to Week XVI of 'Fishing Parkland Shorelines'. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.