Opinion

I adore fall, the golden "putting the place to bed for winter" season. All summer, nature gives fair warning: winter's coming-prepare. In our yards and fields, that spells work: harvest, haul, dump, store, preserve.

Gardeners, we hope you can join the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society tonight, Wednesday, September 19, at 7:00 PM, for our first regular meeting of the new season.

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

Tuesday was September 11th and that's a date that will always be engraved in my memory as it was September 11, 2001 when our world changed forever as a result of the World Trade Center attacks masterminded by Osama Bin Laden.

A new school year is upon us, and with it we continue to see an evolution of the education system. Schools have always been a centre of activity within a community going back to the rural, one-room, school houses of our forefathers.

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.