Opinion

I once saw a poster that showed a lovely little flower growing through a crack in a concrete sidewalk. The caption read "Beautiful things are seldom easy.

Humanity is facing a challenge unlike any we've ever had to confront. We are in an unprecedented period of change. Exponential growth is causing an already huge human population to double in shorter and shorter time periods.

The Royal Canadian Legion General Alexander Ross Branch #77 conducted the annual Decoration Day Parade and Ceremony Monday evening in the city.

Just who gets to share in Saskatchewan's prosperity is a question that may be somewhat trickier than it seems. The short and easy answer is that we all should share in it equally. That would seem to be the fairest answer for everyone.

The Preacher believes that no one (including his wife) should mess with the ingredients in a recipe. Doing so means he may find "foreign objects" in his dinner or dessert. Corn, nuts or beans, for starters. Foreign objects irritate his baloopa gland.

Dear Editor: Has anybody had the displeasure of driving down York Lake Road recently? How do you think the people who live on the road feel when they have to try to dodge all the potholes and broken pavement several times a day.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders are about set to embark on a new season and it appears as though there may be a few veterans who will have to take a good look over their respective shoulders.

The road to hell, say the sages, is paved with good intentions. Heaven's streets, croons an old song, are paved with gold. Where I live, most of the roads aren't paved at all. Main Street was once paved - still is, around the pot-holes.

"She was a 'Blushing Lady' named 'Angelique', a 'Perfect Lady' from 'High Society'. His name was 'Monsella'; he arrived in town from 'Barcelona'.