Opinion

Chris Putnam has recently joined Yorkton This Week as a reporter. Born in Watson, Putnam attended the University of Saskatchewan taking four years of English, which after graduation turned into a reporter position at the Tisdale Recorder.

There's not much good news in the most recent TD Bank Financial Group forecast of Saskatchewan economic growth. It significantly downgrades the province's expected gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2010 to a modest 2.

If Bon Jovi is 75% of what they were in Winnipeg over the weekend, then rock music fans in Regina will be in for a treat on July 28. I have seen Bon Jovi three or four times in my lifetime and they were the best this past Saturday in Winnipeg.

Now don't get me wrong. The Saskatchewan Party government is, by no means, in trouble. For one thing, there's only been one one-term government in the history of this province. That the Sask.

It is three weeks since the rains of Canada Day created the worst flooding in the history of Yorkton leaving the national birthday of 2010 indelibly marked in the collective minds of this city's residents. Everyone has a story of the flood.

Bones fascinated our son from his childhood. I remember the day that began. At three, after a bad case of whooping cough, he needed weeks of physiotherapy in the hospital clinic.

The first three years of life are a time of amazing growth and development. In just a few short years, children go from being entirely dependent on having all their needs met, to exploring and learning about the world around them.

If we were to judge our priorities by the amount of space devoted to stories in the news, we'd have to figure that the World Cup, controversy at a hot-dog-eating contest, and the shenanigans of Paris and Lindsay were the most important issues.

I hope that by now, you have reserved your spot on the Yorkton and District Horticultural Society's one day trip to the International Peace Gardens this Saturday.