Yorkton This Week

AstroTurf looks and feels like grass — in an all-too-perfect way. But it’s not grass.

In 1754, English author Horace Walpole coined one of the most delightful words in the English language. He formed it after reading a Persian fairy tale titled, The Three Princes of Serendip.

Hasn’t this been an amazing year for our gardens? Things are growing at an astonishing pace! Between the heat and the rain, we’ve got a winning combination! Talking with other gardeners, we are surprised at the variance of rain from one part of town

It was a month ago that the review was a game by Jon Hather, and this week we revisit the works of this fine designer with The Defence of Pictland from Gothic Green Oak.

Here’s part of the reason why Justin Trudeau is worse than Donald Trump — while Trump may be offensive, he doesn’t pretend to be someone he’s not. Over the last week, Trudeau has a lot of disciples out there defending his phoney virtuous character.

Greg and Leone Ottenbreit were all smiles when Yorkton Hyundai dealer principal Ron Kaban presented a cheque for Brayden Ottenbreit’s Close Cuts for Cancer on Jul. 19. Kaban’s team raised over $15,000 for the organization.

A couple of weeks back I wrote about the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s Junior Men’s World Softball Championship being hosted by Prince Albert July 7 - 15.

I sat next to a waterfall, wondering how to re-solidify my jelly legs. To call it a waterfall would be misleading. It was a sheet of rock spiraling down the face of the mountain.

It is rather obvious what we eat, and where we access our food has changed significantly over the past few decades. In many ways I suppose my own experience is a textbook example of the change.

The great thing about the public domain is that now, in the internet age, it has become increasingly easy to find material which has lapsed into it.