Yorkton This Week

Back in 1968, when he was in his mid-20s, Paul Simon wrote Old Friends, a song recorded by he and Art Garfunkel on their Bookends album.

It’s not one of the nobler stories from the Second World War, but it’s a very human one. For that reason alone, it deserves telling. Sometimes we forget that the good old boys we’re all so grateful to, were once just that – boys.

What a delightful surprise to receive the Best Buy School Tech Grant. St. Mary’s School, of Yorkton, was provided with a $1500 grant for assistance toward continuing the much loved, and well-received Reflex Math Program.

For most of us in our everyday lives, even if we have accumulated solid knowledge and developed good critical thinking skills, there is simply limited time to exercise our full capacity for reason. We end up accepting things on faith.

Emergency room services will resume at Preeceville & District Health Centre, effective November 7, 2016. The Preeceville & District Health Centre emergency room will be in operation 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday to Friday.

For years, it was common knowledge that Saskatoon police would sometimes take intoxicated indigenous people for a ride to the edge of town, drop them off and let them find their way home. There was even a name for it, “starlight tours.

There is always room in the cupboard for that game which is simply silly fun that everyone can play on an evening when the goal is fellowship, not in-depth gaming. That is just the spot in a collection for Pass the Pigs from designer David Moffat.

Jack Wruth announced that Re/Max Blue Chip Realty is donating a house valued at $169,900 to The Health Foundation.

To maintain the health of Saskatchewan’s wildlife population, the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation (SWF) is encouraging hunters to submit heads for Saskatchewan’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing this hunting season.

With Remembrance Day just around the corner, we think of the poppy. It is difficult to imagine how delicate poppies could grow in the war-torn fields of Ypres in 1915, inspiring John McCrae to write “In Flanders Fields”.