Yorkton This Week

The Alexander Mens Wear Junior Cardinals opened up their South East Senior Baseball League (SESBL) with quite the bang. Part of it was supplied by the first grand slam hit at Jubilee Park in years by a Yorkton player.

TO BEHOLD Monkey Junk Stony Plain 9-out-of-10 Experience me has taught me to expect to love most CDs coming out of Stony Plain Records. And really you have to be intrigued by a blues band with the name Monkey Junk.

For the first week of golf disc reviews it seems only fitting we start on the tee and look at a couple of drivers.

The place where Saskatchewan journalists live in the middle of the spectrum can be a lonely place. To the right is the conservative business crowd often annoyed by what we write.

The Saskatchewan government is putting patients first, by helping to ensure decisions on out-of-province and out-of-country medical coverage are consistent, fairly applied and transparent.

Dear Editor: The Agriculture Ministers from BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan recently sang songs of praise and adulation for the federal government's plan to give producers marketing choice for wheat, durum and barley.

The unusual story of the dogs in Springside, who survived on their dead owners' remains is one that generated an amazingly wide array of opinions. Personally, I think the right thing happened here. The dogs were adopted out to loving homes.

Jennifer Richards, who was crowned Miss Teen Yorkton World in a provincial pageant this spring, is back from the Miss Teen Canada World competition in Toronto.

All seven of the dogs rescued from a Springside-area residence last week after resorting to eating their owners' remains have been given new homes.

Do you ever watch the British "Antiques Roadshow"? What fun to see how much (or how little) some of those treasures are worth.