Opinion

Dear Editor All winter the whittling went on, a slough here, a bush there. At times as much as half an acre was gained. But who cares about wildlife habitat? Then another death knell was accomplished by the aptly named SaskPower.

John Cairns’ Leg Watch

It’s May again, and that usually means one thing: it’s time for my annual summer box office prediction column! Ha, ha, ha! Good luck with that. “The Roaring ‘20s” is still “not” — at least at the cineplexes.

Ed, my old neighbour in Saskatchewan, feels that you should never ask seniors, especially family members, how they are. They will tell you way more than you want to hear.

The owner, I assume, of a plumbing company advertised the business by posting a sign on the side of his truck that read: “There is no place too deep, too dark or too dirty for us to handle.

Spring is wonderful, as the sun rises earlier each day and the birds welcome us to the day even before the sun comes up. However, the spring weather is far from stable so we need to choose our outdoor garden chores by what the current weather is.

Ever get sucked into believing something was the real thing only to find out it was an imitation instead? I sure have! I had to learn a hard lesson this Christmas when due to COVID, I found myself doing more shopping online instead of going to the st

The moon is approaching last quarter as May begins, and May 3, early birds will see Saturn four degrees north of that last-quarter moon in the south-eastern morning sky.

Dear Editor In mid-December, The Battlefords Housing Authority management retained the services of Cornerstone Security and Investigations (Steven Ladwig) to bring peace, safety and security to the tenants of Valleyview Tower II.

Dear Editor For more than one hundred years, the expansive red brick of the historical Saskatchewan Hospital stood out against the landscape of the Battlefords river valley.