Opinion

Dear Editor Recently I read a short article about the 1918-20, incorrectly named, Spanish flu and decided to write about what happened to this family in 1918. In late summer, Everard and Winifred Pike moved into their new home.

Of all the times I’ve lived through, including both bad times and bad situations, I don’t think I ever remember hearing so many stories of neighbours helping neighbours or of strangers helping strangers.

Being the victim of spousal abuse can be a terrifying experience. One may feel constantly fearful of the erratic behaviour of their spouse or isolated from their friends and family.

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It was the last 30 seconds or so of Premier Scott Moe’s daily COVID-19 when something peculiar happened. He spoke to the current restrictions that will possibly leave us at a distance from our mothers as their day approaches.

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Newspapers have never been so loved, and never been so neglected. The thirst for coverage of how the COVID-19 pandemic is turning the world upside-down has doubled, even tripled, the audiences of news publishers over the past two months.

Prairie Wool

Dear Editor I've said no more toilet paper jokes, but the following incident actually happened in, I think, the 1930s. Our neighbour to the east hitched up a team of horses to haul a load of grain to Waseca.

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