Opinion

If there’s any lesson we should take from the experiences of the First World War, it’s that war is in no way glorious.

Dear Editor Recently I wrote a letter to the editor (“Who will save the old Saskatchewan Hospital, Regional Optimist , Sept. 4.) At the end of the letter I committed an embarrassing faux pas.

This Nov. 11 will mark the 100th anniversary of the guns falling silent, at the 11th hour, of the 11th day of the 11th month. The Great War, which has since become known as the First World War, was over.

By Gord Hunter Published by Monkey's Fist Publishing $20.00 ISBN 978-0-9681803-1-0 Talk about adventures on the high seas.

“It takes a lot of candy to make trick and treaters happy on a Halloween night in Edmonton,” Ed said yesterday. This year Ed was in Edmonton at his family's home for his favourite evening of the year.

One year after Reg and Louise Dlouhy bought the Arlington Hotel in Maryfield in 1976, they opened the first steak pit in Saskatchewan.

Maples Part I

Every year when I pick up my poppy from the tray on the News-Optimist front counter and drop in a donation to the Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Campaign, I have to take a trip to Google to look up which side of my jacket I should pin it on.

Chemical weapons are not new. In ancient times there were primitive flame throwers hurling Greek Fire at wooden ships in naval battles in the fabled waters of the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas.

A recent trip to the grocery store surprised me with a huge display of boxed Amaryllis bulbs shipped directly from Holland at the entrance to the store. These colorful boxes of bulbs promised white, red, pink or bicolor blooms by Christmas time.