Opinion

Players’ weekend has been a new initiative started by Major League Baseball in recent years, and while I originally was indifferent, a recent circumstance changed my mind.

As students prepare to go back to school and university, we need to talk about bullying.

August in the garden is truly spectacular. If you are a lover of tender or summer flowering bulbs then you can join me in the bittersweet joy of August.

Linda's Lines

Dear Editor Upon reading “Council gives thumbs down to parking lot” published in the Regional Optimist Aug. 23, 2018, I feel compelled to comment. The planning department made a bad decision based on wrongheaded thinking.

David Marit will be a successful Saskatchewan Party government agriculture minister.

After several sad stories about hotels on the corners of Railway and Main, it is time for something a little more lighthearted. In 1907, Ben Cook built the hotel in Bradwel, complete with a two-storey outhouse.

When the Welsh poet, Dylan Tomas wrote about going “gentle into that good night” his thoughts were on human mortality. But with the risk of frost on the prairies, it’s our tender flowers and vegetables that come to mind.

While chatting with family this week, my husband’s family history came up in conversation. Refugees from what was then West Prussia, they lost their father, mother and youngest brother during the Second World War.

Having just dropped off the daughter at Good Spirit Bible Camp, I stopped in briefly at my parents’ place in Yorkton to refill the belly. Five miles out of Yorkton, the truck made an odd ding.