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Ed, my neighbour next door, always seems to sense when we are heading off to visit our family in Saskatoon. He seems to think we are free transportation to the biggest city in our province. He is always eager to go there if I'm driving.

A bouquet to our family and friends who spent the better part of their days and evenings searching for Chloe the first week she went missing while staying at the kennel when we were on vacation July 22.

Ed, my neighbour next door, always seems to sense when we are heading off to visit our family in Saskatoon. He seems to think we are free transportation to the biggest city in our province. He is always eager to go there if I'm driving.

Elsewhere in this paper, you can read about my experience at the Easter Seals Drop Zone last week. A common theme when people ask me about my experience is "I would never be brave enough to do that.

Well it's back to school time and there's one subject I wish could be taught to children and especially adolescents: manners. Seriously.

If you have Netflix, I strongly recommend you enter "Hiroshima" into the search box. There you will find the superb 2005 BBC documentary of the events that started the atomic age.

Here we go, cooking into harvest. These 30 C days are hard to take for us short, fat guys. I was down to my hills putting gear oil into one of the swather planetaries and I had water running down my face so I could hardly see.

As a child I was taught the importance of showing deference to my elders, to those in authority and most importantly, to those who held offices of influence. To fail to do so came close to being added to the list of seven deadly sins.

In the wake of all the news about North Battleford product Andrew Albers and his elevation to the major leagues with the Minnesota Twins, I ended up going on a baseball vacation this summer. No, I didn't see Albers in Minnesota.

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