Opinion

Live@Lunch, North Battlefords business improvement district's launch event, had Central Park rocking with live entertainment Wednesday over the noon hour.

Microsoft will not call you. I have been prompted to write this article as three of my clients (two business and one home user) have been contacted by 'Microsoft' over the past week.

Dear Editor We have found a solution for keeping the deer out of our garden. We have coloured marking tape running down the length of the rows, with a stake at each end holding the tape above the row.

Saturday, July 27, I noticed the power lines going from the pole in the back of my house were precariously sagging over my garage. I called SaskPower and a very polite, courteous woman advised that it would be taken care of very promptly.

I sometimes find the news business to be all-consuming. I would spend a busy day and night churning out the news, and then I would get home and fire up the computer looking for entertainment.

Talk about the dog days of summer. The weather is the same every day, not too hot, just right for moving the crop along. Some Canola in the area is almost done flowering. Another month and the guys are going to be thinking about swathing.

Dear Editor I am going to make this short and sour. You are the editor of the local paper. And you have the power to accept or reject stories for the paper. Understandable.

Ed, my neighbour next door, has been pointing from his yard at my garden and shaking his head. "While you were off camping, your garden had every kind of weed in for a party.

Dear Editor Mr. Bullocks, a Brit who spent seven years in Russia, states that Russians have been on a 50- year bender. They are drinking themselves to death. He comes up with some very startling statistics.

One of the highlights of a holiday to northern Italy was to unexpectedly find myself in what I thought was the middle of a forest of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra).