Opinion

It hasn't been easy for me to get away to the movies on Tuesdays recently. Tuesdays are famous for being the "cheap" movie nights, and therefore popular with moviegoers for that reason alone.

Lies, damn lies and statistics. It's a cliché, but it is certainly one that applies to the lead in a Saskatoon StarPhoenix front page story Saturday.

Ed, my neighbour next door, finally has his shoulder back to normal and is out at his farm most days. It was a tough few weeks while Ed was doing physical therapy on his shoulder because he was stuck at home.

Dear Editor Recently chunks of plaster started to fall from the exterior of the Battlefords Trade and Education Centre. This is just the latest problem in a long list of maintenance issues, with repairs to the facade in the planning stage.

Dear Editor I had an uncle (my father's brother), Mornington Otto Lea, who was sent to Canada in 1909 at age 10 as the family was orphaned.

Dear Editor With the first year anniversary of so called marketing freedom under their belt, Gerry Ritz and the rest of the grain trade are all smiles or should one say they are gloating over their good fortune.

Anxiety has been the number one issue for clients I have been seeing. What has been interesting, however, is that the anxiety being reported, which they are truly experiencing, is normal experiences by the body and not abnormal or clinical.

On Aug. 20 BHP Billiton, the world's largest mining company, announced it is investing $2.6 billion US into the Jansen potash project. This brings the company's total investment in the project to $3.

Growing up on the West Coast in Victoria, large pink and blue hydrangea shrubs were a common sight. It was one of the things I missed when I moved to Saskatoon nearly 25 years ago.

Another week of good harvest weather. Whenever the sun got at us it was "cooker time." One morning I got up and it was so foggy, I thought my eyes were gone. The fog burned off before noon and then it was back to "cooker time.