Opinion

Perhaps 2011 will go down in history as the year marking the eventual end of water fluoridation, when so many cities and towns across the U.S. removed it that the rest had no choice but to ride the momentum and follow suit.

It's not a hard word to say. "Hello." It's just a couple of syllables. An even simpler greeting is "Hi." But when you're in a new place, a new province, or even a new country, that simple greeting, when paired with a smile, can mean a whole lot.

There are four grocery stores where I live: one belongs to a North American chain of stores, one to a prominent Western Canada group of companies, one to a smaller but growing Vancouver Island based company and the other is one of the earliest indepe

Dear Editor I'd like to commend Alex McPhail on the thoughtful account of his recent encounter with Tibetan chickens ("Encounters with chickens" News-Optimist, Sept.

Few elections in Saskatchewan history seem more of a foregone conclusion going into it than the one we are about to embark on in 2011.

Two of the things I love the most are (a) movies, and (b) baseball. What could be better than either of those? Why, what else - a baseball movie, of course.

Dear Editor I want to commend you on behalf of myself and several friends who all appreciated the witty, informative, clever and funny caption for the flagpole picture in the Sept. 28 edition of the News-Optimist (Page 5).

Dear Editor I am trying to trace the family of my late grandmother's sister. One of her daughters was named Jane, her married name was Kochan and she lived in North Battleford in the early 1960s. Other family members lived in North Vancouver, B.C.

When the world gives you lemons make lemonade. I love that expression, absolutely love it, since it is probably one of the most profound comments in human history and maybe the most consequential.

Circuit training has taken North America by storm recently. It is no mystery why it's popularity has grown so much. The benefits of circuit training for men and women are being realized by people all over the globe.