Opinion

Many people take the summer off from their exercise routines. Schedules, holidays and the rush, rush of summer often make us feel OK about taking the time off. But now it's time to get back at it.

Youth crime is often seen as a major component of crime statistics in the Battlefords.

In the words of C-3PO in Return of the Jedi, "Here we go again." As I woke on Tuesday morning to type this, the financial headlines have changed little in the past few days. "Volatility rules in global markets," the Globe and Mail said.

Dear Editor July 25, I attended a city council meeting to request improvements to Borden Crescent Park. In July of 2009 I attended a city council meeting to address the same issue. I was told then they would have to see about the budget.

Dear Editor My favourite memories as a child are from camping in Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park. Now, as a parent, I wish to give my two daughters similar memories.

I love this season in Saskatchewan. I spend a lot of time on the road as a storyteller and children's entertainer and I like to take advantage of the ice-free roads to visit family and friends.

"I see you scraped a knuckle and cut the back of your hand. You must have been fighting at the bar again. Somebody spill your milk there?" Ed questioned me with laughing sarcasm. He was referring to my puckered, stitched and beat-up looking hand.

Dear Editor I am trying to find information about a family who immigrated to North Battleford in about 1908 and lived there until at least 1958. The parents were James W. and Martha Ellen Church McNeill.

Ever since the result of the Casey Anthony case, there seems to be a flash flood of mothers making the news because of the harm they have caused their children, as if the media is trying to find a new love affair.

A couple of weeks ago a woman in Humboldt was attacked downtown by a man she did not know. For some reason, she was grabbed by this person, and despite her resistance, he held on, trying to make her go with him somewhere.