Opinion

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.

It just isn't the image any community wants - achieving top billing on the Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index for the second year running.

Comment and History from a Prairie Perspective

I had an interesting chat the other day with my friend, Michael Zwaagstra, as we were visiting their place in Steinbach, Man.

Dear Editor Saskatchewan people do not want to store Ontario's nuclear waste in northern Saskatchewan. Most people are signing a petition that I am circulating.

Summer is my favourite time to explore the countryside and tour the province. There are places I've never been and places I'm always glad to see through my windshield.