Opinion

Dear Editor I feel compelled to respond to the tactics used by the Saskatchewan Association of Health Organizations (SAHO) in their efforts to secure a contract health care provider unions.

I once heard a saying, "We don't stop moving because we age, we age because we stop moving." I hope this saying sticks with you as long as it has stuck with me, because it rings true. As we age, many people become much more sedentary.

This quiet little town gets even quieter in the summer. We're right on the highway and the call to take a trip is deafening.

Call me a "Nervous Nellie", or a paranoid schizophrenic, but something about Darian Durant gives me the shakes and I swear it has nothing to do with the 21-year-old scotch my host at Clear Lake was serving last week.

Sometimes it takes getting away from home for awhile to truly appreciate some of the great things we have at home.

Partners for Rural Family Support has requested the city's aid with hopes to solve the very basic need of homes for the increasing number of homeless people.

My 14-year-old sister, Courtney, and her friends decided to do something novel the other day when the exhibition came to town. Instead of spending the day blowing money at the fair, they went to my parent's acreage.

Dear Editor A lot of folks in British Columbia are mad as hell about their government's proposed new HST (Harmonized Sales Tax), and it appears they don't plan to take it anymore.

Dear Editor The North Battleford East Side Good Neighbor Network (NBESGNN) put on a street party in support of neighborhood wellness in 2008.

It was made official Thursday - LeBron James is heading to Miami to play with the Heat and his buddies, Chris Bosh and Dwayne Wade.