Opinion

Many moons ago, in the fall of either 2003 or 2004, I attended a sod turning for a new hotel in North Battleford. The event took place on the east side of the casino complex, near what would turn into the Gold Ridge Centre.

Finally a win, and now the Saskatchewan Roughriders are on a high heading into the 2010 CFL playoffs.

It's an initiative with a catchy name, but there is nothing frivolous about the goals of Operation Red Nose.

Dear Editor I noted with interest the recently published letter from Richard Ahenakew entitled "Businesses need to remember on Nov. 11" and offer a personal reflection.

In multi-towered urban Ontario, there are more self-styled wise men per square mile of pavement than can be found anywhere else in Canada.

Not even the drunkest kayak owner in the bay area ever assumed the Giants would play for all the marbles in November and that they'd be paddling around in the teeming waters of the Pacific waiting for missile shots from a third baseman called the Kun

Do you remember? Do you remember the places and people you loved as a child? I don't ever want to forget and there are times the scents and images of my past are strong and times when I grasp for any hint of memory.

Sometimes it is referred to as "winter blues." The lethargic, gloomy feeling many people experience during the winter months. It is more commonly referred to as SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder.

For years the scariest play in hockey was that check or push on a player positioned three feet from the boards and unable to defend himself.

Ed, my neighbor next door, loves to hunt. Each fall he makes his famous deer sausage, as long as he shoots a deer. I told Ed that it seems to me he has the advantage, since he has a rifle and the deer have none.