Opinion

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.

"Better together" is the catch phrase appearing on the letterhead of a press release that came across the fax and the e-mail this week. That is the conclusion of the boards of three Saskatchewan credit unions - Conexus, Innovation and Synergy.

There is something fundamentally flawed about a system that forces a family to relive a horrific event in their history on a regular basis. That is the fate of relatives of Hughie Sayer and David Kennedy, who were murdered by Layne LaRose in 2002.

Dear Editor Saskatchewan, and all of Canada, has much to celebrate as we enjoy freedoms unequalled almost anywhere else in the world.