Carlyle Observer

The Arcola chapter of the Optimist Club shared the wealth from their wildly successful snowmobile rally on Thursday, March 29.

In the week of Friday, March 23 to Thursday, March 29, the Carlyle Detachment of the RCMP responded to a total of 46 calls. Members found a peaceful resolution to the situation which began calls for the 23rd.

The Memorial Hall was this year's venue for the 23rd annual Contractor Safety Awareness Association (CSAA) contractor breakfast, on Mar.27, 2012.

Somehow it seems farmers on the Prairies, and particularly in Saskatchewan seem to be finding themselves thrust into a modern version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, and that book wasn't exactly the happiest vision of the future.

Canada will withdraw the penny from circulation this year, with the last ever being minted in April. This will save taxpayers an average of $11 million annually.

This year's Regional Drama Fest was held at Oxbow Prairie Horizons School, Mar. 30 and Mar. 31. The winners of this event will attend provincials at the University of Regina, May 10-12. Members of the drama department at Gordon F.

The Day of Impact was held March 28th at the Carlyle Elementary school. This day was created to get parents and their toddlers, who are turning four in 2012, prepared for Kindergarten. The event was two hours long, between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m.

You can't shove a square peg into a round hole, nor squeeze a camel through the eye of a needle. And the Blue Jays can't win the American League East.

This weekend the Drillers headed west for another great tournament hosted by Weyburn.

The generation before mine takes democracy a lot more seriously. It's likely because that generation fought in a war to maintain it. My generation and the generations that followed are more disengaged in a modern world with all too many distractions.