Estevan Mercury

How do you spell relief? W-I-N! The Saskatchewan Roughriders kicked their five-game losing streak to the curb with a convincing 52-0 rout of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers in Labour Day Classic XLIX Sunday afternoon before a sellout crowd of 33,427.

"KO, daily" is an anagram of Lydia Ko, the 15-year-old New Zealand amateur golfer who did exactly that to the professional field - four days in a row, in fact - at the recent CN Canadian Women's Open championship in Vancouver.

Though this column is published Friday, I'm writing it Tuesday, the day before school starts. The day before the last first day of school. Ever. I'm in my undergraduate year, and who knows if I'll continue on with some more education someday.

With the Quebec election all wrapped up, and the Parti Quebecois holding minority power in the province, sovereignty is in the air.

When one of the parties involved in a domestic dispute left the residence for the remainder of the evening on Aug. 29, the event was deemed to be over from a police perspective, said the Estevan Police Service (EPS) in a recently released report.

At lower levels of hockey, particularly in Junior A, it's important for reporters and coaches to develop a healthy working relationship. The team and the media both need each other, and the sooner both sides realize that, the better.

Another busload of international visitors wended their way to Estevan last Thursday as a windup for the three-day International Energy Agency (IEA), conference that was hosted by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre in Regina.

Editor's note: The following letter addressed to Premier Brad Wall and Minister of Highways and Infrastructure Don McMorris is being reprinted here with the permission of the writer.