Carlyle Observer

Just when you thought the battle over the Canadian Wheat Board was finally over, along comes Regina lawyer Tony Merchant. The latest in this saga has seen the Merchant law group launch a $15.

The weekly report is prepared with the assistance of the Carlyle RCMP. Issues involving the Mental Health Act, among others, are not reported. The report of this week covers the period of Dec. 23 to 29.

As grain and oilseed prices have climbed to near record levels across the entire range of Prairie-grown crops, there is a lure for farmers to turn every acre of land possible into crop land.

The Stoughton Curling Club hosted the 2011-2012 junior men's curling championship from Jan 5-9th. A total of 12 teams competed and congratulations is extended to the winning team skipped by Brady Sharback from the Saskatoon Granite Curling Club.

I've owned a Maytagdishwasher for decades and I can't imagine life without it. Although Hubbie and I are physically capable of washing dishes by hand there's nothing like knowing the plates and cutlery are not only clean, they're sanitized.

We see it in the movies. We hear about it in the big-city newspapers. But how often, does a Secret Santa hit close to home? Before Dec. 20, Angeline Redstone was like most people. She had never received an anonymous gift from someone she didn't know.

More than 500 skaters descended upon Regina from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4 for the 2012 Skate Canada Challenge and local 14-year-old Grace Smyth was one of them.

A new year has arrived, and that leaves most of us thinking about the passage of time. For most of us the passage of time is marked by things we do more than the flipping of a page on a calendar.

It is always interesting to look back over the past year. And come the New Year, it seems as though this tradition is widely performed by news reporters, sports commentators, television stations, magazines and even the general public.

Gossiping seems to be a national pastime, even though gossiping is defined as "casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true," according to my computer's dictionar