Carlyle Observer

Where's your pink?

Last week, Miss Sweet and Mrs. Bieberdorf took the junior boys' golf team out on the course in Carlyle.

So much is new on the eve of the 2011-12 National Hockey League season that the league should consider adding an initial: The NNHL - the New National Hockey League.

That appears to be the case with the Saskatchewan Roughriders who, according to "new" head coach Ken Miller, hit rock bottom in August in Toronto with a 24-18 loss to the Argos which dropped their record to a league-worst 1-7.

Rural Saskatchewan people and First Nations people have often found themselves at odds, although it's not as bad as it used to be. The first time I explored this issue in depth was for a book entitled "Writing off the Rural West.

Carlyle RCMP received 54 calls between Sept. 16 and 22. Here's how the calls lined up in the police files at the detachment.

Attendance was down from last year but we still enjoyed our walk/run and it's meaningfulcause. We raised a little over $2000 and had some special people to remember before we started out on our 5km trek.

Culture Days is a three-day movement that aims to increase the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of Canadians in the cultural aspects of their communities.

It would be more than a decade ago now that I listened to speaker Dr. Lowell Catlett, a futurist and economist from New Mexico State University. It was one of those presentations which left a rather last mark with a then much younger journalist.

An artist asked the gallery owner if there had been any interest in his paintings on display at that time. "I have good news and bad news," the owner replied.