Estevan Mercury

What's in a name? I love the wordy gambols we take in this profession as we plough through some real adventuresome play dates with the alphabet in an attempt to unscramble names of kids we encounter.

The City of Estevan is joining other communities throughout the province in giving the 2013 budget a passing grade.

Despite having only a handful of players back from last year's championship team, the Estevan Power Dodge Chargers showed on Monday that they're still the best team in the South Saskatchewan Female Hockey League.

This is the fourth instalment in a monthly series of articles about Estevan Bruins alumni who have gone on to achieve success after hockey. These stories also appear in the Estevan Bruins Alumni monthly newsletter.

Funding health care in Saskatchewan now absorbs 42 per cent of the total budget or $4.84 billion, according to information released in this year's provincial budget that came down last Wednesday.

After a slow start, the fourth end was the difference for Brent Gedak in his second straight Estevan Oilfield Technical Society curling championship on Sunday.

Easter isn't far away, which is awesome. When I still lived at home, Easter meant a visit from the Easter Bunny and a chocolate egg-covered house on Easter morning.