Estevan Mercury

It's a busy portfolio, an all encompassing mandate, but Bill Boyd appears to be thriving in the swirling vortex that is the Ministry of the Economy in Saskatchewan.

Officially it may not be winter yet, but once snow arrives, ownself decides it's here and with the arrival of snow, for some reason, every season my thoughts wander back to both of my crazy uncles named Jack.

The Estevan Century 21 bantam A Bruins pushed their record to 4-0 with a pair of victories on a weekend homestand. The Bruins edged the Regina Panthers 3-2 on Saturday and defeated the Prairie Storm 3-1 on Sunday.

A smile flashed across Brendan Taman's face at the mention of the term "playoffs." There's another word the Saskatchewan Roughriders general manager actually despises, but we'll get to that later.

The life at sea is the life for Ken Friess. For seven days in early August, the Estevan resident had free-reign to explore one of the Royal Canadian Navy's destroyers. Seeing all the sailors in their element was an experience he won't soon forget.

He said Halloween has lost its lustre for me in the past few years. It's great as a kid, it's an excuse to party when you're a student, but when you have to get up and go to work the next day, it's just another night.

Step 1: Peyton Manning becomes a free agent.

One of the overriding issues of agriculture moving forward is simply feeding a growing world population.