Estevan Mercury

Training camp is always an exciting time for everyone involved. For returning players, it's a chance to show they've worked hard over the summer and deserve a bigger role on the team.

As I write this, life just became easier for me. We are furiously packing the kids for their first day of school.

The cooks will be cooking, but what will you be eating? A fundraiser for United Way Estevan is sending cooks back into the kitchen for a night of food of fun. Dubbed Cooks That Cook, the Sept.

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The CWB made an interesting announcement recently when it unveiled it would begin marketing canola for Western Canadian farmers.

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.