Estevan Mercury

With local roads continuing to take a beating, the City of Estevan is working with the provincial government to try and speed up the start of construction on the truck bypass.

Don't misunderstand me now, I love this province and will defend its integrity and capabilities and all those motherhood platitudes.

After playing some of their best hockey of the season in recent weeks, two games in Kindersley brought the CanElson Drilling Estevan Bruins back to earth with a resounding thud.

Just when you thought the Estevan Bruins were riding the wave of momentum into the playoffs, they lost maybe their two biggest games of the year on the weekend. They were if you care about home-ice advantage, anyway.

The Estevan Leafs novice hockey team went undefeated en route to winning a tournament in Weyburn on the weekend. The Leafs won all three of their round-robin games before edging the Weyburn Oilers 3-2 in the final.

If you have any pennies in your dryer, car console, under couch cushions or overflowing in a jar above your fridge, it's finally time to cash in those extra cents and subsequently forget that we ever had those little copper coins.

Watching the news the other day, my wife and I saw a term that isn't very common - yet. It was peta, and no, not the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, but as a prefix - as in one quadrillion of something.

My fourth and final roommate of my university career has moved out and I have to say, living alone is pretty awesome. When I set something down, I am the only one who is going to pick it up.