Estevan Mercury

It has been an agonizingly long time since we've heard from the Saskatchewan Roughriders.

Writing this column over the years, I have been a supporter of the idea of genetically modified agriculture. When I look to the future, I see two trends that suggest to me there is a need for genetically modified crops and livestock.

If you haven't read Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, then you will have no idea what I'm talking about in this column. I'll try to explain it the best I can, but really, it'll spoil a small portion of the best series you've never read.

We can probably agree that Wayne Gretzky is Canada's greatest hockey player, that Steve Nash is the best basketball player our country has produced and that Mike Weir is No. 1 in golf.

He said, she said

I've lived in Estevan for all but five of my 38 years and I am surprised daily by how rapidly our community is changing. Whether it's the people or landscape, it seems our city is morphing on a daily basis.

A new provincial highway traffic count provided to the City of Estevan by the Highways and Infrastructure ministry has found its way to the local Time to Twin committee centred in Estevan.

For some, getting a car on your 16th birthday is the dream, but for Riley Raynard, that was too long a wait. At 14, he was given a race car, and he's been circling the Estevan Motor Speedway ever since.

The bad news was that Estevan's non-violent and overall crime rate went up this past year compared with last. The good news is that the violent crime numbers are down. (Mercury, Aug.

A complaint of motorbikes being operated around the Spruce Ridge School area was investigated by members of the Estevan Police Service (EPS) on Aug. 1. The drivers were warned about their actions.