Estevan Mercury

It was football in the Park this past weekend, all three Estevan teams played their home openers on Saturday.

Roster spots will be hard to come by when the Estevan Bruins open their training camp on Friday.

Sandwiched between two winless Estevan minor football teams - the atom Miners and the bantam Steelers - and coming off a winless season of their own in 2009, the fact that the peewee Chargers are 3-0 is quite a feat.

The Editor,The Western Canadian Wheat Growers are stuck in their own rhetorical mud and again attacking the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB).Their charge is that Western Canadian farmers are missing out on the recent rally in wheat prices.

I'm not sure when or why it happened, but I think there is a serious lack of respect for the property of others in this community.The story I am about to tell you is true. Gross, but true.

Estevan's downtown oasis is close to becoming a reality.Work on the city's newest park has been taking place throughout the past few weeks and outside of a few finishing touches, it should be ready for use in the near future.

Rain, rain, go away come again some time around May.That variation on the popular children's song might soon become the theme of the Spectra Place construction committee.

For most kids growing up in Canada, especially Saskatchewan, the childhood dream is pretty cut and dried: to play hockey on the world stage, to be a leading scorer and to win a gold medal.

There are new kids in town, the numbers are up and the Holy Family Roman Catholic Separate School Division has launched another academic season of promise.

The Editor,An Angus Reid poll out this week shows a vast majority of Canadians - 72 per cent - think the long-gun registry has done nothing to prevent crime.