Opinion

The pandemic is spreading wider and also coming closer, shrinking around each one of us. My brother got sick last week. He was the first one in the household. Then dad got a fever. Then my brother's girlfriend felt weak.

The next Estevan city council definitely won’t be like one we’ve seen in the past. It’s likely to be one of the most diverse councils in Estevan’s history.

Sir Frederick Grant Banting, renowned Canadian legend in the medical world, was born on November 14, 1891 in Alliston, Ontario. He studied divinity at the University of Toronto then transferred to medicine studies.

The editor: So, we’ve seen a number of elections taking place recently - provincial elections around the country, including here in our own province. The closest is obviously our local municipal elections.

If ever we’d had an unusual Thanksgiving holiday weekend, it was this year. While we traditionally celebrated with three families together (son and family, nephew and his wife and Hubby and I), this year the meals were spread out over the weekend.

The internet allows buyers to shop for just about anything from cars to finding a wife or husband. That can be a dangerous thing, because buyers can also shop for truth. I like a glass of wine from time to time.

Cheers: Cheers to Redhead Equipment for providing a huge tractor and an operator to pull the docks out of the mud at Rafferty Marina. The docks were stuck big-time.

In recent months, the Saskatchewan Health Authority has started the practice of sending out public service announcements when there is an “increased risk of COVID-19 exposures” at businesses and other sites.

I like exploring the world. Even if I go somewhere I've been to before, I always find something new. Thus, life recently took me to Calgary. And while I go there pretty often, I don't think I've ever been there during this time of the year.

Ever since it became clear that Units 4 and 5 at the Boundary Dam Power Station would eventually be retired, one of the questions that has been front and centre is how we’ll find the businesses and industries to provide the jobs lost when 4 and 5 com