Opinion

During the children’s segment of one morning service, our pastor spoke to the children about the meaning and significance of the rite of communion.

It’s time for this week’s confession that will leave you thinking I’m crazy: barring something completely unforeseen (ie: a massive windfall in grant revenues), I expect municipal property taxes to go up every year.

Cheers to the gentleman who bought coffee for a group of ladies in the corner booth at the Tower Café on Jan 16. That kindness is appreciated.

By Shelley Luedtke There’s no red carpet or designer gowns involved but there is an award handed out annually that garners interest, as well as considerable debate. The award seeks to identify the Word of the Year.

Lobby groups can make for interesting articles, but you typically have to take what they say with a grain of salt.

The editor: For years the oil sector and the farming community have worked together, through partnerships. Thousands of wells have been drilled. Oil has been recovered, trucked and shipped to markets.

By Dan Archer Dreams are an assortment of clips, images, sensations and memories happening during the REM stage of sleep.

By Ken Rolheiser “Getting to heaven is not about Sundays, it’s about Mondays. What we do on Mondays.” Edwin Rolheiser I have faced approximately 1400 Monday morning back to work blues in my working career as a teacher.

It’s been a little more than a year since we found out that the Civic Auditorium would be staying closed, and that Estevan would be moving forward with two arenas for the foreseeable future.

For the first time in almost six years in Canada, I feel somewhat like as if I was in Russia. And it doesn’t feel good. Changes to federal legislation on impaired driving are to blame for that.