Opinion

For us Canadians, this past weekend is our traditional time to celebrate around turkey, yams and pumpkin pie; for other of my readers who mark the same event in November, Thanksgiving weekend will soon be here.

Cheers and congratulations to Lyle Dukart, the Estevan Royal Canadian Legion branch and all involved in the design and completion of the Wall of Honour located at the Royal Heights Veterans Memorial Park.

Canadian Thanksgiving is somewhat invisible – a long weekend in early October – a day of tradition pitched between summer luxury and Christmas in December.

Cpl. Dave WOLFE and I were away for a week as instructors on the Intox EC/IR II Breath Testing Instrument.

I am writing from Runcorn, near Liverpool in England. We are trying to trace anything of a great aunt of my wife's, named Charlotte Langley (formerly Blanchard). Charlotte was born in England in 1887.

Corey Atkinson

Brian Zinchuk

It’s easy to forget that not so long ago, Estevan was a city in desperate need of physicians. We were down to 10, and with two of them being specialists, it meant we had just eight family physicians seeing patients on a regular basis.

By Ken Rolheiser It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive… We must not resort to the flame where only light is required . Victor Hugo In planning this column I was tempted to seek more powerful tropes or figurative language.

By Linda Wegner A friend told me of a visit to his doctor. “Doc,” he complained, “Sometimes I hurt in my knees, sometimes in my hands and…ah, I just seem to hurt somewhere all the time.