Opinion

This past weekend was an adventure, to say the least. My older sister, Kyla, got married to the love of her life, and father of her son, Eric Seeley. The wedding was held on a farm just outside of Lethbridge, Alta.

By Ken Rolheiser The foreman looks down from ten stories up and tries to holler to a worker. He can’t get the fellow’s attention. He drops a twenty-dollar bill. The worker picks it up, pockets it and does not look up. He drops a hundred-dollar bill.

Volleyball Home Tournament Congratulations to the Sr. Girls volleyball team who placed 2nd in their home tournament last weekend. The girls had an overall record of 12-5 and lost a heartbreaking final to the Englefield Eagles.

Envision Counselling and Support Centre provides an invaluable service with programs and counselling, helping families as they face some very, very difficult periods of their lives in southeast Saskatchewan.

It seems to run against modern thinking for teachers to hand out homework on the first day of school, let alone a homework assignment for parents.

Each year, the provincial government releases its changes to fees and services structure. Some of them get lots of attention, such as earlier this year, when the government revealed that it was ramping up fines for speeding tickets. Most of us drive.

Oh, boy, are people mad about the Trans Mountain court decision. This past year I have had two columns go absolutely viral. The first was my analysis of the Gerald Stanley trial.

Four years into this oil downturn, Lloydminster is something of a paradox. The retail and service sector seems to be growing by leaps and bounds, both on the west end of town and in the centre.

By Shelley Luedtke

In a class for a university fiction writing course in England, a fellow student, also a flatmate, noticed quirks in my spelling in a workshop submission. An ‘re’ in words like centre. An inserted ‘u’ for colour.