Opinion

Cheers to the organizers of all the different rodeo activities in Estevan during the Labour Day long weekend. It’s great to have so many events in Estevan for families to enjoy. Cheers to having the BMX Jam at the Estevan Skate Park.

By Linda Wegner

Stand by Me is one of my all-time favourite movies. I can recall countless nights growing up watching it with my dad, who introduced me to it.

These past several weeks, I’ve been cleaning out filing cabinet drawers; with few exceptions, they contain material about activities I’ve been involved in, stories I’ve written for various publications and, of course, 20 years’ worth of weekly articl

School is expensive, as every parent knows, and it’s not getting better. Every fall, the lists for school supplies needs filling, and for larger families, it’s a major expense, not to mention packing school lunches every day.

By Ken Rolheiser

A little more than a year ago, a few people in the community decided to create a tribute to the 21 servicemen killed in the 1946 plane crash that occurred south of Estevan, near the former Estevan Airport site.

As children are back in the classroom as of Tuesday, a prime consideration is safety, both in and out of class, on the playground and on our streets and highways.

You saw it yesterday at your office or wherever you work. Maybe you even said it. People walk in the day after a long weekend all smiley and bubbly asking each other how their long weekends went.

In the aftermath of the Federal Court of Appeal’s horrendous decision to stop work on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, this is what one pipeliner told me that day: “Eight thousand jobs disappeared this morning, and one of them was mine.