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Getting ready for golf

Getting ready for golf

Golf season is coming. Get started on the right track. The driving range has opened, it’s been a long winter (and spring), and you can’t wait to hit golf balls. So, off to the course you go.
Letter: Memories of the Civic Auditorium

Letter: Memories of the Civic Auditorium

The editor: The Civic Auditorium has been decommissioned and is about to be demolished or dismantled. You can select whatever word you want to describe its demise.
Out of control prayer

Out of control prayer

When I was younger, I spent a lot of time trying to control things. After moving to Estevan, it was a struggle to get to know a new group of people, learn the ropes of preaching and simply survive.
Ah, those buts

Ah, those buts

In returning to my thoughts on the Book of Proverbs, warnings that I’d read about for decades suddenly jumped out at me. Although I’d been reading the chapter corresponding to each day of the month, all those “buts” took on a new significance.
I should have been in church, praying for pipelines

I should have been in church, praying for pipelines

It was Sunday morning. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had just met with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and British Columbia Premier John Horgan, laying down the line for Horgan that this pipeline will be built.
Both good and bad in the budget

Both good and bad in the budget

The provincial government brought down what might be termed as a “good news-bad news” type of budget last week, with some good news coming to Weyburn, and to many sectors around the province, but offsetting that was a lack of news, which would be the
Time to turn off the oil supply

Time to turn off the oil supply

If B.C.
Cheers and Jeers for April 20

Cheers and Jeers for April 20

Cheers: Cheers to the Power Dodge Estevan Bruins and all the fans who turned out for Tuesday and Wednesday nights’ games for the tremendous support they showed for the Humboldt Broncos organization.
For the next person…

For the next person…

There is so much that a school can’t teach their students, or doesn’t want to, and that is why getting to work at a paper like the Mercury and Lifestyles is important.
How does oil get from Azerbaijan to Canada?

How does oil get from Azerbaijan to Canada?

Our son, Spencer, 11, and I have recently taken up a game. Basically, I name a country, and he finds it on the globe. This was inspired by his favourite TV show, Young Sheldon (spinoff from The Big Bang Theory).
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