Opinion

Thanks to the Earls restaurant chain for giving us a new definition of insanity, by becoming a restaurant, based in western Canada, that gets its beef from Kansas.

It took me a while, today, to decide what to write for my column. That's because I've spent a good deal of the evening catching up with and checking up on, friends who live in, or in the immediate vicinity of Fort McMurray.

Cheers: Cheers to the Royal Bank staff members who volunteered their time to help out at the Pure Energy Early Learning Centre and Estevan Daycare Co-operative’s annual work bee. The planter box they built will be a great addition to the centre.

A Fitting First for Saskatchewan's Shriners By Lynne Bell The circus is coming to town, but it's going to look a little different this year.

To the Editor: Saskatchewan and Quebec are the only two provinces in Canada that cover the services for TMS (trans-cranial magnetic stimulation).

The following is a letter sent to Premier Brad Wall and Highways and Infrastructure manager and spokesman Doug Wakabayashi last week by a member of the Time to Twin Highway 39 and 6 committee on April 27. We print it with permission of the author.

Is it time to play the “poor Saskatchewan” card again? We think so, for a few reasons.

The Editor: Reading your home town newspaper while being away at college and catching up on all the news going on back home does not make home feel so far away.

All kinds of topics for discussion this week dear diary so where would you like me to begin? How about dinner at Earls? Seems as if this chain of eateries set off an unexpected firestorm by eliminating Canadian beef in favour of something called huma

Cheers: Cheers to all the volunteers who came out on a blustery Saturday morning to help take the rink boards down at the Rusty Duce Playpark in Pleasantdale. It is very true that many hands make light work.