Opinion

"This is the end/Beautiful friend/This is the end/My only friend, the end/Of our elaborate plans, the end." OK, it's safe to say Jim Morrison and I are talking about entirely different things here. But it fits. The Estevan Bruins had elaborate plans.

It appears as if the problem with our democratic society lies in the fact the system really doesn't allow for a lot of visionary thinking.

The Editor: I am writing this letter and am directing it at the current city council and especially at our MLA Doreen Eagles. It is absolutely unbelievable that we have let our roads get to the condition that they are in now.

It's been a couple of months now that I've been living with dozens of ants. To summarize really quickly, it started off as a small problem, then expanded across my apartment, and then exterminators came in.

The other day I was speaking with someone who was saying they have always wanted to work on a farm. So, I told them I still know people who have mixed farms and that they would be happy to have him go out and help.

Marna's Musings

From time to time I get a cool chill that tells me our collective sense of humour is fading fast.

It's an interesting pickle school divisions and the teachers, who make up the bulk of their workforce, find themselves in.

In terms of agriculture on the Canadian Prairies I have always thought livestock should be more significant than it has been. In that regard I felt the push to produce more hogs, a thrust made a decade ago now, made sense.

Chicago Blackhawks have been the talk of the shortened 48-game National Hockey League season - they didn't lose their first game until March 8, snapping a 24-game streak without a regulation-time defeat - and while fans in Vegas are snapping up betti