Opinion

He said Beginning next school year, students in the South East Cornerstone Public School Division will have to sit through four weeks of classes in February.

Reading letters to the editor concerning our hospital and doctors in Redvers, I have an autistic son in a wheelchair. He started having grand mal seizures one day after 5:00 p.m.

Thank you Cindy Moffatt for writing the editorial in the Feb. 22nd edition of The Observer. Everyone should respond to her request that we contact our parliamentarians by phone or in writing.

If there is one absolute that I have learned in my time at The Mercury it's this: people hate change. We've seen it time and time again. The automated garbage issue drew more of a response than almost anything I've encountered in 14 years here.

"Freedom begins between the ears," American author Edward Abbey once said. (I know, it's lame to begin anything with a quote, but it was just perfect.) The Estevan Bruins have had a regular season to forget.

The Editor: You may be wondering why the Estevan Kinsmen Christmas Card Lane signs are still up on the courthouse lawn. It's really quite simple.

The fact that SGI recently applied for a modest rate increase earlier this month didn't receive a lot of attention at first.

When it comes to farming, at least in terms of Prairie grain and oilseed producers the issues which impact profitability are many.

Lest there be any doubt that Saskatchewan is changing to a more urbanized place, consider a couple of news items in the last week.

When my grandfather came to Canada in 1930 at the age of 13, his family cleared 19 acres of land, by hand, in their first year. They didn't have tractors, chain saws, or electricity. They had horses, saws, axes and plows.