Opinion

By the time you read this, 9/11 will have come and gone. Some of you will have been glued to the endless replays on TV, re-runs of the terrible events of ten years ago.

It is hard to believe that garbage is once again dominating the attention of the members of Estevan City council and a number of residents.

Hey, I haven't done a sandbox column in a long time, so the time is now, seeing as how I have an attention span of a disconnected gnat this week. So here we go with a bunch of riffs on a variety of subjects.

My late grandmother, Anne Marnovich, told me once she remembered very clearly where she was when Kennedy was shot. It's a story, along with the moon landing, I'm sure most people of that time can share.

Let us count the ways why Tiger Woods should not have been named to the U.S. President's Cup team by captain Fred Couples. 1. His world ranking is somewhere in the mid-30s. 2. He hasn't won a golf tournament in almost two full years. 3.

Short-lived Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Kim Campbell was sadly wrong when she said an election is no time to debate ideas. Yes, elections are about determining who should govern us.

The Day a Nation Changed

Swaggerville was no match for Millerville. In Ken Miller's first game back as head coach of the Saskatchewan Roughriders, the Green and White upset the CFL's top team, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 27-7 in Sunday's Labour Day Classic XLV in Regina.

If you haven't heard of it, empty nest syndrome is what can happen to parents when all their kids move out of the house. This syndrome is characterized by being sad and lonely.

On the last evening of August, more than 300 people attended a special event at the ball park in Wawota. There was a long line for the hamburgers and salad, and a shorter line for the drinks.