Opinion

Brett Lawrie is the 'can't-miss' kid. Drafted higher than any Canadian in baseball history, the 21-year-old Lawrie has been on fans' radar for the past three years, when he went 16th overall in the 2008 draft to the Milwaukee Brewers. The Langley, B.

Life slows down in August. People go on vacation (speaking of which, two more days!), community programs take a break and the local sports scene slows down. I've never liked the fact that baseball season ends in July for most teams.

My condolences if you are feeling a little election fatigued already. With the provincial election still a good four months away, you may already be fed up with it.

The Editor, After attending the July 14, 2011 meeting about the heavy truck bypass in Estevan I have several comments. At that meeting, everyone in the crowd was encouraged to forward their comments to the government website.

Even though this season has been about as much fun as sticking pins in your eyes, there is no disputing this is a golden age for the Saskatchewan Roughriders Football Club.

We spent a good portion of last weekend at the Regina Folk Festival.

The Editor: My family moved just below Boundary Dam 42 years ago. In the 1970s, flooding was nearly an annual occurrence. Long Creek would come first, then the Souris, about a week later. They always came after the snow was gone.

Dear Estevan, I'm writing to you as a man who grew up there and left in 1998. After a few years of wanderlust I eventually settled in Winnipeg. I had a rare chance to visit you a few weeks ago.

It's a simplistic learning experience, but an important one. Now that mid-block pedestrian crosswalks have been introduced in the central business district of Estevan, the awareness level has to go up for everyone.

Perhaps the greatest influence on farm commodity prices over the past quarter of a century has not been hungry people, or the impact of Mother Nature, but has been the meddling in the market of world governments.