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Last week we presented a story of York Lake which featured a picture of the lake and some recreational events of the long ago — over a hundred years — since York Lake was a leisure time destination of the very early settlers.

As we stepped out from the theatre, Saskatchewan slapped us in the face. Last Friday, as is tradition, I trekked to Yorkton Tower Theatre for my weekly movie review. The cinematic offering was Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.

All too often in small town circles, I think we forget to look at the big picture when we’re presented with a topic or an issue that sits on the local, provincial or national levels of interest.

One year has passed so quickly since the Sask. Party completely destroyed bus service for the Saskatchewan people. In Saskatchewan history, not one political party has made such a blunder as the Sask.

There was a certain grim inevitability to the fire on Smith St. Thursday evening. Something bad was going to happen at that location, it was only a matter of time before we found out what it would wind up being.

One year has passed so quickly since the Sask. Party completely destroyed bus service for the Saskatchewan people. In Saskatchewan history, not one political party has made such a blunder as the Sask.

In the best movie ever made, The Empire Strikes Back , Darth Vader has just frozen Han Solo in carbonite. He then tells Lando Calrissian, Han’s friend, “Calrissian, take the princess and the Wookie to my ship.

One can imagine the earliest settlers, those who dreamt of a piece of land they could call their own on which to farm and raise a family, arriving on the Canadian Prairies and thinking there was so much grassland it would never all be farmed.

Much like how John Hammond’s reincarnated dinosaurs were never meant to escape Isla Nublar, Jurassic Park was never meant to be a franchise.