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Often items which come before Yorkton Council are more related than might appear on the surface. That was certainly the case this week.

Elections are certainly a much better option than the alternative, but they can be a huge inconvenience when it comes to the running of government.

Dear Editor: We watched a very old political trick be performed by the City of Yorkton council.

Dear Editor: When our grandfathers and great grandfathers pulled up on the scales of their local elevators in 1900 they had a team and wagon. They found themselves on a very uneven playing field.

Welcome to Week CXCI I of ‘Fishing Parkland Shorelines’. Like most of us I am a novice fisherman, loving to fish, but far from an expert.

Ok, I get that English is a living language. And I get that turning nouns into verbs (denominalization) is something that has gone on as long as English has been around.

My grandparents came here from Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Although it would be a one-way trip, the perilous journey across the Pacific was worth the risk. They left behind extreme poverty for a wealth of opportunity.

Now that we have moved into milder temperatures after the recent deep-freeze, we can start to focus on spring again! We received our Lindenberg seed catalogue awhile back; it’s a joy to look at, with color photos of the plants and great write-ups.

It happened decades ago, but I remember the baptisms of our two children. They went under the water of Echo Lake in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and they came up coated with green algae.