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When writing an editorial for a weekly newspaper one of the first goals is to make sure it has relevance to the local community. In most cases that means writing on something local, or relevance to readers here in Yorkton.

In the not-so-distant past, it wasn't unusual to see 1,000 delegates at the annual NDP convention.

Sigh. There is pseudoscience and then there is complete and utter nonsense. Such is the campaign of the Calgary-based and ironically named organization "Friends" of Science. Last week, a billboard the group has erected came to my attention.

View from the Cheap Seats is kind of an extension of the newsroom. Whenever our three regular reporters, Calvin Daniels, Thom Barker and Randy Brenzen are in the building together, it is frequently a site of heated debate.

One day, God only knows when, I'll wake up without a father. Dad, 90 now, can't walk without assistance and he forgets more than he remembers. But he remembers the important things. God, his wife and children and most of the nearby descendants.

June 8 was World Oceans Day. It's a fitting time to contemplate humanity's evolving relationship with the source of all life. For much of human history, we've affected marine ecosystems primarily by what we've taken out of the seas.

Oh, those pesky door-to-door salespeople. Direct sellers have a reputation for the hard sell, with good reason.

Several of you have told me that your roses suffered this past winter. So did ours; only two made it over the winter, and we are keeping a watchful eye on the third, hoping for the best. So we lost probably half of our roses.

I might be on the verge of becoming a modern version of a Luddite.