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This week is another week without the dreaded snow. I am thankful! After last year any day without snow is a good day. We seem to be having grey weather right now like Victoria has every time I have gone there to see my mother.

Dear Editor In light of the recent rise in violent crime and other public safety issue the North Battleford Good Neighbour Network is sponsoring a public meeting to have a forum for people to be heard, share their successes and hopefully get answers

My mother, without the benefit of the Internet, Netflix, tablet computers or the now ubiquitous smarter-than-me phone - had to be inventive in keeping us kids occupied. So in the fall, out came the blank paper, crayons and a few gathered leaves.

The good harvest weather is tough to find as it is dewy now until almost noon and is getting dark just after supper. Oh where, oh where did summer go? This almost feels like November weather.

Dear Editor This poem was written because of the bullying that is becoming rampant in our society. I have been bullied myself when I was in school and very young. It went on from elementary school until I graduated from high school.

Ed, my neighbour next door, never lacks a ready curiosity. Arriving home from our trip to a family wedding in Ontario, Ed had a few questions to get answered. I always know the questions will be where, why and what with Ed.

Oh for the love of God. First it's eliminating Christmas pageants at schools so as not to offend others.

Over the years we've tried many strategies to keep the kids quiet on the four-hour odyssey from home to "back home," i.e. my wife's grandmother's place in Preeceville, my dad's farm near Hyas and mom's acreage on the edge of Yorkton.

This week we will focus on the movie Rush, the recent release that based on the rivalry between Formula 1 drivers James Hunt and Niki Lauda back in the Seventies.

Prior to my arthritis days I enjoyed hiking up several local mountains with Hubby, our son and his wife and the two oldest granddaughters.