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At their regular monthly meeting in May the Board of the Sunrise Health Region dealt with their budgets. The good news came when looking back at the 2014-’15 budget numbers. The Region actually managed to post a very modest surplus of $70,000.

The reality suggests we will re-elect another Saskatchewan Party government next April.

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

I am going to be self-indulgent this week and hope you will bear with me as I turn this column into a thinking emotionally theme.

Even as I was driving toward the Yorkton Regional High School on Thursday afternoon, I could tell something was not right. I have covered the annual car show there for the last two years and, usually, it is a scene of controlled mayhem.

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.

June 8 was World Oceans Day.

Isn’t it amazing how a fragrance can bring back a flood of memories? That happened to me this spring when two very kind gardeners gave us some lily-of-the valley, some white, and some pink, which I have never seen.

Summertime is just around the corner: a perfect chance to get those dusty boxes of family photos down off the shelf in the closet, kick back in the shade, and do your family (present and future) a favor by recording who the faces are in the photos, w