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There is fall in the air on the prairies. Even though the daytime temperatures are often still warm, at night our temperatures are dipping low enough to stop growth in hot crops like tomatoes and to colour up leaves.

Most of us have now survived our first threat of fall frost, but there are cooler nights forecast and the days are becoming appreciably shorter. But it’s not too late to take some steps to help your lawn survive the coming inclement weather. 1.

Dear Editor Apparently visiting the downtown stores in North Battleford used to be an event. When we came here 30 years ago, there was still a large variety of stores and one could drift from one to another.

Recently, I slipped into Cabela’s on a weekend and noticed that most people were browsing in the firearms, ammunition and clothing areas, compared to May when everyone was in the fishing section.

We often concentrate on our most popular species of fish, wildlife and plant in these columns. In Saskatchewan, there are 67 fish species, 414 bird species and 91 mammal species. I am not even touching amphibian, reptile or plant and fungi species.

One of the most bizarre reactions from Saskatchewan conservatives this summer was their cheering over new Premier Doug Ford reducing the size of Toronto city council.

When the Canadian Northern Railway arrived at Dinsmore in 1913, it brought with it 12 railway cars of lumber for the construction of a hotel, built by T.W. McCrea & Delisle Bros. at a cost of about $25,000.

There it was, floating, as it were, on the booth’s table. Well away from sticky fingers, in all of its seven-and-a-half foot long glory, was the USS Flagg, the G.I. Joe aircraft carrier.

If you want investment from China, you have to go there to build the relationships first.

Dear Editor Why do we think government agents with bulldozers and wrecking balls can come in and destroy our 100-year-old heritage building – our Grand Old Dame – our magnificent structure, which should be passed on to our children and grandchildren.