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Wise to invest in customer service

Wise to invest in customer service

Dear Editor The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce did an amazing job again at this year's service seminar. The volunteers and planning committees have once again shone like stars.
Hopping Mad For the Last Time

Hopping Mad For the Last Time

Ed, my neighbour next door, had a slight accident recently. It had to do with a stubborn grain chute door. All Ed wanted to do was get a grain sample, but first the door wouldn't come open and then it wouldn't close.
An eye on something completely different

An eye on something completely different

My lust for baseball has put a temporary hold on my NHL predictions and by taking a break from hockey I can be far more accurate with my forecasting once teams like Detroit have played a dozen games. I'll sound like Nostradamus.
Getting full of full 60-minute effort excuse

Getting full of full 60-minute effort excuse

We hear it all the time in sports, "We didn't play a full-60 minutes." The Saskatchewan Roughriders were accused of this sports cliché terminology Sunday following the loss to the Stampeders.
We are all part of the solution

We are all part of the solution

Statistics Canada released a study early last month that highlighted the strength of the feminist movement. In 2006, for every 100 women with a university education there were 84 men with the same level of education.
Corporate jewels turning to glass

Corporate jewels turning to glass

I would like to thank the folks with BHP Billiton for making a pitch for Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. Their doing so has now given me an answer to one of my wife's frequent questions.
Crankiness unlikely to affect voters here

Crankiness unlikely to affect voters here

Dear Editor As John Cairns pointed out in his commentary, "Will cranky voter trend spread to B'fords?," (News-Optimist, Oct.
Nuggets of truth in a peanut

Nuggets of truth in a peanut

I recently began work on a challenge after I and the others in a writing group were assigned the following words: peanut, exhaustion, pelted and pensive and instructed to incorporate them into a final product that makes sense.
Small business drives economy

Small business drives economy

We are all consumers. We all have to eat, have a place to live and clothes to keep us from offending our fellow humans. Consumers come in all shapes and sizes.
Train now for better golf in 2011

Train now for better golf in 2011

It is a sad time of year for many people ... the end of golf season. If you're anything like me, you can't help but ask, "What happened this year?" One great round followed by one horrible round followed by a mediocre round.
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