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After Monday night’s meeting on the future of Estevan school facilities, it appears the question is now when it will happen, rather than what will happen or if anything will happen.

My late sister was one of them

We’re going to have lots of reasons to look forward to 2020. One of them is going to be a double dose of election fever. Or maybe it’s a reason to not look forward to 2020. I guess it depends on your perspective. The provincial election will be Oct.

When the Second World War broke out, leaders quickly realized that it was going to be fought in the air as much as on the ground, so pilot training became a huge priority.

Cheers: Cheers to Sobeys pharmacy for going out and giving a 95-year-old woman her flu shot on a frigid day. She lives at Creighton Lodge and missed the flu clinic shot as she was in the hospital.

Ever since the Estevan Minor Hockey Association (EMHA) was awarded a midget AAA expansion team last fall, one of the recurring questions was regarding who would be the team’s first coach.

It’s been a disappointing start to the year for many in our community from a crime perspective. We’ve already seen people charged for drug-related crimes and thefts.

There is little doubt that waste plastics are a major environmental contaminant these days. That is not to suggest all plastics need to be abandoned and forgotten.

Needing to warm up again

This column was born in between planes, airports and hotels as we were coming back to Canada from what I considered a home trip – a visit to my family in St. Petersburg.