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The Saskatchewan Roughriders lost to the Edmonton Eskimos 39-36 in an exciting overtime game. The Riders made the game close in the fourth quarter with 17 points.

There’s nothing to beat the summer heat like throwing water at each other. At times though, a straight up water fight can get a bit boring if you’ve had enough of them.

In the news recently has been the decision by the United Kingdom to end ties with the European Union, which has been dubbed ‘Brexit.’ And I wanted to know how it would affect us here in Canada.

A Case for Composting? The Urban Death Project By Lynne Bell According to the Central Intelligence Agency's World Factbook , the global death rate for humans averages almost 8 per 1,000 people. And according to www.dyingwords.

Estevan residents are well-known for their generosity. On so many occasions, we have come through for fundraisers, campaigns and other calls for financial support.

September 10, 2015 Dear Diary, There’s a mobile phone Pokémon game coming out soon. It sounds gimmicky, like most adaptations of any franchise to the mobile platform. I probably won’t download it.

Cheers: Cheers to the gentleman who helped an elderly lady carry her groceries out to her car. There are good, kind people in Estevan.

The Editor: What heritage are we leaving our grandchildren? Last week I was cutting grass (you know that never ending job this year), and a truck from out-of-province stopped and the driver wanted to chat.

To the Editor: I just threw 25 plastic milk jugs into the garbage to be taken to the landfill. Now that SARCAN no longer takes milk cartons or jugs, my options are to pay a fee to recycle them or throw them in the garbage.

The Editor: It has been nearly a year since Darren Jones, the tree carver or chain saw carver, if you like, and I met at a Torc drilling site. We talked about a big old poplar that was planted by the Pawson family around 1913.