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What are the plagues that can hit the prairies? While ancient peoples had locusts, we have potato beetles and slugs. We've had hail, we've had flood, and now we have one more thing to worry about: giant hogweed.

When I was growing up in London, Ontario, in the early 1950s, back doors would flap open between 5:30 and 6 p.m., and parents would call Johnny or Mary to come home for dinner. We'd be out playing in the park, empty lot, or nearby ditch or creek.

The weekend ahead is always a rather special one in the city of Yorkton since it is the time of the annual Yorkton Threshermen's Show & Senior' Festival.

A pair of Bushnell 7 X 15 X 35 binoculars hangs over a chair-back near our front window - the better to spy on the new neighbours. They don't seem to mind the paparazzi, and appear oblivious to our inspection.

I'll begin this week by letting you in a little bit on my recent vacation. You see, our family has sure taken advantage of this camper.

Chris Putnam has recently joined Yorkton This Week as a reporter. Born in Watson, Putnam attended the University of Saskatchewan taking four years of English, which after graduation turned into a reporter position at the Tisdale Recorder.

There's not much good news in the most recent TD Bank Financial Group forecast of Saskatchewan economic growth. It significantly downgrades the province's expected gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2010 to a modest 2.

If Bon Jovi is 75% of what they were in Winnipeg over the weekend, then rock music fans in Regina will be in for a treat on July 28. I have seen Bon Jovi three or four times in my lifetime and they were the best this past Saturday in Winnipeg.