Battlefords News-Optimist

From the SHA: The Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) is announcing effectively immediately family presence/visitation will be limited to compassionate reasons only for River Heights Lodge in North Battleford.

There are 112 new cases of COVID-19 to report in Saskatchewan on November 11, 2020, bringing the provincial total to date to 4,326 cases. None of the new cases are in Saskatchewan residents tested out of province.

Not even a raging pandemic could stop Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 70 from honouring the Veterans on Remembrance Day Nov. 11. At 11 a.m.

Tanya Ward-Schur believes positive changes are coming. And that’s why Ward-Schur, the community facilitator for Urban Aboriginal Voices, a non-profit organization based in Red Deer, Alta.

The federal government will be requiring all entrants to Canada to self-report their health and quarantine arrangements using the ArriveCAN app prior to arrival.

Looking back at the history of war, Veterans Affairs Canada documents women of war.

The National Council of Veteran Associations in Canada last month called for dramatic action amidst what it called a “perfect storm” of existing backlogs and COVID-19.

A familiar face in Northwest politics made a political comeback in the municipal elections on Monday. Indeed, former Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz has been elected reeve of the rural municipality of Mervin.

One hundred and two years ago, on November 11th at 11 a.m., an Armistice agreement ended the First World War.

McKitrick School Principal Amanda Risling has shared the school’s Remembrance Day Ceremony in North Battleford with the News-Optimist. She says, “Due to Covid we had to do things different.