Battlefords News-Optimist

Due to an ongoing shortage of registered nurses to deliver emergency services at the Wilkie and District Health Centre, the emergency department will operate on reduced hours Mondays through Fridays, beginning Dec.

UPDATE: The youngest of the children, a seven-year-old female, passed away Sunday night. The 32-year-old passenger who was killed at the time of the collision was previously identified as a male was in fact a female. BACKGROUND: On Nov.

It was a great two days of 4A boys provincial volleyball action at John Paul II Collegiate. But the host Crusaders could have hoped for more of a storybook ending.

Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation has announced Fortress Windows & Doors’ support of the 2019 Festival of Trees’ Gala Evening, “Our people … Our place.

BATC Community Development Corporation is again a sponsor for the 24th annual Festival of Trees, with funds being directed to Family Day.

The Correctional Service of Canada says on Nov. 24 at approximately 8:30 p.m., following an evening count in the minimum-security unit at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary, staff members discovered that offender James Fred Katsiris was not accounted for.

The stories of First Nations elders in the Battlefords and area has been captured in a new book launched this week. Battle River Treaty 6 Health Services Wellness Department has launched the book Wahkohtowin- Nehiyaw Relations .

The Holodomor Genocide Memorial event Nov. 20 at the Chapel Gallery was a collaboration between the Battlefords Ukrainian Cultural Council, the Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee and the Chapel Gallery.

Wilkie hosted the Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association’s 2A Boys’ Provincial Championship Nov. 22 and 23.

“There’s nothing that a day of quilting can’t cure!” This quote resonates well with our members, and that is why we keep our guild active. The Rivers’ Edge Quilters held their monthly meeting on Nov. 1 with 27 members present.