Battlefords News-Optimist

The City of North Battleford will be entering a new lease agreement with Environment Canada for land at the airport. An automatic weather observation station is located on that land in the middle of the airport.

Submitted Leon Kochian, Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Saskatchewan, has won the 2019 Arrell Global Food Innovation Award for “global excellence in food innovation.

It’s not a scarcity issue, it’s about knowledge and access. We have the means to fix that, in Canada and globally

Submitted Oct. 10, Ducks Unlimited Canada and the University of Saskatchewan announced a partnership to create the Ducks Unlimited Canada Endowed Chair in Wetland and Waterfowl Conservation — the first of its kind in Canada.

Submitted New research at the University of Saskatchewan shows how the world’s most widely used insecticides could be partly responsible for a dramatic decline in songbird populations.

On Sept. 27, at the Viterra Elevator near North Battleford,the members of the Battlefords Wildlife Federation, students from local schools and Viterra employees released 43 pheasants into the wild.

Submitted by Saskatchewan Lotteries Thomas Staseson is Saskatchewan’s newest top-prize winner on The Big Spin.

Why has one lane at the north end of the northbound traffic bridge over the river at the Battlefords been closed for several weeks? Some say it’s to make everyone to slow down before they get to the construction area ahead, some say it’s just because

Neighbourly Advice According to Ed

Some not-so-good news this week for fans of local Battleford-born NHL centre Colby Cave. Cave is now an AHL player again, having been waived by the Edmonton Oilers this week. He was then assigned to the Bakersfield Condors, the Oilers’ AHL affiliate.