Battlefords News-Optimist

The City of North Battleford will begin 2019’s unidirectional flushing of water lines on Tuesday, May 21, with an estimated end date of Friday, May 31.

It’s been 40 years, 64 summer students, six mayors and four administrators. Bernadette Leslie has been working at the Fred Light Museum in Battleford since its beginnings.

The baseball season is on for the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League in 2019. The expanded league returned to action Monday night with a game in Lloydminster between the defending champion Border City Blue Jays and the Battlefords Trappers.

SASKATOON – An artificial portable kidney that patients who have suffered renal failure could wear is to be created by a research team at the University of Saskatchewan(USask) with federal funding.

It was an unusual format to the 10th annual Champions of Mental Health banquet.

MAIDSTONE – Cribbage was played Monday, April 28, with high score going to Dorothy Schwartz and low to Bev Stewart. Lunch was provided by Jean Hartman.

Elections and pleas are next with respect to charges against Husky Oil Operations Ltd. regarding the 2016 North Saskatchewan River oil spill.

The Battlefords Co-op Aquatic Centre is back in full operation. Director of Leisure Services Cheryl DeNeire made the announcement at city council Monday.

Monday at 6:16 p.m., Battlefords RCMP responded to a single vehicle rollover involving a semi hauling crude oil. There was as a small amount of oil spillage on the road, states a release from the RCMP.

On May 12, Battlefords RCMP received a report of a missing 25-year-old female, Tiki Brooklyn Laverdiere. She is from Edmonton and was last seen in North Battleford on April 29. The last contact Tiki had with family was via text message on May 1.