Battlefords News-Optimist

This month our country commemorates the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. I wasn’t around for that but around the world, millions of people who hoped and longed for a war-free world, celebrated.

The pithiness of social media is sometimes seen as a new fad, but writer Jacqueline Carmichael knows the writing style isn't new.

It was in the early 19th century, during the Napoleonic wars when the first connection of the poppy to those who lost their lives in times of war occurred.

Unity News

Over my decade and change as the editor of the News-Optimist our newsroom has established two frequently used feature formats — Everybody Has a Story and First Person Exploits Into the Unknown.

Rabbit Lake News

Dear Editor Recently I wrote a letter to the editor (“Who will save the old Saskatchewan Hospital, Regional Optimist , Sept. 4.) At the end of the letter I committed an embarrassing faux pas.

Maclean’s Magazine is not done with North Battleford. They have come out with their 2019 Most Dangerous Places in Canada list, and not surprisingly, North Battleford topped their list.

In the spring of 2018, Helen Urlacher travelled to Fernie, B.C. to help them with their bid for Kraft Hockeyville. While there, the mayor of Fernie, Mary Giuliano, gave her the “game puck” from the senior hockey team, the Fernie Ghostriders.

MAIDSTONE — Shiloh Baptist Church was visited by 280 people during the summer of 2018. Visitors were from Germany, New Zealand, Montana and Arizona. Also represented were points in British Columbia: Fort Nelson, Barnhead, Fort St.