Battlefords News-Optimist

The board of directors of the Twin Rivers Curling Club has announced Doug Flasch is the club’s general manager.

Ed, my old neighbour in Saskatchewan, knows I waste too much time browsing the listings of houses for sale. Most sensible people are only interested in homes for sale if they are in the market to buy one.

Oh, boy, are people mad about the Trans Mountain court decision. This past year I have had two columns go absolutely viral. The first was my analysis of the Gerald Stanley trial.

Garbage notes: council

Unity News

If all goes as planned a vacant lot on 100th Street is slated to be the location of a new strip mall development.

Mayor Ryan Bater was beaming Monday night over the development happening in the city of North Battleford.

Battlefords RCMP were alerted at about 2:30 a.m. Tuesday to the arrival of a woman at Battlefords Union Hospital who appeared to have a gunshot wound to the leg.

Perhaps the title of this feature should be “Every Golf Course has a Story.” The story is all about the Rustic Nine golf course, which has celebrated its 10th year of operation as a nine-hole par-three course north of North Battleford.

There was a distinct international flavour to the start of the Hafford Vikings football season this year.