Battlefords News-Optimist

Two more Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League teams are in search of new bench bosses ahead of the 2018-19 campaign.

After starting off their season with road losses to the Moose Jaw Canucks and the Weyburn Beavers, the North Battleford Midget AA Beavers were hoping to use some home cooking to get into the win column.

After years of chasing after the top squads in the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League, the Unity Cardinals enter the 2018 campaign with the target firmly on their back.

Building permits are starting to pick up in North Battleford. Numbers are in for April and they show an increase in both permit numbers and permit values compared to the same month a year earlier.

The City of North Battleford’s utilities department has submitted its water quality annual report for 2017 at Tuesday’s Planning Committee meeting at City Hall.

HAFFORD – As part of the “ARBRE” (TREE) national tree planting project stemming from Canada’s hosting the G7 Summit in La Malbaie, Que., in June, the Redberry Lake Biosphere and its partners organized a tree-planting event May 15.

North Battleford is again receiving funding for its airport. In the form of cost-shared grants, the government is spending $275,000, which the City of North Battleford will match.

Appointments to housing authority boards serving Blaine Lake, Borden, Rabbit Lake and Lashburn have been announced. Sally Rann and Ruth Morton have been reappointed to the Blaine Lake Housing Authority board of directors.

Dear Editor Attendance at this year’s Battlefords Treasures Craft Show was quite successful and our customers’ response to the show and the quality of vendors displaying there was positive.