Battlefords News-Optimist

Renovations are complete at Innovation Credit Union’s Hafford offices. The Hafford Advice Centre held its grand re-opening March 29.

Provincial budget impact less dramatic than last year

The good news is we are free of the cold and wet winter weather. The bad news is conditions are so dry that we now have to worry about fires. The City of North Battleford and the R.M.

4-H Notes

First reading was uneventful for the much-talked-about zoning bylaw amendments in advance of cannabis legalization. The bylaw amendments, which had already been introduced, passed unanimously on first reading.

“Security is an illusion,” I complained to Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan. I had received a letter concerning my pension plan from my church’s denomination. It seems it is no longer as secure as it should be.

Art Notes

For the first time since 1990, the Nipawin Hawks can call themselves the best Junior A team in the province of Saskatchewan.

Patrick Maze, president of the Saskatchewan Teachers’ Federation, spoke on budget day about K-12 funding. According to an STF release, Maze acknowledged Premier Scott Moe made good on his promise to reinstate $30 million in education funding.