Battlefords News-Optimist

Haying is progressing in the province as livestock producers now have 19 per cent of the hay crop cut and 10 per cent baled or put into silage, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s Weekly Crop Report.

First Person Exploits into the Unknown

A man is dead following an early-morning incident south of Blaine Lake. At approximately 1:45 a.m. July 5, Blaine Lake RCMP detachment members responded to a report of a distraught male with a firearm in a rural area south of the community.

The Rotary Club of the Battlefords held their President’s Wind-up event June 27 night at the Muse Theatre, Western Development Museum.

Florence Stowell, Florence Emily (Packham) Stowell 1920-2017. Florence Stowell passed away on March 1, 2017 in Montreal.

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched for owners of a local food bus business which was lost to fire over the holiday weekend. The Bonnie & Clyde’s bus was destroyed by a blaze on the night of July 1.

Local area filmmaker Floyd Favel is finally ready to start filming an indigenous film that has been in the works for a number of years.

Neighbourly Advice According to Ed

The Downtown North Battleford Business Improvement District is seeing lots of improvements happening in their area at the moment.