Battlefords News-Optimist

After playing in a double overtime thriller a week earlier, the Battleford Beaver Blues didn’t want to go back to play in the home of the Glaslyn North Stars.

Bernice Elin Kirk, age 74 years, passed away peacefully on Monday, February 13, 2017 in Regina, SK. She was predeceased by her parents Peter and Ena (nee Barden) Angman and sister Lois Thompson.

Shirley N. Miller 1935 - 2017. It is with great sadness that the family announces the passing of Shirley Nancy Miller, beloved wife of Max Charles Miller, at St. Joseph’s Home Carmel Hospice, Medicine Hat, on February 10, 2017, at 82 years of age.

Walter (Wally) Dubnyk was born in Hague, SK on January 29, 1929 and was called to coffee row in Heaven on February 10, 2017 after a brief battle with cancer. Always an entrepreneur, many will remember him as the founder of Wally’s Food Basket (1969).

Mid February and you know by the ads in our local paper and posters on our local bulletin boards there is plenty of activity coming up in the next six to eight weeks in Unity.

A proposal that the province consider unpaid days off for government employees to balance the books is being met with a negative response by the province’s unions. The government is facing a $1.

The North Battleford Comprehensive High School Vikings junior girls’ basketball team concluded an impressive season in style Saturday.

The final regular season home games for the Battleford Sharks saw a pair of polar opposite results.

I count it a privilege to be able to write the story on Dennis Pidwerbeski’s life and musical career. He is a remarkable individual and musician, having played a key role in the great Mellotones dance band for many years.

Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan, found himself on the wrong end of some petty insults and lies last week. A friend shared the insults and the falsehoods he had heard about Ed. Ed thought his friend might have spared telling him what he heard.