Battlefords News-Optimist

A significant proportion of future Canadian retirees are going to suffer measurable deterioration in their standards of living

Dear Editor In 2012, Crown Corporations, SaskTel, SaskPower, SaskEnergy, SGI, Sask. Gaming and ISC, earned $524.9 million in profits and returned $325.5 million in dividends to government coffers.

In Loving Memory of Jack Luty, born August 23, 1931 at Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan, passed away November 5, 2016 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Survived by his son, Randy Luty (Jennifer) and granddaughter, Anika.

MARY SLABAIDA (nee HAMM) -The family of Mary Helen Slabaida, of North Battleford, sadly announces her passing on Tuesday, November 1st, 2016 at the age of 89 years old.

Ed, my old neighbour from Saskatchewan, was still cranky from a bout of the flu and cold yesterday. Thankfully, his cold and flu had gone away, but not all of his grumpiness had disappeared.

Dear Editor Before the presidential election in the United States, Mike D’Amour, who is strongly anti-Trump, bet me $5 that Trump would not win. Trump won! I now have Mike D’Amour’s $5. It came wrinkled and crumpled.

Unity News

The first season in the Canadian Junior Football League as members of the Saskatoon Hilltops is one that Taylon Elderkin and Jesse McNabb won’t soon forget.

The contest was a much closer one than in recent weeks. In the end, however, the result was the same for the Battlefords North Stars.

“Check rear park aid.” That’s what my 2011 Ford Expedition Max’s instrument panel computer told me yesterday, after I drove over some muddy gravel. Just slightly muddy, but still, it was wet. Maybe some mud got onto a sonar sensor.