Battlefords News-Optimist

Dear Editor I also think that something has to be done to the Battlefords District Care Ccentre road. I drove that road for a year and half to visit my mother. It was bad then. Someone should listen to what Albert Varga has to say.

The progress on construction of the new Saskatchewan Hospital North Battleford on the Prairie North Health Region website can be viewed, thanks to a live webcam feed from the project site. The image is available at www.pnrha.

The main entrance to the Living Sky School Division office in North Battleford looks like it could use a facelift, but, in fact, it needs more work than first glance would suggest.

Some enthusiastic and community-minded high school students from North Battleford Comprehensive High School now have an Interact Club.

Council highlights

The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce is reacting positively to the changes made Monday to the 2016 budget in North Battleford. Council adopted the budget at their meeting Monday, but pared a proposed property tax increase down from four per cent to 2.

North Battleford city council has adopted its 2016 budget, but it is a much-more scaled back increase than what was originally proposed. The utility rate increase (base and consumption rates) remains at 4.6 per cent.

It’s hard enough to crack the roster of a Junior A team, let alone excel on one.

Vic’s View

The school community council asked Grades 2 to 5 to write a small Christmas message on a pre-constructed Christmas card. Jennifer Starycki made the cards. These cards were then delivered to seniors in Maymont and Radisson.