Battlefords News-Optimist

A national drug plan may simply end up subsidizing the drug consumption of people who don't need subsidies

It is with great sadness that the family of Marlene Ann Weninger, announces her passing on July 28th, 2015. Infamously known as "Beans", she was born to her proud parents, Frank and Bertha on September 24, 1959 in Surrey, BC.

If you’ve been looking at conventional interest-bearing investments, you’re bound to be disappointed. Savings accounts are money-losing black holes. Guaranteed investment certificates and money market funds yield next to nothing.

Gary Leroy Smith was born on May 17th, 1940 at the family home of Bud & Pearl Smith in Mervin, Sask. He quietly slipped away on August 1st, 2015 while residing at the Pine Island Lodge in Maidstone.

North Battleford is partnering up with the province in its efforts towards downtown rehabilitation. The City has been accepted as one of the new communities in the Main Street Saskatchewan program.

The year 2015 will see the 128th annual Northwest Territorial Days exhibition at the Battlefords Agricultural Society grounds in North Battleford.

The federal election has been called, but parties in Battlefords-Lloydminster were still in the process of getting their candidates in place for the Oct. 19 vote during the campaign’s first week.

In Loving Memory of (Carl) Harold Richard Jacobson, born December 5, 1925 at Shaunavon, SK. and passed away July 18, 2015 in North Battleford, SK.

A track hoe was used to cause as much as $10,000 damage to a Pioneer Grain elevator north of Lloydminster in the RM of Britannia. Maidstone RCMP says the damage was reported July 29.

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