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The Downtown North Battleford organization has begun its run of Live@Lunch events in Central Park. The events run every second Wednesday in June, July and August and feature musical entertainment in the park area.

The North Battleford Air Cadets 43 Squadron held their year-end award ceremony at the Northland Power Curling Centre Sunday afternoon, June 7. Reviewing Officer was RCMP Sgt. Carl Dinsdale, a former parent and assistant with training for this unit.

One of the oldest houses in the Speers area had to be demolished. It originally occupied Rev. John Grenfill's homestead, who in 1903-1904 founded the New Ottawa settlement in the North West Territories.

North Battleford wants to build a new BMX facility and is seeking grant money from Kraft to make it happen. The City has a nomination in at Kraft Project Play for a BMX park.

Preseason pro football games are generally, in a word, weird. And the inaugural Northern Kickoff in Fort McMurray Saturday night between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos really was no different. In a way, it was weirder than most.

Governments would be wise to remember making changes to the CPP is a very complex issue

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The City of North Battleford Historic Archives would like to create a record of all the corner grocery stores in the city for the past 110 years.

Each year the Battlefords Rotary Club sponsors a number of leadership and enrichment weekends in Alberta for local high school students from North Battleford Comprehensive High School and John Paul II Collegiate.

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