Battlefords News-Optimist

If there’s one thing that’s becoming the “new normal” for those now at or near retirement age, it’s “change.” Everything we thought we knew or expected about retirement has changed.

The Battlefords North Stars management group had their last opportunity to watch players on Civic Centre ice until September over the weekend for their spring camp.

The regular season is over across the Canadian Hockey League and while some teams are still in the hunt for championships, some are turning their attention to the draft.

Most gardeners, at some point, start to dabble with bulbs. Lilies, hyacinths, alliums and tulips are just a few well-known bulbs. Really keen gardeners differentiate between "true bulbs" and bulb-like structures such as corms and rhizomes and tubers.

Is it me, or have Canadian politics gone crazy? The Mike Duffy Senate expenses fraud trial is on and already the entire national media has gone nuts with their nonstop coverage.

Battleford Community Players will be presenting the first Saskatchewan staging of Trad, by contemporary Irish playwright Mark Doherty, at the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts Tuesday, April 22 to Saturday, April 25.

By the time spring really arrives, we are happy to see colour in the garden. From the landscape perspective, we would like to see our gardens filled with colour throughout the season and beyond.

Patient, experienced investors look for stocks carrying hidden assets that are not reflected on the balance sheet but can lead to enormous gains once the company begins to profit from them. At Successful Investor Wealth Management Inc.

Investors and advisors who consult me often ask, “How do I know what return I will need to earn from my portfolio?” This is one of those questions that on the surface looks like it should be pretty easy to answer, but in the real world is actually qu

P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }A:link { } Many Canadian Snowbirds who have become fed up with Canada’s long, hard winters (and there are bound to be many more this year, especially from the Eastern provinces) have purchased winter homes in Southern U.S.