Battlefords News-Optimist

LEOVILLE — Twenty-three years after graduating from Grade 12 at Leoville School, First Nation musician and storyteller Jason Chamakese returned to share his gifts with the students and staff of his old school.

Teachers in Living Sky School Division’s pre-kindergarten programs are learning to use five-minute intervals of specific physical activity to increase their young students’ emotional balance and attention spans.

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The Battlefords North Stars (26-19-6-1) were looking to carry the momentum from their win in Weyburn on Family Day into their game against the Notre Dame Hounds (31-14-1-4) Tuesday.

Despite some challenging times in 2014, the local Hyundai dealership in the Battlefords has received some positive recognition for their efforts. North Battleford Hyundai was announced as a 2014 President’s Award of Merit winner.

Calls for service may be down, but there were some troubling upward trends in the January crime statistics from Battlefords RCMP detachment. The overall calls for service were down for the month from 960 in January 2014 to 760 last month.

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