Battlefords News-Optimist

It's safe to say the Wilkie Outlaws have adjusted to play in the Sask West Hockey League. The Outlaws won both of their games last weekend, improving their record to 4-0. They started their weekend with a 6-3 win over the Macklin Mohawks in Wilkie.

Vaccination decisions are a touchy subject for many people.

The Meadow Lake Stampeders used a six-goal second period to beat the Paradise Hill Hawks 11-4 Saturday night in the NSRHL's season opener in Meadow Lake. Both teams scored twice in the first period, but Stampeders took control in the second period.

Rachel Ashley is an award winning 19-year-old singer-songwriter from Manitoba whose No Time For Bullying Tour came to students and staff at North Battleford Comprehensive High School last Tuesday morning.

Regina indie-rock troupe Library Voices, only recently bumped from first place on Canada's top-30 indie songs chart, will make its first appearance in North Battleford Saturday, Nov. 15.

A colourful, living addition to your Christmas or New Year's home décor, now is the ideal time to pot up a few amaryllis bulbs (Hippeastrum spp.) for your own enjoyment or as an early gift for your friends.

The latest addition to the increasingly busy operations of the Battlefords and District Co-op held a grand opening Thursday.

One of my most favourite places to be is the spot somewhere in between "yes" and "no." ?? You apply for a job and the deadline for applications has not come to pass. You extend an invitation and await a reply.

When I first came to Alberta a quarter-century ago, vacancy rates in Calgary and Edmonton exceeded 10 per cent. In Edmonton, where I lived in 1988, landlords often gave one month free on an already cheap 12-month lease.

Which fossil fuel is the largest generator of greenhouse gas emissions and toxic smog? If you answered coal, you're right. Coal produces half of all global carbon dioxide emissions and almost all toxic smog.