Battlefords News-Optimist

Sitting here in Battleford, having coffee with Harold Anderson, one would hardly suspect that you were in the presence of one of the brave men who helped push back enemy troops out of France, Belgium, Holland and England. Anderson was a pilot.

When counselling patients on health, physicians often focus on lifestyle changes such as diet, exercise or smoking.

Along with employment and GDP growth, another key measure of economic activity is the value of building permits. Municipalities issue building permits for new construction projects and they provide an important indicator of new capital formation.

I met a Holocaust survivor one warm August day in Chamonix, France as we were doing the tourist thing, wandering about in the shadow of Mont Blanc, and searching for a place to eat.

The last three contests for the Battlefords North Stars gave new meaning to the term "hard-fought." That was certainly true against the Yorkton Terriers Friday night, a wild, fight-filled affair.

The political landscape is upside down when the Conservative Party is the big social policy spender. But that's what the Prime Minister Stephen Harper has done with his new $5 billion Family Tax Plan.

In many Canadian cities, good luck if you try to catch a cab in the dead of winter, after a hockey game, early in the morning after exiting a club or at peak holiday times.

North Battleford RCMP responded to 43 calls for service between 6 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8 and 6 a.m. Monday, Nov. 10. Those incidents included several calls in relation to alcohol offences in the downtown area of 101st Street.

The Battlefords AAA Sharks keep finding ways to win hockey games. The Sharks swept a two-game weekend series with the Melville Prairie Fire at the Horizon Credit Union Centre.

North Battleford RCMP responded to more 30 calls for service between 6 a.m. Friday, Nov. 7 and 6 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 8. RCMP made 10 arrests relating to alcohol offences.