Battlefords News-Optimist

One almost expected game show host Bob Eubanks to walk in the door and put in an appearance at North Battleford city council Monday. There were enough newly-married councillors at the meeting to make up a contestant pool on The Newlywed Game.

Manitou Evangelical Free Church in Neilburg hosted their Weird Animals Vacation Bible School Aug. 18-22. Sixty-six children attended during the week, with an average attendance of 55 a day.

The combines are in the fields, the leaves are changing colour and campers are put away. This can only mean one thing: Maymont Central School students and staff are back. Staff officially went back to work Aug.

The other day, just before going to bed, our 10-year-old daughter Katrina came into my office. "Dad, there's something important I have to tell you," she said, a serious tone in her voice.

Ed, my neighbour next door, saw that both my wife and I were stressed last week. We were white and grim with resolve to complete three, long-overdue basement projects. Measure twice cut once should guarantee success, but is never foolproof for me.

Hey. human friends! This is Claudette, the newsroom mascot, and I am just hopping to tell you about my recent "staycation" in the Battlefords.

Wendell McRann was about to pay for his gas at the No Frills gas bar recently, when a young woman who had just paid her bill at the till handed him the discount tickets she'd received, walked quickly to her car and drove away.

Twenty-eight members of the Rivers' Edge Quilt Guild and five guests were treated to an early fall harvest of quilts and quilted items during the "show and tell" part of the first business meeting of the year held at the Don Ross Craft Room, Friday,

The Battlefords AAA Sharks travelled to Edmonton last weekend to compete in the NAIT Ooks Women's Hockey 2014 Blue-Gold Tournament. In their first game Friday afternoon, the Sharks fell 4-0 to the St. Albert Slash.

Hello again! The summer has passed by so quickly, but I do hope everyone had a lovely one. We certainly couldn't complain about the weather. Most days were nice and warm.