Battlefords News-Optimist

LEDUC: Dennis "Dale" Joseph Leduc of Hay Lakes passed away on Thursday, August 14, 2014 at the age of 67 years.

I am a firm believer in the power of making your intentions become your reality. I have a strong sense that when you act and believe your life is going to unfold in a certain direction, it will.

The moon begins in its first-quarter phase right by Mars and Saturn, as the month opens. Full moon is Sept. 8. Uranus is occulted Sept. 10 in Eastern Canada; a close approach for westerners. Sept. 15, the moon is within 1.

In my first career as a pharmacist, I worked in more than 30 pharmacies across Nova Scotia, filling more than 100,000 prescriptions between 1990 and 1995.

It's the game with a funny name. Even before playing pickleball for the first time, now-devoted players weren't sure of what to make of the game.

NYKIFORUK: It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Tom (Taras) Nykiforuk on July 31, 2014 of North Battleford, SK at the age of 83 years.

GRANT: In loving memory of Holly Lena Grant, who was born at home on the family farm near Medstead on August 30, 1931, and passed away peacefully on August 11, 2014 in Spiritwood.

The 1100 block of 110th street will be closed all day today for patching.

Plans to put up a Holodomor monument in North Battleford have been approved. The monument will be installed in remembrance of those who perished in the 1932-33 Ukraine famine, a famine engineered by the Soviet Union.

Joyce and Gary Wappel were among the many people who spotted Saskatchewan Indian Gaming Authority's custom-made slot machine-shaped hot air balloon floating above the Battlefords at various times during Northwest Territorial Days.