Battlefords News-Optimist

Another week, another win.

Tickets for the 21st annual Battlefords Business Excellence Awards are now on sale.

If you're an employer or an employee, group insurance is a good thing. For employers, a group insurance plan helps strengthen compensation packages making it easier to recruit and retain quality people.

An automatic external defibrillator presentation was held June 11 at the Blaine Lake Senior Citizens' Centre making the total count of AEDs within the community rise to five.

After a long and winding road, the provincial Liberals finally have a leader. He is Darrin Lamoureux, and he was acclaimed as Liberal leader following the close of nominations Aug. 8. The party announced his acclamation in a news release Aug. 21.

The Battlefords North Stars hit the ice Monday, or at least some of the players and coaching staff did. The North Stars hosted their Future Stars Hockey Camp Aug. 25 to 29.

Fort Battleford interpretation supervisor David Trimmer walked up to the tee box of the first hole of the Fort's disc golf course and emptied out his green, yellow and red satchel.

Among the many reasons offered for why many Canadians are increasingly facing difficulties finding a family physician to call their own is the fact that the workforce has become increasingly female.

Alison Khun of Unity is among four students beginning post-secondary education this fall who are getting a boost from Federated Co-operatives Ltd.

North Battleford RCMP received more than 25 calls for service between 6 a.m. Thursday and 6 a.m. Friday, including five municipal bylaw/disturbance complaints, three false alarms, one child welfare complaint and one traffic investigation/complaint.