Battlefords News-Optimist

The Battlefords Horticultural Society held its last awards night this week. Due to declining membership, the group has decided to close the garden gate on the 68-year-old organization.

Ed, my neighbour next door, has been getting cranked up for harvesting and bubbling over with impatience about anything and everything. "You should know better than to hold a yard sale in September," he told me last week.

Normally a private person, Jeff Bridgeman is more interested in his training than his public relations work. The training was for the World Triathlon event in Edmonton Bridgeman competed in last August.

Dear Editor Well, just read "Road issues dominate discussions at city council" (Regional Optimist, Sept. 11). It still baffles me and I suppose many of my fellow citizens about priorities at City Hall.

There were two motor vehicle accidents in North Battleford Monday - one of which resulted in injuries. A collision at the corner of Scott Drive and Territorial Drive sent one person to hospital with undetermined injuries.

Faced with a list of maintenance issues across the division that will take years to address at current funding levels, Living Sky School Division Facilities Manager Brian Bossaer embarked on a quest earlier this year to find an "out of the box" solut

In the fourth of a four-book series now available, former North Battleford resident Kenneth William Budd will be in the city next week, one stop on a book tour marking the completion of the series.

The Maidstone Hospital Auxiliary hosted a meet and greet afternoon Sept. 7 for two new physicians who have recently joined the Maidstone Medical Clinic. Dr. Khatereh Mojtahedi and Dr.

Big event coming soon! Keep reading the Maymont News to find out what's happening next in Maymont. A GPS is supposed to direct you to a location, but it didn't help a pilot who was heading from Yorkton to Big River.

Alfreda and Reg Snow of Belleville, Ont. stopped in to see Rose Danychuk. Alfreda was Rose's Grade 2 pupil in 1947. Although they have not seen each other since, they've always kept in touch. It was so nice to see one another again.