Battlefords News-Optimist

This was the week I wrote I had no hoar frost rain marked. I think it has rained every day. I know guys are going to give me a hard time, but that's fair! If you stick your neck out and make a prediction, maybe sometimes you are wrong.

Ed, my neighbour next door, hates weeds. He has absolutely no tolerance for any of them. "No self-respecting farmer will even taste dandelion wine," Ed claims. He says the only good weed is a dead one.

The golfers of New Horizons managed to beat the rain with as 29 members finished their weekly game Monday morning. The group of Brian Miller, Sid Waters, John Dove and Jim Fraser took first place for the round.

GROSJEAN: It is with the deepest sadness that we announce the passing of Nicole Cheryl Grosjean on June 06, 2014. She was born in Fort Churchill of the Sayisi Dene First Nation, Chipeyan. She was raised in Turtleford and North Battleford, Sk.

It's not an easy job putting the bad guys away. Long hours, significant stress, and dedicated work goes into gathering the evidence and convincing a judge or a jury of your case beyond a reasonable doubt.

Now that we've had summer. What you missed it? It was a Saturday, probably May 31. Yeah the weather has been one ongoing bummer right from the first snow that fell last fall to the Summer Solstice last week.

Dear Editor Don McMorris, Minister responsible for the Saskatchewan Liquor and Gaming Authority (SLGA), attempts to brush aside concerns about the closure of four small town liquor stores in a June 17 letter published in the News-Optimist.

The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety has awarded SIAST Occupational Health and Safety Practitioner student Kathy Lee with the 2014 Dick Martin Scholarship Award.

A real estate office in Battleford is the latest victim of vandalism in the area. The office of Battlefords Realty Solutions AKL Ltd. on 21st Street in Battleford was ransacked over the weekend.

The ribbon has been cut to officially open the new and improved Maidstone Airport. RM of Eldon reeve Garry Taylor and Cut Knife-Turtleford MLA Larry Doke were on hand to officially open the airport with a ribbon cutting Saturday morning.