Battlefords News-Optimist

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On July 6, 2014 at approximately 7 a.m 58-year-old Wally Giesbrecht of Elrose left a local hotel on the Highway 16 Bypass in North Battleford to go for a walk.

Justin Wood, a 2013 Unity Composite High School graduate, is having his best golf season yet.

The Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame will induct Edwin Rolheiser of Rosetown into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame as a builder Saturday, Aug. 16. Rolheiser was born in Macklin and grew up on a farm near Cactus Lake.

The last dismissal bell has run, the cap and gowns are put away and the trailers are out of hibernation and on the road. School is out, graduation is over and summer is on.

RCMP are requesting the public to respect the privacy of the familyof two people who died in a vehicle crash near Maidstone recently. Friday, June 27 at approximately 12:30 p.m.

There was a collision at the intersection of Territorial Drive and Highway 16 Thursday at about 6:45 p.m. According to police three vehicles were involved in the collision.

Children playing with matches were responsible for a fire on the 1600 block of 106th Street, according to the North Battleford Fire Department. Two pumpers, eight personnel and one chief officer arrived on the scene.

A semi and a half-ton collided on Highway 4 about eight kilometres north of North Battleford Friday morning, sending one person to hospital via STARS with serious injuries. Police were called to the scene at just before 8 a.m.

North Battleford's blue bins now line every street on pick-up days. In Battleford, where mandatory recycling has yet to take root, there is still just a smattering of bins set out for pick up every other week.