Battlefords News-Optimist

Mention "ground cover" and many gardeners visibly tense up if they've had experience with the freely spreading goutweed and ribbon grass. Yes, quite literally, ground covers are plants that cover ground - often aggressively and without inhibition.

The Rotary Club of the Battlefords annually sponsors eight local high school students to attend Rotary weekend camps in Alberta.

Allison and Lionel Hawryliw recently presented the annual grant from the Nico Hawryliw Fund to the Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation for the Community Oncology Program of Saskatchewan (COPS).

The North Battleford Beavers have had a slow start out of the gate for the 2014 NSRBL season. The Beavers dropped their second straight home game to start the season Friday night, losing to the Edam Blue Sox 4-1 at Beaver Lions Stadium.

Have you booked your appointment to save a life? There will be a blood donor clinic Wednesday at the Don Ross Centre from 2 to 8 p.m., sponsored by the North Battleford Lions Club. To give blood, contact the Canadian Blood Services at www.blood.

Three registered nurses who work in the Battlefords Union Hospital Intensive Care unit are among several in Prairie North and Prince Albert Parkland health regions who have completed SIAST's new critical care nursing program.

2014 Saskatchewan Roughriders training camp presented by Groundforce Drilling got underway Sunday morning here at Griffith's Stadium and I can't make this stuff up - there was a dark, grey cloud hanging over the proceedings.

Four recipients of the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association Junior Citizen of the Year award have been chosen. The award is made annual in partnership with SaskPower and the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.

The Meadow Lake Sox spoiled the North Battleford Beavers home opener Wednesday night. The Sox batted around the order in the second and seventh innings en route to a 10-6 win over the Beavers at Beaver Lions Stadium in NSRBL action.

The April statistical report for the Battlefords RCMP detachment once again highlighted a continued trend downward of crime instances in North Battleford.