Battlefords News-Optimist

More than 30 calls for service/occurrences were responded to by North Battleford RCMP between 6 a.m. Wednesday, May 21 and 6 a.m. Thursday, May 22.

Spring is really here! Extensive seeding and other field work has been done during the past week. The leaves have been slow coming out. Last Wednesday one could see the slight greening on the trees and a couple of warmer days have brought them out.

Sloppy water quality record keeping has the City of North Battleford in trouble with environment officials.

It's long been a conceit in Saskatchewan that most of our people still have ties to the farm, or at least rural Saskatchewan. That's one of the reasons why long weekends and holidays see so much traffic coming out of the cities.

May is just flying by for us at Caleb Village and we are having a great time. Our residents are busy working on puzzles, playing cards, going for walks at our nearby park and playing Wii bowling, just to name a few activities.

Ever since I started taking an interest in other things that life has to offer, my house has suffered. I used to take pride in clean, organized and de-junked closets and drawers.

Unity's Justin Wood won the Maple Leaf Junior Golf Tour season opener at the Elmwood Golf Club in Swift Current last weekend. Wood, 19, posted two under-par rounds of 69 and 70 for a two-day total of 139.

Students from Mosquito School and St. Vital Catholic School gathered at Mosquito First Nation Tuesday afternoon to make history. They were there for the signing of a co-created treaty between the senior-level students from the two schools.

The Borden Friendship Club members were entertained May 14 by eight four- and five-year-olds from the Borden preschool group taught by Kendall Redhead. The group sang four action songs then were treated to ice cream, iced tea and cookies by the club.

I wasn't quite ready to leap out of bed when my alarm went off this morning. So I hit the snooze button. Ten more minutes ...??I hit it a few more times, each time relishing every moment of those 10 minutes. I enjoyed the gift of those extra minutes.