Battlefords News-Optimist

The Saskatchewan Prevention Institute has announced the 12th annual Bicycle Safety Week in Saskatchewan - "Biking through a Safe Summer" May 12 - 18.

Real life couple, veteran actors Linda Lyon Walls and Jim Walls, star in Battlefords Community Players' last dinner theatre of the season, Sexy Laundry, at the Dekker Centre next week.

The Battlefords Jazz Society has an event planned for Friday, May 2 at the Sloan Auditorium that will feature popular Saskatoon-based band Rosie and the Riveters.

Work has begun on the coming year's school calendar - a joint effort between Living Sky School Division and Light of Christ Catholic School Division - and no drastic change is anticipated.

What a difference a week makes. A week earlier, the Battlefords looked like they had two potential champions in the making in the Battlefords North Stars and the midget AAA Stars.

Between 6 a.m. Saturday, April 5 and 6 a.m. Monday, April 7, Battlefords RCMP responded to more than 60 calls for service. Among those calls were four false/nuisance 911 calls, three noise complaints and three false alarms. Saturday 9:13 a.m.

A short in a kitchen stove has been determined as the cause of a fatal house fire in Fairview Friday afternoon.

Following the Second World War when gas was no longer rationed, when tires were easier to purchase and families were reunited, people started to travel. Motels and auto courts began to appear as ideal places to stop overnight.

Battlefords RCMP responded to about 50 calls for service/occurrences between 6 a.m. Friday, April 4 and 6 a.m. Saturday, April 5, including four nuisance/false 911 calls. Friday 6:32 a.m. - Complaint of a loud party on the 1500 block of 105th Street.

Cpl. Rodney Levesque was patrolling Highway 16 near Foam Lake last May when he got the call to be on the lookout for a vehicle that had nearly run down a flag person in a work zone. Cpl.