Battlefords News-Optimist

Here's a look at some of the highlights from the Nov. 12 meeting of city council. The meeting itself had a relatively short agenda compared to previous meetings and lasted just over a half hour.

Last year by this time we had already lamented a month's worth of winter, and we had no idea what Mother Nature had in store for us from November 2012 to April 2013.

North Battleford council has voted to waive street closure fees for the recent provincial legion convention.

Winter hit with a vengeance Nov, 3 with high winds, dry snow and poor visibility. A Greyhound bus was stranded in the ditch east of Maidstone and waited for a tow truck to come.

The Battlefords AA Barons midget team is on top of the Centre Four Hockey League standings. The Barons record is now 8-2-1, in first place in the league with 17 points, two ahead of North East.

It is nice to see Lyle Sutherland in the community again. He returned home recently after spending a year working at Langley, B.C. Waseca council is once again sponsoring a Christmas lighting program.

Borden School held their Remembrance Day service Nov. 7. MCs were Mackenzie Piprell and Brooklyn Gader and organizers Mr. Dyck and the Grade 10 History class.

The Saskatchewan High Schools Athletic Association will be hosting six provincial volleyball championships this weekend and teams from Northwest schools are in on the action.

Between 6 a.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday Battlefords RCMP responded to more than 20 calls for service/occurrences. Two alarm calls were investigated and both were false. There were three 911 calls in the nuisance/prank category.

What is Remembrance Day to you? It means different things to different people.