Battlefords News-Optimist

One of the most well known seasonal oratorios, The Messiah, will be performed at the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts in North Battleford Monday.

The Western Development Museum's 2013 Great Escapes Vacation Raffle is now complete and ticket sales for the 2014 raffle are well underway.

The four-part harmony chorus Battlefords Blend is presenting a centennial Christmas show and sale Sunday, Dec. 8 at the Dekker Center for the Performing Arts in North Battleford.

According to an SGI press release, with the holiday season now underway, law enforcement across the province will be paying extra attention to impaired driving during December's month-long traffic safety blitz, Operation Overdrive.

Calls to Battlefords RCMP between 6 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5 and Friday, Dec. 6 included several complaints of dangerous and erratic driving including complaints about drivers texting while driving.

The Battlefords News-Optimist/Regional Optimist is announcing the addition of a new columnist for online readers. Wartime Wednesdays is a weekly blog researched and written by Elinor Florence of Invermere, B.C.

North Battleford RCMP are requesting the public's assistance in identifying the man in this photo. The man is being sought in connection with an alleged Nov. 25 assault at a business on Territorial Drive North.

It was an average day for Battlefords RCMP as members responded to about 20 calls for service/occurrences between 6 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 4 and 6 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 5. Wednesday 7:53 a.m. - Complaint of threats being made.

Battleford violin student Victoria Mahmood has won a 2013 Royal Conservatory gold medal for scoring the top mark in Saskatchewan on the Grade 3 Violin examination. Victoria is the daughter of Therese and Dr. Yasin Mahmood.

Dec. 12 has been circled as the date on which a decision on sentencing will be handed down in the sexual abuse case against former Beauval Indian Residential School dormitory supervisor Paul Leroux.