Battlefords News-Optimist

There was a lockdown reported at Island Lake First Nation School last week. According to Loon Lake RCMP the incident happened Friday afternoon around 2 p.m.

The North Battleford man wanted for a violent armed robbery in Lloydminster has been apprehended. Chase Hamilton was arrested Tuesday morning, Oct. 8 in North Battleford, says the Battlefords RCMP.

One of my wintertime guilty pleasures is watching cooking shows on the idiot box. It's not the best plan for dieters but, if you love to cook, it's a great place to get inspired and to update your menus.

Correspondent Hi, there! Here we are into fall again with all its beautiful colours. Do hope the winds don't blow off all the leaves before we enjoy them to their full capacity.

More charges have been laid in a school break and enter from last Wednesday night, and this time it is two 12-year-olds who are now facing charges.

On Sept. 10, Reigning Riders had their first general meeting of the year. Madison Flath has joined the 4-H club this year. We talked about what kind of clinics we wanted to do and events we wanted to see. We elected our executives for the year.

It is hard to believeSeptember is over and we are already into the month of October. The first month of school seemed to fly by very quickly. We hope the farmers finished their harvests safely and everyone enjoyed the nice weather.

Many volunteers soon had enough wood sawed, split and stacked Oct. 5 to last three years for Curtis and Carol Crabb of Borden. Curtis has had two surgeries and chemo for a brain tumour and just came out of the hospital Oct. 4, after his last surgery.

North Saskatchewan River Municipal Health Holdings held their regular meeting on Monday, Sept.1. The clinics are preparing for the implantation of the new Electronic Medical Record Program the beginning of October.

The Western Development Museum Heritage Farm and Village says the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool elevator has been repaired and painted.