Battlefords News-Optimist

Has your garden fizzled for the year? Are you left with just tired annuals and perennials that have long gone to seed? If this is you, here are a few perennials (in addition to last week's suggestions) to help your garden continue to dazzle into the

The Manitou Evangelical Free Church in Neilburg hosted Vacation Bible School Aug. 19 to 23. A whopping 57 children attended during the week, with an average attendance of 48per day.

After the summer break the first St. Walburg Royal Purple meeting took place Sept. 9 at 6:30 p.m. with a potluck supper and business meeting conducted by HRL Georgina Schneider that followed.

How many of you who enjoy the song, It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels, would like to hear it sung by one of our own country stars? Helmay Lowen will be singing this song and others at our Legends 4, in Maymont Oct. 26. Come join us.

Sunday was a beautiful sunny day with little wind. It is wonderful to have good harvest weather continuing. A few farmers have completed their harvesting operations.

The new 260 MW generating station at the North Battleford Generating Station, which began operations at midnight June 5, of this year, was the site of an official ribbon cutting and open house Tuesday, Sept 17.

North Battleford residents, Alyssa Denton and Thomas Fransoo, are stretching their horizons as they pursue post-secondary education in Calgary, Alta. and Saskatoon, respectively.

Borden School Community Council hosted a trade fair in the Borden Community Centre Sept. 18 to showcase what the school and village had to offer.

The Access Communications Children's Fund has made a major donation to the Battlefords Boys and Girls Club. According to the press release, the funding will be used towards to provide free evening programming for youth in the community.

Crime has been a hot topic of conversation in the Battlefords ever since the city of North Battleford topped the Statistics Canada Crime Severity index for the fourth year in a row earlier this summer.