Battlefords News-Optimist

The Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League have re-assigned 17-year-old goaltender Rylan Toth to the Battlefords Midget AAA Stars. The Saskatoon native played in four preseason games for the Rebels and posted one win and two losses with a 6.

The Downtown North Battleford organization has unveiled a new art display on 101st Street in a bid to inject new life into the city's core. The venue for the display is 1132 - 101st St., a building that used to be occupied by Speer's Flooring.

A notorious north-end car wash in North Battleford is once again coming under fire from councillors. Councillor Trent Houk singled out the building, and the owners, for criticism at Monday's municipal services meeting at City Hall.

The Battlefords won't have a shortage of hockey this season, especially with the recently announced expansion of the Saskatchewan Prairie Hockey League.

In just their third football season, the John Paul II Crusaders are experiencing some growing pains, but showing signs of good things to come.

North Battleford's Mikaela York got her college running career off to a strong start with a fourth place finish last Saturday.

More building permits were issued in August than the previous year in North Battleford, but values were way down from a year ago.

A house fire at 13th Avenue and 107th Street Thursday afternoon is currently under RCMP investigation. It's considered "suspicious in nature" as the second fire at the house in a one-week span, but no cause has been determined.

Two suspects accused in the Sept. 1 shooting incident in North Battleford will see their matters return to provincial court in October. Justin Fineday returns to court Oct. 2 by video conference for a show cause hearing.

This second half of summer has been great - warm days and nights, the mosquitoes all but disappeared, and I don't recall any severe storms - at least in Saskatoon and surrounding areas.