Battlefords News-Optimist

It's time for the Northern Lights Bluegrass and Old Tyme Music Festival at Ness Creek. This summertime favourite will run Friday, Aug. 16 through to Sunday, Aug. 18.

LAWRENCE JOSEPH PRYSTUPA: It is with heavy hearts we announce the passing of our brother Lawrence. Born in Marselin area of Sask on September 10, 1941 and passed away July 26, 2013 in North Battleford Hospital.

North Battleford Fire Department came to the rescue of a four-year-old boy Monday. The child's mother summoned firefighters when his leg became caught between the pedal and frame of a bicycle.

A 31-year-old Calgary man remains in custody after being charged with 16 criminal charges after leading members of Northwest RCMP detachments on a 120-kilometre pursuit.

The Dekker Centre for the Performing has announced its fall season, which begins Sept. 19 with the Dylan Thomas Show.

Rodney Rhinehart from Maidstone will be inducted into the individual category of the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, as a player and builder, Aug. 17.

Thirteen members of River's Edge Quilters rallied together in July to sew quilt tops for people affected by the flood in Calgary and southern Alberta. Carol Johnson shared the quilting technique for sewing jelly roll race quilt tops.

On a Thursday in August it was not expected that there would be a big turnout for New Horizons golfing, and there wasn't. Only 29 came to play and they did not do all that well, as the best score of the bunch was only 38.

A new provincial bill set to take effect in the fall will change bargaining procedures for firefighters in North Battleford and could also give them the right to strike.

Maymont's Brayden Harris and his Warman Panthers teammates captured a silver medal at last weekend's U14 Western Canadian Softball Championship in Prince Albert.