Battlefords News-Optimist

Radisson's centennial is being celebrated Aug. 9, 10 and 11. Registration, lunch, get acquainted cocktails and a banquet take place in the curling rink from 1 - 8 p.m. Aug. 9. There are close to 600 registered for the supper. Then from 8 p.m. - 12 a.

Prairie North Health Region is touting its best-ever report from Accreditation Canada for meeting national standards for quality and safety in health care.

Ed, my neighbour next door, has been pointing from his yard at my garden and shaking his head. "While you were off camping, your garden had every kind of weed in for a party.

Dear Editor Mr. Bullocks, a Brit who spent seven years in Russia, states that Russians have been on a 50- year bender. They are drinking themselves to death. He comes up with some very startling statistics.

Dorothy Kissick had her daughter Vicki spend a few days with her. Desaire and Cindy Blanchette were in to see Dorothy Kissick. They took her for a drive to see their horses.

Prairie North Health Region, in a press release, is claiming success in achieving goals of better health, better care, better teams and better value.

One of the highlights of a holiday to northern Italy was to unexpectedly find myself in what I thought was the middle of a forest of Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra).

Last year's noticeable increase of extreme summer weather, including 10 days of tornado activity and funnel clouds in addition to torrential rains, had everyone wondering what was in store for this year.

The Battlefords and Area Horticultural Society finished their spring meetings with planning for the annual horticulture show. The houseplant and lily sale and bake table were successful, and the bedding and perennial plant sale did well.

A 31-year-old Calgary man is facing 16 criminal charges after leading members of Northwest RCMP detachments on a 120-kilometre pursuit lasting 90 minutes Tuesday morning. The pursuit began at 10:20 a.m.