Battlefords News-Optimist

The Neilburg branch of the Lakeland Library has been a busy place recently. Story time was held June 14 and a time of games and crafts was held July 10. The summer reading program is now underway with prizes for participation.

Rockin' H Multiple 4-H Club had their achievement day June 29, 2013 during the Hafford centennial celebration.

Our sympathy to the Louise and Herman Gary family, formerly of Waseca, on the death of their daughter Amy. Amy passed away on the weekend at the age of 34 following many years of medical care. Aug.

The Borden Lions Club held an appreciation barbecue at the home of Don and Claudia Dyck of Borden Aug. 1.

With summer this far advanced, you are either vibrating with anxiety at the thought of only a few weeks left of summer, or you are experiencing happiness - or sadness - at the thoughts of your kids heading back to school in three weeks and a bit, or

It will be more like "measure three times" before a final plan for a new Saskatchewan Hospital is decided, but it appears the end result will be a world-class facility designed from the inside out by the people most closely involved.

Ira McKnight, from Indianapolis, Ind., will be inducted into the individual category of the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame as a player Aug. 17. McKnight, as a youth, played many sports.

Several winners of the 17th annual Saskatchewan 4-H lottery reside in the Northwest. Among the winners was Derek Bertoia of Lloydminster won a John Deere Gator. Shaun Dubyk of Hafford won the deluxe custom ice fishing shack.

Dear Editor It is my pleasure to write a letter of commendation to the committee in charge of the centennial celebration of the Saskatchewan Hospital.

Krista Dawn Gray was in Africa for a volunteer project at a cheetah conservation centre. She was there for two weeks and helped rebuild some of the enclosures and got to feed cheetahs. The next two weeks she travelled to Mozambique and Swaziland.