Battlefords News-Optimist

Landowners in the Riverbend area of Battleford have petitioned against overlay work planned for their streets for this year. The petition's validity should be determined by the next meeting of town council July 15.

Last week I wrote raining, raining and more raining. I could write the same thing this week. We have received two and a half inches of rain Thursday and Friday. Water is laying in every rill in the field.

The expected increase in North Saskatchewan River water flow was evident in the area around the Old Bridges and the Highway 16 bridge at noon today.

In advance of writing this essay on Mattie Winder, I must give credit to Joanna Morrow for forwarding the story on her grandmother.

A Saskatoon singer with close musical ties to the Battlefords will be featured in a recital in this community July 8 prior to his trip to Ontario for a national level competition.

LAPP: In Loving Memory of Delmar Keith Lapp who was born May 22, 1929 at Watrous, SK and passed away June 9, 2013 at North Battleford, SK.

North Battleford City Councillor Ryan Bater had a chance to meet with the board of the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce June 18.

The weather was perfect Monday night and the pitching for the Battleford Bantam Bandits wasn't far off.

The first instalment (Spam law to affect virtually every business in Canada) looked at the effect of Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation on all forms of electronic messaging in the country.

Today at about 10 a.m. RCMP from Maidstone and Lloydminster Rural detachments were dispatched to the North Saskatchewan River as a report of an overturned Zodiac boat was viewed floating downstream on the river.