Battlefords News-Optimist

Hopefully by the time you read this, this whole Mayor Rob Ford cocaine video scandal will be over. Hopefully Ford will have resigned. Hopefully Ford will have been impeached. Hopefully Ford will have been exonerated. I don't care what it is.

FUCHS - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mother Henrietta (Hattie) Janna Fuchs, of Saskatoon, SK on May 24, 2013 at the age of 95 years. Hattie was born on June 23, 1917 in the Meeting Lake district.

The Battlefords is the latest stop for a TV production effort dedicated to capturing the voices of Canada's armed forces veterans.

A man died in a single vehicle rollover in the town of Unity Saturday. Unity RCMP say the vehicle rolled at about 2 a.m. just a few hundred metres from the Unity Health Centre.

Innovation Credit Union Battleford branch, North Battleford branch, North Battleford Agencies and Battleford Agencies staff contribute a portion of their paycheque each pay period, as part of their "Dress Down for Charity Program," with all proceeds

It was in Shane Nolin's genes to be a chuckwagon driver, and it showed in this weekend's Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association event in North Battleford at the Battlefords Agricultural Society exhibition grounds.

No was injured in a house fire early Sunday morning, but a house on the 1300 block of 97th Street sustained $25,000 worth of damage.

North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services personnel were called to a grass fire at 9201 - 19th Ave. Saturday at just after 10 p.m. One fire truck and two firefighters were on the scene for about 10 minutes.

Two people are dead and one injured following a single vehicle rollover on Highway 16 Saturday.

2013 Saskatchewan Roughriders training camp opened on Sunday in Saskatoon with a pair of workouts and although there was just a smattering of fans on hand for the morning session, the stands at Griffiths Stadium were packed for the afternoon practice