Battlefords News-Optimist

Howard Weitzel's been pitching horseshoes since he was just a kid growing up on his dad's farm in Edam and 80 years later he's still going. When he was 14 he started playing against men at picnics and just kept getting better.

RCMP in Blaine Lake have arrested a 19-year-old woman who travelled at excessive speeds in the RM of Douglas. Around 6:20 a.m.

The Battlefords Trade and Education Centre continueS to move slowly but surely forward in their plans for a new facility.

MICHAUD: À la douce mémoire de Annette Marie Simonne Michaud who was born July 7, 1916 at Coaticook, Québec and passed away June 18, 2013 at North Battleford, SK.

The City of North Battleford says the recently-amended Traffic Bylaw provisions impacting heavy-haul vehicles will come into effect July 15.

It's not usual for the provincial Minister of Education to appear before a high school graduation, but that is what happened Thursday for graduates of Sakewew High School, as Minister of Education Russ Marchuk was in the audience for their graduation

Dear Editor, This is a reply to the "Performance drought drain on resources" (News-Optimist, June 25). I am appalled that Battlefords Publishing would publish this letter, again. Its the same verbatim just in different context.

A 24-year-old man from Poundmaker First Nation is dead following a weekend hit and run. The incident happened during the early hours of Monday. According to police, around 4:30 a.m.

BUCHKO - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Ruth Sophie Buchko, late of Battleford, on June 16, 2013 at the age of 74 years.

Mary McPhail (nee Kujawa) was born in 1920 at Luck, Poland. Because of Stalin's unrelenting persecution, Mary's father persuaded his family and friends to leave White Russia. The family immigrated to Canada in 1928 and settled on a farm in the St.