Battlefords News-Optimist

The Dekker Centre, the exciting new Performing Arts Centre in North Battleford, was selected byRivers West District for Sport, Culture and Recreation, as the Recreation Facility of the Year.

Students from Battleford Central School's Me To We Club were out helping the Battleford 2000 and Historic Battleford Lions Clubs May 22 with the planting of another 1,000 trees on the site of the town's former dump.

Mary Evelyn Brawn (nee Wright) was born on July 12, 1920 in Campellton, N.B. Her father died in 1922 from war injuries. Without a principle breadwinner, Delia Rose (Ev's mother) and Ev suddenly found themselves without a family income.

Dear Editor According to Canada Press, and other media sources, the Canadian Cattlemen's Association wants the federal government to approve the irradiation of beef, supposedly to kill dangerous E. coli.

Dear Editor It is my view that the economic problems of the world can be laid squarely at the feet of the world's ultra rich.

There could be some changes on the way to a provision in the property maintenance bylaw with respect to "junked vehicles.

Pass, shoot, score, defend and hit. Those are the basic skills any young hockey player looks to develop, but hitting won't be on the list for much longer.

They came into Sunday night's 2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup Championship game having lost only 12 times in 89 games, and the Halifax Mooseheads refused to leave with any more. "We couldn't have asked for a better season.

A Prince Albert man is facing multiple charges after a crash in a construction zone Thursday, on Highway 40, three kilometres south of Parkside.

Three vehicles were involved in a crash at the intersection of 8th Avenue and 113th Street in North Battleford Friday at just before 5 p.m.