Battlefords News-Optimist

A 24-year-old man was sent to hospital in critical condition following a shooting Saturday morning in North Battleford. According to a news release from the RCMP, the shooting happened prior to 10 a.m.

St. Mary's Community School Essential Skills for the Workplace Program, North Battleford has been awarded one of six Saskatchewan Literacy Awards of Merit for its encouragement of lifelong and life wide learning.

The recipient of the 2013 Maroniuk/Marcoux Scholarship Award is Dray Souchotte, Lloydminster, AB. He will be presented with this Scholarship Award at the 29th Annual Induction of the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame, August 17.

The Battlefords North Stars have announced Brody Luhning has committed to join the University of Regina Cougars for the 2013-14 season. The Cougars are members of the Canada West Universities Athletic Association and the CIS.

Two Northwest communities are among 15 that will receive new child care space funding from the government of Saskatchewan.

Most great high school athletes enjoy substantial success, but few can compare to the impressive post-secondary career of Calvin Perpeljuk.

Dear Editor In "Major School facing closure" (Regional Optimist, April 18) reference is made to the distance between Major School and the receiving school of Luseland to be 30 kilometres. A quick Google search shows the distance is actually 39.

There Speers and District United Church held their 20th dinner theatre April 5, 6 and 7. There was a full house for each performance. This year's play was called Homecoming by Leeann Minogue.

We've all played cowboys and Indians. Some of us have dreamt of being like John Wayne, Roy Rogers or the Lone Ranger. The girls wanted to be like Annie Oakley and Belle Starr.

Every year at this month, I remember my conversation with my late father. He told me a true story about himself as a little boy. He was born in 1903 and his father passed away from an over-enlarged heart in 1904.