Battlefords News-Optimist

While there are still flood concerns across the province due to the spring runoff, things have stabilized considerably in the Northwest region.

The Peter Principle has invaded my life. Yes, I've finally risen to the level of my own incompetence. That I've been there for the past six years, but am just now realizing my situation, is something to give us all pause.

Mental Health Week will be wrapping up with the fourth annual Champions of Mental Health Gala Saturday, sponsored by the North Battleford Branch of the Registered Psychiatric Nurses Association.

Chapter Two in the ongoing saga of Cleaning My Office: Work not Designed for Cowards.

Saskatchewan is all done at the Western Canada Cup in Nanaimo, B.C.

REITER - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Marguerite Reiter, late of North Battleford, on April 22, 2013 at the age of 84 years. Marguerite was born on December 1, 1928 at Lemsford, Saskatchewan.

White walls everywhere you look. Locked doors, buzzers to go in, buzzers to go out. "Crazy" people with bugged out eyes and drool trickling down their chins, slowly shuffling down the halls. These people are condemned. They are ghosts.

The evening of Wednesday, May 8, check out The Basement at Portabella's in North Battleford for a homecoming of sorts. WillHorse, a southern rock band out of Golden, B.C.

As mayor of Regina, Pat Fiacco was a tireless promoter for the city.

John G. Wilkins was born to Ernest and Elise Wilkins on June 12, 1905 in Reston, Man. Ernest and Elsie had immigrated from England in 1891. John's three brothers, Harold, Art and Bruce, rounded out the Wilkins family.