Battlefords News-Optimist

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.

Dear Editor Recently our government made the difficult and much-discussed decision to discontinue three financially unjustifiable STC routes: Blaine Lake to North Battleford, Regina to Lanigan and Eastend to Swift Current/Mossbank.

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

Continued strong attendance is reported at the Credit Union CUPlex for the early months of 2013. That was the news from the Tuesday meeting of the Parks and Recreation committee, held at the Northland Power Curling Centre.

Kevin Doherty, minister of Parks, Culture and Sport, along with the Coaches Association of Saskatchewan have proclaimed May 25 - June 1 as Coaches Week in Saskatchewan.

It was do or die for the Saskatoon Blades Thursday night, and they chose the latter. Going into the game against London in the 2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup, the hometown Blades had every reason to believe this was a winnable game.

An early morning rollover just west of Radisson on Highway 16 Friday has claimed the life of a 45-year-old man from Martensville. Warman RCMP say the mishap occurred at about 1:50 a.m.