Battlefords News-Optimist

It was a long time in the making, but the Saskatchewan Perennial Society Website Committee is happy to announce that our new website is up and running - www.saskperennial.ca.

The 2012 Saskatchewan First Nations Winter Games were originally scheduled to be held in the Battlefords and surrounding area with Battlefords Agency Tribal Chiefs hosting the event.

Opponents of genetically-modified alfalfa took their message to the streets of North Battleford Tuesday at noon. They converged outside the constituency office of Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz on 100th Street.

Approximately nine kilograms of marijuana, $5,000 in cash and firearms were seized in an RCMP raid on a residence in Cut Knife Wednesday.

The NationsWEST Field House hosted a sanctioned Saskatchewan Volleyball Association event for the second time this season when 13/14U women's teams hit the court.

North Battleford city administration is proposing a 10 per cent hike in business license fees.

Dorothy Kissick had a busy Easter weekend, Saturday was to Unity to her daughter Cindy's. Quinton and Chantell Blanchette took her there. Monday she was to Tilly and Randy Staughton's for supper with her daughter-in-law Joanne Kissick.

Another set of bylaws connected to the adoption of the 2013 budget in North Battleford have now received final approval from city council.

"There's nothing simple in education finance," says Tom Hawboldt, manager of Business and Instructional Technology for the Light of Christ Catholic School Division (LOCCSD).

Sympathy goes out to Harley Custer of Battleford and the families on the recent passing of his wife Nona Irene Custer, formerly Besse of the Wilson Lake area. Nona and Harley spent a few years in Biggar and moved to Kamloops, B.C.