Battlefords News-Optimist

Habitat for Humanity - the Battlefords will be holding a community information meeting Tuesday. The meeting is at McKitrick School at 7 p.m.

During the 2009-10 hockey season Ward Szucki of Neepawa, Man. had an impressive rookie year in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.

The Battlefords Photo Club met at the Allen Sapp Gallery April 2. The evening meeting was focused on reviewing photos from the 'Foto Fun' Contest as well as the photos from the photo of the month challenge; the theme being abstract.

April 11 1921 - The first radio sports broadcast was a boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny Dundee on KDKA in Pittsburgh, Pa.

North Battleford city council has given its final stamp of approval to the establishment of a downtown business improvement district. Third and final reading of the BID bylaw passed Monday at city hall.

For 11 years, Karen Warington has coached athletes in the Battlefords in the North Battleford Legion Track Club and once again the season ended with some podium finishes.

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.