Battlefords News-Optimist

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.

A concert with Dan Bersey of Newfoundland - entertainer, comedian, Christian speaker - along with Quinn and Bruin Eberle of North Battleford, a fiddle and guitar playing brother/sister duo, is today, April 11, at the Borden Community Centre.

The board of directors of North West Terminal Ltd. has announced positive financial results for the company after its first three months of operations in 2012-13. For the period beginning November 1, 2012 and ending Jan.

On the weekend of March 22-24, the Edam Curling club held their annual open bonspiel. There were 14 teams. Sixteen were entered, but two were unable to attend as they were snowed in by the storm.

Many old-time Canadian hockey fans should be able to remember Phil Esposito's interview after the Canadians trailed the Soviet Union 2-1-1 after game four in Vancouver.