Battlefords News-Optimist

The Borden Lions held their 11th annual speak-offs for high school students from Borden and Langham March 14 in the Lions' Room, Borden Community Centre.

The snowfall doesn't seem to let up! Even though there is not a great deal each day it adds up. Jim Maxwell, who keeps an official weather station, reports that we have had over 50 inches of snow since the month of October.

The Battlefords Art Club met on a bright sunny Tuesday this week. Members worked on a variety of pieces in watercolour, acrylic and fabric. We invite you to be at the Don Ross Centre on a Tuesday morning or from 7 to 9 p.m. in the evening.

Battleford town council voted to waive a clause in a land exchange agreement with an oilfield storage tank builder Monday to clear the way for the company to proceed with plans to develop a plant in Battleford.

Alexander Kovar of the Battlefords was presented the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal at the Delta Bessborough Hotel in Saskatoon on Dec. 16 by Saskatchewan Lt. Gov. Vaughn Solomon Schofield.

There will be another balanced budget in Saskatchewan in 2013-14. However, there is no abundance of goodies associated with this year's budget, with funding increases not going up perhaps as much as some entities - such as universities - would like.

The Scotiabank hockey program offers sponsorship to minor hockey teams across the country. Over 3,000 teams across Canada are sponsored each year.

It was a do-or-die game for the Battlefords Bantam AA Barons Tuesday at the Battleford Arena, as they faced the Sask Valley Vipers.

Almost seven kilograms of marijuana and quantities of cocaine were seized when RCMP raided a residence in North Battleford Tuesday.

Much of the world will soon declare holidays around Easter. In the Christian calendar there is simply no higher, resplendent day of the year than Easter Sunday.