Battlefords News-Optimist

The 2013-14 Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation Monthly Lottery tickets will go on sale starting next week. Volunteers will begin selling the tickets beginning Tuesday at BUH Main Lobby. Tickets at $104.00 each, with only 1,200 being sold.

A Jan. 7 meeting of the RM of Glenside Recreation Board has been postponed. The meeting will be held at a later date at the home of Andrea Owen of Spinney Hill. March 9, the recreation board will be holding a craft bag project.

Tickets at the door - only one week left before our final Telemiracle fundraiser adventure, at Maymont Hall Feb. 16. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15, including lunch. There will be a silent auction table, 50/50 and door prizes.

The Maidstone Jets won just six games all season and faced the Meadow Lake Stampeders in the first round of North Saskatchewan River Hockey League playoffs.

Rockin' H Multiple 4-H Club of Hafford held their first speech event Feb. 2, at the Hafford Seniors' Centre. The members enjoyed sharing their stories and experiences with their friends, family and judges.

In early January, Rick Zipchen brought it to the attention of the Speers community that the Prairie Women on Snowmobiles would be passing by Feb. 7 on their way to North Battleford.

Denis Lavertu, North Battleford's director of business development, is enthusiastic about the meetings and networking opportunities gained for the City at the International Council of Shopping Centers convention in Whistler, B.C.

North Battleford's Centennial committee members were out in force at city hall Monday to promote their centennial activities in 2013.

Dear Editor It is a clear blow to farmers and Canadian democracy that the Supreme Court decided not to hear the farmers' appeal on whether the Conservative government had followed the law in abolishing the farmers' single desk marketing system.

Dear Editor I have had some experience with the emergency department at the Battlefords Union Hospital. I found the service and the outcome of treatment I received to be fair.