Battlefords News-Optimist

In 1913, Grand Central Station in New York opened and it was the first year they began putting prizes in the Cracker Jack boxes. It was also the year Freda Wright was born 17 miles west of Unity on NE 1-40-25-W3rd, delivered by Dr. Routledge.

Mid-January do you have the mid-January blues? I always feel the most melancholy right after Christmas and now, as I see the days getting moments longer each day, I feel happy.

As the holiday season concludes, it is usually a time when we look back and re-evaluate our priorities. Typically over the holidays, we remember family members and friends, and spend time with them. But come Jan.

The Maymont Settlers Senior Hockey team added a new player to the roster for three of their regular scheduled games.

Ed, my neighbour next door, is still in Mexico on this last day of December 2012. This year, the New Year will arrive without the usual clang of pots and pans and shouts and whistles on Ed and Ruby's front steps at midnight.

In two lunch and learn sessions held Jan. 9 at Unity Composite High School and Jan. 10 at McLurg School in Wilkie, Dr.

The driver's side window of a truck parked on 106th Street in North Battleford was smashed out sometime overnight Jan. 14. Nothing was taken from inside of the vehicle.

At the Radisson Royal Purple meeting Jan. 7, held at the home of Roberta Harris, the Lodge donated $50 to the Hafford and District Music Festival. Happy birthday was sung to Ellen Cousins, Linda Yuskiw and Lorraine Olinyk, all with January birthdays.

Dec. 19, the Speers branch of Lakeland Library held an open house from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. with 12 people attending. Colleen Wicks, local librarian, served coffee, punch and cookies and had decorated the library for Christmas.

The Rotary Club of the Battlefords had a special presentation Monday for the fundraising campaign for Saskatoon's Ronald McDonald House. Gerald W.