Battlefords News-Optimist

The government reckoned it's time to hang the PFRA pastures. It's an ideological thing. We'll throw it over to Saskatchewan - let those cowboys swing. Now the Saskatchewan Party's got a hot potato, it's a political fiasco.

Early in December 2012, Colleen and Norman Wicks of Speers left on a Caribbean 10-day cruise. They stayed overnight in Saskatoon Dec. 5 and flew to Fort Lauderdale, Fla. where the weather was 26 C and sunny.

Dr. Alec Couros, a professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina held an informative presentation for the parents of Wilkie students, "Maintaining a Positive Footprint" Jan. 9 at McLurg High School.

Over the next few Festival Fanfares, you will be introduced to this year's music festival adjudicators.

A special ceremony was held at the Blaine Lake skating arena prior to a Beaver Lake League hockey game the evening of Jan. 12. The Muskeg Lake Blades paid tribute to a fellow player who passed away last year.

Three wins marks the distance between the second place Wilkie Outlaws and fifth place Meadow Lake Stampeders after the weekend North Saskatchewan River Hockey League action.

Chief Poundmaker School's Grade 11 and 12 students and teachers, as well as Elder Vera Weenie-Kasokeo, attended an informative presentation held in Onion Lake First Nation at Eagleview High School Jan. 14.

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.