Battlefords News-Optimist

The City of North Battleford Historic Archives has complied Reflections Of North Battleford to commemorate the 100th birthday of the city. It is a pictorial history portraying the promise, progression and prosperity of 100 years.

WHITE: Patricia Dorothy White, December 23, 1934 ~ November 20, 2012. Patricia Dorothy White (nee Turpin) passed away at the Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, Medicine Hat, AB.

SOISETH: In Loving Memory of Mimi Abildgaard Soiseth who was born Dec. 30, 1938 at Copenhagen, Denmark and passed away Nov. 17, 2012 at North Battleford, SK.

Late Monday, Kipling RCMP detachment requestedassistance in locating Harley James Ironside, age 75. The detachment has advised that Ironside was found at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday at the North Portal border crossing in southern Saskatchewan.

When life losses and deaths have impacted our lives we look at the Christmas season as less than merry and wish the calendar would skip from November to January says Margaret Robinson, a support counsellor.

Battlefords residents will once again be able to take a trip across the world and through time to Bethlehem in the time of Jesus.

Many of the players on the North Battleford Comprehensive High School senior girls basketball team made the quick transition from volleyball to the hoops and it appears to paying off during the early portion of the season.

The intersection of Territorial Drive just north of 8th Avenue was the scene of a head-on collision on a snow-filled Sunday afternoon in North Battleford. The incident took place around 3 p.m.

Dear Editor 2012 marks the 30th anniversary of the presence of HIV and, after 30 years of extensive work to stop the transmission of HIV, much work still needs to be done. This Dec.

There has been at least one fatality on area roads in the Northwest in recent days in the Maidstone area.