Battlefords News-Optimist

Santa Claus dropped in at the Borden Co-op hardware after lunch Dec. 15 to talk to the children and have photos taken, while the staff served hot chocolate and Christmas baking.

Maidstone and area residents will soon have improved access to the primary health care services of physicians and nurse practitioners, according to a Prairie North Health Region press release. Effective Jan.

Sonningdale had an old-fashioned Christmas concert Dec. 14.

The City of North Battleford is again encouraging residents to recycle their trees following the holiday season.

North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services had a chimney fire to deal with Wednesday. The incident happened around 4:23pm. Emergency crews responded at 1900 block of Foley Drive to the fire.

Ed, my neighbour next door, is almost set for his trip to Mexico for Christmas week. Ruby, Ed's wife, claims Ed's ready to go except for a positive attitude. "You'd think going to Mexico with his family was a sentence to death row.

The SFMAAAHL's Battlefords Sharks fell to the Regina Rebels in a game that was extremely close despite the distance in the standings between the two teams.

The Saskatchewan Prairie Hockey League saw a total of six games in the last week. Dec. 14, the first-place Spiritwood Timberwolves defeated the Cut Knife Colts by a score of 4-1, the first regulation-time loss the Colts have suffered all season.

The provincial NDP leadership race will take a brief breather during the Christmas holidays before ramping up again in the new year.

We're only a couple of generations removed from the era when most women - or at least women in rural areas and small towns - produced quarts and quarts of preserves every summer.