Battlefords News-Optimist

If you're like me, there's nothing that enhances a purchase like getting it at a rock bottom price.

A deer attempting to share the roadway was the cause of a crash at the intersection of Highway 4 North and 99th Street in North Battleford Tuesday evening. North Battleford Fire and emergency services were called to the scene at about 10:15 p.m.

After the success of Operation Fall Frenzy, which saw the police issue over 1,000 tickets, the SGI released information about last week's safety blitz entitled Operation Hang Up, Buckle Up. Over Nov.

Saturday and Sunday at the Chapel Gallery, the Battlefords Art Club will be hosting their annual show and sale to display and sell beautiful art pieces created by the club's 25 members.

A meeting of the District No. 35 4-H council was held Oct. 18 Tina Jones is the district president, Lynette Richards is the vice-president and Michael Jones is the junior president. The treasurer is Ellen Oddan and the secretary is Kassidy Doepker.

I have grown to love and, as I type this, occasionally hate couriers. This time of year tends to be busy for me and the couriers. I do a fair bit of online shopping for Christmas.

Through the money raised by their haunted house, North Battleford's Comprehensive High School's Comp In Action presented a donation of $468.20 to the Western Development Museum. The Comp In Action is an extra-curricular club at NBCHS.

In order to do research for a few stories recently, I found myself leafing through old copies of the Battlefords News-Optimist, specifically, the 1943 pages of the "Battlefords Daily News," as it was then called.

It was a brief court appearance Monday for Red Pheasant First Nation chief Stewart Baptiste. Facing a charge of breach of probation, Baptiste was in North Battleford Provincial Court again, but his case has been adjourned to Dec. 17.

I was recently contacted by a man with an interesting hobby. Dave Thomson has made it one of his goals in life to repatriate old war medals, or return them to their families.