Battlefords News-Optimist

"We had a four game win streak coming in and we had a chance to prove that we haven't played our best up to this point," said Connor Creech after the Battlefords North Stars beat the Flin Flon Bombers for the first time this season.

Dear Editor Somewhere over the past four weeks the change of the seasons took a left instead of a right, or at least it seems so with our third "blizzard" of the year already in the books.

As the weather changed the sports moved from outdoors to indoors and one of the busy places in the community is the North Battleford Bowlarena, whether for recreational or competitive bowling.

Our home is situated just blocks from both an elementary and a high school and I'm always intrigued by the morning parade.

Health care in Canada is running a deficit in more ways than just the fiscal side, according to the Conference Board of Canada.

Neilburg Composite School has recently received a donation of a microwave from Garth and Dolores Hollingshead. It will be used in the Grade 10 classroom.

Dear Editor Thank you for the recent two part story, The city of North Battleford: its origins and early history by members of the Centennial 2013 Historical Committee.

DURAND - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Edna Durand, late of rural Glaslyn, SK on November 8, 2012 at the age of 84 years. Edna was born on October 7, 1928 at Rosthern, SK.

Before the Battlefords North Stars they took the ice against Flin Flon they announced another transaction. The North Stars traded 20-year-old forward Justin Waskewitch to the OCN Blizzard of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League.

Computers, the Internet, email and a host of other wonderful advances have brought to the whacky world of media a phenomenon known in the biz as "cut and paste journalism.