Battlefords News-Optimist

Injuries were reported in the aftermath of a two-vehicle crash on Highway 4 Saturday at about 9:30 a.m.

Police say they are keeping a close watch on school zones where a new speed limit of 30 km/h is in effect. School zone speed limits were reduced under the new traffic bylaw, with the lowered limits coming into effect this month.

At 97, she's the eldest of her many sisters in the Battlefords who have found being a part of the international women's sorority Beta Sigma Phi enriches their lives.

From border to border, coast to coast and even overseas hockey players from the Battlefords and area are stepping up and showing their leadership qualities.

A familiar issue at North Battleford city council met a familiar end Monday. The Mennonite Community Closet was frustrated again in their latest request to expand their second-hand clothing store on 100th Street.

If junior and university football teams don't come knocking after high school some players no longer strap on the pads and play. For three players with a Unity connection and one with ties to Wilkie, that hasn't been t the case.

Are you itching for Halloween yet? Costumes and decorations are already in the stores so you had better move fast this year because the Children's Wish Foundation North Battleford is holding their 3rd annual "Wishmaker Walk for Wishes" Oct. 13.

Anyone who has watched youth baseball in Unity could see that 16-year-old Rhett Feser loved to play and had a talent and head for the game. The left handed pitcher could be seen nightly at the Unity diamonds practicing both pitching and hitting.

Jabari Amadi, 6, of Spiritwood, is back from The War Amps 2012 Western Child Amputee Seminar in Saskatoon, where he embraced The War Amps tradition of "accentuating the positive" in facing and overcoming an amputation.

Two Loon Lake students, members of the Northwest School Division Leadership Academy, have raised $2,002 for the MS Society.