Battlefords News Optimist

Dear Editor MP Gerry Ritz is acting recklessly, putting his community members' health at risk. He is supporting legislation that will reduce food safety oversight and make major cuts to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA).

A blue 1993 GMC truck was stolen from Person Avenue in North Battleford, sometime overnight April 19.

I have received word and it is with great sadness that I am sending you this email to let you know Julian J. Sadlowski, our former mayor, our community's historian and one of my many best friends passed away Friday.

Battlefords and District Co-op is allocating $2.48 million to member share accounts after a strong 2011 performance. That news came out of the Co-op's annual meeting held April 25 at Territorial Place Mall.

The heavy snowfall Friday night made it impossible to carry out all the activities of Saturday's "cleanup" day.

The seventh tournament of the season for the North Battleford Crush, the U15 girls team, took place April 21 and 22 in Saskatoon. The Crush competed in the club volleyball provincial championship and looked to add to their impressive season.

In the shadow of the Sallows & Boyd, on the corner of 11th Avenue and 102nd Street, stands the vacant, neglected and forgotten old bus depot. Many are under the impression the old building is part of the Sallows & Boyd.

During the month of May the exhibition in the Window Salon of the Chapel Gallery highlights the work of students from Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT).

Hockey legend Theoren Fleury was in North Battleford Saturday, as Canadian Tire invited him to help celebrate its grand reopening of the store.

It wasn't so much that she saw herself as inspiration, but instead looked at body building as a way to practice what she preached and intensify her way of life.