Battlefords News-Optimist

These past several days I have been wasting my time watching live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the American political conventions, both online and on TV. I use the words "waste of time" deliberately, because that's what it has been.

June 11, 2008 was a historic day for all Canadians.

Dear Editor Murray Mandrych will never read this but, I see in his syndicated column of April 20 that he is on again about how farmers feared and hated the Canadian Wheat Board.

Karpluk family members, Helen Specht of Delta, B.C., Ann Smith of New Westminster, B.C. and Wally Karpluk of Rocky Mountain House, Alta., have spent a few weeks visiting Jim Karpluk at the family home in Waseca.

The sign on the door is a big sunflower that says "Mom's Kitchen, Open 24/7." What it doesn't say is, "I make breakfasts, dinners, suppers, snacks, tea parties, funeral lunches, feed family gatherings and deliver meals to the field.

Though Canada's Residential Schools may have been started with noble intentions, they are now, over 100 years later, a black mark on Canada's history.

Dear Editor It was with great regret that the partners - City of North Battleford, Town of Battleford and the Battlefords United Way - had to make the hard decision to cancel BridgeFest 2012.

An article published online on Sept. 1 (The Associated Press) reported that authorities in New Hampshire arrested a women four times in just 26 hours.

SAWATZKY ~ John Frank Sawatzky passed away at Maidstone, Saskatchewan on Sunday, August 19, 2012 at the age of 91 years.

The father of the man serving a life sentence for the murder two RCMP officers is in some legal trouble of his own. Art Dagenais, father of convicted killer Curt Dagenais, was arrested and taken into custody last week.