Battlefords News Optimist

Sometimes, the simplest question sets Ed, my neighbour next door, off on an intense ramble. This happened when I asked him if he saw the movie Hunger Games.

The saga of my "sort and toss" crusade continues. This week the focus has been on cookbooks and cooking themed magazines and, while it's going well, as I head into the home stretch I notice that some recipes no longer have the same attraction.

My favourite thing about spring is seeing people I haven't run into for a while.

Claude Resources Inc. CEO Neil McMillan had a special surprise in store for local Rotary members at a noon-hour luncheon Monday.

After two games, it may be hard to believe from looking at the shots, but the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League's Canalta Cup championship series is tied 1-1.

The staff and board of Sonningdale Library appreciate the support of all who attended, assisted with and gave generously to a ham supper and bingo night held recently.

Along with books sometimes libraries are lucky enough to welcome an author. Last week Myrtle Conacher of Mervin stopped in at the Maidstone Library. Conacher talked a little about writing and mentioned the aims of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild.

The North Battleford Granite Curling Club shut its doors years ago and since then the dream to have a new curling rink in North Battleford was put into motion.

Quads and bridges were major topics of discussion at the April 2 session of Battleford town council.

We West Coast dwellers have had to eat mounds of humble pie this winter. The weather's been lousy, eliminating all climate-related bragging rights.