Battlefords News Optimist

Scouts Canada has come up with a promotion to complement the pink wave that hit the Battlefords last week.

I consider myself a sports guy. I wouldn't say a prime athlete, because that requires more training and likely a higher level of skill than I have at my chosen sports.

The 2012 professional baseball season is upon us and home grown talent Andrew Albers got his first action Saturday. Albers pitched three innings with the New Britain Rock Cats, the AA affiliate in the Minnesota Twins organization.

This is the tail end of Easter break for the kids and they head back to class Monday. Time will move quickly as the last indoor sport at the schools, badminton, will be into the end of its season with playoffs coming up quickly.

Each and every year as the season changes from winter (not my favourite season) to spring, I get excited about the things that are coming. First and foremost, I anticipate elevation in the ambient temperature.

Dear Editor Bill C-19, legislation to kill the long gun registry was signed into law by the Governor General April 5. Since the enactment of C-68 the firearm community has been waiting since 1995 for this to happen.

History and Commentary from a Prairie Perspective

The new mill rates are now in effect in North Battleford. Third and final reading took place for the two bylaws that put in place the 3.9 per cent mill rate increase at Monday's council meeting.

There may be no prouder athlete in the world than a football player, or at least in the football hungry province of Saskatchewan and the Battlefords community.

The summer hockey season is upon us and for some local hockey players that just means they are getting busy now.