Battlefords News-Optimist

Living Skies School Division may be looking at some lean times in the near future. Lean as in Lean, that is. Saskatchewan plans to be the first provincial government in Canada to incorporate the Lean approach throughout its public service.

A number of years ago, I was wandering around the museum grounds, snooping and starring in amazement at the endless assortment of iron monsters. One caught my eye; a small steam engine, or so it seemed.

Shelly Janostin, formerly a communications co-ordinator with Living Sky School Division, has been appointed as north region director of the North West Regional College. Janostin will be located at the College's Meadow Lake campus.

Ed, my neighbour next door, believes gardening is for the birds. I told him it really is, in my yard. First, the birds sampled my strawberries to the count of about every other strawberry. They seemed determined to taste test every second berry.

Nine strokes under par is what it took to be crowned the 2012 Saskatchewan Amateur Men's Championship winner last week in Yorkton.

The North Battleford Western Development Museum hosting Chicago-raised Canadian Rita di Ghent Saturday for an afternoon of soulful ballads, repartee and pistol-packin' blues.

The Borden Library summer activities program, with co-ordinator Kandice Walker and helpers Graham Sargent and Nikita Pascoe, hosted the Lakeland Summer Players from North Battleford July 18.

The family and wife, Natasha, of RCMP Cst. Derek Pineo, who died in a collision involving a moose near Wilkie early July 20, has released a statement.

July is on its way out soon. Hope you have had this month full of fun, simple summer pleasures and activities around our province. The Summer Fun program only has a few weeks left so why not enroll your children, ages 5 - 11, each weekday from 10 a.

I hear it every day. The guy who does 300 crunches to flatten his stomach. A woman who wants me to show her exercises to get rid of excess fat on her buttocks and thighs.