Battlefords News Optimist

North Battleford building permit values are off to a good start in 2012, building on the torrid pace that was set the previous year.

At 10103 - 11th Ave. in downtown North Battleford, the once imposing hundred year old Sallows & Boyd building, more recently, and infamously, known as the Pigeon Hotel, stands empty, forlorn and deteriorating.

Many of us in Canada have had great pride in what we viewed as a superior system of protecting the people of this country from dangerous products.

Ashley Johnson is a familiar face to many in the Battlefords.

The crime statistics are out for North Battleford and they show across-the-board declines in most major categories to begin 2012.

It has been no secret this season that as Blake Tatchell goes, so to do the North Stars. Tatchell was second in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League in points with 42 goals and 44 assists for 86 points in 57 games.

BAKER: In Loving Memory of Gordon Guy Baker who was born at home on the farm, Lost Horse district, SK and passed away February 12, 2012 at Battlefords Union Hospital, North Battleford, SK.

HALLADAY: In Loving Memory of Dorothy Jean Halladay who was born July 22, 1930 at North Battleford, SK and passed away February 14, 2012 at North Battleford, SK.

Senior AAA - The Lloydminster Border Kings hosted the Rosetown Red Wings in the first game of the semifinal series Sunday. Both teams have several notable players with professional, WHL, CIS and SJHL experience and it showed in the first game.

LACLARE , Clarence Louis Joseph September 27, 1929 - January 29, 2012 Clarence Louis Joseph LaClare was born near the end of the Roaring 20s, grew up during the Dirty 30s, and was too young to go to war in the 40s.