Battlefords News Optimist

I get a little nervous when I see headlines suggesting oil could hit $150 a barrel, if Israel attacks Iran.

The Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League first versus eighth place quarterfinal series got started on the weekend and unfortunately for the Battlefords AAA Sharks it went as many would expect.

I love after-service chatter. It's not that I don't enjoy the sermon; it's just that congregating around the fellowship "pot" following our formal worship time blends everything together.

KRAWCHUK - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Joyce Margaret Krawchuk, late of North Battleford, Saskatchewan on February 10, 2012 at the age of 73 years. Joyce was born on January 28, 1939 at Blaine Lake, SK.

City council has approved a number of rental rates for City facilities including for the new Co-op Aquatic Centre. The rates were approved at the regular meeting of city council Monday.

The Speers Library held a Valentine open house Feb. 13 with the theme being "Love Your Library." Adults and children were encouraged to hand make Valentines and the entries qualified for a draw.

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.