Battlefords News-Optimist

Two games were underway at the Battlefords Flats Wednesday, as semifinal action in the Battlefords and District Ladies' Fastball League featured the Battlefords Bandits and the Unity Panthers, twice.

If there was ever a time when I needed four days off, it was this past weekend after one of my hairier weeks on the job at the paper.

A group of ladies from Waseca travelled to Marshall Friday to attend a Communities in Bloom workshop. The event was intended to promote the organization and encourage people to become involved.

Few places around North Battleford bore the brunt of last Monday's storm more than the farm of Ray and Linda Hebert.

There are some things about which it is best to be ignorant. Take bittersweet chocolate, for example. Of all my culinary sins, overindulgence in chocolate is not one of them but a friend recently introduced me to some mighty powerful temptation.

Each day, the news casts air accounts of the horrors in Syria. Each day there is talk of armed intervention by other nations to end the slaughter of the innocents. Each day the reasons for non-intervention are recounted.

RADCHENKO - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Kathleen Aina Sophia Radchenko (nee Alm), late of Battleford, SK on June 25, 2012 at the age of 84 years.

ANDRES, Helen ; Helen was born in Battleford, Saskatchewan on November 26, 1928 and passed from this life on June 21, 2012 in Strathmore, Alberta at the age of 83 years.

At noon Sunday, June 10, a gentleman left the Mr. Ribs restaurant and paid for all the noon lunches that were being eaten at the time. He was gone when the waitress explained what he had done.

The Light of Christ Catholic School Division and Living Sky School Division have partnered again this year to offer literacy camps for students in Grades 1 through 6.