Battlefords News-Optimist

Dear Editor I do not apologize for anything I said during the public hearing last Monday evening on the demolition of the City Kinsmen swimming pool, rezoning Centennial Park land and building a large apartment complex on the site of the old swimming

Traffic along Highway 4, Highway 40, and 22nd Street in Battleford will be detoured around the four-way stop intersection while crews pave in the area Thursday. The detour is expected to last through the morning, returning to normal in the afternoon.

The month of June is always one with many activities taking place including graduations and field trips.

Gold Eagle Lodge and Gold Eagle Casino were honoured again for their dedication to professional development, this time from nationally certified tourism professionals from around Canada.

International Baccalaureate (IB) students at the North Battleford Comprehensive High School celebrated their successes, June 12. Allison Hawryliw, IB co-ordinator, was MC for the evening.

JANS: In Loving Memory of Kathy Carol Jans who was born March 21, 1956 at Saskatoon, SK and passed away May 31, 2012 at Battleford, SK.

New work by Dana Standinghorn is currently profiled on the feature wall in the Chapel Gallery. Standinghorn is a local artist who has been painting for 17 years.

A local donor has established the Anonymous Fund and annually the income from the fund is donated to the Battlefords Boys and Girls Club.

It's strange the conversations one can have as a reporter. A while ago, I was speaking to someone who claimed to have definitive proof of the falsity of quantum theory.

One of the remaining accused in the Mosquito First Nation TLE case is going to trial this fall. Gerald Arthur Bird, who was TLE trustee on the reserve, is going to trial for fraud and criminal breach of trust.