Battlefords News-Optimist

Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve (RLBR) is one of three Saskatchewan Land Infrastructure Resiliency Assessment (LIRA) testing sites in the province through the project proponent of Saskatchewan Association of Watersheds (SAW).

What is up with these relentless winds and then all this rain? Some lore says foggy February means windy spring, while others say wet spring - so why are we getting both? Eligible USHS students have received invitations to the annual Living Sky award

Feed the Artist (FTA), a collective of artists working in the Battlefords, is launching a magazine Saturday at the Chapel Gallery from 7 to 10 p.m. This is a free party to celebrate the magazine's release.

"Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." This was advice to, a challenge for and the theme of the Maidstone High School's graduation class of 2012.

Sons of Norway Nisse Lodge have contributed to the Battlefords Union Hospital (BUH) Foundation's newly formed Victor Pearsall Home Care Fund with a donation of $1,000.

Northwest students were among those earning degrees at the University of Saskatchewan spring convocation. The long list includes two medical doctors from North Battleford - Roryck Baptiste and Jeoffrey Shumilak.

The Credit Union CUPlex will be completed, eventually.

"Look what the wind has blown in!" It is just me, wondering how you are doing. I suppose you have planted your flowers and, if you are energetic, a garden. With the winds we have had lately we have to be careful they don't blow away.

Jason Bater of St. John, Nfld. has returned home for the summer and he brought his girlfriend, Kassandra Peddle, with him. She has never been to Saskatchewan and wants to see local points of interest. Cheryl Bater is visiting with her mother, Mrs.

At the Radisson town office Muriel Rosser-Swift has been hired as town administrator with Darren Beaudoin leaving for a year's leave of absence, expecting to return June of 2013. Muriel will be working one week at Radisson and one week in St.