Battlefords News-Optimist

Belated birthday greetings to Gertie James, now of Lloydminster, who celebrated a special birthday Saturday evening, May 26. Family members gathered for a barbecue and festivities to celebrate the day.

ROSS; Eric Jackson Ross passed away on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Maidstone, Saskatchewan at the age of 86 years. Eric will be sadly missed by his wife Mick of Maidstone; four children: Bonnie Lynn and her husband Dennis Badham of St.

It's blossom time here! Saskatoon, chokecherry, pincherry and other wild shrubs are in bloom. Those who have apple, crabapple and other fruit trees in their yards will be enjoying the blossoms. Let's hope we remain frost free.

He has his name in the Western Hockey League record books and was one of the best to play in the North Saskatchewan River Hockey League. Now goalie Kelly Guard is going back to the WHL. Guard backstopped the St.

Although it was overcast, cool and rainy Monday, there were still 26 New Horizons out on the golf course. Three teams and on a count-back to hole six, it was decided that the Scott team takes the top honours.

Battlefords North Stars defenceman Woody Klassen was on the bubble for making the Greenville Road Warriors this season and now is on step closer to being in the East Coast Hockey League for the 2012-12 campaign.

A Maidstone man was sentenced May 22 after pleading guilty to a break and enter that happened near the village of Lone Rock.

Some changes have been announced in the award categories for the Battlefords Business Excellence Awards taking place later this year.

Do we really have a force of energy emanating from our bodies that others can see, feel and manipulate? The idea of having an additional sense that can register, and perhaps even affect, something so elusive is somehow fascinating.

A Battlefords-area man faces charges in connection to attacks on women at the University of Saskatchewan in May. The Josiah Blackplume, 22, appeared in court in Saskatoon Monday.