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Last weekend marked the end of the 2012 high school badminton season, the provincial championship took place in Melfort. The girls' doubles team of Haley Enns and Meghan Lybeck were perfect on the weekend, as they earned the provincial gold medal.

The Frenchman Butte Museum will host a Queen's Diamond Jubilee Anniversary Complimentary Tea this Victoria Day afternoon, on the museum grounds at Frenchman Butte.

It looks as if the soon-to-be demolished Kinsmen Aquatic Centre will be making way for a 94-unit enhanced seniors' condominium and apartment complex. Caleb Group of Saskatoon has proposed a purchase and sale proposal for the approximately 2.

After a short life and many hardships and handicaps, Tessa Lea Beland of Denholm passed away April 16. Tessa was Trevor and Tanya Beland`s daughter, a step-daughter for Tanya. Sympathy is extended to the Beland, Snyder and Peters families.

Dear companions on my journey: I have recently returned from a trip to New Zealand and Australia. I saw and experienced life in amazing, different countries and marveled at the many wonders and interesting species of animals.

The Reclaim Outreach Centre's efforts towards obtaining funding for its proposed permanent emergency shelter have hit a funding snag.

SADLOWSKI, JULIAN J.; husband, father, grandfather, teacher, artist, writer, historian and dedicated community servant passed away peacefully on Friday, April 27, 2012, after a courageous battle with cancer. He was 76 years old.

Just five more sleeps! For months I've anticipated attending my first district Toastmasters (TM) conference and the time is almost here. If the event is even as close to being as intense as my excitement, it promises to be quite the bang-up affair.

Dean Bauche, local artist, former director of the North Battleford galleries and curator of the Allen Sapp Gallery, received a singular honour recently - a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

It's a typical morning. Katrina announces she doesn't want to go to school today. I try not to fight with her, as I have a busy morning.