Battlefords News-Optimist

As the final push for Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League playoff positions heat up, so to do some of the league's best players. For the second straight week, Melville's Ian McNulty has been named the player of the week.

Battlefords RCMP are warning area businesses to be on the lookout for bad cheques. Officers are current investigating several cases of fraud in the Battlefords and surrounding are.

It was a shiny weekend for the North Battleford Comprehensive High School senior basketball teams. The boys won gold while the girls earned a silver medal at their tournaments. The boys were at the Prince Albert St.

RAMSAY; In Loving Memory of Gregory Carl Ramsay Born: June 3, 1963 - Cut Knife, SK. Passed Away: January 11, 2012 - Cut Knife, SK. Gregory Carl Ramsay of Cut Knife passed away on January 11, 2012 while watering his Hereford cows with his loving wife.

A semi trailer rolled on Highway 16 west near Paynton at approximately 4:45 a.m. today. Maidstone RCMP say the semi truck was proceeding westbound approximately five kilometres west of Paynton, near the Payton Truck Stop when it rolled.

What beautiful weather we have been enjoying for the past several days. It's more like spring than winter. However, that's about to change in mid-week. Forecasters tell us temperatures will drop considerably then.

BILANSKI - It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Donald Jerry Bilanski, late of North Battleford, Saskatchewan on January 31, 2012 at the age of 59 years. Don was born on June 24, 1952 at Hafford, Saskatchewan.

The Battlefords AAA Sharks went on their final road trip of the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League regular season on the weekend to face the Weyburn Gold Wings. The Sharks returned home Sunday after losing 12-1 and 4-0.

The dreary, bitter cold of a February day is enough to keep most of us indoors, guarding our warmth, hoping for spring or a quick jaunt to Mexico.

Dear Editor I am writing in regards to the new tobacco and smoke free property policy the Prairie North Health Region recently implemented. I don't smoke, but I find myself siding with the big bad smokers.