Battlefords News-Optimist

To those individuals in the livestock industry, not all electric fences are created equal nor are all watering systems.

I don't get a chance to talk to my mother often between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Sometimes during the best times to call I'm busy and at other times she is out having fun when I try to reach her.

The 35th season of North Battleford Comprehensive High School Viking football was completed Tuesday night, as the junior and senior teams, their coaches, parents and supporters gathered for the annual awards banquet.

Kamala Youth Choir represented Saskatchewan at two events this year - a Voices West festival and Unisong in Ottawa.

Over the weekend of Nov. 19-20, 2010 Caterpillar 297C skidsteer with tracks was stolen from a construction site east of the community of Prud'Homme, which is located northeast of Saskatoon.

Paradise Hill hosted the 3A girls championship on the weekend, but it was another Northwest team earning a medal and carrying a perfect record into the final.

One view of the power of the press is that by publishing a consumer complaint or insisting an investigative report be completed on behalf of an unhappy consumer problems will be solved and shoddy business practices revealed.

Even though we had such a beautiful summer and nice, long fall, I still found the cold winds that blew this week seeming like it was too early for frigid temperatures like this.

Those gathered at the Neilburg Community Hall Nov. 11 were reminded that we are Fragile and that None of Us are Free by the Neilburg Composite School senior band's interpretation of these contemporary songs.

The Ministry of Highways gave the school some dirt to fix up the in need soccer field. Teacher Ryan Nickel is a teacher who is coaching one of the soccer teams. He was trying to get the school soccer field into shape for the students.