Battlefords News-Optimist

As the lakes and rivers across Saskatchewan continue to freeze over, action at the indoor pools pick up.

The Keller Family Band is playing for a fundraiser for the Battleford United Church Dec. 2 from 7 to 9 p.m. The band, which has previously played at the Carlton Trail Jamboree, is made up of Colin Keller, his wife, and their five children.

Spiritwood RCMP are seeking the public's help with respect to a break and enter near Chitek Lake, Saskatchewan. The alleged break-in activity took place at Chamakese Resort.

The size of the school may be small, but the heart and pride in the players in huge. Borden competed in the 1A boys' provincial volleyball championship on the weekend in Broadview and Whitewood and came away with a silver medal.

Can you believe more than $40,000 was raised from the live and silent auction held for Karen Fertuck (Hultman)? Karen is waiting to go to Edmonton for a liver transplant.

Ed, my neighbour next door, says, "You need to snap out of it, Ray. If you don't you'll be just another one of the multitude harping on about the way it used to be.

Dear Editor The Wall Street occupiers push the nonsense of communist medicine in Canada at all cost. Those who want communist medicine defend this ideology under the mantra that health care should not be a commodity or for profit.

A District No. 45 4-H council meeting was held Oct. 20 in Hillmond. On the agenda were elections and committee formation. District president is Christina Jones and junior president is Michael Jones.

Today is the day all the Christmas displays and decorations should begin. I am a big fan of Christmas but dislike the hype that starts in October. I long for the 'good ole days' when Christmas was a December event.

Thursday marked the beginning of the largest high school basketball tournament in Saskatchewan, the Bowlt Classic Tournament. The North Battleford Comprehensive High School senior boys team faced Bedford Road at Bethlehem and won 65-46.