Battlefords News-Optimist

Fire crews battled a truck fire at the rear of a residence on 110th Street on Sunday. On arrival, fire crews found that an accumulation of garbage in the rear box area had burned.

"Do the kids have sunscreen on?" growls the momma bear. "Of course dear," I answer in quick reply "And bug spray?" "Absolutely. Of course they do, I have done this before." I give my best - I know dear smile.

Quilters will drive long distances to buy beautiful materials and patterns, Holly Lightfoot will bring the goods right to the quilters.

Courtney Laycook has taken the next step in her hockey career, as she graduates from the Sharks and has committed to the Rainy River Community College women's hockey program.

The first week of the North Battleford Touch Football League is complete and four teams are tied for first place while four are tied for fifth place. The same four teams that won on Aug. 16 won again on Thursday against different opponents.

Both supporters and non-supporters alike mourned the passing of federal New Democratic Party leader Jack Layton on Monday. Layton, 61, died Monday following a lengthy battle with cancer.

A three-year-old girl is dead following an attack by dogs on the Mosquito First Nation reserve. RCMP and ambulance responded to a 911 call just before 7 p.m. Sunday night, Aug. 21, about a girl being injured by dogs on the reserve.

Blaine Lake singer and songwriter Barbara Woytiuk, stage name Barbara Dee, has made the Country Gospel Connections Top 100 chart with the song Saved by the Cross written by Camrose gospel music songwriter Martin Kushnerick.

The Battlefords was the latest stop Monday on a cross-country journey to promote education in the developing world.

Charges against the chief of Poundmaker First Nation and eight others accused of various Treaty Land Entitlement fraud crimes on the reserve were read for the first time in Cut Knife provincial court Tuesday.