Battlefords News-Optimist

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.

Progress continues for the Credit Union CUPlex both on and off the construction site.

Maymont Centeral School Grade 5 to 9 students travelled to Saskatoon Nov. 24 to the Broadway Theatre. They watched an adaptation of Twelfth Night performed by Persephone Theatre.

Woody Klassen has been back in the Battlefords for just nine games and has six goals and five assists since rejoining the team.

Little Pine First Nation has a new venue to encourage physical fitness on the reserve. They cut the ribbon to open a brand new Little Pine Fitness Facility, located right next to the gas bar, Wednesday.

It didn't take long for the Battlefords North Stars to take control of their 30th game of the season against the Estevan Bruins Tuesday night at the Civic Centre.

Changes are coming to the noise abatement bylaw after a local business found itself caught between a rock and a hard place in trying to clear customers' parking lots of snow.