Battlefords News-Optimist

Bingo was played at the Maidstone Drop In Centre Sept. 14. There was good attendance and a few new players have joined in this fall. Joan Smith and Margaret MacEachern did the calling. Denise Newton provided lunch.

Another step was taken towards returning Layne Larose to society last week, as he is being released to a group home in Saskatoon.

After their first game ever of high school football, the John Paul II Crusaders players and coaching staff knew they would be better the next time they took to the field at Beaver Lions Stadium.

I work out three to five times a week, not because I love it or even like it. I do it because my weakness is restaurant and take out food. I think most of us enjoy a supper out.

Saturday afternoon, the skies around North Battleford were filled with a smoky haze, the reason once again was a grass fire fed by dry and windy conditions across the Northwest.

The Battlefords Stars began October looking for their first win of the season, as the Tisdale Trojans were in North Battleford.

The Royal Canadian Legion gave out two entirely different honours Sept. 27, one to a minister for service, and the other to bikers who have fundraised for the organization. In an emotional ceremony, the Legion Branch No.

North Battleford has won its category in the 2011 provincial Communities in Bloom competition. The announcement was made in a press release issued this week from the Saskatchewan Parks and Recreation Association.

City representatives at the National Job Fair in Toronto last week report making contact with people interested in relocating to the Battlefords for jobs.

Friday night at the Civic Centre was an early season match up for first place in the Bauer Conference. The Nipawin Hawks were in North Battleford to face the North Stars in Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League action.