Battlefords News-Optimist

Three weeks into the season, there is no need to hit the panic button says North Battleford Comprehensive High School senior football coach Jamie Sommerfeld after the Vikings fell to 0-2. The Vikings suffered a 20-1 loss to Prince Albert St.

Significant drops in break and enters and person offences highlight the monthly statistics from the RCMP Battlefords city detachment in August. Most notable was the drop in residential break and enters from 33 in August 2010 to six last month.

Dear Editor The Battleford's Humane Society made the decision to close its impound area Sept 9 due to a number of dogs infected with parvo being present in this area. This is a very contagious disease and spreads readily.

Bingo was played at the Maidstone Drop In Centre Sept. 7 with good attendance. Volunteer callers were Joan Smith and Margaret MacEachern. Lunch was supplied by Bev Stewart and Dorothy Harmel. Kaiser was played Sept.

Harvest operations have advanced quickly during the past week, however the forecast for Monday was for showers. Let's hope the forecasters were wrong, as they are so often.

The Saskatchewan Government has announced that its Go Green Fund will provide an operating grant of $500,000 to SaskEnergy to maintain the Energy Efficient New Homes Rebate Program.

Main Street Maidstone was the scene of broken glass and missing cash Tuesday morning. Two businesses were hit as glass front doors were broken and cash drawers were taken.

Call it the changing of the seasons, the end of summer or the kickoff to a new agenda but to me it still involves the changing of the closet. Fall (well, we're nearly there) conjures up so many endings and beginnings.

HIGHTON: March 4, 1969 - September 10, 2011. Darcy Craig Highton, 42, of Dexter, died Saturday, September 10, 2011 at Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO. He was born in North Battleford, SK on March 4, 1969.

The John Paul II Crusaders football team got a taste of the end zone in their third game of existence and now should be hungry for more.