Battlefords News-Optimist

Comment and History from a Prairie Perspective

I had an interesting chat the other day with my friend, Michael Zwaagstra, as we were visiting their place in Steinbach, Man.

It's not often an owl flies into someone's face but it happened to Skyler Steier, a vehicles and equipment mechanic with Fleet Services from North Battleford, June 21.

First of all I must apologize as I have taken so long to get the month of July community news reported due to the postal strike and my husband and I were on holidays for a couple of weeks to parts of British Columbia and Alberta.

The search continues for the new coach of the Battlefords North Stars junior hockey team.

The voice in the back of our heads to get outside and get more active is louder than ever and soon there could be a new way to listen to that voice.

Rick Morrice was born March 3, 1951 in Eston where he attended school and played all his minor sports. At 16, Morrice was asked to go with the Eston Ramblers to represent Saskatchewan at the first Canadian Summer Games in Halifax.

One thing is true, when it comes to the back yard retreat, there's no definitive answer for altogether best sellers for the season.

Our newsroom has explored many "First Person Exploits into the Unknown" in the past few years, but this one - about how I broke my arm and the progress of my recovery - gives a new twist to the premise.

Charges have been laid after a fatal collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian near Moosomin First nation Sunday afternoon. A 17-year-old walking on a main grid road was struck and died as a result of his injuries.