Battlefords News-Optimist

Your parents told you this when you were growing up. You continue to hear it as an adult. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Even though we have been told this for many years, many people tend to not follow this advice.

Saskatchewan will participate in 19 sports against teams from across Western Canada and among those elite athletes, some Northwest competitors will be in action. Team Sask will compete with Team B.C.

The Saskatchewan provincial golf season is in full swing and the golfers on the course competing at provincials this week were the seniors.

In spite of repeated warnings and attempts to raise awareness from Battlefords RCMP, an elderly resident has been bilked out of $220 by an apparent Internet scam.

If all baseball games could be played like the three games between the North Battleford Beavers and Wilkie Brewers in the first round of the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League, it would be an exciting, gut-wrenching part of anyone's summer.

Mailboxes at the Lashburn post officer were pried open after the lobby was illegally entered sometime July 22. Not all the mailboxes were entered, but RCMP say items were stolen from those that were opened.

Lakeland Veterinary Services have been nurturing two small female pups after they were abandoned near a gas station earlier this month.

Several vehicles were broken into in Wilkie in the early morning hours of July 22, according to Unity/Wilkie/Macklin RCMP. The break ins were on 2nd Street West and 3rd Street West.

The celebrations and the glory years may have passed for some athletes from the Battlefords, but June 18 those memories were revisited for four football players.

Sometime between May 26 and 31, a drive shaft was stolen from a 1978 Ford Bronco truck on the 200 block of 28th Street in Battleford. Over night July 9, a church on the 300 block of 30th Street Battleford was vandalized.