Battlefords News-Optimist

In four days over the course of the long weekend there was one car accident, three dumpster fires and two vehicle fires in the Battlefords and Area. The car accident happened at the intersection of 8th Avenue and 110th Street on Thursday at 6:15 p.m.

A meeting of city council June 27 was the last one before the summer schedule takes effect. Council meetings are reduced to one per month during July and August to accommodate summer vacations. Council will meet again July 25 and again on Aug. 22.

Parks and recreation head Keith Anderson had the sad duty to inform city council June 27 that, indeed, the bloodsuckers are coming back.

Dates for a preliminary hearing are likely to be set next week in the case of a woman charged with assaulting a resident at a North Battleford group home.

Hugh Carr, a Notre Dame Hounds pitcher, is being inducted into the Saskatchewan Baseball Hall of Fame. Born Hugo Raymond Dombowsky, Oct. 13, 1929, he died Hugh Carr, Nov. 16, 1972. He grew up in Avonlea.

In the early summer of 1932, 14 years had passed since the Great War ended, three years since the Wall Street crash, and the world was nine years from the opening salvos of the second World War. I was five years-old.

Battlefords Family Health Centre's Community Garden Project 2011 opened its garden season June 14 with a garden blessing event. BFHC has undertaken a diabetes prevention approach through the community garden project.

The Onion Lake RCMP Detachment say Erica NAISTUS has been located safe and sound in Onion Lake. RCMP received a complaint July 2 that 13-year-old Erica Naistus ran away from her residence sometime during the night.

His Eminence Metropolitan Yurij Kalistchuk recently presided over a service marking a 75th parish anniversary at the Descent of Holy Ghost Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Hafford.

Saskatchewan artist Glen Scrimshaw has closed his Duck Lake studio, and many of the contents went under the auctioneer's hammer recently at Ivan White Auctions in North Battleford.