Battlefords News-Optimist

While a raise for Saskatchewan's teachers has become the focus of a mediation process, the staff working at Living Sky School Division's central office will be getting a three per cent raise.

The Battlefords Ladies' Fastball League was in action three nights this week, making up games to tie up the regular season, with playoffs slated to start Monday. Monday night the Unity Bantams 2 slugged out an 8-3 victory over the Survivors.

Monday night at Beaver-Lions Stadium, the North Battleford Beavers used a five-run sixth inning to dispose of the Mid-West Expos 6-4.

"I'm not going to take credit for good luck," Brian Quinn told the Living Sky School Division School Board last week when reporting on the division's critical incident procedures.

Dear Editor Well, I'm back, its been almost a year since my last letter. Good old N.B. A place for people who do not need sleep.

You've taken my advice. You've started exercising. You've re-evaluated your diet and started making some healthy changes. You're getting more sleep at night. Great work.

A Grade 7 student has died after drowning in the water at Aquadeo on Monday . The incident happened shortly after 1100 am June 27, 2011. Battlefords Rural RCMP and EMS were dispatched to Aquadeo at Jackfish Lake.

Floods in southeast Saskatchewan and labour woes involving crop insurance workers overshadowed the Northwest Premier's Dinner in Meadow Lake.

June 21 marked the first day of summer and during the short summer season residents of the Battlefords and area are drawn to the shores of Jackfish Lake.

The moon is full July 14, which means 14 days earlier was new moon, so Canada Day starts the monthly cycle: new moon, first quarter (7.4 days later) (watch for Saturn within eight degrees); full moon (14.8 days after new); last quarter (July 22 - 22.