Battlefords News-Optimist

The Connaught Elementary School received a generous grant from the Indigo Love of Reading Foundation - to help rebuild the school library.

Villa Pascal employee appreciation and long term service awards were presented to Villa Pascal employees June 1. Representing the Villa Pascal board of directors was chairman Robert L'Heureux and vice-chair Therese Giasson.

Dear Editor In the news lately, much has been noted about wage negotiations and federal employees; generous wages and retirement benefits. We paid 7.5 per cent of our income for 35 years to get a pension.

Cliff Scott, originally from the Marsden area, and his wife, Marg, spent almost 37 years as missionaries to Japan. For the past 23 years they resided in the bustling city of Toyko.

The Swift Mount Light Horse 4-H Club has had a busy couple of months. The members enjoyed a trick horse clinic with Jackie Johnson, a professional trick horse trainer and show-person, from Regina May 14-15 at Bonanza Acres.

Katelyn Noble has been missing since August, 2007. The most recent probe into Nobel's disappearance - she was last seen Aug.

Dear Editor I'm a little concerned about the premier's course of action around the strike by the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance workers. Brad Wall was pretty quick to say he was going to use the power of the law to legislate the workers back to work.

Summer has arrived and so have the new faces in the municipal office in Blaine Lake.

Emergency personnel were busy in the Battlefords area responding to two separate motor vehicle accidents this week, resulting in one serious and two minor injuries.

When a hockey player has won a silver medal in the 1998 Winter Olympics, won gold medals in the 1997 and '99 International Ice Hockey Federation World Women's Championship and played in 13 national championships what is left to do? For Fiona Smith-Be