Battlefords News-Optimist

Most of the activities at Battleford Hillcrest Centre are winding down for the summer months. However, Kaiser continues on Thursday evenings.

A truck stolen from a Greenstreet resident May 15 was recovered in Onion Lake two days later. The 2009 black Dodge Ram had been extensively damaged by fire.

DuPont is helping to raise money for the Credit Union CUPlex. From December 2010 to July 2011 producers will purchase DuPont herbicides at 11 local farm retailers: 80 - 85 per cent of these purchases will be made May to June.

Dear Editor Companions on my journey, please read the letter following from my daughter Solange. She was helped organize a team, which includes her sister Chantel Lavoie to make a difference in the battle to defeat brain cancer.

Unity RCMP are investigating a report of an attempted abduction that was reported in Macklin on the evening of May 28. RCMP say z nine-year-old girl out walking her dog reported she was grabbed by an unknown adult man wearing a mask.

Prairie North Regional Health Authority board members have approved a 2011-12 operating and capital budgets of over $243 million.

For a couple weeks there was speculation about the completion of the North Stars' Dane Muench trade to the Vernon Vipers of the BCHL.

A vehicle was vandalized after an outbuilding at Alcurve Junction (Highways 3 and 17) was broken into sometime between May 27 and 29, according to Lloydminster Rural RCMP.

We're going off the beaten trail for a while, starting with the Indie-rock group aptly named "fun." Formed in 2008 by former The Format front man Nate Ruess, the band, to date, has released only one album, Aim and Ignite.

May 9, the Radisson Museum had Grade 12 students from Trek School in Regina stop in for a tour of the museum and to write up reports on their visit.