Battlefords News-Optimist

Here are some of the highlights from a May 24 meeting of North Battleford council: City council has given its green light to submitting an application to the Main Street Saskatchewan Program.

A sewer emergency has closed off access for visitors to Battlefords Union Hospital. According to Linda Lewis of Prairie North Health Region, the situation unfolded in the early morning hours of June 1.

The halfway point of the Battlefords and District Ladies' Fastball League is upon us. It took until the halfway mark of the regular season for the Unity Midgets to suffer their first loss. The Battlefords Midget Bandits won 5-3 in Unity.

It was a busy first week in the North Saskatchewan River Baseball League, as the 14 teams try to determine where they fit in.

Teachers were marching in the streets in North Battleford last week as the labour dispute between the province and the Saskatchewan Teachers Federation escalated.

Three days of chuckwagon racing, 33 drivers, the roar of the wagons and the cheers from the crowds made for a great weekend on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association's SIGA Pro Tour.

The John Paul II Collegiate Travel Club recently returned from a tour in Europe and the students and staff all agree they had a fantastic time. The trip began on April 22 as the 11 students and four adults left North Battleford at 1:30 a.m.

106th street is closed from Railway Avenue to 8th Avenue to all traffic because of replacement being done to water and sewer line.

Sunday morning May 15, Dale Rogers was out doing some mid morning flying with his Powered Parachute northeast of Mayfair, when he saw his close neighbour, Curtis Babiy, stuck in the mud with a four-wheel drive tractor and air seeder in a low spot.

The latest budget estimate is in for the Credit Union CUPlex and it pegs the cost of the project at $59,368,168.02. That number includes $2,827,056.