Battlefords News-Optimist

Chantal Wagner of Unity is one of the 16 students chosen from Western Canada to receive the RE/MAX 2011 Quest for Excellence' bursary valued at $1,000.

The ladies' boot camp class in Maymont will be entering a team in the annual Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Run for the Cure. To show your support for the team please join them June 24 at 6 p.m. for a steak night at the Maymont Hotel.

A 24-year -ld working at a group home for severely intellectually and physically disabled people in North Battleford has been charged with physically abusing one of the patients.

The first ever Battlefords club basketball for boys in Grades 4 to 6 began in November and their first season came to an end last month.

What is the best way to level out the playing field in high school football? Both the North Battleford Comprehensive High School and John Paul II Collegiate will be looking for the answer to that question in the next few seasons, but with the Battlef

Ed, my neighbour next door, always finds another reason to shake his head in dismay at me. He has a blunt way of making it clear I have crossed over the line again from being possibly normal to being downright weird.

Traffic in the northeast part of Blaine Lake was re-routed Thursday afternoon of when a Viterra semi trailer unit hauling anhydrous ammonia was unable to manoeuvre a turn effectively.

A national study was released in Canada about 15-year-olds and their academic achievement. It used results from the national tests in math, reading, and science.

What a fantastic weekend the second weekend of May was in Unity. The weather was grand and events were plentiful.

The ladies of Riverbend Fellowship Church held a salad supper May 13 in the Borden Seniors' Room, with close to 30 out to enjoy a great variety of salads. Special music was provided by Becky Loewen, Shauna Schmidt and Lori Janz of Waldheim.