Battlefords News-Optimist

A team is defined as a group of people with a full set of complementary skills required to complete a task or a project. Jim Simon and Brian Maunula were working that definition to perfection on the weekend.

CRERAR: In Loving Memory of Catherine Laverne Crerar who was born Nov. 25, 1927 on the farm near Viceroy, SK and passed away May 22, 2011 at Villa Pascal, North Battleford, SK.

WUTTUNEE , RANDALL DOUGLAS; It is with great sadness that the family of Randy Wuttunee announce his unexpected passing. Randy was born on May 23, 1962 in North Battleford, Sk. He was raised by Ernest and Doris Soonias from the age of 3 years.

Bready School was the last elementary school to be built in North Battleford and is now 50 years old. It opened its doors in 1960 with four teachers and a caretaker staffing the school.

Fifteen charges of theft and fraud have been laid by Battlefords RCMP against a former employee of River Heights Lodge in North Battleford. Charged is Audrey Gallinger, 47, of Battleford.

Boogers, dirty diaper slingshots and cockroaches - that's what children's author Sigmund Brouwer talked about with students in the Battlefords in mid-May.

A Cut Knife man is dead following a semi-tanker rollover on a highway near Neilburg, spilling a load of anhydrous ammonia. The man, age 59, was found lying on the roadway by RCMP following the incident early Saturday.

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.