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This year's Battlefords Kiwanis Music Festival has come to a successful end. The Gala April 15 at Third Avenue United Church highlighted the entire Festival and celebrated our community's young musical performers receiving awards and scholarships.

Amanda Grainger has played four seasons with the Battlefords AAA Sharks and 109 career regular season games, sixth most in the Saskatchewan Female Midget AAA Hockey League's history. She is now set to begin a new chapter in her hockey career.

The inaugural year of the Co-op Easter Egg hunt, in 2005, two feet of snow fell on the regional park grounds after the entire supply of eggs were hidden, making it a big challenge for both organizers and participants. A lot has changed since then.

The R.M of Douglas No. 436 held its annual ratepayers meeting April 7 with twelve in attendance. Reeve Nick Partyka was nominated as chair and Administrator Charles Linnell as recording secretary.

Do you remember language arts as a kid? Was it repetitive reading, grammar and spelling skills that you got your parents to review, sign and send back to your teacher? Well at Unity Public School this is NOT the classroom instruction your children ar

The ladies boot camp class in Maymont wants to remind you about wing night, Thursday April 28 from 5-9 at the Maymont Hotel. The girls are putting a team into the annual Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Run for the Cure.

You would think with winter being so long and Easter being so late this year, we might be treated to some warm, spring weather for the season.

Spiritwood Stockyards handled 361 head on Wednesday, April 13. Steers weighing 300 to 400 pounds had a high price of $1.61 with an average of $1.43; 400 to 500 had a high price of $1.45 with an average of $1.38; 500 to 600 had a high price of $1.

It is that time of year again, the time we would like to turn into spring. With the anticipation ofspring comes the need to get out of our homes and enjoy the community around us.

The Riderville committee, consisting of Michael Soloski, Carey Baker, Pat and Wanda Gumpinger, Charles and Doreen Bonogofski, Len Grant, Sherri Solomko, Pat Orobko, Doc Clark, Scott Smith and Dion Delhommeau, spent the better part of 2010 trying to w