Battlefords News-Optimist

BELROSE: In Loving Memory of James William BelRose who was born June 5, 1953 at North Battleford, SK and took the hand of his Heavenly Father on April 1, 2011 in North Battleford, SK.

If you would enjoy an outing April 23, join Kim Sherman from Sherman's Maintenance at his auction sale, south of Maymont, at 10 a.m. Articles for sale include antiques, vehicles, equipment and yard and garden items.

Next year St. George School will graduate its last class of Grade 9 students.

RCMP are reminding ATV users to stay off Finlayson Island. Through the winter, a number of complaints were made about snowmobiles tearing up protected areas and damaging ski trails.

The final stage of the junior badminton season will be underway Friday in Wilkie. Regional playoffs will take place and to get there many Northwest schools were in Hafford for conference playoffs.

District No. 9 held their annual Royal Purple meeting in Asquith Elks Hall April 9, with 34 ladies from the five lodges - Allan, Asquith, Radisson, River City and Saskatoon - in attendance for lunch and then meeting at 1 p.m.

The News Optimist's April 1, 2011 headline and associated "article" were a hoot. We were away at the time and a friend emailed a copy to us.

Lets quickly look at the various matchups while you bail out your basements and garages from the spring run-off. I am about to sue my village so buy this paper so I can afford the litigation. Eastern Conference Boston vs.

A Meota area farmer is taking liquid fertilizer application to a whole new level in the hopes of increasing his yield without increasing his input costs.

When we moved to town there was a stand of trees to the north and quite a lot of water. When spring came there was the constant melody of the frogs and the ducks, and rabbits ran carefree down the block.