Battlefords News-Optimist

Call it a hockey hotbed, call it home ice advantage, call it whatever you want, as long as you recognize the Saskatchewan men's and women's National Aboriginal Hockey Championship teams as national gold medalists.

Not everyone can finish first in a race - or even second or third. Someone has to bring up the rear, and that was the fate of Green Party candidate Norbert Kratchmer in Battlefords-Lloydminster Monday.

North Battleford council has put on ice a proposal by a local entrepreneur to operate a mobile ice cream stand on modified all-terrain vehicles.

Fire crews were on the scene at WPD Ambulance to douse a fire that broke out in an ambulance in their garage bay at 1072 - 103rd St. Four firefighters and the fire chief attended the scene for a half hour.

Ed, my neighbour next door, has decided that somebody better make a crazy glue to hold this world together. ?Everything is falling apart these days.

Wednesday marked the first day of the Battlefords Ladies Fastball League and all eight teams were scheduled to start the season.

Shellbrook RCMP are investigating a suspicious death that occurred over the weekend on the Ahtahakakoop First Nation. At around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 1, Shellbrook RCMP received a call about a disturbance at a residenceon the First Nation.

A fire set by a minor under 12 years old has burned down the community hall at Moosomin First Nation. The fire happened Friday with Battlefords Rural RCMP responding around 3:30 p.m. April 29.

The investigation continues into a May 2 incident in which a man was stabbed in the face. The incident happened on the 1400 block of 101st Street around 10:30 p.m.

A residence on 2nd Avenue West in Landis was broken into sometime between April 1 and 22. Unity/Wilkie/Macklin RCMP say a handle was forced off the door to gain entry. No one was home at the time.