Battlefords News-Optimist

Sometimes crime fighting really bites - or at least, the guy you're trying to arrest does. A Battlefords RCMP member was treated for bite wounds after responding to a fight in progress call at a local bar just after midnight Monday night.

Over the past year, Meota ADRA has been sponsoring a monthly movie night. We started with borrowing a popcorn machine from the St.

FALCON ; In Loving Memory of Lorraine Ann Falcon who was born Nov. 1, 1955 at Fort Benton, Montana, USA and passed away March 25, 2011 at North Battleford, SK.

Curtis Sutherland is spending this week in Saskatoon where he is attending a Level One water course. Our condolences to Wendy and Angus McFadyen on the death of Wendy's mother, Gwen Holland of Maidstone.

Baljennie became a ghost town for a few years, but three interested families moved in and it grew up from a ghost town to a small town with a population of close to 10 people.

Colleen and Norma Wicks left Speers March 12 for their trip to Hawaii, flying from Saskatoon to Denver, then on to San Diego where they spent the night. They left San Diego the next day on the Holland America ship Vaandam.

Longtime city employee Keith Anderson has been hired as the new Parks and Recreation Director. City Manager Jim Toye announced the appointment at Monday night's city council meeting.

STINSON: In Loving Memory of Robert Raymond Stinson who was born March 20, 1955 at Fort Francis - Rainy River District, ON and passed away March 30, 2011 at North Battleford, SK.

Two fires in North Battleford kept fire fighters busy Saturday, April 9. A vehicle was discovered on fire in the rear parking lot of North Battleford Comprehensive High School at a little after four in the morning.

Nine years after David Kennedy and Hughie Sayers were brutally murdered with an axe, the man found not criminally responsible for their deaths will be free to live in the Battlefords again.