Battlefords News-Optimist

A Meadow Lake man is dead following a single vehicle rollover Wednesday. Loon Lake RCMP say Travis John Wilson was the sole occupant of the vehicle that rolled approximately on Highway 304 four kilometers east of Makwa at about 6:40 p.m.

With two more multi-unit dwelling applications before Town of Battleford's council, Mayor Chris Odishaw would like to set firm guidelines for future applications. "I feel uncomfortable making decisions on an individual basis," said Odishaw.

He wasn't here for a long time, but he did have a big impact on the Battlefords in his final year of the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.

The community of Hafford has hosted an annual music festival for 49 years. The festival is where many talented musicians and vocalists compete for scholarships, trophies and potentially an opportunity to advance to the next level of competition.

St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church is welcoming a new minister - the first they've had in over seven years. On March 18, the church held a special induction service for their new spiritual leader, Reverend Joye Platford.

A local photographer is putting together a calendar that won't feature hunky firefighters, stunning mountain vistas, sunny golf courses or classic muscle cars. Instead, Warne Noyce is focusing on the faces of cancer.

The Senior Girls Curling team from Ernie Studer School in Loon Lake won a bronze medal in provincial competition at the Callie Curling Club in Regina March 11 and 12. "They had a rough start," said principal Brad Freyman.

The Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation pulled the first name out of the bin for their Monthly Lottery draw, and it was John Waugh of Meadow Lake coming out $1,000 richer.

Hi there! April came in like a lamb, so nice and sunny. Thank goodness we saw the last of March with its bitter cold winds and dreary days. Hopefully from now on we will be getting some lovely spring weather.

For the past month, only two doctors and a nurse practitioner have been serving 5,000 people in the northwest corner of the health region, staffing clinics in St. Walburg, Turtleford and Edam.