Battlefords News-Optimist

Another hockey season has come to an end and for our senior Three Stars, not as they had hoped with the league championship going to St. Walburg. However, the Junior Three Stars came home with a hat trick in the STEP League this year.

"Someone told me it's hard to soar like an eagle when you're hangin' with chickens. We're all eagles here. So don't hang with no chickens.

One of the best Battlefords North Stars players in the past three seasons has left the Battlefords and is set for a new college hockey experience.

Dear editor, I was on my first trip to Battleford on March 16, to attend a midget AA playoff hockey game, and was appalled to hear the Battleford fellow in charge of the music playing Happy Trails loudly on the speakers while a 16-year-old boy was do

In the blink of an eye, Canada is, once again, at war.

Eva Olsson, a slight, soft-spoken 87-year-old, spoke to the students, staff and guests at Hillmond Central School recently. She spoke softly and told the audience about her life and about the lessons she had learned.

He spent a lot of time in the penalty box, in fact Wade Belak has earned 1,263 penalty minutes in the NHL, but he is now situated in another box at the arena - the press box.

The Christmas season may be long over, but the spirit of giving continues. Earlier this month the Maidstone Baptist Church was contacted by a volunteer with the Samaritan's Purse Operation Christmas Child program.

The Rural Municipality of Blaine Lake hosted a flood preparedness meeting March 4 at the Blaine Lake Curling Rink. The surrounding municipalities, villages and First Nations were in attendance to recognize the potential for flooding this spring.

Miracles do still happen. Want evidence? In Saturday's Junior Boys' District Basketball final in Marshall, the hand of something or someone with a keen sense of the implausible stirred the pot for the tiny Glaslyn School Jets.