Battlefords News-Optimist

There were three draws Thursday and in the morning draw the top four seeds all played in the A-event quarter-finals and all advanced to meet in the semi final at 7 p.m.

Ed, my neighbor next door, is off on a holiday - a Caribbean cruise. Ed and Ruby?s family gave them the cruise as an anniversary gift. Ed said, ?It is like being retired - nothing to do but eat and sleep and enjoy yourself.

Midget AA Barons The Barons won back-to-back games for this first time this season. The most recent win came in their lone game on the weekend in Shellbrook against Parkland.

The first meeting of the Manitou Ambulance Board was held Jan. 11 with representatives from the Villages of Marsden and Neilburg and the Rural Municipalities of Hillsdale No. 440 and Manitou Lake No. 442 in attendance.

You'd think heading into the final week of the regular season more than two teams would be locked into their playoff positions, but that isn't the case in the North Saskatchewan River Hockey League.

I have never been snowshoeing, perhaps because the opportunity has never presented itself, but more likely because I am not a winter person.

Day one of the 2011 SaskTel Tankard began, as expected, cautiously, but the excitement picked up inside the Civic Centre and finished with three games coming down to the final rock in the final draw of the day.

Twenty cow fencing panels have been stolen fromr a site northwest of Paynton in the RM of Paynton. Maidstone RCMP say the panels were stolen sometime between Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.

Dear Editor I am quite concerned about the way CUPlex process is going. This is an exciting time for North Battleford and I appreciate the leap of faith in taking on something of this degree.

When Jessie Kuttai was born in Krydor, Jan. 23, 1911, the world was a much different place. Einstein was still working on his Theory of Relativity and Hitler was just a schoolboy.