Battlefords News-Optimist

The name Belak in well-known throughout hockey circles because of the NHL enforcer, who dons a Nashville Predators jersey. Around the Battlefords it has two well-known connections.

A tough 2010 crime year came to a close for the Battlefords detachment of the RCMP, which found itself responding to an increasing amount of crime calls during the year. Final statistics for the year were presented by Staff Sgt.

Weldon Parsons is an accomplished writer and poet who creates work, fiction and non-fiction, to share with the world. He now has five novels and two poetry compact discs on the market, with the sixth book in the works.

Jan. 11 at approximately 2 a.m., a 2000 black Volkswagen Passat station wagon with a cargo box on the roof was stolen from 15th Street in Battleford. It was located later that day on 97th Street in North Battleford. Sometime between Jan.

New numbers provided to city councillors Monday at a Municipal Services Committee meeting are indicating a reduction in the amount of garbage being thrown in the trash in the area where new individual rollout bins are being tested.

The Rabbit Lake and District Agricultural Association held its annual meeting Jan.13 with a full slate of directors in attendance. Christine MacDonald chaired the meeting and reviewed the activities of the past year.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) SK 4550 is hosting an open house Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 6:45 pm at Hope Mennonite Fellowship Hall, 1291 - 109th St., North Battleford. TOPS Club, Inc.

A new president takes over this week at the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce. New president Scott Campbell was officially handed the gavel by outgoing president Leah Milton at Tuesday night's Chamber annual meeting.

Unlike hockey players, coaches and fans, there is always one group of people, who are at every hockey game and who need to be educated and recertified before a hockey season begins.

One of the biggest wintertime events in Saskatchewan will soon be taking centre stage as the 15th annual Jackfish Lake Ice Fishing Derby gets underway Feb. 19.