Battlefords News-Optimist

Just like Labour Day is a football tradition in Canada, Brett Favre "retiring" and eventually returning to training camp has become an annual tradition in the NFL.

Battlefords Boys and Girls Club is heading south with a new after school program.

After winning two tournament during the summer months, the Battlefords Stingers U18 Development Girls soccer team had high expectations for provincials, which were held in Lloydminster July 23 to 25.

Back to work. The Saskatchewan Roughriders enjoyed a bye week after their 37-13 win over B.C. in the Hall of Fame Game Aug. 12 at Mosaic Stadium.

A motor vehicle accident on the weekend has sent two people to hospital with undetermined injuries. The incident happened Saturday at 9:24 am at Highway 4 North, north of the Lessard Road intersection.

There's too much bureaucracy in the world. I found this out a long time ago, but the truth of this statement was recently reinforced when I finally went in to switch my vehicle insurance over to Saskatchewan.

A young offender has been released on bail to his mother for $200, pending his hearing Sept. 16. The 15-year-old boy, who can't be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, faces charges in relation to three break and enters and thefts.

Pierceland RCMP are currently investigating an ATV fatality which occurred Aug. 19 at 10:30 a.m. in a wooded pasture near the community of Pierceland. The operator of the ATV was in a remote area when he lost control and was thrown from the ATV.

Most of the time the Shiloh Baptist Church and Cemetery north of Maidstone sit as silent reminders of time long ago, the only physical remnants of what was once a busy community of African American settlers. Aug.

I was lying lazily on my bed, watching a bit of weekend afternoon TV, when my three-and-a-half-year-old son brought me a 2 litre bottle of pop, putting it beside the bed.