Battlefords News-Optimist

Nominations have closed in the race for the eight open seats on the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Eleven candidates are running for the positions including three incumbents seeking re-election.

Ed, my neighbor next door, is emotionally tough. He claims when he was a kid, he shed no tears when Bambi's mother was shot in the movie.

Just as the high school volleyball season comes to an end, the basketball season begins. The John Paul II Collegiate senior girls' basketball team kicked off the season with their home tournament Friday and Saturday.

Dear Editor Recently, the Bonaventure Lions Club committee for enhanced living for seniors called a meeting at Third Avenue United Church.

Someone is anticipating a long, cold winter ahead. Sometime in November, two cords of wood was stolen from outsidea Lone Rock residence. The residence's chain link fence was damaged as a result, according to Lloydminster RCMP.

I have been writing about fitness related topics for several years. Each week I try to find a new, interesting topic to write about. This week I thought I'd see just how much you've learned over the past few years.

Don't miss Land Marks, the current exhibition of work by Dorothy Knowles on now at the Chapel Gallery. Knowles began studying art in the late 1940s and early '50s at night school and summer school.

Peewee Sharks Sunday, The Battleford Peewee Sharks improved to 8-0 in East Central Alberta Female Hockey League action after a 4-1 win in Wainwright.

Maidstone RCMP are requesting the public's assistance. OnOct. 14 between midnight and10 a.m. a vehicle in Lashburn was broken into. Perpetrators gained access by breakingopen the rear vehicle windowand entered the vehicle.

In this age of long distance communications and technology it seems no one can claim to live in the middle of nowhere anymore and yet many can claim to live in isolation.