Battlefords News-Optimist

The North Battleford Touch Football League wrapped up Friday, with the Rhinos and the Huskies battling for the title.

The Battlefords city detachment of the RCMP had to deal with spikes in property and person offences in September, though break and enters were down for the month.

North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services were once again busy responding to a dumpster fire Friday evening. The fire broke out in a dumpster in the 1500 block of 106th Street around 5 p.m.

The North Battleford Comprehensive High School senior Vikings played their final regular season game in front of an energized crowd at Beaver Lions Stadium Thursday and the atmosphere helped them to a 15-0 win.

The rinks around the Battlefords were fairly quiet on the weekend, but that doesn't mean there we no local minor hockey teams in action. The Peewee AA Barons were in Meadow Lake Saturday and pulled out a 5-3 win.

For the fourth straight season, seven service clubs from the Battlefords have stepped up and sponsored another year of the North Battleford public skating program.

The City of North Battleford has awarded a tender for the supply of tree maintenance services. The tender was awarded to B & B Tree Service of Saskatoon in the amount of $23,097.90. Tenders closed Oct.

We hear it all the time in sports, "We didn't play a full-60 minutes." The Saskatchewan Roughriders were accused of this sports cliché terminology Sunday following the loss to the Stampeders.

Bready Elementary School students learned what our province has to offer the dinner table when they met Saskatchewan author Amy Jo Ehman at the North Battleford Library.

RCMP Traffic Services and Saskatchewan RCMP Detachments target high risk drivers on Highways through Operation Impact.