Battlefords News-Optimist

SEPTEMBER 24 Battlefords Midget AA Barons will play Meadow Lake in exhibition action. Game time is 7:30 p.m. at the Civic Centre. SEPTEMBER 25 Battlefords AAA Stars will host Regina in the first game of the regular season. Game time is 2:30 p.m.

The Rhinos remain the team to beat in the North Battleford Touch Football League and they picked up two more wins in the past week. Sept. 16 the Rhinos ran over the Western Can Slammers 40-0 and Tuesday they beat the Huskies 20-12.

I recently watched an Internet safety video on NSTeens. I noticed when the teens were asked if their parents knew what they were doing online, they responded with: "My mom does.

Those pesky dumpster fires attended to on a regular basis by North Battleford Fire and Emergency Services must make the firefighters a little crazy.

After a 2-2-0-1 record in exhibition, Martin Smith and the Battlefords Midget Stars turn their attention to the regular season.

Hit and runs aren't so unusual in the Battlefords - but when the victim is the leader of the Liberal Party in Saskatchewan it is. Provincial leader Ryan Bater said his vehicle was smashed up in a hit-and-run on the evening of Sept. 15..

NDP leader Dwain Lingenfelter took aim at Premier Brad Wall and his government on a range of provincial issues last Thursday night at the Western Development Museum.

The NBCHS Cross-Country Running team drove to Macklin Sept. 15 for a competition and ran their way to many medal performances.

As you drive into North Battleford from Battleford one of the signs along the highway leading up to the railroad overpass is one proclaiming the city as a Block Parent community. Sadly, those signs will soon be history.

Len Taylor says he still has the enthusiasm to keep going with a two-decades-long political career that started in 1988.