Battlefords News-Optimist

For the fourth consecutive year, Roughrider fans will be able to watch their team in the playoffs at Mosaic Stadium.

Crime, vandalism, slum landlords and other problems were high on the agenda of local residents Friday at a community meeting held on North Battleford's east side.

It was another weekend of Battlefords North Stars action, but the team was left searching for their first win of the 2010-11 season.

Local officials are concerned about the number of animals on the loose in North Battleford following word of yet another animal attack. The latest incident happened Sept. 29 in the evening, on the 1300 block of 107th Street.

Emergency crews were busy with a number of collisions over the past few days. Saturday, WPD Ambulance responded to a single vehicle rollover 6.5 kilometres north of Edam on Highway 4.

After a 0-4-1-1, the North Stars players expected changes to the roster, as Ken Pearson continues to look for a winning combination and Tuesday a deal was made official.

When I was a kid living in Manitoba, my mom had a garden in the backyard. I loved running through the stalks of corn, pretending I was Mary from The Secret Garden. Occasionally I would force the boy next door to be the sickly bedridden boy.

In what was a somewhat heated weekend in Yorkton, the Battlefords Midgets Stars came home with one of four possible points.

Years ago we knew a young fellow who used to love to say grace before meals. No matter how briefly or fervently he prayed he always added this comment: "And dear God, help our food to turn to energy and not fat.

Even though the health care system in this country isn't ready to embrace liberation therapy, there are those throughout the region suffering from MS who are taking the risks, travelling abroad and paying for the treatment themselves.