Battlefords News-Optimist

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.

It isn't Christmas yet, but Maidstone's Red Hat Society is already thinking about the season.

The Battlefords North Stars looked to get in the win column, as they hosted Weyburn Friday and were in Kindersley Saturday, but ynfortunately they are still winless in the 2010-11 season.

A new voluntary carbon offset program has been announced for individuals and organizations.

Maidstone High School has a population of about 200 students and over a quarter of them proudly wear the orange and blue.

North Battleford city council gave first reading Monday to a bylaw that would rezone land for expansion and zoning on the Credit Union CUPlex site. The bylaw would rezone the land from A1 Agriculture to C3 Commercial.

Classes started Sept. 13, but if you take a walk down the hallways of Hafford Central School, it's not students you'll see, but construction workers, plumbers and electricians.