Battlefords News-Optimist

At 10:30 p.m. Sept. 26 perpetrators attempted to steal a vehicle from a business in Lashburn. The theft was interrupted and the perpetrators were then seen fleeing in a white Ford Windstar van. Between Sept.

There are only two more weeks to purchase your ticket for the Blaine Lake Senior Citizen's Centre cash lotto with a draw date of Oct. 18. Twenty-two cash prizes totalling $125,000 will be awarded with only 2,500 tickets sold.

On a beautiful sunny warm day, Borden held their annual threshing day at the site two miles north of Borden Sept. 25. Before noon, the teams of horses showed how discing, sulky plowing and bindering were done in pioneer days.

Story:A wide array of small equipment and supplies was stolen from a Maidstone business Sometime between 6:30 p.m. Sept. 27 and 8:30 a.m Sept. 28. Taken were numerous lawn mowers, battery chargers, booster cables and extension cords.

"Is this all you do - see people in and out the door?" Ed asked me at WalMart. Ed was in Yorkton for machinery parts and his wife, Ruby, wanted to stop at our store.

Ground and pound is common football strategy and the North Battleford Comprehensive High School Junior Vikings used the strategy to perfection against Prince Albert Carlton.

After celebrating their 105th anniversary this August, the Notre Dame Parish is donating a DVD and booklet, outlining the congregation's extensive history in North Battleford, to the City of North Battleford Historic Archives.

Joseph Anderson, a turn of the century clergyman, once said "There is nothing that solidifies and strengthens a nation like the reading of the nation's own history, whether that history is recorded in books, or embodied in customs, institutions and m

It took five games, but Battlefords hockey fans finally witnessed a regular season win at the Civic Centre.

The annual North Battleford Lions Club Toy and Farm Equipment Show and Sale saw hundreds of people flocking to the Exhibition Grounds last weekend, whether in search of a unique antique, a toy tractor for a future farmer, or a new rifle just in time