Battlefords News-Optimist

The pandemic isn’t stopping the annual Smoker, but changes are in store.

A prominent Battleford photographer has passed away. It has been confirmed that Menno Fieguth has died at the age of 90. Born in Laird, Fieguth was accomplished in both music and in photography, publishing a number of photo books.

It has been announced that a longtime North Battleford business has been sold. In a news release it was confirmed that Howard and Sharon Kirby have sold Anderson Pump House to Aquifer Distribution Ltd.

SaskTel continues to roll out its expansion of rural cellular towers across thinly-populated areas of rural Saskatchewan, with the announcement on March 2 that a further 15 new macro cell towers had been activated.

Advertising and sponsorship was a big topic discussed at Monday’s town council meeting in Battleford.

Betrayal and denial are actions that are as common as freckles. Often, we may not see how serious it is to betray others. Too often, we deny our responsibility for the well-being of others as well as for ourselves.

There still isn’t a trial date one year after a Kindersley mom was arrested and charged with second-degree murder for the death of her infant daughter.

Here are highlights from this week’s latest COVID-19 update from Regina from Premier Scott Moe and Dr. Saqib Shahab, chief medical health officer for Saskatchewan.

Dear Editor In the early days of the provincial election campaign in 2016, the Saskatchewan government made national headlines for sending two young, homeless, Indigenous men out of North Battleford on one-way bus tickets to Vancouver.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been reading the Old Testament account of the journeys of God’s children as they made their way from captivity in Egypt, across the years of their trek through the Red Sea, enemy territory and seemingly endless desert.