Battlefords News-Optimist

The hockey season is still on hold and the male and female AAA under-18 leagues have now officially hit a pause button on their league schedule. Last week a joint statement was issued by Blaine Stork, president of the Sask.

It was an eventful evening for Battleford Fire Chief Larry Gabruch last Monday. Gabruch presented the annual report for the Battleford fire department to town council, complete with numbers from 2020.

There were 429 administered doses of COVID-19 vaccine reported yesterday in Saskatchewan – this brings the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 34,615. As of January 27, 106 per cent of the doses received have been administered.

The RCMP detachment crime statistics for the Town of Battleford for 2020 show numbers holding steady for the town overall, with a few crime categories showing declines. Sgt.

Colin Ratushniak is happy to see a new batch of vaccines coming into his town of La Ronge the past week. The first batch of first dose Moderna vaccines was delivered on Jan.

The City of North Battleford got an update from the project managers on the sanitary sewer trunk main project and it was not a good one. The city heard from Sean Bayer of KGS Group, who had some bad news to share on cost overages for the project.

Methane, the key constituent of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas when emitted to the atmosphere unburned. In recent years there have been international, national and provincial efforts to reduce methane emissions. On Jan.

New Democratic Party Leader Ryan Meili says we are now dealing with the results of not implementing a COVID-19 “circuit breaker” in November, and that the province has not taken full advantage of federal relief funds.

The City of North Battleford has given its approval to a new deputy unit commander position with the Community Safety Officer program.

A lawyer representing an Alberta man accused of being one of five gang members who took RCMP on a 150-kilometre, two-hour chase gave the Crown a proposed resolution. Kyle Lajimodiere from Cold Lake, Alta.