Battlefords News-Optimist

Dear Editor To the community: I think we should reopen the Radisson hall because it is good for group gatherings. People could go there and fix it up and clean it. They could go and just re-do it all, but it definitely should be opened.

There hasn’t been much good news this season for the Battlefords North Stars, but they did receive a much needed dose of it on Friday.

An Onion Lake man - who allegedly fled from RCMP on foot after he lost control of his vehicle on an icy road during a police chase - was scooped by Mounties six days later.

Due to COVID-19 there’s still no sentencing date for a North Battleford man accused of killing Sequin Mooswa. Keenan Mirasty, 22, was to be sentenced December 2020 in North Battleford Provincial Court but the matter was adjourned to Jan.

There were 2,449 doses of COVID-19 vaccine administered yesterday in Saskatchewan - this brings the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 22,618.

A lawyer for a man held in custody for a year since his arrest for a violent Unity home invasion objected to numerous trial delays.

The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) has been a lifeline to millions of Canadians as they navigated the turbulence of the COVID-19 pandemic.

To avid, or even casual, cribbage players, the 29 hand is something of a holy grail. It’s the highest possible score for a cribbage hand, and is made up of three fives and a Jack, with the cut card being of the same suit as the Jack.

Editor’s note – This story comes to us by way of local professional photographer Averil Hall, who through her lenses, sees stories needing to be told. A long time contributor to the News-Optimist, Hall facilitated the publication of this story.

One of the first acts of Donald Trump as president of the United States was to invite TransCanada, now TC Energy, to resubmit its Keystone XL pipeline application, and to then approve it.