In the Community

Eighty relatives of the Custer family gathered at Ed and Sandra Rayner's home at Metinota, Sept. 6. The weather was at its best for the day.

I grew up on a small farm in the Kinistino district. I was the youngest of three children and always enjoyed the outdoors and the beauty of the prairie landscape. I graduated high school and worked as a nurse's aide at the hospital at home.

One of Canada's top Ukrainian dance companies will be in North Battleford Sunday, Oct. 5 for a performance at the Dekker Centre for the Performing Arts.

How do you celebrate the bright future possible for our children while remembering the darkest chapters of the past? That's the challenge facing Living Sky School Division in partnership with Dance Saskatchewan, Allen Sapp Gallery, Elders and Sunchil

B-r-r-ring! The school bells toll! This month a new school year begins, but rather than the "ding-dongs" of yesteryear, buzzers are the norm. My article will feature school life about 50 to 60 years ago.

"It's hard to live in a community when people are so divided," says Virginia Favel of Sweetgrass First Nation. One might think the division Favel talks about is the one between First Nation people and non-First Nation people. But it's not.

The recreation board of the RM of Glenside held the first meeting of a new season Sept. 8 at the home of Dorothy Mills.

The Battlefords Community Players will be offering more shows and more nights for the public to enjoy in their 2014-15 season of live theatre productions.

Along with nine brother and sisters, I was born and raised at Oxbow. After graduating from high school I went to Winnipeg, Man. where I obtained my RN certification. During my first posting back home in Oxbow, I met and married my husband Ed.

Hafford was very busy this past summer with the Canada Day celebrations, Summer Sizzler, Jaws of Life, the beginning of football and of course harvest season.