In the Community

Rider season is in full swing. The commanding season opener followed by the first road game flop and a subsequent Lions devouring has us wondering when our Grey Cup champs are going to resurface. You know Unity is bleeding green and cheering hard.

Long time resident of Maidstone and area, Scotty Wiltermuth, celebrated his 90th birthday with a come and go tea at the Maidstone Drop In Centre July 5.

The Foursquare Gospel Tidings radio show is holding a 50-year anniversary event next month in Battleford.

Ghosts always fascinated me when I was growing up. They still do. I remember buying books from the school book fairs explaining, in a child-friendly manner, supernatural events from around the world.

In1910 a parcel of land south of the CN Railway and west of what is now the Don Ross Center was the location of the fair grounds and race track. In March of 1920 a meeting was held to organize North Battlefords first golf course.

Canada's greatest living fighter ace, 93-year-old Stocky Edwards, is a legend in aviation circles. But at heart, he's just a simple boy from Battleford. I visited Stocky and his wife Toni last week at their lovely ocean-view home in Comox, B.C.

It's a big weekend for Battleford, starting Friday with the opening of the 2014 Saskatchewan Handcraft Festival. The festival is organized each year by the Saskatchewan Craft Council and draws crafters from across Western Canada.

After 21 years as a teacher and school administrator, and a further decade as a superintendent in the Living Sky School Division central office, Brian Quinn is retiring.

Saturday, Shirley and Bruce James took their moms, Gertie James and Tillie Linkert, for dinner and a drive around Lloydminster. It was very much enjoyed. Our sympathy to the Mitchell family on the passing of Duncan Mitchell this week.

The Borden Museum invites children of any age to come out and play games that children used to play - such as checkers, snakes and ladders, crokinole, etc.