In the Community

"Send in the clowns" is something that I rarely say, unless it's singing along to Krusty the Clown in his comeback episode of The Simpsons. That changed Thursday night when I attended the 60th annual Wawa Shrine Circus.

The Rotary Club of the Battlefords annually sponsors eight local high school students to attend Rotary weekend camps in Alberta.

Allison and Lionel Hawryliw recently presented the annual grant from the Nico Hawryliw Fund to the Battlefords Union Hospital Foundation for the Community Oncology Program of Saskatchewan (COPS).

Have you booked your appointment to save a life? There will be a blood donor clinic Wednesday at the Don Ross Centre from 2 to 8 p.m., sponsored by the North Battleford Lions Club. To give blood, contact the Canadian Blood Services at www.blood.

Four recipients of the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association Junior Citizen of the Year award have been chosen. The award is made annual in partnership with SaskPower and the Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan.

Scotty's skull, from Saskatchewan's one and only Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, and Om?c?w - Hunter of the Prairie Sea arrive at the North Battleford Western Development Museum on Thursday, June 5, at 11:30 a.m. and will be visiting for four months.

Herb Sutton, the director of education of the Light of Christ Catholic School Board is retiring at the end of this school year, and he was named this year's staff Lumen Christi award winner at the division's annual service recognition awards ceremony

Jodi Kissick of Marwyne, Alta. took grandma Dorothy Kissick out for Sunday night supper. Colleen Koski has been ill this week but is now on the mend. Hope it keeps getting better, Colleen.

The news is coming to you this week from the chilly, wet banks of the Beaver River at Beauval. You could even see your breath outside today.

The regular monthly meeting of the Maidstone Museum was held May 26 at the museum with Mae Hinde bringing the meeting to order.