In the Community

We hope all the young people enjoyed the week's break from school and are now ready to work hard until the Easter break, which comes rather late this year.

At the last convention of SSAI held in Saskatoon it was decided to hand over the responsibility of representing its members to Saskatchewan Seniors Mechanism.

The first day back after the February break, the school was quiet again. There were a few students at the school, but most were unable to attend because of the severe wind chill.

Well, this Saturday, will March come in like a lamb or a lion? I know I join the thousands of people who are hoping for lamb-like conditions until spring.

Sunday evening the temperature was once again down to - 27 C. We did enjoy the few days of warmer weather. We have had very little snow and no strong winds even though the temperature has dropped.

So far I have introduced three adjudicators for this year's Kiwanis Battlefords Music Festival - band adjudicator Greg McLean, our strings adjudicator Rudolf Sternadel and Kevin Powers, adjudicator exclusive to Musical Theatre.

Congratulations to Team Burnett who captured the silver medal at the Saskatchewan Winter Games in Prince Albert over the weekend. In pool A round robin they won three and lost one, then won the first playoff game against Lakeland.

My wife and I boarded the plane Feb. 11 at 27 C, a pleasant ocean breeze and palm trees waving their goodbyes. Eight hours later we landed to -27 C with a fresh westerly wind, snowflakes falling and snow banks as a welcome back.

With a quick squeaky twist here and another there, a plain balloon can be quickly turned into something fun. The man creating this fun is Larry Goodall or "The Balloon Man.

Battle River Treaty 6 Health Centre and Battlefords Family Health Centre will host a celebration for International Women's Day Friday, March 7 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1192 - 101st St. (in the main foyer area and the basement conference room area).