In the Community

Tuesday, 10 Battlefords Art Club members worked on their artwork. Next week members will be going to Saskatoon on Saturday to go on an art trek featuring nine art studios and 60 artists. Everyone is looking forward to an inspiring art trip.

How difficult is it to find a circulated 2013 Toonie in May of 2014? Well let me tell you - very difficult! As the day approached for the "planting " of the 2013 time capsule, it was realized we did not have any circulated 2013 currency in the time c

How many people can you get to know in 83 years? Ask Elsie Boulton, the Glaslyn girl from Prongua. She learned how to initiate a conversation from her father, the late Bill Lofts of Glaslyn. "I just have always talked to people," says Boulton.

WPD ambulance visited students in Amanda Country's Grade 3 and 4 class at Holy Family School May 27. They taught what to do in an emergency and how to properly make a 911 call.

"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.