In the Community

International Baccalaureate (IB) students at the North Battleford Comprehensive High School celebrated their successes, June 12. Allison Hawryliw, IB co-ordinator, was MC for the evening.

New work by Dana Standinghorn is currently profiled on the feature wall in the Chapel Gallery. Standinghorn is a local artist who has been painting for 17 years.

City of North Battleford Historic Archives timeline showing the progression of Canadian women gaining rights: 1878 - For the first time in federal elections, votes cast in private. Only men could vote.

What is up with these relentless winds and then all this rain? Some lore says foggy February means windy spring, while others say wet spring - so why are we getting both? Eligible USHS students have received invitations to the annual Living Sky award

Feed the Artist (FTA), a collective of artists working in the Battlefords, is launching a magazine Saturday at the Chapel Gallery from 7 to 10 p.m. This is a free party to celebrate the magazine's release.

Jason Bater of St. John, Nfld. has returned home for the summer and he brought his girlfriend, Kassandra Peddle, with him. She has never been to Saskatchewan and wants to see local points of interest. Cheryl Bater is visiting with her mother, Mrs.

At the Radisson town office Muriel Rosser-Swift has been hired as town administrator with Darren Beaudoin leaving for a year's leave of absence, expecting to return June of 2013. Muriel will be working one week at Radisson and one week in St.

The Manitou Creative Quilters (MCQ) held their bi-annual Gala Evening fundraiser in the Neilburg Community Hall April 21, with 120 women gathering from Neilburg and the surrounding areas.

We were entertained by Valdy and others at the first Leipzig music festival. What a lively performer.

Last year it was a Juno award winning jazz singer. This year its a look into the universe of the late John Lennon.