In the Community

This year's Battlefords Kiwanis Music Festival has come to a successful end. The Gala April 15 at Third Avenue United Church highlighted the entire Festival and celebrated our community's young musical performers receiving awards and scholarships.

The inaugural year of the Co-op Easter Egg hunt, in 2005, two feet of snow fell on the regional park grounds after the entire supply of eggs were hidden, making it a big challenge for both organizers and participants. A lot has changed since then.

Do you remember language arts as a kid? Was it repetitive reading, grammar and spelling skills that you got your parents to review, sign and send back to your teacher? Well at Unity Public School this is NOT the classroom instruction your children ar

The ladies boot camp class in Maymont wants to remind you about wing night, Thursday April 28 from 5-9 at the Maymont Hotel. The girls are putting a team into the annual Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, Run for the Cure.

You would think with winter being so long and Easter being so late this year, we might be treated to some warm, spring weather for the season.

It is that time of year again, the time we would like to turn into spring. With the anticipation ofspring comes the need to get out of our homes and enjoy the community around us.

The Maidstone Gully Multiple 4-H Club held our April general meeting April 4. At our meeting we discussed activities from the past month and upcoming events in this month. On March 12, we held our annual Cowboy Poetry Night.

Leonard Greenhough, vice-president of the Saskatchewan Trappers Association, and his wife Elaine, of Makwa, Saskatchewan, brought an educational display of pelts, all harvested from non-endangered species living in Saskatchewan, to the Smoker, hosted

Battleford Hillcrest Seniors held their annual meeting April 12.

Bingo was played at the centre on March 30 with Margaret MacEachern doing the calling. Lunch was taken care of by Jean Hartman. The loonie pot was won by Jean Stewart. A small number of people turned up to play 500, April 4.