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The Honour Our Veterans program features individual hanging banners for each wartime veteran. Former Battlefords area resident brought the program to her little town of Invermere, B.C. You can read all about it on her Wartime Wednesdays blog: www.

City graders worked throughout the day and into the evening Friday, targeting high traffic areas of downtown and other priority roads. Roads will be plowed to the middle of street and leaving windrows which will be cleared this coming week.

From the Nov. 25, 1987 edition of the Tisdale Recorder

Shomari Williams , a former Saskatchewan Roughrider defensive end, is launching off a career as a motivational speaker, telling his personal story to inspire kids to reach their potential.

New Democrats have turned to former amateur wrestler and professional MMA fighter Matt Fedler as their candidate in the Battlefords-Lloydminster by-election on Dec. 11. Matt was announced as the party’s candidate on Thursday night.

Once again the city is receiving provincial money to fund seven existing RCMP officers for targeted police initiatives. The provincial government is granting the city $770,000, which will fund those seven positions in 2017-18.

A Delmas man has been arrested and charged with offences related to downloading and sharing child porn over the Internet. Adam Denis Douville, 33, is charged with possession, distribution and accessing child pornography, all Criminal Code offences.

St. Brieux’s Ethan Rheaume brings valuable experience to the Junior B Carrot River Outback Thunder. Last season the son of Marc and Jackie Rheaume played for the Melfort Mustangs in the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League.

A St. Brieux resident has been fined $4,680 for hunting out of season, wasting game and discharging a firearm from a road at night for the purpose of hunting.

Submitted Thirty-five years ago, after a couple of years of hard work and improved singing, Battlefords Blend earned their charter as a member of Sweet Adelines International.