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Joanne Lewchuk (centre left) and Sylvia Duhaime (centre) present the Battlefords Mental Health Centre with money raised from the Cody Duhaime Memorial Walk for Suicide Awareness held in Meota on Sept. 10.

After serving as Centennial Park School and Phoenix School, the building north of Lawrence School will now serve as North West College’s new off-site facility.

Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz may have resigned his Commons seat, but that has not stopped him from getting in trouble one last time.

Golfers were out in full force on Sept. 14 for the seventh annual Friends Fore Healthcare Charity Scramble.

The Battleford Fire Department is looking for more volunteer firefighters. Eligible volunteers must live in Battleford, and must be physically fit in order to pass a medical.

The first day of school in Living Sky School Division began Tuesday, Sept. 5, and the division has released attendance data, as they do annually.

The Ministry of Health is seeking volunteers to fill public representative positions on 26 self-regulating health councils in Saskatchewan.

According to unofficial results from the Town of Nipawin, Jan Boughen is the newest member of Nipawin's council. Boughen received 193 votes, Les McBain 127, Kelly Peterson 88 and Mary Kube 12 in the Sept. 20 byelection.

Eight hundred student leaders were welcomed to Tisdale Middle & Secondary School for the Saskatchewan Student Leadership Conference. “Students, congratulations on being here and having the courage, the commitment, the diligence.

A local artist and filmmaker from Poundmaker Cree Nation has been nominated for a Saskatchewan Arts Award. Floyd Favel is one of three shortlisted nominees in the Artistic Excellence category.