Local News

If all goes according to plan, Battleford will see a waste transfer station early in the new year. On July 17, Battleford Town Council approved a proposal from Loraas to build a waste transfer station.

Eighteen drivers from five different tracks and two different provinces battled it out at the Tisdale Motor Speedway.

Members of the North Battleford Golf and Country Club, led by board president Chad Gartner, gave a presentation at last week’s Battleford town council meeting. The Golf and Country Club is asking for $150,000 from the town, as part of a $3.

From the Tisdale Recorder Files, Aug. 2, 1967

The campaign is on to “save the 1158.” The 1158 is a locomotive located at the Western Development Museum in North Battleford.

Improvements to a crosswalk across Carrot River’s busiest road, Highway #23, is a low priority for the highways ministry, so the town is looking at cost-sharing to move the project up on the list.

Maureena Schreiner has also participated three times in the Calgary Stampede

This past week marked a solemn anniversary in the City of North Battleford. July 20 marked the 25th anniversary of the fire that destroyed Hunters Trailer and Marine in North Battleford’s north end.

Crops are developing quickly but normally in much of the province, according to Saskatchewan Agriculture’s weekly Crop Report released this past week.

A series of stereo system thefts from boats at Kipabiskau Regional Park has the Tisdale RCMP asking for the public’s assistance. Between June 30 and July 17, the RCMP said numerous boats had their stereo systems stolen out of them.