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The road to the Battlefords District Care Centre has been a topic at recent Battleford town council meetings, the result of complaints about its condition. It remains on the Town's radar.

For the seventh year the Champions of Mental Health banquet has honoured the work and contributions of those making a positive impact to improve the lives of those struggling with mental illness.

The City of North Battleford has announced they and ATAP Infrastructure Services will start a comprehensive flushing program beginning Monday, May 9.

Twin Rivers Health Care Foundation Inc. is embarking on a new era in operations, following retirement of its long-serving executive director and recruitment of a new executive director to manage the organization’s affairs.

Maidstone RCMP weekly report

“BUH Foundation has received the Re/Max of the Battlefords generosity.

Ray Hickson has received yet another prestigious and distinguished honour. Hickson’s work as a North Battleford commissionaire has been honoured by the corps with a Distinguished Service Medal.

Between April 24 and April 30, Maidstone RCMP Detachment and Enhanced Policing Unit stopped several vehicles for a variety of traffic infractions. April 26, a car travelling at 148 km/h on Highway 16 near Marshall was stopped.

It remained an uncertain funding situation for The Lighthouse Serving the Battlefords as of the last week of April.

By Marilyn Richardson Habitat for Humanity Throughout Canada, 228 hardworking families who'd been living in inadequate or unsafe housing got the hand up they needed.