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Submitted by Battlefords RCMP Battlefords RCMP responded to 489 calls for service from Wednesday, June 9, through Tuesday, June 15, 2021. These included: • Eight missing persons reported. Four investigations remain active.

Battlefords Chamber of Commerce officially launched a new and revitalized website Monday at www.battlefordschamber.com . According to the Chamber, the site has been in the works for a while.

The province has reported a single death in the North East zone. Provincial health officials said June 15 the person was in the 70 to 79 age group. As well, the province reported two cases of Delta variant COVID-19 in the North East zone.

With a few exceptions, anyone who is 14 days past their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at time of exposure and is asymptomatic no longer has to isolate when named as a close contact of a COVID-19 positive person.

Access to vaccinations is being stepped up this week in order to meet the first dose vaccination threshold of 70 per cent of residents 12 years and older and enable Saskatchewan to reach Step 3 of the Re-opening Roadmap and the removal of public heal

Residents support letter

It was a rough go for a proposed business tax incentive at North Battleford’s city council meeting Monday. A proposed municipal business tax Incentive aimed at investment attraction ran into trouble.

Structure fires in North Battleford continue to be high in North Battleford in 2021, according to the latest report from Fire Chief Lindsay Holm of North Battleford Fire Department.

A lawyer for a man charged in connection with the death of Braeden Sparvier on Onion Lake Cree Nation asked for an adjournment to receive more disclosure.

Vaccines Reported An additional 6,880 doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been given in Saskatchewan, bringing the total number of vaccines administered in the province to 910,322.