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Battleford town council notes: April 2018

North Battleford’s waste management facility is closed this morning as the fire department deals with a fire. The City advises the facility will be closed until further notice.

Members of parliament in the House of Commons reacted with shock to the April 6 Humboldt Broncos bus tragedy. Several MPs from across Canada voiced their support and condolences in the wake of the tragedy, and observed a moment of silence.

Services will be available this weekend for those in need of counselling services after the April 6 Humboldt Broncos bus crash.

With cannabis soon becoming legal, employers will have to learn how to deal with the substance in the workplace.

One man arrested

The Horizon School Division is seeing an increase in the funding it receives from the provincial government, but that doesn’t make up for cuts made in the last two years. In the 2018-19 provincial budget, the division received $79.

After a couple of down months to start to the year, building permits have picked up in the month of March in North Battleford.

NORTHEAST — After being hit hard by last year’s provincial budget, the Wapiti Regional Library is happy they aren’t seeing cuts this year. The library saw a 58 per cent cut – about $400,000 – as of April 1, 2017, without any prior warning.

April 18, 11:59 a.m. saw the closure of the Funds for Humboldt Broncos GoFundMe page, the second largest in GoFundMe history. In 12 days, 142,030 people raised nearly $15.