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Battlefords RCMP attended to 30 calls for service between 6 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 19 and 6 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20. Among those were two alarms, both false, and two false/nuisance 911 calls. Thursday 8:09 a.m.

Preliminary inquiry dates have been set this week in North Battleford provincial court in the murder case of Nicholas Giroux.

A who's who list of political big whigs were out to help Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz Wednesday in Lloydminster.

Rabbit Lake's Rose Gill lodge hosted a Pie in the Eye fundraiser, raising $13,000 for the facility. The voting got really hectic the last couple days with everyone wanting their favourite person in the top 20.

The possible impact of the new North Battleford official community plan on the operations of the Battlefords Agricultural Society came up at a Dec. 9 council meeting.

Cut Knife RCMP are investigating a snowmobile theft that occurred sometime between 1 and 7 p.m. Dec. 5.

It was another quiet 24 hours as Battlefords RCMP responded to fewer than 20 calls for service/occurrences between 6 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 18 and 6 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 19.

There was willingness to meet, but no firm commitments from Battlefords-Lloydminster MP Gerry Ritz about federal help towards public safety in North Battleford this past week.

Former youth worker Christopher Passley has been sentenced to two years less a day in jail in connection to a vicious beating of his girlfriend in the city.

With a new, cutting-edge ultrasound in its grasp, the Humboldt District Health Complex (HDHC) will no longer have to send patients home worried they missed something.