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Opposition leader Cam Broten has some mixed reviews about the past year of activity at the legislature.

It did not take long for the City of North Battleford to find a replacement for Keith Anderson as director of parks and recreation.

One person was hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Railway Avenue and Battleford Road Thursday at about 6:30 p.m. North Battleford Fire Department reports one of the vehicles had to be towed from the scene.

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.