Local News

A welcome tea was held for the new doctors and their families Aug. 30, in the ceremonial room of the Riverside Health Care Facility. Approximately 80 people came out to meet the doctors.

The Town of Battleford has voted to purchase the old Battleford Curling Club building.

Much of the talk at Monday's Parks and Recreation meeting at City Hall was about the opening of the Battlefords Co-op Aquatic Centre Saturday. The committee noted there was a tremendous response and outpouring to the new Aquatic Centre.

On September 15, the curling rink at the Humboldt Uniplex was the scene of an evening of non-stop entertainment with performances by five local bands and Saskatchewan Country Music Award winner Codie Prevost.

RCMP members throughout the province are getting creative in their enforcement of speed limits in the Orange Zone.

As of press time, only two of the eight subdivisions of the Living Sky School Division will see elections Oct. 24.

The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce are standing behind truckers seeking changes to the City of North Battlefords new traffic bylaw.

The Hafford centennial committee has been working diligently planning for the Rural Municipality of Redberry and Town of Hafford's centennial celebrations in 2013.

The deadline to submit nomination papers came and went at 4 p.m. Sept. 19, and with the dust settled, it seems Battleford is in for an interesting election in October.

Unity Public School and Cut Knife Elementary School will be the sixth and seventh schools to receive iPads as part of the One-to-One Learning program instituted by the Living Sky School Division.