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Weldon Parsons is an accomplished writer and poet who creates work, fiction and non-fiction, to share with the world. He now has five novels and two poetry compact discs on the market, with the sixth book in the works.

Jan. 11 at approximately 2 a.m., a 2000 black Volkswagen Passat station wagon with a cargo box on the roof was stolen from 15th Street in Battleford. It was located later that day on 97th Street in North Battleford. Sometime between Jan.

New numbers provided to city councillors Monday at a Municipal Services Committee meeting are indicating a reduction in the amount of garbage СÀ¶ÊÓƵ thrown in the trash in the area where new individual rollout bins are СÀ¶ÊÓƵ tested.

The Rabbit Lake and District Agricultural Association held its annual meeting Jan.13 with a full slate of directors in attendance. Christine MacDonald chaired the meeting and reviewed the activities of the past year.

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) SK 4550 is hosting an open house Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 6:45 pm at Hope Mennonite Fellowship Hall, 1291 - 109th St., North Battleford. TOPS Club, Inc.

A new president takes over this week at the Battlefords Chamber of Commerce. New president Scott Campbell was officially handed the gavel by outgoing president Leah Milton at Tuesday night's Chamber annual meeting.

Unlike hockey players, coaches and fans, there is always one group of people, who are at every hockey game and who need to be educated and recertified before a hockey season begins.

One of the biggest wintertime events in Saskatchewan will soon be taking centre stage as the 15th annual Jackfish Lake Ice Fishing Derby gets underway Feb. 19.

The SJHL's President Tour made a stop in the Battlefords Thursday morning at Innovation Credit Union.

It's quiet here in this prairie town, the barking of dogs and the calling of children echo in the afternoons and the chorus of the trains' whistles and wheels can wake me from a midnight dream. But, all in all ,there is a deep peacefulness.