Tag Archives: Health
SGI launches July spotlight: Slow down in orange zones
The summertime means construction season is well underway and SGI is reminding drivers to help keep workers safe.SGI announced highway construction safety as the focus of July's Traffic Safety Spotlig...
Jul 03, 2019 Construction zone on Highway 1, east of Balgonie in early July 2019. (Andrew Shepherd/980 CJME)
Summer camp offers kids fun and games en français
While school is out for the summer, that doesn't mean kids need to close the book on all they have learned until September.Centre francophone des Battleford hopes to fill the gap with fun activities y...
Jul 03, 2019 Kids will have a chance to take part in a variety of fun activities at a French summer camp coming up in North Battleford starting next week. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Solutions for spike in needle pickups being investigated
In 2014, the fire department picked up just 54 needles around North Battleford. But over 8,300 have already been collected this year.The spike in pickups has spurred public health and fire department ...
Jun 28, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
City launches new program to promote bike safety
School is out and bike safety is in.Battlefords Community Safety Officers have launched a new bike safety campaign aimed at promoting safe and responsible riding.The city's Community Safety Officers r...
Jun 28, 2019 Youth cyclist (file photo/paNOW staff)
Elders and officials play role in HIV testing campaign
For Teena Dumais-Clarke, being tested publicly for HIV is about being a role model."It's important for the community, they need to do this for their family and for their own health," the health direct...
Jun 27, 2019 Elder Gordon Keewatin with the PAGC gets his finger pricked by Tosin Adebayo of NITHA as part of national HIV Testing Day. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
Local health authority encourages HIV testing
Thursday will mark National HIV Testing Day across Canada.However in Prince Albert one local health authority is kicking things off a day early."We know that if people engage early in testing, they kn...
Jun 26, 2019 Tara Campbell, right, executive director of Northern Inter-Tribal Health Authority gets tested by HIV Coordinator Tosin Adebayo Wednesday afternoon (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Gophers raising a stir in Westview neighbourhood
A property in Prince Albert's Westview area has become a "holy ground" of sorts, and people who live in the area are digging for answers.The property owned by Prince Albert Apostolic Church has become...
Jun 26, 2019 A trio of scouts keep an eye out for intruders at 717 MacArthur Drive. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
P.A. doctor donates $20K to hospice project
The group raising money for the Rose Garden Hospice has received a huge financial boost from a well known Prince Albert pediatrician and his family. On Wednesday, Dr. Ayaz Ramji donated $20,000 to the...
Jun 26, 2019 A major cheque presentation was held Wednesday at the site of the future Rose Garden Hospice. From left to right: Malcolm Jenkins, Dr. Ayaz Ramji, Helen Ramji, Marina Mitchell and Ralph Boychuk. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
City donates land for proposed mental health supported independent living project
City council has donated land for a proposed independent supported living housing project in North Battleford that will look to ease the transition for those living with mental illness into the commun...
Jun 26, 2019 Canadian Mental Health Association Battlefords branch Executive Director Jane Zielke de Montbrun. (file photo/battlefordsNOW Staff)
'I couldn't breathe for like four minutes,' sexual assault victim recalls
A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted in an area near Bell's Point Elementary School on the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, is speaking out with the hope it will help police find her attacker. The y...
Jun 26, 2019 The area behind Bell's Point Elementary School where a sexual assault allegedly took place. (Derek Cornet/ paNOW Staff)