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Local sports highlights from 2019 (Pt. 2/2)
It was a big year for local sports in 2019, with a number of championships won, and memorable moments made. Here is Part 2 of a battlefordsNOW series highlighting some of the top stories from the past...
Dec 26, 2019 Pictured Top left to right: Battlefords Trappers, Jordin Wilkinson. Bottom left to right: NBCHS senior girls, JPII senior boys. (File photos/battlefordsNOW)
"A year of change": P.A. police chief reflects on 2019
Prince Albert's Police Chief is the first to admit there were a number of highlights and challenges for his staff in 2019. Among the biggest and obvious changes for Bergen himself was settling into th...
Dec 26, 2019 Prince Albert Police Chief Jon Bergen. (Nigel Maxwel/ paNOW Staff)
Year in Review: Prince Albert's interesting and outstanding
The year held many special moments for current or former Prince Albert residents.A magical momentFrom humble beginnings as a schoolgirl inventing card tricks, Carisa Hendrix, now based in Calgary, kee...
Dec 25, 2019 Prince Albert residents weren't afraid to push the boundaries in 2019. (Submitted photo/Gladys Handberg)
Year in Review: First all-female surgical team at Melfort hospital delivers baby girl
northeastNOW is taking a look back at the biggest and most interesting stories of 2019, as selected by our newsroom:--History was made at the Melfort hospital this year.The first all-female surgical t...
Dec 25, 2019 The first all-female surgical team at Melfort hospital delivered a baby girl in November. (Facebook/Saskatchewan Health Authority)
Local sports highlights from 2019 (Pt. 1/2)
It was a big year for local sports in 2019, with a number of championships won, and memorable moments made. Here is Part 1 of a battlefordsNOW series highlighting some of the top stories from the past...
Dec 25, 2019 There was no shortage of exciting and intriguing storylines around the local sporting world through 2019. Pictured top left to right: BMF Bucks, Levi Scherman and Cory Wouters,. Pictured bottom left to right: Chance and Wyatt Fennig, Biggar Nationals. (File photos/battlefordsNOW)
Sports Year in Review; Gavel wins Parapan Am gold
Prince Albert's Erica Gavel winning Parapan Am gold makes our Top Sports Stories for 2019. Gavel and Team Canada defeated the United States 67-64 on Aug. 30 to win the Women's Wheelchair Basketball go...
Dec 25, 2019 Erica Gavel (top middle) with her Parapan Am gold medal. (Twitter/Canadian Wheelchair Basketball)
Keeping drivers safe this holiday
The Prince Albert Police Service is encouraging residents to have a safe and happy holiday season. They are also asking people not to drive impaired. "The police service would always advocate that you...
Dec 24, 2019 (paNOW Staff/ File Photo)
Year in review: Taking care of furry friends
Throughout the year we reflected a number of stories about the care of pets in Prince Albert and area.Protecting pets from winter weatherBack in February Prince Albert SPCA reminded the public to bund...
Dec 24, 2019 (Submitted photo/SPCA)
SPHL's 'Battle of the Battlefords' supports Hockey Fights Cancer
The Christmas season is a time of giving and what better way to do so than supporting a local fundraiser for cancer research while also catching a couple SPHL games.The Meota Combines and the Battlefo...
Dec 24, 2019 Back-to-back SPHL hockey games on Friday Dec. 27 and Dec. 28 will be played for a good cause. (Facebook photo/Meota Combines)
North Stars 2019: A year highlighted by championship, hot early season follow-up
The 2019 calendar year was one for the books for the Battlefords North Stars' organization. Here is a look back at some of the benchmark highlights from the year that was. Stars claim second champions...
Dec 24, 2019 2019 was a year to remember for the Battlefords North Stars and their fans, with plenty of reason for celebration. (Martin Martinson/battlefordsNOW Staff)