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A North Battleford man is facing several serious charges after a Blaine Lake RCMP officer was injured along Highway 40 about 16 kilometres west of Richard at 8:40 a.m. Monday. William Rhode, 37, of North Battleford, has been charged in connection with an incident that began near Richard and continued on grid roads in the Speers area and eventually culminated in Rhodes’ arrest in Cochin. According to police,
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the officer had the vehicle stopped along the road. At one point the adult male driver fled in the vehicle. The RCMP member was next to the vehicle attempting to prevent the driver from fleeing. As the vehicle sped away, the member fell and was run over, according to police. The member suffered serious, but non-life threatening injuries and was transported to Battlefords Union Hospital. He has since been released. The RCMP launched a search for a white 2018 Ford F350, which they say fled the scene westbound on Highway 40 towards North Battleford. At approximately 10:25 a.m., Battlefords RCMP say they located the suspect vehicle travelling at a high rate of speed on a grid road north of Speers. Police say, RCMP patrol vehicles set up at strategic locations in preparation to use tire deflation devices and disable the vehicle if required. The monitored pursuit of the suspect vehicle was limited to grid roads in the area northwest of Speers and then west of Whitkow. RCMP members say they continued the pursuit on the grid roads where there was little to no traffic and the risk to public safety was deemed low. Continued on Page 19
The Battlefords Chamber of Commerce Business Excellence Award committee named Gold Eagle Casino as Business of the Year at a 25th anniversary event Wednesday at the Gold Eagle Events Centre. Battlefords MLA Herb Cox presented the award to Kelly Atcheynum. Photo by John Cairns
Gold Eagle Casino hits the jackpot at the 25th BBEX By John Cairns Staff Reporter
The 25th edition of the Battlefords Business Excellence Awards in North Battleford was special for one business. Gold Eagle Casino, selected from all the nominated finalists in all the competitive categories, was named BBEX Business of the Year. “We’re very proud to be receiving Business of the Year,” said General Manager Kelly Atcheynum. “We weren’t expecting
this but we’re very honoured to receive this. We’re very proud of our community and contributing back as much as we can. We like to celebrate success in our community, as you’ve seen in the past. We’re a 100 per cent nonprofit corporation and we give 100 per cent of our profits back to the community, and we’re very proud of that.” It was their second BBEX award of the night, as they also took the Marketing Award with Marketing Co-ordinator Leanne Pawlyshyn accepting. The
casino bested Beaver Grill Express Asian Restaurant, Capitol Theatre and Re/Max of the Battlefords in that category. To make it almost a perfect night, Gold Eagle Casino representatives were presented both their BBEX awards at their own building. The event was held at their Events Centre, a change of venue from recent years when the event was held at the Dekker Centre. The reason for the change was to handle the amount of people who were there to celebrate the
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25th anniversary. Municipal and First Nation officials were among those who congratulated those who were nominated, and their remarks included references to a television program that aired about North Battleford over the weekend. “W5 got it wrong,” said Mayor Ames Leslie of Battleford, who called the Battlefords the “best community in the province, the best community in the country, the best community in North America.” Continued on Page 3
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