Christmas and New Years Day have come and gone, and winter activities are resuming. For some organizations the holiday period is their busiest time, planning and presenting special events and programs for the season. For others, activity continues as normal, but with a Christmas theme. And some take a brief hiatus. But as they say […]
I lie awake at night from time to time, conjuring up new journeys and reliving past travels. Cities explored, countries discovered, time zones conquered, and often a list of destinations to be re-examined jostle through my mind as I try to fall asleep. Of all the places I have visited, only a relative few stick […]
Operation Red Nose, a volunteer service offering safe rides during the holiday party season, is celebrating the success of its 2024 national campaign. The initiative operated in 70 communities across Canada in November and December. Cold Lake was the only Alberta community with the service available, thanks to the volunteer efforts of the Cold Lake […]
All outstanding health service standards noncompliances at Points West Living in Cold Lake have been rectified. The Alberta Health standards and licensing web page had reported 37 noncompliances after a July audit, and reported the same standards noncompliant on November 7. The website now shows all were rectified as of December 5. Dana Burr, director […]
Mereline Griffith’s Valley Girl preserves a vanishing way of life “Rural is rural, and it always will be.” Mereline Griffith was talking about her new book, Valley Girl: These Are My Stories—a memoir of her youth in the northern BC interior. Griffith and her husband Bill now live on the shore of Moose Lake, near Bonnyville. She has […]
The colours, the lights, the music, the dance—Christmas is when the arts come alive. Or is it? Maybe it’s more accurate to say Christmas is when we open our eyes to all the ways art enhances our lives. Because art is always there. It surrounds us every day, in ways we may take for granted. […]
The TuneAgers choir from Bonnyville invited their friends from four other community choirs to raise their voices and lift spirits at their annual Christmas Choir festival concert last Thursday. The program offered traditional carols and new arrangements of sacred songs, and a couple of seasonal secular selections. Each of the five choirs delivered energy and […]
Photographer Mel Broadbent captured community events in St. Paul over the weekend.
Barbara Hollis, Richelle Mason, and Dawn Hidson of Cold Lake Knit and Purl made a Christmas tree of 350 homemade “granny squares” and set it up at the North branch of the Cold Lake Library. The crocheted squares were made over the course of the year, including some that were made at Knit and Purl […]
St. Paul Regional Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) invited seniors from the towns of St. Paul and Elk Point, and throughout the County of St. Paul, to their annual Christmas Seniors’ Festival last Wednesday. The festival ran from mid-morning to early afternoon and included a sumptuous turkey dinner. Nine different seniors-serving organizations had information […]