The 2027 Alberta 55 Plus Games have been awarded to Fort McMurray. Participants in 24 sporting events will compete for medals and a chance to qualify for the 2028 Canada Games. Meanwhile 55 Plus Zone 7, which includes Cold Lake, Bonnyville, St. Paul, and well beyond, is organizing playdowns for the 2025 Alberta Games. Leduc […]
A secret recipe, family intrigue, false identities, and murder most foul: this is a job for private detective Nick Noir. The Elk Point Allied Arts stage becomes the Precious Perks Coffee Shoppe for the troupe’s spring production of Death By Chocolate, written by Craig Sodaro. The play runs over two weekends: March 28 – 30, […]
The Engels family homesteaded near Ardmore early in the 20th century. The farm was the centre of family life for Sena and Albert and their six surviving children—five sons and a daughter, Marguerite. (One son, Raymond, died as a toddler). No one from the family lives there anymore; the farm was sold in 2011. But […]
People with a gambling addiction have a new resource in Cold Lake. Gamblers Anonymous meetings are now offered twice a week at the St. John’s Anglican Church hall. According to their website, Alberta Gamblers Anonymous is “a nonprofit, self-supporting fellowship of recovering compulsive gamblers who meet regularly to help each other recover from the disease […]
For the past five years, the third weekend in February has clearly been marked on anglers’ calendarsas the date of the Cold Lake Ice Fishing Tournament, a fundraising event for Age Friendly Cold Lake (AFCL). Smart anglers actually keep an eye on their calendars starting in November—that’s when the 400 tournament spots open for registration. […]
Lakeland communities wisely hedged their bets on the weather for the Family Day weekend. Many of the popular outdoor activities were back, but organizers in St. Paul, Bonnyville, and Cold Lake made sure there was plenty to do indoors as well. Good thing too, as the region was exposed to extreme cold conditions over the […]
For the past five years, the third weekend in February has clearly been marked on anglers’ calendarsas the date of the Cold Lake Ice Fishing Tournament, a fundraising event for Age Friendly Cold Lake (AFCL). Smart anglers actually keep an eye on their calendars starting in November—that’s when the 400 tournament spots open for registration. This […]
If our American friends feel they have been poorly treated by Canadian hockey fans booing their anthem, they can take some comfort knowing they are not the first country to be given that treatment here. We are. In the not-so-long-ago days of official-language tension, anglophone fans at sports venues booed O Canada when the singer […]
PAWSitive Dog Sports held their annual agility trials at the Cold Lake AgriPlex over the weekend. The trials are officially sanctioned events of the North American Dog Agility Council (NADAC). NADAC judge Daniel Edwards from Gold River, California set the challenging courses and scored the dogs on their proficiency. Dog agility is comparable to an […]
St. Paul artist Herman Poulin is down to the final brush strokes on a project to celebrate the area’s francophone culture. Poulin finished up an outreach tour at l’Association Canadienne Francaise de l’ Alberta (ACFA)’s St. Paul facility on Friday. The tour had him visit several locations gathering input for what the final project will […]