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 […]
The City of Cold Lake says it has guidance from the provincial government on how enclosed electric mobility scooters—specifically the Gio brand—should be classified. Council has declined to participate in an Alberta pilot program to test the idea of allowing mini-vehicles such as golf carts or Gios to use public roadways. Mobility scooters are permitted […]
The Cold Lake Women of Influence (WOI) awards have always celebrated women who excelled in competitive fields, who overcame personal or societal obstacles, and who came out on top. But this year’s keynote speaker is a fighter. Literally—she’s a fighter. Jelena Mrdjenovich is a professional boxer and a former world champion in three different weight […]
Bonnyville’s Aurora Visual Arts Association (AVAA) will hold a juried art show and sale at the Bonnyville Ag Society rodeo grounds February 22 and 23. “Juried,” for the uninitiated, means exhibitors may choose to have their works judged and considered for prizes. Herman Poulin of St. Paul will be one of the judges, the other […]