It’s a hockey tournament for a children’s charity, but organizer Darcy Pashak says not to expect a bunch of sweethearts on the ice at the 2025 Thermal Cup. Six teams from the region’s oil and gas companies are vying for the Cup and accompanying bragging rights at the day-long tournament April 12. Proceeds go to […]
Four centenarians—Mrs. Mary Loch (100), Mr. William McGregor (102), Mr. James Krawiec (101), and Mrs. Agnes Sawchuk (100)—sat for a picture at their home in Bonnylodge last week. Every year of these four remarkable lives was experienced differently by each person. Their combined life experience of 403 years, if imagined consecutively, would go back to […]
Jeff Gaye Spring (such as it is) is sugaring-off time in maple bush country, and the cabane à sucre, or sugar shack, is an important part of French Canadian culture. The Bonnyville – Cold Lake region of ACFA, the French Canadian association in Alberta, teamed up with the Town of Bonnyville to offer a cabane […]
For Clayton Bellamy, the last three years has been like the blink of an eye. It’s also been an eternity. Bellamy was inside the Strathcona Performing Arts Centre in Bonnyville on Saturday, helping put the finishing touches on the venue before its inaugural concert March 21. The project has been spearheaded by his Clayton Bellamy […]
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 […]