Kamloops, BC August 23 to 26 Partial results for Alberta Zone 7 participants: Bowling: Team event, 75+ SILVER MEDAL: Diana French, Ron Myers, Bob Latty, Mary Ann Latty, Peter Briere. 8-Ball:Men’s 75+ 5th place: Wilfred CollinsWomen’s 65+/75+ Combined: 5th place: Phyllis Collins Cribbage:Final ranking not available: Jerome Bourassa and Darcie Wasyluk Golf:Men’s 55+ Low Net: 7th […]
Can art learn from hockey? If the artist had the same level of interest, crowds cheering them on, everybody jumping on the bandwagon to raise funds for a facility, children encouraged to learn to paint, act, dance, become involved with the arts community. Cold Lake has always had a large art community in the past […]
Rodeo week is always a big deal in St. Paul. The Lakeland Rodeo Association Finals were the focus of activity with five rodeo performances, but the St. Paul Ag Society and the entire community put on a full week of food, fun, and charitable fundraisers. And as always, the town’s streets were lined with spectators […]
Cold Lake Public Library celebrated the grand opening of a teepee in their garden space last week. The teepee is an important part of the library’s Indigenous services initiatives, said the library’s director Leslie Price. “We wanted to have a place where Indigenous and non-Indigenous people feel welcomed and where everyone can learn and share […]
Canadian and world champion Lindsay Hodgins was one of two Lakeland athletes to excel at the Canadian Horseshoe Pitching Championships in High Prairie last week. Hodgins, of Elk Point, won her first Canadian Women’s championship. She had previously won junior women’s national titles in 2013 and 2014, and the women’s world championship in 2019. Hodgins […]
What do you raise on a small pig farm? Small pigs, of course. 350 Farms is a small pig farm near Ethel Lake in the M.D. of Bonnyville. They specialize in producing kunekune (pronounced “koo-nee koo-nee”) pigs, a smaller pig breed originally from New Zealand. In the Maori language, “kunekune” means fat and round—an apt […]
The Grand Centre Lions Club paid tribute to their longtime member Mike Jukosky by dedicating Lions Park to his memory on Saturday. Mike died in April 2021 at the age of 96. In dedicating the park, Lions Club president Robert Bruce said “Lion Mike was first and foremost a family man who cherished his wife […]
The members of the Cold Lake Men’s Shed feel there is an opportunity—and a need—for the movement to take root in other Alberta and Saskatchewan communities. To help this along, they are hosting a conference of other Men’s Sheds as well as communities who might want to start a Shed of their own. Men’s Sheds […]
Cold Lake artist’s painting selected for display at worldwide gathering Cold Lake artist Patricia Coulter has been selected to show one of her works at a major conference this fall. The International Society of Experimental Artists (ISEA) is holding its symposium in Canada for the first time. The conference, titled Innovations, will be held in […]
Two judges from the national Communities in Bloom organization visited St. Paul last week. Lucy Chang and Colleen Stockford went to several sites in town to assess how St. Paul is channeling its community spirit to improve its green spaces and its environmental practices. By virtue of its past successes at the provincial level, St. […]