Alberta seniors and housing minister Josephine Pon visited seniors’ lodges in Cold Lake and Bonnyville last week, but due to pandemic restrictions was not able to visit with residents. The new Cold Lake Lodge has been occupied for more than a year, but was not able to hold a grand opening this spring because of […]
Food is one of most basic and urgent daily necessities, and food banks are an important community resource. Everyone needs food just to live. But other financial pressures—unemployment, bills and expenses, disability, or other circumstances—can compromise people’s ability to feed themselves and their families. “There’s definitely been a need for the last 10 years that […]
If you’ve ever been to a band or orchestra concert, or attended a brass instrument recital, you will have seen brass players draining water out of their instruments. The instruments are fitted with little valves at the curves in the tubing where the water collects. Players can discreetly open the valve and release the water. […]
4 Wing Cold Lake commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Britain on Sunday. In 1940, Hitler commanded air strikes to incapacitate Great Britain’s own air power and air defences. This would have paved the way for a Nazi invasion of the island. Allied air forces turned the tide against the Luftwaffe, forcing Hitler […]
COOTS AND CAMERAS Fall migrations have started. In fact by mid-August some of our Lakeland songbirds, the warblers, have already flown the coop and are heading south to their other home. On dugouts and sloughs, non-descript ducks are gathering. In bullrush stands, masses of red-winged and yellow-headed blackbirds, with the odd starling mixed in, […]
Operating under a new brand, in the midst of a pandemic, AgFair organizers weren’t sure what to expect this year. The Cold Lake Agricultural Society (CLAS) event, formerly known as Fall Fair, had to make some adjustments this year. These included online entries and a closed-to-the-public judging day. So how did it turn out? “I’m […]
If you think of art as a solitary pursuit, you might also think that artists are doing fine through the pandemic. But there’s a special joy in artistic collaboration, and several people in St. Paul were delighted for the opportunity to come together last week and create something for the community. Eight participants created a […]
It’s hard to imagine that the young son of a Swiss watchmaker (in fact, a descendant of the founder of the Swiss watchmaking industry) would move with his family to Cold Lake, learn the ways of the bush, work as a trapper, gain a formal education as a painter, return to the bush, move to […]
The Boards of Directors Lakeland Credit Union and Vision Credit Union have begun formal merger discussions. Vision Credit Union has its head office in Camrose, and serves 17 branches. Most of its branches are in the central Alberta/Battle River region, with half a dozen in the northwest part of the province. Lakeland Credit Union CEO […]
Diane Stonehocker presented the report “Creating an Age-Friendly Cold Lake” to Cold Lake city council on August 11. The report is the fulfillment of a project funded by the Alberta government’s Aging Well in Community grant and conducted by Cold Lake and District Family and Community Services Society (FCSS). According to the report, the project […]