Athabasca News

The Rochester & District Agricultural Society is regretfully requesting an early termination of its lease agreement with Athabasca County for the maintenance of the Rochester Wayside Rest Area because of lack of volunteer support.

Athabasca town council is pressuring Alberta Transportation to adhere to the town’s standards for utility placement at the Highway 55/813 interchange.

Veteran Morris Schauer stands and salutes as the Last Post is played during the Boyle Remembrance Day Ceremony Nov. 11, 2013, at the Boyle Community Centre.

A 32-year-old male is dead after his pickup truck collided with a semi-tractor trailer on Highway 63 last night (Nov. 5) approximately 12 kilometres north of the Highway 55 junction. The collision took place at approximately 8:15 p.m.

A box containing money donated for Remembrance Day poppies was stolen from the Athabasca Husky gas bar yesterday.

Whispering Hills Primary School (WHPS) held a Buddy Walk coordinated by the Athabasca Blue Genes Foundation to raise awareness for people with Down syndrome last Friday. WHPS student Tucker Beirnes was excited to release his helium-filled balloon and to go on the walk.

The Alberta government has made it easier to take a brilliant idea and turn it into a commercialized product.

St. Paul-based author Eileen Schuh is an expert in straddling two worlds. The writer, who visited Rochester Library last Monday, exploits parallel universes in her sci-fi novella, Schrödinger’s Cat.

When Wally Johnsen drove into the army cadet camp she manages near Narrow Lake last Thursday morning, she planned to spruce the place up a little — make it ready for a squadron of cadets to stay for the weekend.

Wandering River residents will soon be getting a newly paved 1st Street, which has been littered with potholes for years, but 1A Street will not be included in the work as first hoped.