Athabasca News

More than 80 people packed the Athabasca Seniors Centre last Thursday in a show of interest for more seniors housing development in Athabasca. Seniors, community groups and municipal representatives made an appearance at the open house.

Most residents of the Wabasca area are able to return home after evacuation orders for most of the region were lifted late Tuesday evening.

According to the Lakeland Communities Health Advisory Council, there’s no real danger to patients during ground transportation.

Frank Appleby, a former Athabasca-area MLA and staunch community advocate for decades, passed away on Victoria Day at 101 years old.

The fences are up and shovels are in the ground as construction starts on new seniors housing in Boyle. Last week, APM Construction Services Inc.

Downtown Athabasca is going to get a little greener this summer. On Friday, the Athabasca Native Friendship Centre built a new community garden next to the Petro Can cardlot, where the Imperial Oil gas station used to be.

For the first time in it’s 19-year history, the Magnificent River Rats Festival will have a beer garden. The idea of a beer garden has been on the radar for quite a bit of time.

The first concept designs for Athabasca’s new secondary school don’t seem to be quite what people expected. In particular, the general belief was that the new school would be attached to the Athabasca Regional Multiplex.

As of Monday afternoon, around 180 people have registered at the emergency reception area in the Athabasca Regional Multiplex after fleeing the Wabasca wildfires last night. The number is expected to grow as the days go on.

Hundreds of evacuees from the Wabasca area have made their way to reception centres in Calling Lake and Athabasca.