Athabasca News

With the first real blast of winter, Athabasca’s new chief administrative officer (CAO) got his first blast of complaints regarding efforts of getting the streets clean.

The annual kick off of the holiday shopping season in Athabasca was classified a success with the $5,000 fireworks show receiving much of the applause.

(l-r) Rochester School students Tyrone Crossman, Kelsey Wotherspoon, Layne Gigian, Chris McCullagh, Carson Ewasiw, Cameron McCullagh, Ben Ewasiw and William Foster gather around a few of the projects that were produced for the first ever Innovation Fair held at the school on Dec. 1. The fair was initially slated for Nov. 28, but had to be postponed due to the bus cancellations due to the poor weather conditions.

The success of the annual Tree of Hope fundraising campaign never fails to amaze the members of the Boyle Healthcare Centre Auxiliary.

Consider it signed, sealed and delivered. The Aspen View Public School board approved the final size and construction budget for a new secondary school in Athabasca, presented to them at their meeting held in Boyle last Thursday.

The usual local school science fair was kicked up a notch this year at Rochester School.

Paul Deveau takes on the minus 30 degree temperatures early Saturday morning with his snowblower so the driveway of his Cornwall area home is as clean as the recently plowed streets in the area following three days of snow falling and blustery conditions. The forecast for the rest of the week is a return to more seasonable temperatures and nearing the freezing mark by the weekend.

With the weather playing havoc with the road conditions, RCMP throughout the region want to get the message out to drivers that they need to adjust their driving habits.

To date, most of the work done on bylaw enforcement in Boyle has been educational in nature and it seems to be doing the job.

The community of Boyle is once again supporting the drive to help those that may not have as much for the holidays.