Athabasca News

Canadian Olympic gold-medallist curler Brad Jacobs had his Olympic ring stolen from his Boyle motel room while staying in the village to participate in a charity golf tournament last weekend.

Athabasca RCMP have arrested a male suspect after receiving a call about a suspicious male walking around downtown mid-day June 26. “He was walking around with what looked to be, possibly, a pellet gun, ” said Constable Mark Tyler.

A helicopter hovers over the green at Skeleton Lake Golf Club following the ball drop at the 12th annual Bryan Mudryk Golf Classic on June 21. The balls were sold, numbered and dropped from the helicopter. The closest ball to the pin won a pot of $2,650.

A semi hauling two tanker trailers of crude oil rolled over in a ditch along Highway 831 on Sunday morning, and traffic is down to one lane as cleanup of the oil spill continues, say Boyle RCMP.

Get your dancing shoes and sun hats ready: the Magnificent River Rats Festival kicks off on June 30 at Athabasca’s riverfront and runs until the evening of July 1. Kids will be the first to start celebrating.

A group of seven concerned town and county citizens has decided it will not wait for official bodies to consult the public on major projects in Athabasca.

Athabasca town council has passed the first reading of a bylaw that will allow it to borrow $5 million to put towards a new pool.

There are 308 federal electoral districts in the country, and in the last federal general election, the district of Fort McMurray-Athabasca had the lowest voter turnout of them all.

Members of the Alberta Teachers’ Association at Boyle School are inviting community members to come out to Boyle School on June 29 and support the Maul family, who are waiting to bring their adopted daughter home from the Democratic Republic of Congo

More than 150 golfers braved the rain, wind and cold to come out and support the 12th annual Bryan Mudryk Golf Classic at the Skeleton Lake Golf and Country Club on June 21.