Athabasca News

It was walk of epic proportions in Alberta politics as nine of the Wildrose’s 14 MLAs, including their leader, were welcomed into the Progressive Conservative fold and into government.

After councillor Tanu Tyszka-Evans presented the approved 2015 budget for the Athabasca Regional Waste Management Services Commission (ARWMSC) – complete with its increases – during last Tuesday’s town council meeting, many members of council were un

The increase wasn’t the biggest problem they had, it was the fact they felt like they were pressured and had the wool pulled over their eyes.

For the second year in a row, students at Edwin Parr Composite (EPC) in Athabasca will be spreading the word about a student challenge that aims to raise awareness and help people in Africa.

Wyeth Tan (l) and Kaitlin Labonte from the LTIS Leadership squad handing out drinks like coffee and iced tea to be enjoyed by those sitting down to their turkey dinner with all of the fixings at the annual free Community Christmas dinner last Thursday at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex that also saw many other individuals, businesses and community groups volunteering to lend a hand.

For close to 40 years, Doug and Liz Madsen have been giving to Boyle and the surrounding community and last week it was the community’s turn to give to them.

After two years of the water levels in Skeleton Lake not decreasing, a ditch that was dug has now been filled.

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.