Athabasca News

Lewis Semashkewich was acclaimed as trustee for the Aspen View Public Schools northwest ward, which contains Smith School, after municipal nominations closed Sept. 23.

A roughly two-hour forum for Athabasca town council and mayoral candidates will be held Oct. 8 at 7 p.m. at the Nancy Appleby Theatre.

Gabriel Seguin (r) tries to take a drink from the fire hose spray that students played in last Friday at Landing Trail Intermediate School's annual Flying High event. Kids enjoyed the fire hose, a climbing wall and a presentation by a police officer, among other diversions.

Nominations for the Village of Boyle council were extended into Tuesday last week as only four people stepped forward for the five council positions on Monday: incumbents Sam Assaf, David Bencharsky, Mike Antal (currently deputy mayor) and Don Radman

The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) and Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA) are disputing comments Athabasca University board of governors public member Andy Neigel made in a letter to the editor in the Sept.

Trevor Yeaman has been acclaimed as an Aspen View Public School Board trustee. Yeaman was one of six non-incumbents to throw their hats into the ring during last Monday’s nomination period. Three incumbents were also nominated.

Athabasca University (AU) Professor Emeritus in Biology Robert Holmberg will be presenting for Science Outreach – Athabasca with an insightful look into the human eye.

The gypsy-jazz group The Road to Django Collective performed outside of Edmonton for the first time last Saturday, although group members have performed around the world in other bands.

North Fork Cash is a Gypsy Cob that horse trick trainer Jackie Johnson — who has performed in front of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge — has taught to sit. Johnson offered a clinic in Smith last weekend.

For a generation that has grown up with the anthropomorphized dinosaurs of animated films, perhaps it’s easy to believe that dinosaurs have zany relatives — even birds. But in the scientific community, it’s groundbreaking stuff, according to Dr.