Athabasca News

Bassoonist Amanda Oldale blows an E-flat note as the Athabasca Community Band tunes up their instruments, including saxophonist Tracy Powell (left) before playing 'A Welsh Rhapsody' during the Something to Celebrate performance at the Nancy Appleby Theatre on March 3. Conductor Matthew Thompson threw in an extra special birthday song for his twin boys who turned one-year-old on the eve of the concert.

The Fraser Institute has published its annual ranking of Alberta’s elementary schools, and Boyle School earned a ranking of 395 out of 665.

The 2012 Magnificent River Rats Festival has been saved after a critical meeting at the Athabasca Regional Multiplex last Tuesday. When the meeting was called to order there were five members on the committee, but when it ended there were 10.

Dia Hurren sees the need for a dialysis machine at the Athabasca Healthcare Centre, and has started a petition to have such a machine installed there.

Annika Smith (7) and Becca Weber (9) of the Edwin Parr Composite JV girls basketball team defend against a Cold Lake player during the team's home tournament last weekend. The local girls went undefeated in four games to win first place.

Athabasca County Council must decide whether to greenlight a rezoning that would accommodate a new asphalt plant three kilometres west of town on the south side of Highway 2. At their meeting on Feb.

The Riddle Store is tucked behind the Athabasca Native Friendship Centre, and is one of Athabasca’s hidden gems. Clothing, household items and books line the walls, and racks of clothing take up the floor space.

In what they hope is yet another step in the healing process, four Slave Lake residents have taken to compiling the numerous stories of those who experienced the devastating impacts of the fire that ravaged the town in May of last year.

An article produced by an associate professor from Athabasca University and two of his colleagues has won the Editors' Choice Best Article award for 2011 from the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning journal.

Snowmobilers were out in force for the Athabasca River Runners annual Poker Rally on Sunday. The Rally began at Forfar Park, west of Athabasca.