Athabasca News

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.

Radway School and Thorhild Elementary School are scheduled to close at the end of the 2011-2012 school year. The students will be moved to Thorhild Central School. Aspen View School Division made the call last Thursday at their school board meeting.

Barbara Bell’s Hees Estates house is now the property of CIBC Mortgages Inc, and it’s on the market for $235,000. On Feb. 10, Bell lost a battle with CIBC Mortgages Inc.

The 2011 Census of Canada indicates manageable growth for the Town of Athabasca, according to Mayor Roger Morrill. The census, conducted last May, shows that the town has grown in population by 15.9 per cent over the last five years.

Edwin Parr Composite student Brianne Popowich needs your votes in a contest called ‘Show us how you Shumka’. Voting ends on Feb. 22. She had 1,246 votes at press time, and was in third place.