Athabasca News

The green team sticks with it at LEGO Robotics Camp, hosted by Science Outreach Athabasca at the Multiplex on August 10 and 11. More than 30 kids participated in the program. For the full story, check out the August 16 edition of the Athabasca Advocate

The Alberta government’s announcement of another $189 million for Slave Lake relief efforts also includes money earmarked for municipalities who housed and fed evacuees.

It 's easy to understand why the people of Baptiste Lake might feel negatively towards the stinky, scummy, potentially toxic layer of film that graces their resident body of water and its shores every year.

Local police officers are on the hunt for the perpetrators of five potentially connected break and enters at downtown businesses in the last three weeks.

The Magnificent River Rats Festival is a staple of summer in Athabasca, but without an organizing crew, there would be no festival. “Pretty much the entire executive has retired,” Robin Dosenberg said.

At Athabasca’s centennial dinner in late July, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach announced that Athabasca had received a grant to help complete the Multiplex sports park project.

Over 70 local kids took part in the Athletes In Action soccer camp at Landing Trail Intermediate School in Athabasca last week. Jacob Hayward controls the ball during a scrimmage game.

Centennial Weekend Fire Demonstration

Athabasca received quite a gift at its centennial dinner party last Friday. Premier Ed Stelmach brought word that $600,000 from the Community Facility Enhancement Program would be provided to the Athabasca Regional Multiplex Society.

All hands were on deck for the grand opening of Athabasca University's $30 million academic and research centre.