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The Magnificent River Rats Festival will get Athabascans off their feet and jiving again this year, and already event organizers have a number of entertainers lined up.

The performing arts were celebrated during the 40th annual Athabasca and District Music Festival this month. Talented performers from Athabasca, Boyle and the surrounding area hit the stage during the event to showcase their skills for adjudicators.

April 6 will be the next step in the process of improving the lives of Haitians in the country’s peninsula.

After six shows hit the Cultural Arts Theatre stage over the past six months, it’s time to bid farewell to the 2012-2013 Cultural Arts Theatre Series season.

It was a day filled with poetry on the third day of the Barrhead Rotary Music Festival March 16. Many students read their poems for adjudicators, ranging in categories from narrative/dramatic poetry to lyric poetry. These are three participating students.

The federal government and McDonald’s are contributing over $29,000 to purchase new play equipment for the Westlock Rotary Spirit Centre. Westlock-St.

Despite smaller-than-expected audiences, the Westlock Drama Society’s production of Come Blow Your Horn was a success.

W.R. Frose teacher Mary Kaliel has been named a Master Teacher. Kaliel received the award at a surprise ceremony at the school on March 7, in front of all her students and fellow teachers. “It was a surprise,” she said. “I’m honoured and shocked.

Some of the Westlock area’s brightest young scientific minds were out in full force last Wednesday evening.

Dominos Pizza is coming to Athabasca, and is scheduled to open in May. The new business will set up shop in the Duniece Centre on Highway 2 beside Subway, where Five Star Movies was located.