County of GP No. 1 News Archive

The landscape outside the historic grain elevator in Sexsmith changed last Wednesday when the Sexsmith and District Museum Society added a locomotive engine and dining car next to the caboose at the train station.  Two large cranes simultaneously picked up the 246,000-pound locomotive and perfectly placed it down on the tracks. They then repeated the […]

The County of Grande Prairie is asking residents for input on the future of its electoral boundaries this month.The province is requiring the county to review its electoral division boundaries before the 2025 municipal election to determine if there is a population imbalance among divisions after it absorbed the Village of Hythe which was dissolved […]

The Town of Wembley is requesting that the County of Grande Prairie reimburse it for over $381,000 after the town repaired a portion of road under county jurisdiction. Wembley repaired Township Road 712 between Range Roads 82 and 83 in 2018 and funded the repairs through a no-interest loan from the county. It has since been […]

The Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum hosted its two-day science festival Palaeo Palooza this weekend.  Saturday was spent with carnival games, scavenger hunts, and panels of professionals at the museum. On Sunday the festivities were moved to Pipestone Creek where science talk tables were set up in the park and along the trail to the […]

The Regional EMS Foundation has donated $43,890 for specialized training equipment at the health education centre at Northwestern Polytechnic (NWP).The Emergency Medical Responder program is slated to start in January. “We're not just funding for EMR Educational Programming Equipment; we're igniting the future of emergency medical response education in our region,” said Regional EMS Foundation chair […]

The Kleskun Hill Museum Day on Saturday included live music, tours of historic buildings, wagon rides, lunch and a silent auction.  The schoolhouse had former students speak about their experience  in the one-room school and even shared memories Kleskun Hill Day of days past when teachers would hand out ice cream through the school house […]

An act of vandalism at St. Mary Catholic School in Beaverlodge has caused damages totalling $100,000 after 70 windows were broken.  Beaverlodge RCMP said the vandalism is believed to have occurred between the evening of July 31 and the morning of Aug. 1. “The information gathered at this time has not led to sufficient evidence […]

What once numbered in the thousands and were described as giants, sentinels, landmarks, and iconic in prairie imagery are nearly gone. Only a few hundred grain elevators remain in Alberta, which is why one local wants to see a unique elevator on her land preserved. “If you look around the landscape, there's not much left for elevators […]

The Art Gallery of Grande Prairie’s latest exhibit features artworks by Edmonton artist Brenda Draney that “delve into the complex questions around the notion of intimacy and vulnerability.”The exhibit, Drink from a River, features paintings from Draney that refer to figures and moments that have shaped her life. “The soft images in her paintings are familiar, […]

Sports heroes are often thought of as the athletes themselves but sometimes, the people in the background supporting them and their sport make a huge difference. One such person - Grande Prairie's own Leigh Goldie - is being recognized by the Volleyball Alberta Hall of Fame for his years of dedication to the sport. “Goldie’s legacy is […]