Banners commemorating our veterans have started to line the streets of our local communities ahead of Remembrance Day.Despite initial obstacles earlier this year, the banners went up in Hythe last Friday. Fosters Agri-World contributed a scissor lift to install banner brackets, while Nodes Construction and resident Max MacAulay stepped up to contribute lifts to hang […]
Residents across the South Peace were invited to Hythe this week to learn a little bit more about palliative and hospice care.The South Peace Professional Attraction and Retention Committee (SPPARC) partnered with the Alberta Hospice Palliative Care Association (AHPCA) to host a pair of workshops at the Hythe Legion on Monday and Tuesday.SPPARC treasurer Sandy […]
School buses operating within the city will continue their practice of not using flashing lights and stop arms.The decision comes after an Oct. 10 report was delivered to the City of Grande Prairie’s Public & Protective Services Committee. The city bylaw only allows flashing lights and stop arms at bus stops where there is no sidewalk […]
As a self-proclaimed ‘Peace Country girl’, Dr. Deanna Funk wanted to plant her roots in rural Alberta.Funk has worked as a physician at the Central Peace Health Centre in Spirit River since August of 2022, providing healthcare for rural residents and sticking close to her Peace Country roots.Funk said she feels “fulfilled” by working in […]
Class is back in session as two retired schoolteachers embrace technology and give Grande Prairie region residents a local history lesson in their new video series. Bethe Goldie, 71, and Linda Schofield, 68, applied for a Telus StoryHive grant last year, which led to the creation of A Grande Education, a 10-episode series on local schoolhouses […]
The Coordinated Care Campus (CCC) will receive a new roof with council approving up to $780,000 from the Financial Stabilization Reserve at Monday’s council meeting. Council recently allotted an additional $1.14 million to the site to complete phase three of its construction at a special council meeting on Aug. 29.“The building condition assessment report that was […]
A group of nearly 100 gathered at the Sisters in Spirit Rock at Northwestern Polytechnic and then walked to the Grande Prairie Friendship Centre for candlelight vigil in honour of Sisters in Spirit Day Oct. 4.The day is meant to honour the lives of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls, their families, loved ones […]
With the historic Dunes West wildfire in the rear view, efficient communication is an enduring lesson, said County of Grande Prairie Regional Fire Chief Trevor Grant.The fire, which started on the banks of the Wapiti River May 5, burned for 13 days, forced the evacuation of over 1,200 residents, destroyed four homes and consumed 1,400 […]
Housing and healthcare were common denominators in the resolutions passed at the Alberta Municipalities (ABmunis) 2023 Convention Sept. 27-29 in Edmonton.A pair of resolutions brought forward by the Town of Wembley and seconded by the Town of Sexsmith advocated for nurse practitioners and capital funding support for Housing Management Bodies (HMB).Town of Sexsmith Mayor Kate […]