Bonnyville News

Strathcona Resources Ltd. has stepped up to be the headline contributor for the proposed regional performing arts theatre project to be created in Bonnyville. The agreement made with the Clayton Bellamy Foundation for the Arts comes with a $250,000 investment over a three-year period.

During the first reading of a MD of Bonnyville beekeeping land use bylaw, local apiarists offered several suggestions to improve the municipal regulations. Few suggestions offered by local experts were included in the final draft approved by council on Dec. 14.

Local dancers from the United Youth Ballet Company hope Lakeland residents take in the group’s premier performance of ‘The Nutcracker’ at Llodyminster’s Vic Juba Community Theatre this weekend.

Lakeland Catholic trustees are speaking out on the importance of rural students living in northeast Alberta being able to access high-speed internet. In a list of 50 communities slated to receive improved broadband infrastructure in Alberta, not a single northeast community was selected – despite a growing need, say trustees.

The wait continues in the naming of the Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul’s next UCP representative after a one-vote difference was counted following polls closing on Monday evening.

Student population numbers are growing at several schools throughout the Lakeland’s four main divisions, while other schools are seeing similar enrolment numbers compared to the previous year.

The annual Christmas Choir Festival came back to life as voices rang out of the St. Louis De France Catholic Church on the evening of Dec. 8.

Due to how close the vote is, there has been a delay in announcing who has won the right to run in the next provincial election under the United Conservation Party for the Bonnyville-Cold Lake-St. Paul constituency.

The achievements and accomplishments of individual players on both the Renegades and Bandits football teams were recognized at an annual banquet and awards ceremony on Dec. 4.

An original member of the Bonnyville Pontiacs 1952 team will have the honour of dropping the puck to start the Senior Pontiacs 70th anniversary game Friday night at the RJ Lalonde Arena.