Bonnyville News

During last week’s council meeting, the mayor and councillors voted to pursue an Indigenous land acknowledgement statement to be read at the beginning of future Town meetings.

École Notre Dame Grade 12 students stopped by St. John's United Church Cemetery and the Indigenous veterans teepee display to remember and lay poppies at the markers of veterans.

The Town of Bonnyville's council appoints a new director of emergency management and agrees to pursue a municipal grant for the construction of a new water reservoir along with the decommissioning of the town’s water treatment plant and current water reservoir.

Bonnyville RCMP have responded to seven motor vehicle collisions in the three days following the area’s first significant snow fall of the season.

An investigation by the Bonnyville RCMP determined that an east bound car lost control and struck a guard rail before being ‘T-boned’ by an oncoming vehicle.

The local Legion Branch, once again, held their Remembrance Day ceremony outdoors as a crowd formed on the street to take in the event to remember.

Statistics from Food Banks Canada show that 30 per cent of those who access food banks in rural Alberta are seniors and persons with disabilities.

After rooting himself in the community for 16 years, the east-coaster and Bonnyville regional fire chief says he is ready to move on to the next thing.

‘Imagine the challenges that they had to face even getting to Cumberland House to enlist... They didn't have transportation or money to get there, but they were so passionate and dedicated to the country and helping out that they did it – so that alone is remarkable,’ says Métis Region 2 President.

Students from École Notre Dame High School will visit the gravesites of local soldiers to lay a poppy in remembrance of their sacrifices.