Bonnyville News

On Dec. 16, the Senior Pontiacs’ 70th anniversary game marked decades worth of milestones achieved by generations of Bonnyville hockey players – including a 6-2 Pontiac victory over the Devon Oil Barons earned that evening. 

A dire situation has found a positive resolution for the Bonnyville Friendship Centre and Food Bank after being on the verge of having its charitable registration pulled by the Canada Revenue Agency, just days before Christmas.

Santa's Elves were busy at work on Wednesday evening wrapping hundreds of gifts at Bonnyville Centralized High School.

Bonnyville Centralized High School hosted two charity scrimmages that saw the town's two high school varsity team's battle it out on the courts on Monday, Dec. 12.

As 4-H events wrap up for 2022, 23 Beaver River Beef 4-H members and four cleaver members will be getting ready to watch their projects grow in the new year.

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.