Bonnyville News

Nearly 300 residents, including Bonnyville MLA David Hanson, attend an in-person speakers' series to learn about the Alberta Prosperity Project and “the rationale and merits of an independent Alberta.”

Charges involving a MD of Bonnyville woman have been resolved following an agreement between Jamie Ann Palmer’s defense counsel and the Crown prosecutor. Palmer will be bound to five conditions outlined in a two-year Peace Bond and will have the Animal Protection Act charges against her withdrawn.

A 16-week Pull Out intervention program utilized by Lakeland Catholic School Division, which focuses on structured literacy techniques saw students who were considered “at risk” finish the program reading at their grade level or higher.

The Lakeland Catholic School Division is noting an upward trend in the number of students who are taking French Immersion, French as a second language and completing the Diplôme d’études en langue française (DELF) certification program that is offered by the school division.

Bonnyville RCMP are asking for the public’s help to identify two suspects that were filmed entering and allegedly stealing from a Bonnyville business on June 21.

Numerous whipped pies were tossed at RCMP officers from the Bonnyville RCMP detachment who volunteered as targets to raise money for Bonnyville Victim Services during a community barbecue on June 10.

In the first week of June, The Hive welcomed over 100 youth into its new Main Street location following the completion of Phase 1, which includes a youth coffee house area where youth aged 14 to 21 can meet up and hang out.

Lakeland youth serve up lemonade to hundreds of customers in the rain and sun on Saturday throughout Bonnyville, Cold Lake and Glendon.

Reports of dead and sick birds along Jessie Lake and throughout the MD of Bonnyville are circulating on social media. On Tuesday morning, the MD and Town of Bonnyville released a joint statement that dead birds found in the area have been sent for testing, with symptoms pointing to Avian Influenza.

Local chiropractor and level 3 umpire, Jim Church, honoured with naming of midget diamond on Town of Bonnyville’s west end.