Bonnyville News

With the potential for a provincial election on the horizon, newly elected PC Party representative Craig Copeland has set forth his vision for the Lakeland region.

Starting April 1, local residents will have the opportunity to take commercial flights from Bonnyville to Calgary. Flights will be offered five days a week with four flights leaving on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

When he first joined the Bonnyville RCMP Detachment nobody could have imagined the impact their only four-legged member would have in both the community and to those in the detachment.

Should the local swimming pool be replaced? That is the $30-million dollar question the Town of Bonnyville will have to address in the near future, with the state of the local pool continually declining. “We are keeping it going.

Plans to modernize Notre Dame High School (NDHS) are officially a go after the Town of Bonnyille last week approved a proposed development permit application to expand the facility.

Following weeks of controversy, the votes are finally in and the person who will be filling the shoes of Genia Leskiw following her retirement has been chosen.

The Cold Lake Ice will be moving on in the NEAJBHL playoffs after taking the series 4-1 against the Frog Lake T-Birds.

Local residents were forced to stand outside in the cold for almost an hour last Thursday as PC Alberta opened and operated an advanced polling station at the French Cultural Centre (ACFA Hall) in Bonnyville.

Bonnyville Town Council has always placed a heavy emphasis on educating local youth and last week they took another step towards doing just that, hosting a special council meeting for Grade 6 students at Dr. Brosseau School.

When most children celebrate their third birthday, they receive gifts of toys, books, games and so on – but that wasn't the case this year for one young local resident; Beau Sylvestre. “We were talking back and forth about ideas.