Bonnyville News

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.

Almost a thousand local residents were swept off their feet this past weekend as the Bonnyville Health Foundation outdid itself once again in staging its 18th annual hospital gala.

Construction has started on the Beaver River Trestle almost three years after it was initially vandalized.

The Town of Bonnyville stepped up in a big way for the local business community last week when council agreed to provide $5,000 to the regional Chronic Labour Shortage Committee to help the organization fund a “vital” research project.

Canadian country music band Emerson Drive will be taking over the Cold Lake Energy Center on March 14 as part of the band's “Tilt-A-Whirl” tour. The show will be sort of a homecoming for lead singer Brad Mates, who grew up in Grande Prairie.