Bonnyville News

Students who went for breakfast at Notre Dame Elementary Tuesday morning were in for a treat when Bonnyville Pontiacs players served them their meal.

“It's been nice to get back out with the band and have a good time and feel that energy again,” country singer Terri Clark commented in a phone interview, six hours before taking the stage at the Centennial Centre on Friday.

An Alberta HUB-sponsored artist-in-residence program over the past two weeks gave two local artists the chance to work at Café Impromptu, a group of women to hone their skills at a workshop, and even this reporter to get her hands dirty and paint.

A Progressive Conservative (PC) party meeting attended by two ministers discussed health care, the super-board, and its shortcomings in Bonnyville on Thursday.

Johnnie Doonanco is an outgoing, charismatic personality that served the Glendon community as mayor for the past 39 years.

On Saturday around 1:40 a.m. a two-car motor vehicle collision occurred on Highway 41 north of town limits. The collision resulted in the death of a 15-year-old Bonnyville female, according to a Bonnyville RCMP press release.

MD of Bonnyville council voted unanimously to give the Cold Lake Community Events Centre $1 million at its meeting Wednesday, with the possibility of more to come.

Local country singer Tiffany Dowhan performed at the Beaver River Fish and Game on Friday to a packed house of local supporters and fans. “The support in Bonnyville has been phenomenal.

The provincial government is encouraging the Town to seek "other sources" of long-term funding for a nurse practitioner position after declining to reimburse the Town $155,000 it paid for the position.

RII North America held an open house Tuesday night to inform people about its experimental Solvent Thermal Resource Innovations Process (STRIP) pilot project, for which it filed an application with the Energy Resources Conservation Board (ERCB) last