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A new City owned medical clinic could be opening in the City of Cold Lake as a council is proposing the creation of a Municipally Controlled Corporation to operate such a facility. Residents and stakeholders will have an opportunity to weigh-in on the proposal at a public hearing scheduled for Jan. 24, 2023.

Glendon students hit the stage on Wednesday to perform for family and friends ahead of the Christmas break.

A slight miscommunication may have left some thinking that the Beautification Loan Program for local businesses has been shelved, but Community Futures Lakeland’s general manager says the program is ongoing and is hoping to continue the program indefinitely.

In January, a public hearing will allow residents and ratepayers to weigh-in on the first draft of an MD bylaw that would allow for the majority of municipal public notifications to be advertised exclusively online. In anticipation that this bylaw would pass, $100,000 has already been cut from the MD’s 2023 print media budget.

The St. Paul Canadiens remain at the top of the NEAJBHL, with the Vermilion Tigers and Wainwright Bisons working hard to catch up.

The Mallaig School gym was filled with adoring family on Dec. 20.

On Dec. 20, Kindergarten to Grade 6 students at École Sainte-Catherine participated in a series of plays and and musical performances in front of dozens of parents in the schools gymnasium.

Between 25,000 to 30,000 construction workers could be needed in northeastern Alberta by the end of the decade, as Canada’s six largest oil sands producers work together under the banner of Pathways Alliance to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in oil sands production by 2050.

Scott Johnston, press secretary to Alberta’s minister of Energy, says the SRP “has had significant success” in helping Albertans get back to work by “speeding up well, pipeline, facility, and site closure efforts in the energy sector, across the province.”

Light of Christ Catholic School students in Preschool to Grade 6 went back to Bethleham for a night during their annual Christmas Concert.