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The mud that greets Albertans during the spring melt each year can truly be a pain in terms of clean-up, with lumps of dirt sticking to shoes and making a mess of floors.

Its official, spring has sprung and rodeo season is ready to kick off with the 19th annual St. Paul High School Rodeo coming to town April 15 to 17.

The accolades just keep coming for Bonnyville Pontiacs forward Bobby McMann and defenceman Brinson Pasichnuk.

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Committee members from a group involved with bringing the World Jr. A Challenge to Bonnyville in December of this year have approached the Town of St. Paul to offer St. Paul a chance to get in on some of the action.

After going 12-0 in the regular season and 7-0 in the playoffs the Lakeland Atom Jaguars finally met their match in provincials and were eliminated after three games.

Hockey provincials took over small towns across Alberta this past month, with Vegreville being the site of the Stahl Peterbilt Atom Canadiens’ bid for provincial glory, March 17 to 20. The Atoms were the only team from St.

After a historic regular season the Bonnyville Jr. A Pontiacs met a tough Sherwood Park Crusaders squad and saw their AJHL Championship hopes dashed in just four games.

The Bonnyville Atom Pontiacs dream season came to an end this past weekend after four hard-fought games against some stiff competition at provincials.

The St. Paul Midget Canadiens have had their fair share of success this season, which came to a peak Monday night as they competed against the Irma Aces for the NEAHL Tier II midget hockey league championship.