St. Paul News

The Town of St. Paul must do its part to ensure that recycling happens in the most effective way and to that effect, there will be some changes to St. Paul’s recycling program, Mayor Glenn Andersen reported at a Nov. 22 council meeting.

The second annual Columbus House of Hope’s Christmas season celebration, called the Festival of Hope, promises to be bigger and better than last year.

One more person has walked away from the St. Paul Municipal Library Board, less than two weeks and one official meeting into the role, saying the board is “dysfunctional” and expressing concerns about a board decision to fire its library manager.

It’s a dark, dark world out there for muggles and mudbloods. Luckily, there’s hope - a pasty, glasses-wearing, really sort of geeky-looking hero is the chosen one with the power to save them all.

The Elk Point detachment of the RCMP is targeting drug traffickers in the Lakeland area, resulting in several significant arrests in Elk Point, Fishing Lake and the County of St. Paul, according to Const. John Spaans.

Kihew Asiniy Education Centre in Saddle Lake addressed one of the most difficult issues that an community can face, that of teen suicide, at the school’s third annual Day of Hope last week.

He might have been a poster child for distracted driving in the past, but local MLA Ray Danyluk is turning over a new leaf, following the Alberta legislature’s Nov. 17 passing of distracted driving legislation.

Fifteen unique and vivid tapestries bring to life the history of Albertan communities, in a traveling quilt exhibit now on display at the French Cultural Centre in St. Paul.

A 19-year-old man from Elk Point is facing a charge of second degree murder after RCMP discovered human remains near Kehewin, which at this time RCMP believe to be the remains of a missing woman from Bonnyville.

Last week, community member Shelly Beeching received a new wheelchair partly funded by Alberta Aids to Daily Living, with additional funds from the Lakeland MS Society. “In this (wheelchair), I can stretch out my legs and recline.