Bilyana Coburn spoke to Grande Prairie city council last Monday (Oct. 17), looking for support in her efforts to collect donations for Ukraine. Coburn, a teacher at St. Catherine Cathollic School, ran a similar campaign there at Easter, where she collected funds and donations that were then given to people in Novyi Yarychiv, Ukraine, west […]
The Grande Prairie Public Library is hosting an anonymous art show and sale, with proceeds to be split between the artists and the library. Some of the artists have committed to donating their portion of the funds raised to the library, said Clayton Tiro-Burns, GPPL teen and new adult librarian. “There are a few well-known […]
Visitors and motorists through downtown Grande Prairie will be seeing new signs by the end of the month. Some $320,000 has been invested in the signage upgrade, the Grande Prairie Downtown Association (GPDA) last Thursday (Oct. 20). The former Welcome to Grande Prairie signage will be replaced with City Centre branding which will feature an […]
An all-girls team is taking to Sexsmith ice for the first time in 15 years. The Sexsmith U11/U13 split female hockey team has 18 players, including the daughter of head coach Jesse Morgan. Morgan says that he was inspired to start up the team over the summer, noting that there has been a lack of […]
Both Beaverlodge and Sexsmith have swept up a pair of their own Olympic curling stars, with Beaverlodge’s Geoff Walker and Sexsmith’s Kristie Moore. It’s a spirit that both communities hope to carry on in through nurturing youth curling clubs. Amanda Sparks runs the junior program for the Sexsmith Curling Rink, which is going to be […]