A mini-storage facility is coming to Beaverlodge. We Care Mini-Storage will be opening 22 self-contained units in a $100,000 facility located on the corner next to New Horizon Co-Op. Jack Marsim told the News last week he hopes to have the units ready for rental by December. It will have 10x10 and 8x10 foot storage […]
The Fall Fair was hosted by the Wembley & District Agricultural Society, and also included a pancake breakfast, face painting, a kids bouncy obstacle course and a parade. Broden Hiltz, 6, left, raced Kelty Maclean, 10, during the box car races. (Photo by Jesse Boily) Roman Levesque, 3, and his brother Mason, 2, were busy […]
The National Bee Diagnostic Centre (NBDC) in Beaverlodge is receiving funding to develop sugar and botanical testing services with the hope to increase the sales of Canadian honey in national and international markets. Northwestern Polytechnic will receive more than $390,000 to create a Canadian honey authentication system. “Not only will we be testing for quality, […]
Local historian David W. Leonard is releasing a book that gives a glimpse of the Peace Country through many unpublished photos just before a large scale of settlers arrived in the area. New Rivers of the North Revisited includes excerpts from the original 1912 book New Rivers of the North by Hulbert Footner, who documented […]
