About $700,000 in provincial funding is missing for Grande Prairie area municipalities. Funding for water, wastewater and solid waste management is missing for the shareholders of Aquatera: the City of Grande Prairie, County of Grande Prairie, and the towns of Sexsmith and Wembley. “Because we don't directly own it, we're not getting credit for it,” […]
Chocolate cake, laughs and the opera is what you can expect from Grande Prairie Opera’s Double the Opera performances later this month. Double the Opera will have two short operas, Bon Apetit and The Telephone, on May 24 and 25 in Grande Prairie. “We're doing something a little bit different,” said Chelsie Pall, founder of […]
Ross Sutherland had heritage running in his veins, according to his niece Bunny Sutherland. “He was always very community-minded and grassroots-minded,” she remembered. “Heritage was so important to him. From his living room window you could see the house he was born in. “He died on the same land he was born.” More than a […]
The Sexsmith and Area Food Bank made its move to a new home on May 1. Volunteers helped carry boxes and set up shelves to bring the stored food from the food bank’s old location in a building adjacent to the Grace Bible Fellowship Church to a room in the Sexsmith Community Centre. Sexsmith Food […]