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 $700,00 missing for local municipalities 

May 9, 2024

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,” […]

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Chocolate cake and the opera comes to the Peace region this month

May 9, 2024

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 […]

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Ross Sutherland: August 5, 1949 - April 26, 2024: A man of heart and wisdom

May 9, 2024

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 […]

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Many hands make light work in Sexsmith

May 9, 2024

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 […]

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Less infrastructure funding leaves municipalities with tough decisions

May 9, 2024
Local municipalities are grappling with rising infrastructure costs and less cash from the province.  The province is handing out about $4 million less to local municipalities in 2024 than it did in 2011.  “If we had the same infrastructure funding as we had back in 2011, then that's a huge property tax decrease we could […]