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The Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) teams at the County of Grande Prairie, City of Grande Prairie, and towns of Beaverlodge, Sexsmith, and Wembley invite local seniors for their Bi-annual Seniors’ Tea event, presented by CatWauk Compression Ltd. The event will take place on Thursday, June 13, 2024, from 12:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at the TARA Centre at Evergreen Park. 

Close to 10,000 rail workers at CN and CPKC have voted to go on strike unless a deal can be reached with the railways. 

CN and CPKC engineers and conductors, and CPKC rail traffic controllers voted 98 percent in favor of a strike mandate that would impact both freight and passenger traffic.

The key issues seem to be around wages and scheduling.

Teamsters Canada Rail Conference President Paul Boucher says both railways want to have federal minimum safety standards for rest periods.

The 2024 National Aboriginal Hockey Championship comes to Alberta for the first time ever – May 6th to 11th at the Design Works Centre in Grande Prairie!  

This will mark the first time an Alberta community hosts this prestigious event.

The 2024 National Aboriginal Hockey Championship are sponsored by the City of Grande Prairie!

Come cheer on elite U-15 and U-18 Indigenous male and female youth from across Canada! 

Throughout the week, teams will compete fiercely, vying for the coveted gold medal.

The Alberta Government announced their 2024 Drought Response Plan on May 2.

This plan covers everything from their conservation plans and water-sharing agreements to how they declare an emergency and prioritize water for human safety.

The Drought Response Plan will help to ensure that communities, farmers, ranchers, businesses, and all Albertans are able to get whatever support they need, said Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz in a media release.

What began as a collaborative project between Peace Wapiti Public School Division (PWPSD), Westwind School Division, Horizon School Division, and the University of Lethbridge has turned into an inspiring professional sharing and learning opportunity. Building Equity in Middle Years Numeracy Through Number Talks was designed to address equity and student learning gaps in numeracy through the implementation of Number Talks, short, daily exercises aimed at building number sense, in students in Grades 4-8.

On March 14, 2024, High Level RCMP General Investigation Section (GIS) executed a search warrant at a business in Eleske. As a result, 704 boxes of unstamped tobacco were seized, each box containing 200 cigarettes, for a total of 140,800 cigarettes.

As a result of the investigation, Shaminder Singh (39), a resident of Eleske, was charged with:

UPDATE: 

On May 31, 2024, Alberta RCMP were made aware that David James Sietsma, also known as ‘‘Toothless’’, was arrested by officers of the Ontario Provincial Police’s (OPP) Schreiber and Nipigon detachments. Sietsma was brought before a justice of the peace and remanded into custody on a 6-day hold while he awaits to be transferred back to Grande Prairie for court.

A popular electronic Christian band is using the proceeds from their shows to support their missions and humanitarian work.

Trampolines, made up of husband-and-wife duo, Lane and Cary Terzieff, felt called to use their musical talents to do more than entertain.

1 John 5:14-15

"This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him."

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1 Peter 1:13-2:3

I don't know anyone who would build a summer home at the base of Mount Vesuvius, and it would be tough trying to get campers to pitch their tents where Big Foot had been spotted. No family I know is interested in vacationing in a houseboat up the Suez Canal.

And yet there are Christians running loose today who flirt with risks far greater than these. And they do so with such calm faces you'd swear they had ice water in their veins.