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With the change in seasons often comes an increase in speeds on the roads, which is why speed is the traffic safety focus for April.

Recently, Grande Prairie Enforcement Services clocked drivers going 99 km/h and 91 km/h on 84 Avenue, which has a speed limit of 60 km/h.

Speeding contributes to a significant number of crashes across Alberta every year. With the warmer weather, we anticipate more traffic on the roads, making it even more important to pay attention to our speed and surroundings.

The Bear Paw Par 3 Golf Course and Driving Range is now officially open for the season! 

With the mild spring temperatures, they made the decision to open this past weekend.

Bear Paw will kick off the season with modified hours of operation from Thursday to Sunday through the month of April weather dependent. They anticipate being fully open for golfers 7 days a week by early May.  

For more information and details, visit https://gobearpaw.ca/

For many reasons, paperwork is often at the bottom of our priority list, especially as calving or lambing begins. Consider this your friendly reminder that we are headed into the season where record keeping should be bumped up on your to-do list.

Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques calls Monday's solar eclipse 'a rare spectacle of nature' and for the Christian community, we include the eclipse as another way for our Creator to show his magnificence and mystery in the sky!

'The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the works of His hands,' declares David in the Psalms.

On Friday, the federal government announced funding for new innovative solutions to help deal with the ongoing labour challenges in the ag sector. 

Under Phase 2 of the Innovative Solutions Canada (ISC) program - Challenge Stream, five projects will each receive up to $1 million in funding.

The projects target the Canadian meat processing industry and the Canadian controlled environment agriculture industry - the concept is to advance automation and robotic technologies.

Interested in what it would take to have a career in the RCMP? 

Join us for a career information session where you can meet some recruiting officers, hear what it would take to have a career with the RCMP and ask questions that might help you begin your career!

The career information session is being held at the RCMP Detachment in Fort St John on April 14, 2024 at 6:00pm and will run for about an hour.  The detachment is located at 10712 100th Street, just north of the old detachment, across the street from City Hall.

Crowder has announced he is getting set to release a new album next month. 

On Friday, the Grammy-nominated artist took to social media to announce his new single 'Dash (featuring TobyMac). At the same time, he also announced the release date of the second album of his three-part trilogy, which started with Milk & Honey in March 2022.

A new Canadian Christian artist hopes her latest single will help listeners rid themselves of the fear and anxiety that may be overwhelming them.

Elenee, who is based out of Saskatchewan, released her newest song 'No Place Here' about two weeks ago.

"I had come up with these words after having just been absolutely done with dealing with some of these lies that the enemy had been planting in my mind," Elenee explained. 

The oldest man alive recently passed away in Venezuela and is being remembered for his loyalty to family and faith.

Juan Vicente Pérez Mora passed away on April 2 in Táchira, Venezuela. His 115 birthday was just a few weeks away, having been born on May 27, 1909. 

Back in 2022, Mora received the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person alive at 112 years and 253 days old. 

Exodus 4:27–28 

Now the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go out into the wilderness to meet Moses.” So Aaron went and met Moses at the mountain of God, and he embraced him. Moses then told Aaron everything the LORD had commanded him to say. And he told him about the miraculous signs the LORD had commanded him to perform. (Exodus 4:27–28)