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A former Major League Baseball player is praising God after surviving a heart attack one day before his 62nd birthday.

Darryl Strawberry, who played for the New York Mets and Yankees, took to Instagram on Tuesday to thank God and the staff that saved his life. 

Grammy Award-winning group Elevation Worship's latest song, 'Praise' has hit a new milestone.  

This week, the single, featuring Brandon Lake, Chris Brown and Chandler Moore, hit No.1 on Billboard's Hot Christian Songs. 

Stats Can released its Principal Field Crop estimates for 2024 this week.

Canadian farmers are expected to plant more wheat, corn for grain, oats, lentils and dry peas in 2024, while the area seeded to canola, soybeans and barley is anticipated to drop compared with 2023 levels.

Nationally, wheat acres are expected to hit 27 million acres up slightly from last year, with 19.2 million acres of spring wheat, 1.5 million acres of winter wheat and 6.3 million acres of durum wheat.

Saskatchewan's acreage is anticipated to hit 14.2 million acres. 

2 Peter 1:5-8

"For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ."

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This week, the USDA published the final Product of USA labeling rule for the voluntary labeling of  U.S. meat, poultry, and egg products.

The rule stipulates that to qualify for the label meat must be derived from animals born, raised, slaughtered and processed in the U.S.

The new policy, which is being referred to as voluntary country of original labelling (V-COOL),  is set to come into effect by January 1, 2026.

Some decisions were finalized at Monday's County of Grande Prairie Council Meeting. 

County administration was advised to proceed with a request for Tender for construction of the Wapiti Bridge Trail Connector.

The four-kilometre asphalt trail from the Wapiti bridge will connect with the Dunes paved trail network on Township Road 704A.

More information on the Wapiti Bridge Trail Connector can be found on the County of Grande Prairie website.

All City outdoor rinks are now closed for the season.

Thank you to Aquatera Utilities Inc., for providing the resources to flood our rinks this season. We hope everyone had a great time skating!

Mother Teresa Catholic School - Grade 1 & 2 Teachers!

Congratulations to Annie and the grade 1 & 2 teachers at Mother Teresa Catholic School for winning this week!

They enjoyed hot coffee and treats from McDonald's! 

Enter your business and you and your co-workers could win coffee and a variety of muffins, lil donuts, cookies, egg McMuffins and breakfast burritos from McDonald's!

We'll draw a winner every week and will personally deliver McDonald's coffee and treats to the winning business.

A security guard working at a Catholic college in Rhode Island was floored when students went above and beyond to brighten his day.

It's been over a decade since James has seen his family after moving to the United States from Nigeria. 

When the students heard about this, they decided they needed to do something. That's when Brandon Reichert came up with the idea to start a GoFundMe. 

The Color recently performed at a three-day youth conference in Mexico, the same location where one of the band members' family lived. 

"Larry's family grew up in Cuauhtémoc and some of his siblings spent some of their childhood," says Jordan Janzen, lead singer of The Color. "The reason why we were the ones they reached out to was because somebody had seen us perform at the Harvest Festival in Winkler. So when they were getting ready to plan their youth conference, they thought of us."