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As winter brings challenging driving conditions, practicing proper headlight etiquette is essential for keeping everyone safe on the roads. Snow, blowing snow, fog, and long winter nights can impair visibility, making it important for drivers to understand how to effectively use their vehicle’s headlights.

Grande Prairie RCMP provide simple headlight usage guidelines to improve safety and prevent accidents this winter:

Longtime Fort St. John residents Sharon and John Fehr flew to Calgary to spend two days - Dec. 12-13 - inspecting Operation Christmas Child gift-filled shoeboxes before they are transported to children in need in Central America, west Africa, Ukraine and the Philippines.

Congratulations to Mark and Faith Siebert our latest Date Night on Daniel winners.

They won a $100 gift card to Mr. Mike's Steakhouse Casual and a Cineplex gift card courtesy of Daniel Cram of Sutton Realty.

Federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon says he is "calling a timeout" in the Canada Post strike, and asking the Canada Industrial Relations Board to send about 55,000 employees back to work.

Mackinnon says the Crown corporation and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers are at an impasse after a nearly month-long work stoppage, and negotiations are actually going in the wrong direction.

He says if the board agrees the two sides are at an impasse, it has been asked to order union members to return to work until May.

Elevation Woship was recently recognized at the Billboard Music Awards.

The popular worship band picked up three awards including, “Top Christian Artist,” “Top Christian Album (​​​​​Can You Imagine?)” and “Top Christian Song (“Praise”).

Since the band was formed, they have picked up a total of five BBMAs, which are determined by year-end performance metrics on the Billboard charts.

Canada has told the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal it can't say when it will work through a backlog of some 140,000 cases related to First Nations child services.

That has led to a prominent child welfare advocate and First Nations leaders in Manitoba warning about an escalating crisis caused by Canada's inaction.

The popular Bible app, YouVersion has released the top verse from the app in 2024. 

This year, the top verse is Philippians 4:6, which says, "Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."

YouVersion Founder and CEO, Bobby Gruenewald says that the top verse is determined by a few factors. "Every year when we see the verse that people engage with the most, it's highlighted, bookmarked and shared the most throughout the year."

Matthew: 4-6

When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: “‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for out of you will come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.”

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Psalm 46:10

How can we face the fog of our uneasy, uncertain future? All these terrifying events are happening—political unrest, terrorist threats and attacks, a struggling economy. What more can the future hold?
 
Verse 10 of Psalm 46 answers that. We will not worry. The text says, "cease striving..." The Hebrew simply uses one term in that command, and it means, "Stop!" What a great directive! STOP! 

On Friday, November 15, 2024, at approximately 1:00 a.m., Grande Prairie RCMP Crime Reduction Unit conducted a traffic stop on 94 Avenue Willow drive. During the traffic stop, multiple identity documents and mail belonging to multiple people that weren’t the female driver and sole occupant of the vehicle were located. A subsequent search of the vehicle resulted in the additional seizure of break-in tools.

Vanessa Jordan (44) a resident of Grande Prairie, has been charged with: