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Extended service hours will be offered in June to provide rate payers greater convenience to pay their property taxes by the last business day of the month. Property tax payments are due Friday, June 28, 2024. Payments made after this date will be subject to a penalty. 

Property tax and assessment notices for 2024 were mailed to approximately 20,000 property owners in the County of Grande Prairie in May. Payments can be made:   

Anne Wilson is wholly embracing who she is, a country and Christian singer/songwriter.

In April, Wilson released her album Rebel. At the moment, Rebel is No. 1 on Billboard's Top Christian Album chart as well as No. 10 on Billboard's Top Country Album chart.

One of the songs on her album is called 'Songs About Whiskey,' which had some Christian fans worried about the singer. 

When a man with a face full of tattoos stepped into prison and met his cellmate, he didn't think it meant he would also meet the Lord. However, that's exactly what happened. 

"I had an encounter with the Holy Spirit when I was in jail," an inmate shares in a video on Instagram. 

The inmate shares his testimony of being sentenced and going to jail at the end of 2018. 

"My cellmate was Joshua Pardue, man I would never forget. I was watching TV and he's like, 'Do you believe in Jesus?'"

The Canadian Cattle Association and Canadian Cattle Youth Council are concerned with Ottawa's plans to push through capital gains changes.

The proposed changes would see the lifetime capital gains exemption increase from $1 million to $1.25 million, while the capital gains tax, which is paid after that, change from 50 per cent to 67 per cent.

Canadian Cattle Youth Council President Scott Gerbrandt says they are concerned about the proposed increase and what it could mean for family farms.

Luke 11:13

If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!

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2 Timothy 1:1-5

Several years ago someone interviewed the contemporary artist Marc Chagall for a PBS program. The young, arty interviewer started the session with a question about influences. His question was very long and involved and exhibited his own learning along the way, giving everybody, including Chagall, a lecture on the nature of influences on the artist.

The Grande Prairie Public School Division is proud to announce that Laura Noel, teacher from Parkside Montessori, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Prime Minister's Certificate of Teaching Excellence. This award recognizes Laura's exceptional ability to inspire and empower young learners through creative and empathetic teaching methods.
 

The Grande Prairie Police Service, through Grande Prairie Enforcement Services, has launched a new Community Engagement Team (CET) dedicated to responding to social disorder impacting businesses and residents across the city. The move follows the end of the City of Grande Prairie’s Public Security Unit (PSU) agreement. 

The Grande Prairie Friendship Centre is making temporary changes for tonight’s supper after a small fire at the facility yesterday.

They are working diligently to get everything back up and running.

They want to inform the public that bagged supper will be provided from 5:00 – 6:00pm tonight in the East parking lot.

Up to date information will be posted on their social media as it becomes available. 

Information provided by The Grande Prairie Friendship Centre/Facebook page

On Wednesday afternoon, Colton Dixon dropped the official music video for 'Up + Up'. 

Dixon posted on social media saying, "My new music video for Up+Up is OUT NOW! This is probably my favorite music video yet!"