New Community Engagement Team in Grande Prairie helps combat social disorder

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. 

Supper changes at Grande Prairie Friendship Centre after small fire yesterday

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

Trudeau heads to Italy as shadows of war in Ukraine, Gaza loom over G7 summit

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to Italy on Wednesday to attend the annual G7 leaders' summit, which is taking place as two major geopolitical conflicts weigh on the international community.

The three-day summit kicks off on Thursday in Apulia, Italy, where leaders of the seven wealthy democratic nations are expected to discuss the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas wars, the energy transition, artificial intelligence, migration and collaboration with Africa.

SpaceX staff collect cosmic junk found on farmer's field in Saskatchewan

Two men with SpaceX descended on a Saskatchewan farm in a moving truck Tuesday to retrieve cosmic junk that fell earlier this year from one of its spacecraft.

The workers, who didn't give their names while at the farm near Ituna, lugged the large scorched pieces of carbon fibre and aluminum into the back of the U-Haul before leaving.

They declined to say why the fragments failed to burn up before slamming into the field, what spacecraft the pieces came from, where the wreckage was going and what the company plans to do with it. 

'In high school I started meeting Jesus through worship': New music from Canadian artist Jake Fretz

Canadian worship leader and artist, Jake Fretz has been a music lover before he can remember. 

"My mom always tells me that she would go to church on Sunday mornings and as soon as the music would start I would start kicking and dancing so much that she actually had to take a seat in the pew. So I've always felt like this is something that has been in my blood and in my DNA right from the beginning," Fretz says.

80-year-old cycles across Alberta to raise support for cancer research

80-year-old Art Brochu is on an incredible journey right now, cycling over 2000 kilometers in support of the Alberta Cancer Foundation.  

Brochu left the Fort McMurray Cancer Centre on June 10 and is hoping to visit seventeen different cancer centers across Alberta before finishing his tour in Medicine Hat on July 29, 2024.  

Cattle producers are running out of time to purchase calf insurance

Cattle producers across the Prairies still have time to purchase calf insurance under the Livestock Price Insurance program. 

The program allows producers to manage their risk by providing protection against unexpected drops in prices over a defined period of time.

Saskatchewan's program coordinator, Jodie Griffin, says the calf price insurance deadline is Thursday, June 13th for producers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.

She notes they've seen a lot of interest in the calf program and strong interest in the feeder program as well.

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