The High Prairie Peewee Tier 2 team simply outgunned the Valleyview Ice Bears in their march toward the All Peace Minor Hockey League title March 8.
High Prairie swept the best-of-five series by scores of 10-7 on Feb. 28, 5-4 on Feb. 29 and 9-4 on March 8.
The playoff run for the High Prairie Red Wings is over just as it started.
Officials of the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League pulled the plug on the West Division playoffs March 13 over the coronavirus worldwide pandemic announced March 11 by the World Health Organization.
Career opportunities in the forest industry were presented to junior high school students at a forestry career fair March 3 in High Prairie.
Employers and industry partners presented options in the fair at Edmo Peyre Hall, organized by Lesser Slave Forest Education Society.
A petition urging the provincial government to level the old High Prairie hospital was presented to the local MLA on site.
Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn accepted the petition with 527 names March 6 by High Prairie and Area Chamber of Commerce president Barry Sharkawi.
The Alberta Budget delivered Feb. 27 will bring down the province’s deficit by $1.2 billion, and that is a good thing, says Lesser Slave Lake MLA Pat Rehn.
“Our plan is working,” he said the day after the budget was tabled in the Alberta Legislature.
A family in the High Prairie area has created and presented a new award in memory of a former longtime farmer.
The first Grant Gaschnitz Memorial Ag Knowledge Sponsorship was awarded Feb. 22 by the Peace Country Beef and Forage Association at the annual general meeting.
Requests from Big Lakes County for provincial funding support for paving and water projects appear to be going nowhere.
A letter to Reeve Richard Simard from Transportation Minister Ric McIver explains funding for local projects is not a priority.
Big Lakes County officially opened it new animal care facility Feb. 7.
The county built the facility at its main base in High Prairie with $300,000 from the provincial government Municipal Sustainability Initiative program.
Donations to the High Prairie food bank are being encouraged to help fill the needs in the community.
Staff at the High Prairie and District Food Bank had a hectic start to the year, co-ordinator Kim Dumont says.
Wildfire season starts March 1 despite the piles of snow outside.
A fire permit will be required for any type of outdoor burning in the forest protection area from March 1 to Oct. 31, says a news release from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry dated Feb. 14.
