Three students at Ecole Heritage will go to the Alberta Winter Games in Medicine Hat Feb. 13-16. Above are Nicolas Lavoie and Kayla Guérette for badminton and Quinn Côté for girls hockey. Ecole Heritage photo.
Mac Olsen Express Staff Ethusiastic broomball players for the Town of Falher and Birch Hills Country hit the ice at the West Smoky Arena in Eaglesham on Jan. 23. The Town of Falher were short a few players, so BHC…
Tom Henihan Express Staff While McLennan Fire Department has operated under the direction of a Regional Fire Chief since 2002, the new regional Fire Protection Services Agreement with the MD of Smoky River effective from January 1, 2016 and formally…
Mac Olsen Express Staff Alain Johnson offers Taekwondo lessons to people of all ages and levels, including young children. Johnson, a head instructor with a Fourth Degree Blackbelt, runs a school called Road Warriors Taekwondo, and he holds lessons in…
Joe McWilliams I’ve got a chunk of kimberlite sitting on my desk. It’s pretty useless, and not much to look at, but it stays. It reminds me of one of the things I like about this job, which is the…
Mac Olsen Express Staff It was all for a good cause, to do battle against cancer. Fourteen teams, with four players on each team, competed in the fundraiser for cancer, specifically for the ‘Haying in the 30s’ organization, at Smoky…
Mac Olsen Last week, I added my voice to the growing outcry over Premier Rachel Notley’s controversial Bill 6, requiring all farms and ranches to fall under occupational health and safety rules and to pay workers’ compensation coverage. This week,…
Helene Anita McArthur, of McLennan, Alberta, passed away on Friday January 22, 2016 at the age of 81 years. Helene was born on February 19, 1934 in Guy, Alberta and later attended school in McLennan where she graduated in…
Tony Horvath, long-time resident of Guy, Alberta, passed away on January 13, 2016, in Lac La Biche, Alberta at the age of 53 years. Tony was born in Calgary, Alberta and farmed for many years in Guy, Alberta. Tony was…
Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team News release Grande Prairie… Four people associated to an organized crime group known as the Surrey Boys have been arrested following a series of ALERT raids in Grande Prairie. A significant amount of drugs and…
Normand Boulet, CCA, Ag Fieldman, M.D. of Smoky River No. 130 I had the great fortune to attend the Western Canada Conference on Soil Health in December. It was the first ever conference on soil health in western Canada, organized…
ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 A burst of optimism has you moving toward a new goal, Aries. This positive frame of mind can propel you to the finish line quickly, but make each decision carefully. TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21…
Parents and their children up to five years old enjoying the Prairie Parent Link and McLennan Municipal Library Teddy Bears Picnic event, celebrating National Family Literacy Day Tom Henihan Express Staff @SmokyRiverExprs To mark National Family Literacy Day, on…
Mac Olsen Express Staff @SmokyRiverExprs Community and non-profit groups that wish to develop an online presence should contact the Falher Library to access their new tool called Community Profile. “It’s really powerful,” says Jackie Hockey, who works for the library.…
Richard Froese Spotlight Customer experiences can go much further to boost business, especially during tough economic times. That was the message Christie Pollack of Christie’s Greenhouse in High Prairie explained on an edition of Alberta Agriculture HortSnacks-to-Go webinar series on…