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High Prairie Elementary talent in spotlight

High Prairie Elementary School students learned skills in public speaking and drama during the High Prairie Performing Arts Festival on May 2 initiated by local music-piano teacher Adam Brulotte. “I’m trying to get more performing arts in the region,” Brulotte…
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Growth Alberta encourages ideas

Chris CleggSouth Peace News Laying new groundwork for long-term economic success was the focus of a workshop held at the Eagle River Casino near Whitecourt April 15-16. Leaders from across north-central Alberta gathered for the workshop, hosted by the Growth…
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Royal Purple Elks donate

The High Prairie Royal Purple Elks donated $10,000 toward the purchase of a cardiac telemetry April 23. The High Prairie Healthcare Auxiliary is raising money to buy the equipment, which costs around $250,000. A cardiac telemetry is a method of…
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Call the fire department!

This stuffed koala bear is up a tree with no place to go! It can be found in the trees on the north side of Green Acres Apartments in High Prairie.
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‘Oh, deer, look what I see!’

Rowan Wishart, 4, is held by his father Brock Wishart, left, as they admire a mount of a white-tailed deer at the display of Dave Booth Taxidermy, of Slave Lake, at the 22nd annual High Prairie Gun and Sportsman Show…
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Art is what they see and what they feel!

High Prairie E.W. Pratt High School Art students have double duty! They create drawings from real life based on what they see and they create watercolour paintings based on what they feel! Yet the line separating the two is never…
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Trustees press premier for new St. Andrew’s

Richard FroeseSouth Peace News A new building for St. Andrew’s School in High Prairie was the main priority Holy Family Catholic Regional Division trustees pressed the premier and education minister at a special reception April 15 in Edmonton. Trustees spoke…
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Hey, High Prairie! Look what we made

Last week, the classrooms at High Prairie St. Andrew’s School were buzzing with excitement as students dove into festive activities to celebrate the Easter season. The highlight of the week? A colourful and creative Easter egg decorating session led by…
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Thousands expected for annual gun show

Richard FroeseSouth Peace News The 22nd annual High Prairie Gun and Sportsman Show returns April 26-27 with three venues full of displays. “We have another full house of vendors,” says Darrell Basarab, longtime chair of the organizing committee of the…
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Students win prizes in annual Legion contest

Each year, Royal Canadian Legion branches across Canada invite students to participate in their Remembrance Day contest. Categories include primary, intermediate and senior black and white posters, colour posters, and poems. Winners announced in December received $75 while second place…
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Prevention eases threat of wildfires

Richard FroeseSouth Peace News Wildland firefighters will be busy over the next few weeks preventing wildfires as warmer weather approaches. Firefighters started work in mid-April burning areas of dead and dry grass on public land around communities in the Slave…
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1st hemp bale only days away!

Emily PlihalLocal JournalismInitiative Reporter The wait is over for Smoky Hemp Decortication Ltd with the arrival of the last two pieces of its operating system, and the board is hopefully to be processing hemp by the end of the month!…
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Art continues to exceed boundaries

High Prairie E.W. Pratt High School student art can be about Math and Geometry, but it can also veer into the realm of feelings and emotion, all the while pursuing the artistic elements with precision and heart. Students receive instruction…
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Man caught with cocaine, meth in vehicle

Chris CleggSouth Peace News What started as a rather innocent incident quickly ballooned to a far more serious matter for a Peace River man in late March. On March 24, Peace River Regional RCMP responded to a report of a…
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Deadline nears to apply for 2 $1,500 Watershed Council bursaries

The Lesser Slave Watershed Council (LSWC) established the Elliott and Rosche Memorial Bursary in 2020 in memory of two founding directors, Brian Elliott and Brian Rosche, who contributed significant time and energy to the establishment of the Lesser Slave Watershed…
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