September 30 is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, observed simultaneously with Orange Shirt Day. Both days were established to honour survivors of Canada’s residential school system, their families, and the children who never returned home.

From our very first issue on September 4, 2018, Respect has billed itself as “the newspaper for seniors (and seniors-to-be).”

One man, six banjos — but no concert?

Dusk & Dawn, a feature film shot in and around St. Paul, is coming home for a screening.

Bonnyville volunteers supporting The Rolling Barrage gathered at Bonnyville’s Legion hall Saturday to enjoy a team dinner.

Bonnyville rodeo grounds was the place for fresh produce, prepared foods, handcrafted items, unique products, and live entertainment on Saturday.

Members and their invited guests celebrated two milestone anniversaries at Royal Canadian Legion Cold Lake Branch 211 on September 12. This year is the 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Legion, and the 80th anniversary of the Cold Lake branch.

I am perfectly comfortable disclosing my bias on the upcoming Alberta referendum: I am strongly, passionately Canadian (did you guess?). And I view the other nine questions on the ballot with extreme trepidation. The Government of Alberta has…

A series of ten murals depicting Elk Point history has been a local landmark for almost forty years, but four decades of weather exposure have taken a toll on the paintings.

Bonnyville Friendship Centre is following up on the success of their men’s leadership session from last spring.

Fabulous tales and unreliable reports didn’t start with Facebook. But it was on Facebook that I first saw the astounding 1927 story of a possibly prehistoric reptile wandering in the wheat fields near Killaley, Saskatchewan. It was the name…

Fabulous tales and unreliable reports didn’t start with Facebook. But it was on Facebook that I first saw the astounding 1927 story of a possibly prehistoric reptile wandering in the wheat fields near Killaley, Saskatchewan. It was the name…

Where do our meat and vegetables, jams and jellies, fruit, cereals and cooking oils, cheese, beer, and all of our other foods come from?

The City of Cold Lake has formally agreed to provide a $1.75 million loan to CGA Medical Imaging Inc for the purchase of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) unit.

Bonnyville’s first “Bonnyville Around The World” celebration brought more than 200 people together under sunny skies August 7.

I have a lot of questions swirling around my tiny brain after the signing ceremony for a partnership to bring an MRI diagnostic imaging unit to Cold Lake (see August 18 story on my Authory main page). Healthcare is, of course a provincial…

As the saying goes, make hay while the sun shines.

More than ever, the people who make up Bonnyville’s community are people who were born elsewhere—somewhere else in Canada, perhaps, or in another country altogether.

Soul Symphony: The Art of Alex Janvier at Cold Lake Energy Centre until August 10

I wrote my most recent column from Lens, France on the morning of July 20 just before setting out to visit nearby Vimy Ridge. That visit was an intensely emotional start to an emotional day, and I intend to write more about it this fall. I visited…