The students of Horace Allen School and Isabelle Sellon School held a dance-a-thon on May 18. The event was organized by the parents’ council of HAS and the advisory council of ISS. Scott Warris DJed the event and both ISS principal Paul Pichurski and HAS assistant principal Myrna Dembicki were pied for the occasion. HAS raised about $7,155, ISS collected $4,273 for a grand total of about $11,428. HAS has more students. The proceeds will be split between the two schools to pay for special programming.

The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) kicked off its 2015 Conservation Volunteers (CV) season with an evening of amphibious adventures at the Frayn conservation property, located on the west end of the Blairmore townsite in the Crowsnest Pass.
The group of 16 volunteers, joined by NCC staff and professional biologist Yvonne Bazin, braved the rainy conditions [...]

What I’ve come to realize is that in this day and age everything seems to be about the greater output. It’s all about what can be made bigger, better, stronger and faster. From business aspects to leisurely activities, it’s all been consumed by [...]

Living in a tent, schizophrenic, addicted to crack cocaine, Crowsnest resident Kenneth Lowe was in a bad way long before he assaulted Coleman Subway manager Prabha Sharma for no apparent reason.
The Crown and defence factored in this history of mental illness, substance abuse and [...]

After the previous council allocated $1 million for the York Creek Lodge expansion, the municipality will need to borrow $700,000 to honour the pledge.
In 2010, the municipality committed the million dollars on condition that [...]

From July 30 to Aug. 3, the Doors Open and Heritage Festival will be celebrating the ancient reptiles that ruled the Pass long ago.
The theme for this year’s festival is Stones and Bones: our Native, Dinosaur and Archaeology Heritage.
The festival is being kicked off with [...]