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The great outdoors can be celebrated at Muskoseepi Park this Family Day Weekend.
While last weekend’s Arctic blast cancelled the first weekend of Family Festivities in the Park,
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Hayley Kramps, Programming and Events Supervisor with the city, expects this weekend to continue as planned.
“We are anticipating it going ahead,” Kramps said. “The call for cancellation would only happen 24 hours (before).
“It was quite disappointing (to cancel last weekend) but the weather didn’t permit it and we want everyone to have the best experience.”
The city says environmental assessments have been done, consultation was done with Alberta Environment and Parks, and that the caragana will be replaced by berry shrubs and trees would be planted as a noise barrier.
The city says the caraganas are an invasive species and a threat to native plants. A motion from Councillor Clyde Blackburn to halt work on the project, put the vegetation back, and look for a different site was defeated on a tie vote. The project must be completed this year, or the city will lose some funding.
Mayor Jackie Clayton apologized to the people that are opposed but maintains this will be a good addition to that part of the city. Blackburn called it a hasty decision made for the want of money.
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Publishing date: Jan 20, 2021 • January 20, 2021 • 3 minute read • Motorists using 100 Avenue for their daily commute will have to use an alternative route this summer when the fourth phase of the Downtown Rehabilitation project gets underway this summer. It will affect the area between 98 and 100 Streets. RANDY VANDERVEEN
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Grande Prairie City Council is looking to borrow up to $14-million for the fourth phase of the downtown rehabilitation project.
The Corporate Services Committee sent a recommendation forward to Monday’s council meeting, that a first reading be given to a borrowing bylaw, permitting the city to borrow money to complete the project.
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Birders conducted the annual Christmas count of birds over the weekend, getting an annual snapshot of the number and variety of species in the Grande Prairie and Beaverlodge area.
Joan Kerr, who co-ordinates both bird counts, said participants who participated each day came up with 32 species in Grande Prairie and 25 in Beaverlodge.
“We can (reference) the count week also, so we had evening grosbeak and black-backed woodpecker for count week, but the main one is the main day which is 32 species,” she said. “We got some summer birds. We got (American) robin, (northern) flicker, dark-eyed Junco, white-throated sparrow for summer birds.”