Card nights at the Swan Hills 50+ club are a fun way to spend an evening visiting with friends. The card games themselves are almost secondary to the whole experience as the group enjoys socializing in the welcoming space at the centre. At twice a week, card nights are the most frequent events on the…
With cold weather warnings just days beforehand, Mother Nature relented with warmer weather and clear (if overcast) skies for the Swan Hills Snow-Goers’ 54th Annual Rally. It was a fantastic day for snowmobiling! Swan Hills welcomed an influx of visitors on Saturday, with 225 total registrants for the snowmobile rally, including 43 youths that joined…
It was a chilly Valentine’s Day this year, really putting the old adage “cold hands, warm heart” to the test. Swan Hills FCSS and the Family Resource Network (FRN) braved the cold to present the Valentine’s Day story walk on Tuesday afternoon along the trail beginning at the southwestern corner of the Super A parking…
Hockey fever is in the air! Swan Hills Fun Hockey hosted a Littles tournament on Saturday, with the Grizzlies Littles taking to the ice against Linaria, Rich Valley, and Fort Assiniboine. Each team played one game against each of the other teams, for three games in total. The Grizzlies played their little hearts out and…
The Tom Parkinson Centennial Arena was packed to the rafters with hockey players, fans, noise, and excitement on Saturday as Swan Hills Fun Hockey hosted a Middles tournament, squaring off against teams from Neerlandia, Fort Assiniboine, and Rich Valley. While it was a cold day outside, the arena was burning up with nonstop hockey action.…
The Swan Hills Snow-Goers have been hard at work clearing the local snowmobile trails, getting them in tip-top shape for the season and preparing for upcoming events in February, including the club’s 54th Annual Rally on February 25. As part of the Alberta Snowmobile Tours being offered by the Alberta Snowmobile Association (ASA) in various…
The weather in the Swan Hills area has been perfect for getting out on the trails over the past few weeks, although a little more snow would be very welcome. The temperatures have been mild for this time of year and, thankfully, not warm enough to melt the snow that we have. While riding the…
The Swan Hills School staff’s first-ever “Stuff The Bus” food drive was a resounding success. After a busy night collecting food donations on Thursday evening, volunteers for the campaign loaded up all of the seats on the bus and were able to fill the shelves at the food bank. According to associate Principal Kara King,…
After a summer fraught with uncertainty, The Gym has reopened in what was once the United Church at the corner of Home St. and Plaza Ave. The Swan Hills Fitness & Lifestyle Association (SHFLA), the non-profit organization behind The Gym, had received the news at the end of June that the building housing The Gym…
There are two species of swans native to Alberta, the Trumpeter Swan and the Tundra Swan. With a wingspan of close to six feet and weighing in at about 25 lbs, Trumpeter Swans have the distinction of being the largest species of waterfowl native to North America. Trumpeter Swans came close to extinction from overhunting,…
Card nights at the Swan Hills 50+ club are a fun way to spend an evening visiting with friends. The card games themselves are almost secondary to the whole experience as the group enjoys socializing in the welcoming space at the centre. At twice a week, card nights are the most frequent events on the…
With cold weather warnings just days beforehand, Mother Nature relented with warmer weather and clear (if overcast) skies for the Swan Hills Snow-Goers’ 54th Annual Rally. It was a fantastic day for snowmobiling! Swan Hills welcomed an influx of visitors on Saturday, with 225 total registrants for the snowmobile rally, including 43 youths that joined…
It was a chilly Valentine’s Day this year, really putting the old adage “cold hands, warm heart” to the test. Swan Hills FCSS and the Family Resource Network (FRN) braved the cold to present the Valentine’s Day story walk on Tuesday afternoon along the trail beginning at the southwestern corner of the Super A parking…
Hockey fever is in the air! Swan Hills Fun Hockey hosted a Littles tournament on Saturday, with the Grizzlies Littles taking to the ice against Linaria, Rich Valley, and Fort Assiniboine. Each team played one game against each of the other teams, for three games in total. The Grizzlies played their little hearts out and…
The Tom Parkinson Centennial Arena was packed to the rafters with hockey players, fans, noise, and excitement on Saturday as Swan Hills Fun Hockey hosted a Middles tournament, squaring off against teams from Neerlandia, Fort Assiniboine, and Rich Valley. While it was a cold day outside, the arena was burning up with nonstop hockey action.…
The Swan Hills Snow-Goers have been hard at work clearing the local snowmobile trails, getting them in tip-top shape for the season and preparing for upcoming events in February, including the club’s 54th Annual Rally on February 25. As part of the Alberta Snowmobile Tours being offered by the Alberta Snowmobile Association (ASA) in various…
The weather in the Swan Hills area has been perfect for getting out on the trails over the past few weeks, although a little more snow would be very welcome. The temperatures have been mild for this time of year and, thankfully, not warm enough to melt the snow that we have. While riding the…
The Swan Hills School staff’s first-ever “Stuff The Bus” food drive was a resounding success. After a busy night collecting food donations on Thursday evening, volunteers for the campaign loaded up all of the seats on the bus and were able to fill the shelves at the food bank. According to associate Principal Kara King,…
After a summer fraught with uncertainty, The Gym has reopened in what was once the United Church at the corner of Home St. and Plaza Ave. The Swan Hills Fitness & Lifestyle Association (SHFLA), the non-profit organization behind The Gym, had received the news at the end of June that the building housing The Gym…
There are two species of swans native to Alberta, the Trumpeter Swan and the Tundra Swan. With a wingspan of close to six feet and weighing in at about 25 lbs, Trumpeter Swans have the distinction of being the largest species of waterfowl native to North America. Trumpeter Swans came close to extinction from overhunting,…