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United Way, City of GP provide $60K in emergency funding to keep Cool Aid Society open until June

Grande Prairie City Council and the United Way Alberta Northwest have finalized a deal that will keep Grande Prairie's Cool Aid Society open until at least the end of the school year. 

United Way mixing art and music at upcoming event

The United Way Alberta Northwest plans to mix rap music with art this Saturday. It will be holding the...

United Way releases goal for this year’s campaign season

The United Way hopes to help 33,000 residents in the Grande Prairie area this year by raising roughly 1,000,000...

Stuff A Bus providing local students with school supplies

The United Way and Staples are partnering up to make sure students have the supplies they need this school...

Hole-in-one tournament prize upped to $5 million

The stakes have been raised. The prize for the annual hole-in-one tournament sponsored by Subway has gone from a...

United Way Executive Director set to retire

After three years with the United Way Alberta Northwest, Brenda Yamkowy will be moving on at the end of...

United Way serving up KD to raise poverty awareness

Even in these poor economic times, it can still be hard to picture Grande Prairie households living in poverty....

$16K donation kicks off United Way Week

The United Way Northwest Alberta has set a goal of raising $1.4 million for its community partners and programs...

School supplies needed for local students

The average Canadian spends $108 per child on school supplies, and the United Way wants to help ease the...

Food trucks to help raise money for charity

You can eat lunch and know that part of your money that you spend is going to a charity...

$100K goal for United Way Week

$100,000 may seem like a steep fundraising goal, but it's one the United Way Alberta Northwest is undertaking over the...

Another $1.3M campaign goal for United Way

Through workplace campaigns, donation boxes and a week dedicated to fundraising, the United Way Alberta Northwest is again looking...

United Way Slave Lake merging with Alberta Northwest chapter

Two United Way organizations in northern Alberta have merged. The United Way of Slave Lake is being dissolved, and...

School supplies needed

When school starts this fall, many children in our community will show up without the basic supplies. That's the motivation...

$1.3 million campaign goal for United Way Northwest Alberta

The United Way Alberta Northwest's 2014 campaign kicked off this afternoon with the announcement that $145,000 has already been raised...

HIV North's Brenda Yamkowy makes move to United Way

Brenda Yamkowy has been named the new Executive Director of the United Way Alberta Northwest. Yamkowy has worked with non-profit...
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Bonanza School students complete school project to help classmates who are deaf and hard of hearing

Grade five and six students at Bonanza School have teamed up with Peace Collaborative Services to complete a project that will benefit some of their own classmates. 

Several city facilities closed, operating on adjusted hours during Family Day holiday

Numerous city facilities will have adjusted hours of operation on February 17th in recognition of the Family Day statutory holiday. 

HFCRD encourages students to click with caution during division-wide Cyber Awareness Week

The Holy Family Catholic Regional Division has announced its upcoming Cyber Awareness Week, scheduled to run from February 18th to February 21st. 

United Way, City of GP provide $60K in emergency funding to keep Cool Aid Society open until June

Grande Prairie City Council and the United Way Alberta Northwest have finalized a deal that will keep Grande Prairie's Cool Aid Society open until at least the end of the school year. 

County of GP property re-inspections to commence in March

Assessors from the County of Grande Prairie will begin property re-inspections in a section of the county on March 1st. 
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