Tag Archives: City Hall
Council approves policy for E.A. Rawlinson Fund
Prince Albert city council has thrashed out a clear future for a half a million-dollar fund earmarked for the E.A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts. Previously the money had been managed by the P.A. and ...
Oct 02, 2019 Inside the John and Olive Diefenbaker Theatre at the E.A. Rawlinson Centre. (File photo/paNOW staff)
Cost of proposed back alley bylaw: $150,000
Prince Albert city council has heard that a controversial bylaw they are pursuing would be the first of its kind in Canada and come with a $150,000 price tag. The proposed bylaw that would allow polic...
Oct 01, 2019 A graphic shows back alleys that would be restricted under a proposed bylaw, lanes in residential zones are shown in blue while lanes in commercial/industrial zones are red. (council agenda/City of P.A.)
Man with 29 property-related offences, receives four-month jail sentence
As Prince Albert City Council mulls over a possible bylaw affecting back alley traffic, a man who was caught this month wheeling a stolen barbecue down a back alley in the city's midtown area, was in ...
Oct 01, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Milk crates no longer welcome at Raider games
One of the more iconic symbols of the Prince Albert Raiders 2019 Championship campaign has been given a permanent game misconduct.According to standard procedure for public buildings, the City of Prin...
Sep 27, 2019 (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Traffic light removal results in no increase in incidents
Officials says there has not been any change in the incident rate at the Prince Albert downtown intersections where five sets of traffic lights were removed a month ago.The city approved their removal...
Sep 27, 2019 The intersection of 12th Street and First Avenue W. is where one of five sets of traffic lights were recently removed in the P.A. downtown. (Glenn Hicks/paNOW Staff)
Fifty years ago: Prince Albert City Hall raised new provincial flag
The green-and-yellow provincial banner, in its current form has been flying over the skies of Prince Albert for the last half century.Fifty years ago Sunday, as part of a province-wide ceremony, that ...
Sep 23, 2019 (Bill Smiley Archives/P.A.Historical Society/P.A.Daily Herald)
A new vision for P.A. playgrounds
An ambitious plan for Prince Albert's playgrounds is set to be unveiled at an October city council meeting. The report is an inventory of the 30 playgrounds in the city, with individual recommendation...
Sep 20, 2019 In June, a state-of-the-art $1,000,000 playground with considerations for kids with disabilities was opened at the Alfred Jenkins Fieldhouse. The funding for that project came from the Canadian Tire Jumpstart Project. (Michael Joel-Hansen/paNOW Staff)
Councillor claims he was lied to about speed bump
Two months after a new playground was built, Crescent Acres residents are concerned about speeding cars. They want to see a speed bump installed on Muzzy Drive across from the park. "There's a lot of ...
Sep 19, 2019 The playground on Muzzy Drive cost just over $100,000 and opened in July (Michael Joel-Hanson/paNOW staff)
What to do with Prince Albert's waste
Prince Albert city council members are learning alternatives to more landfill space are not cheap, however they appear eager to chase cleaner options. "We may not be able to afford to do a full-scale ...
Sep 17, 2019 A trash can in Kinsmen Park. Thirty-five per cent of Prince Albert's garbage is organic material that could be composted. (Ron Quaroni/paNOW Staff)
Seniors petition city for bench
Nine months after they asked the city of Prince Albert for a bench at the bus stop across from their building, it appears residents of Sherman Towers will get it."So many are elderly, and a lot are ch...
Sep 17, 2019 A woman with a cane supports herself by gripping a sign post while waiting for the bus on First Ave. E. (Sherman Towers Tenant Association/P.A. city council package)
