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The beautiful Battle River is being polluted. Sometime between June 18 at 3 p.m. and June 19 at 9 a.m. nine 20-litre pails of cooking grease and oil were discovered on the bank of the river just south of the green bridge on 50 Ave according to town officials.

The skies quickly turned dark on June 17 at approximately 4 p.m. on a nice sunny day. Then the rain and wind came fast and hard. The thunder shook the trees and the lightening lit up the sky.

The Ponoka Outreach School held their sixth annual graduation recognition and awards banquet on June 16 at the Kinsmen Centre. More than 270 people were in attendance, approximately 100 more than last year, to honour 30 graduating students and 36 students from junior and senior high school for individual awards.

Ian Bateman, left, Hailey Boser, Emily Jacobs, Mark Ferguson, Ian Ferguson and Andrew Jacobs work the horn section during the band concert at Diamond Willow Middle School June 11. Approximately 75 people took in the concert, which consisted of big band tunes, Elvis song and classics like Amazing Grace.

Fresh air, spring blossoms and wildlife are continuously being enjoyed at the JJ Collett Centre by many students from Ponoka and surrounding areas. The JJ Collett Educational program involves approximately 17 classes of 425 students from Ponoka, Lacombe, Blackfalds and other nearby areas.

The Ponoka RCMP have charged a male in relation to the sexual assault/home invasion that occurred on May 25. The person was arrested between June 14 and 15 and has been remanded in custody until his hearing, which is scheduled for Ponoka Provincial Court on June 20 according to Sgt. Glenn Demaere of the Ponoka RCMP.

Fire hydrants in Ponoka will be flushed out over the next two or three months to help maintain the efficiency of fire hydrants. The Town of Ponoka Waterworks department annually flushes out all fire hydrants in the town to ensure that they will work properly in case there is a fire.

The St.Augustine School’s performance of Disney’s Aladdin Jr. was well staged, very well performed and overall an excellent musical. The St.A’s Theatre Studies Program put on the production from June 5 to 8 at the high school gymnasium. The students rehearsed the play for approximately an hour every other day and their practice paid off.

SAAN stores across Canada are having a going-out-of-business sale, which is being conducted by Great American LLC Group and Hudson Capital Partners LLC. This includes the SAAN store in Ponoka located on 51st St.

Ponoka Composite High School had two situations involving the RCMP last week. On June 6 the school received generic threats against the school. RCMP reported that the threats arose from the fight that occurred at the school on June 4. At the time a joint decision was made between the Wolf Creek Public School Board and the Ponoka Detachment of the RCMP to close the school and send the students home.