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Alberta Bowl: Spruce Grove wins its first provincial title

November 27, 2022 | Brian Swane
For the first time, the Spruce Grove Panthers senior football team are provincial champions. In an Alberta Bowl thriller at Calgary’s Shouldice Park in Calgary Saturday, Spruce Grove rallied to ...

Alberta Bowl: EE alumnus guides Royals to six-a-side title

November 26, 2022 | Brian Swane
Call it the comeback to go back-to-back. In the opening game of Alberta Bowl 2022 at Shouldice Park in Calgary on Friday afternoon, the Millwoods Christian Royals rallied from a 10-point deficit ...

Alberta Bowl: Titans face friends and family for Tier 1 title

November 25, 2022 | Brian Swane
For a couple hours Saturday night, friends and family will be foes when the battle lines are drawn across Hellard Field at Shouldice Park in Calgary for the Alberta Schools Athletic Association ...

Alberta Bowl: Panthers seize opportunity in new division

November 24, 2022 | Brian Swane
For just the second year, the Larry Wilson Division championship game is part of the Alberta Bowl, and the Spruce Grove Panthers hope it results in their first Alberta Schools Athletic ...

Alberta Bowl: Royals going for second consecutive title

November 23, 2022 | Brian Swane
After nearly two weeks of waiting, the Millwoods Christian Royals will be just two halves away from capturing a championship two years in the making. Millwoods Christian can become back-to-back ...

Alberta Bowl: Austin O’Brien making record appearance

November 22, 2022 | Brian Swane
The 2022 Alberta Schools Athletic Association (ASAA) high school football playoffs are turning into something of a revenge tour for the Austin O’Brien Crusaders. Last Saturday (Nov. 19) in the ...

Project $2M: Festival of Trees is bigger and better in 2022

November 21, 2022 | Brian Swane
A staple of the holiday season in Edmonton since 1985, the University Hospital Foundation’s Festival of Trees is back with more events and experiences than ever to spread cheer while fundraising ...

HS Provincials: Elks WR Cobb helping coach at Salisbury

November 18, 2022 | Brian Swane
As an assistant receivers coach with the Salisbury Sabres senior football team this season, Gavin Cobb has taught aspiring high school athletes all that he’s picked up along the way to becoming a ...

HS Provincials: Patient Bisons eager to return to action

November 16, 2022 | Brian Swane
If trophies were awarded for patience, the Ardrossan Bisons would already be champions. Nearly a month has passed since the Bisons last played a high school football game, but finally their long ...

HS Provincials: Sturgeon Spirits aim to make more history

November 15, 2022 | Brian Swane
The Sturgeon Spirits have been making all kinds of history on the gridiron this year. First unbeaten regular season? Check. First Metro Edmonton High School championship title? Check. First trip ...

HS Provincials: Royals advance to six-a-side title game

November 13, 2022 | Brian Swane
There will be a buzz in the hallways of Millwoods Christian the next couple weeks, as the Edmonton school’s six-a-side football team gets to set to defend its Alberta Schools Athletic Association ...

HS Provincials: Falcons on the long road to Alberta Bowl

November 11, 2022 | Brian Swane
It’s a long trip, but more than worth it for the opportunity to keep playing football this fall. The Bev Facey Falcons are traveling from Sherwood Park to Grande Prairie, where they will face the ...

HS Provincials: Crusaders prepared from facing the best

November 9, 2022 | Brian Swane
Everything has been building to this point for the Austin O’Brien Crusaders, who will take on the Lloydminster Barons at Armstrong Field in Lloydminster, 4 p.m. on Saturday during the opening ...

Project $2M: Christmas Bureau, EE partner in community

November 8, 2022 | Brian Swane
The Edmonton Elks and Christmas Bureau of Edmonton have partnered since 2006, bringing joy to families, seniors, youth, and children during the holiday season. Whether providing a festive meal ...

HS Championships: Champs crowned at Commonwealth

November 6, 2022 | Brian Swane
Snow, wind. Sub-zero temperature. In other words, football weather. Wintry conditions only added to the atmosphere at Commonwealth Stadium, where four Metro Edmonton High School football division ...

HS Championships: Sturgeon Spirits strive to win first title

November 4, 2022 | Brian Swane
It was more than four decades before Sturgeon Composite High School launched its varsity football program, and from the moment they stepped on the gridiron, the Spirits have been making up for ...

HS Championships: Alumni guides St. FX back to the top

November 3, 2022 | Brian Swane
Seventeen years have passed since the St. Francis Xavier Rams senior football team were last city champions. You don’t have to tell that to Zach Kohn. He remembers quite well when St. FX won the ...

HS Championships: Saints seek title for their centennial

November 2, 2022 | Brian Swane
The very first high school football league in Edmonton launched in 1922 with teams from six schools. Today, on the 100th anniversary of high school football in Edmonton, just three of those ...

Elks and Santas Anonymous team up for toy drive

October 20, 2022 | Brian Swane
He’s got the hat. The suit. The beard. But that’s not what make Dan Cuthbert a good Santa Claus. It’s what inside the matters. “I love to give, I care about my fellow Edmontonians,” Cuthbert ...
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