Atlas Coal Mine manager Carla Powell jokes, comparing the Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site to the Little Engine That Could… but they did, and won the Rural Champion Award at the Growing Rural Tourism Conference in Camrose.Atlas project wins Rural Tourism Champion award
Atlas Coal Mine manager Carla Powell jokes, comparing the Atlas Coal Mine National Historic Site to the Little Engine That Could… but they did, and won the Rural Champion Award at the Growing Rural Tourism Conference in Camrose.
Donations continue to pour in for the Carbon Community Centre in dedication to Daryl Hay.Daryl Hay passed away on Friday, March 27 in an avalanche while snowmobiling in Golden, BC. In a gesture fitting to his dedication to the community, the family asked that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Carbon Community Centre for new chairs, a cause Hay truly believed in. 
Tom Hampton, formerly of Rowley shared a family treasure with The Mail. A letter written by an American Civil War soldier who witnessed the battlefield death of his great grandfather Captain Thomas Bryson CO.G 63 regiment, a Confederate soldier in the U.S Southern Army.The letter was written years after the war and published in an unknown American newspaper. The powerful story of the patriarch of the family who years later settled in Rowley is fitting to be shared again, 100 years later. The preamble for the letter was written by Thomas Hampton. 