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Acadia Municipal Library: February is Love Your Library Month!
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 2/18/26 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 2/18/26

Acadia Municipal Library: February is Love Your Library Month!

February is Love Your Library Month! Visit the library, write down what you love about it, and be entered into a draw. The paper hearts you fill in will be used to complete the bulletin board display.

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Town of Oyen Library Booknotes: The Invisible Woman
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 2/4/26 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 2/4/26

Town of Oyen Library Booknotes: The Invisible Woman

ADULT FICTION: The Shop on Hidden Lane / by: Jayne Ann Krentz, The Invisible Woman / by: James Patterson, The Lighthouse by the Cove / by: Amy Clipston…

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Acadia Municipal Library: Weekly Craft
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/28/26 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/28/26

Acadia Municipal Library: Weekly Craft

The library is hosting a weekly craft starting on Tuesday, February 26th, lasting for four weeks. It will take place after school from 3:30 to 4:30. The whole family is welcome to join the fun!

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Top 10 most borrowed books in Alberta (December 2025)
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/21/26 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/21/26

Top 10 most borrowed books in Alberta (December 2025)

Alberta readers dove into everything from poetry and Indigenous knowledge to cozy science fiction and true crime-inspired mysteries in December 2025…

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Culture, community and connection
Arts & Culture, News The Oyen Echo 1/21/26 Arts & Culture, News The Oyen Echo 1/21/26

Culture, community and connection

Alberta’s government says it spent 2025 celebrating the province’s history, supporting arts and culture and investing in community programs aimed at strengthening connections across Alberta.

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Recipe: No Peek Beef Tips
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/21/26 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/21/26

Recipe: No Peek Beef Tips

Mix together in a 9X13 pan and cover with foil. Bake at 300 degrees for 3 hours. NO PEEKING! Serve with mashed potatoes or noodles and ENJOY!

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Town of Oyen Library Booknotes: The Day I Lost You
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/14/26 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/14/26

Town of Oyen Library Booknotes: The Day I Lost You

ADULT FICTION: The Day I Lost You / by: Ruth Mancini, The Correspondent / by: Virginia Evans, Brimstone / by: Callie Hart, The Once and Future Queen / by: Paula Lafferty…

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The Homesteaders
Arts & Culture, History The Oyen Echo 1/14/26 Arts & Culture, History The Oyen Echo 1/14/26

The Homesteaders

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Canadian government advertised homesteading in the Canadian West as a means to a prosperous future.

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Acadia Municipal Library: Graphic Novels
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/14/26 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/14/26

Acadia Municipal Library: Graphic Novels

Congratulations to Fay Loken on winning the Year-End Christmas Draw! Our new books from the Scholastic Book Fair have arrived, in addition to our regular shipment of new books.

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Flower Power!
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/7/26 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 1/7/26

Flower Power!

Dancing with the Stars contestant Mystery Dancer (Jayce Smigelski) and All-Star Bella Kovitch deliberately danced as if nothing stressed them out.

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Final curtain for Dancing with the Stars fundraiser
Arts & Culture, News The Oyen Echo 12/24/25 Arts & Culture, News The Oyen Echo 12/24/25

Final curtain for Dancing with the Stars fundraiser

The Dancing with the Stars fundraiser held on December 13 at the Legion Hall will retire after this sixth and final show. It has featured laughs, dance moves and brave contestants…

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Celebrating Night in Bethlehem
Arts & Culture, Photos The Oyen Echo 12/24/25 Arts & Culture, Photos The Oyen Echo 12/24/25

Celebrating Night in Bethlehem

On the nights of December 5 and 6, 305 visitors followed a lighted star to the Crossroads Centre in Oyen. Once inside, they entered a different world.

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Oyen Public School Christmas concert brings holiday cheer
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 12/17/25 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 12/17/25

Oyen Public School Christmas concert brings holiday cheer

Students at Oyen Public School brought holiday cheer to the stage during the school’s Christmas concert last Tuesday at South Central High School.

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Oyen kids enjoy Breakfast with Santa
News, Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 12/17/25 News, Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 12/17/25

Oyen kids enjoy Breakfast with Santa

More than 50 local children joined their families for “Breakfast with Santa,” hosted by the Oyen & District Chamber of Commerce on Saturday, Dec. 6.

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Acadia Municipal Library: New Fiction Arrivals
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 12/3/25 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 12/3/25

Acadia Municipal Library: New Fiction Arrivals

New arrivals to the Acadia library’s bookshelves include three fiction books. For the adults, Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein. Juvenile readers can choose between…

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Town of Oyen Library Booknotes: An Amish Widow’s New Love
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 12/3/25 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 12/3/25

Town of Oyen Library Booknotes: An Amish Widow’s New Love

ADULT FICTION: An Amish Widow’s New Love / by: Vannetta Champman, The Christmas Ring / by: Karen Kingsbury, A Heart so Haunted / by: Hollie Nelson…

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10th Anniversary of “A Night in Bethlehem”
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 11/26/25 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 11/26/25

10th Anniversary of “A Night in Bethlehem”

Have you ever spent a night in Bethlehem? In September 2008, members of the Oyen Ministerial Association and several enthusiastic volunteers gathered to discuss how the real reason…

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Town of Oyen Library Booknotes: Exit Strategy
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 11/26/25 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 11/26/25

Town of Oyen Library Booknotes: Exit Strategy

FICTION: Exit Strategy / by: Lee Child, The Intruder / by: Freida McFadden, Otherwise Engaged / by: Susan Mallery…

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Oyen’s Border Quilters bring warmth, one quilt at a time
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 11/19/25 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 11/19/25

Oyen’s Border Quilters bring warmth, one quilt at a time

The Border Quilters originated with a group of ladies led by Dale Potter at the Red Barn Fabric Store. When the store closed, the quilters found a new home at All Saints Anglican Church in Oyen…

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Acadia Municipal Library: Scholastic Book Fair
Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 11/19/25 Arts & Culture The Oyen Echo 11/19/25

Acadia Municipal Library: Scholastic Book Fair

The Warren Peers School has set up the Scholastic Book Fair in the library for the week of November 17 to 21.

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