The reports are out on Mac Island... and there really are a lot of problems... and more costs. Council has now approved spending up to 170 million dollars, and that doesn't include fixing the road, sewers, and water systems, with all of that it could end up in the neighbourhood of 212 million. And the average operating deficit is projected to be in the 4 to 9 million dollar a year range. The expectation now is to have it all open by the end of next year. But that means there is good chance there will be no curling again this coming winter.

It wasn't all MacDonald Island talk at a 7 hour marathon council sitting... The Catholic School District will get the funding for a theatre to be included in a new Timberlea High School. The municipality will terminate the lease they have on the old Brick building downtown and cut their losses. And the municipality will pay their share of a new development in partnership with 3 religious organizations and the Northern Lights Health Region.

A 19 year old from Fort McMurray is 'Set for Life'. He won the million dollar lottery at Chow's in Thickwood last Thursday night. Calvin Inglis won a thousand dollars a week for 25 years, mind you he's decided on the lump sum payment. After he invests some money, and shares some with family, he intends to see the world.

One man has is dead following a collisions one kilometre north of Syncrude on highway 63. Around two o'clock Sunday morning, a pickup truck slammed into a semi tractor trailer, sending both vehicles into the ditch.

Forty-eight-year-old William Myers of Valleyview died at the scene. The driver of the semi was unharmed. Police are continuing their investigation. It's believed that alcohol was a factor in the crash.

Here comes more money for Mac Island... according to the report council will sit down and discuss tomorrow. We're looking at about another 21 million dollars for the project. That would bring the total now up into the neighbourhood of 170 million dollars. The original cost a couple of years ago was just 52 million dollars, mind you the library and pools have been added since then.