Westlock News

Larry Bourque attempts to draw polka dots while Ethan Patrick (left) and Konnor Smerychynski try to guess what it is while playing Pictionary at Saint Mary School's second annual games night. The event, which was put on by the school council, gave kids and their parents an opportunity to play several different board games and card games.

Alberta teachers will get a 4.3 per cent increase in their pay after talks broke down between the Alberta Teachers’ Association, the Alberta School Boards Association and the province.

The Spirit Centre project could go over budget and be delayed as a result of the town seeking to replace the project’s contractor, mayor Bruce Lennon said Friday.

A 10-year-old Vimy girl is selling her paintings to help send kids who have undergone brain surgery to camp. Rachelle Zadunayski, 10, recently underwent surgery to treat a cyst on her brain, which inspired her to help others.

Boone and Crockett official measurer Bob Daudelin measures a set of non-typical whitetail deer antlers at the Busby & District Fish and Game Association's third Antler and Horn Scoring show on Jan. 29 at Memorial Hall. Daudelin said this set of antlers would be "a buck of a lifetime” for the hunter who bagged them. The show gave area hunters a chance to show off their catches, and have them scored for a chance to be entered in the Boone and Crockett record book.

A disaster was narrowly averted at Westlock Terminals early Friday morning after a fire broke out in the main elevator by the office. The fire was discovered just after 7 a.m.

The Westlock Recreation Centre re-opened Tuesday after a heavy load of snow caused part of the roof to collapse.

Nearly a dozen vehicles slid off Highway 18 east of Clyde last Wednesday, prompting Westlock RCMP to shut down a section of the highway for a few hours in the morning.

During the overnight between Saturday and Sunday, the Westlock Recreation Centre suffered a snow slide on the east side of its pyramid roof, tearing off part of its fascia, said community services director Danielle Snyder. For safety purposes, the facility will remain closed until an engineer can assess the extent of the damage. If the damage is found not to be structural, Snyder said they hope to reopen the facility as soon as possible.

The Town of Westlock will no longer run the ambulance service in town, and will hand off control to Alberta Health Services effective April 1, 2012. During an in-camera session at the Jan.