Barrhead News

On Saturday, Dec. 1, the Barrhead and District Chamber of Commerce is hosting its biggest fundraiser of the year, the Festival of Trees, with all the proceeds going to area charities and not-for-profit organizations.

The Community Garden Society will have to wait a little longer to find out where they will be able to move to and how much funding, if any, the Town of Barrhead will contribute. On Nov.

The Ripple Connection Support Centre is hoping to use a $125,000 donation from a Canadian insurance company, iA Financial, to expand their services to help homeless individuals living in the Barrhead area, along with additional supports for residents

When all is said and done the Barrhead RCMP expect to lay in excess of 50 charges after they found countless stolen items ranging from drugs and firearms to watches, contact lenses, cell phones, clothing as well as a number of credit cards, passports

Santa’s elves will be helping children in Barrhead write their letters to the North Pole during the Christmas Light-up, which will be held in downtown Barrhead this Friday, Nov. 16.

Would you do it again? That is a question one of the Grade 5 students from Barrhead Elementary School (BES) asked Herman Barkemeyer during the school’s annual veteran’s tea at the Barrhead Public Library on Nov. 1.

Residents of Brookside Village want Town of Barrhead councillors to help a shrubbery they believe to be a serious traffic hazard.

The sacrifice Sgt. Robert McEwan made was not in vain and will not be forgotten, if Mary Wright has anything to say about it. McEwan, a Barrhead native and member of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, was killed in action on Aug.

When Phyllis Webstad was six-years-old and about to start school, her aunt took her shopping for some nice clothes to wear on her first day. Deciding on a bright orange shirt, Webstad wore her new clothes with pride as she attended school at the St.

The legalization of marijuana in Canada is no laughing matter for Peace River-Westlock MP Arnold Viersen. “Canada’s Conservatives are seriously concerned about the consequences of this,” he said.