Barrhead News

County of Barrhead council knows it has a problem. A large percentage of Thunder Lake residents bordering the county’s municipal public reserve lands are using either deliberately or inadvertently as an extension of the land as their own property.

Kevin Berger – Leader Staff The charges facing former Pembina Hills Public Schools superintendent Colleen Symyrozum-Watt have been stayed by the Crown, meaning that a trial originally set for early July in Barrhead will no longer go ahead.

If a picture does say a thousand words, then the students of Barrhead Composite High School’s (BCHS) portrait photography program returned home from their trip to New York City with enough words to fill hundreds, if not thousands of novels about the

Kevin Berger – Leader Staff John Litke, a local businessman who operated a men’s clothing store in Barrhead for nearly five decades, passed away on May 24 at the Barrhead Healthcare Centre. He was 92.

The traffic lights on Barrhead’s Main Street at the intersection of 51 Avenue and 50 Street will remain in place for a little bit longer.

Barrhead Regional Fire Services (BRFS) has issued a partial fire ban for the County of Barrhead. Fire chief Gary Hove declared the ban at 12 p.m. on May 23. The ban prohibits the lighting of outdoor fires as well as setting off of fireworks.

Weather permitting, a Bell CH-146 Griffon helicopter from CFB Edmonton will make an appearance at the 10th annual Fly-in Breakfast at the Barrhead Airport this Sunday, June 2.

Barrhead dog owners will finally have the opportunity to allow their dogs to go for a run when it opens an off-leash dog park. At least temporarily.

Shannon Paluch is making the best of his second chance.

Sometimes people have hidden gifts and talents that even they did not know they had. That is the case for Peter Viersen. Until recently, the 20-year-old Neerlandia native had no inkling that he had any latent abilities as an electrician.