Barrhead News

The numbers are in. A whooping 899 precious shoebox gifts left Barrhead to bless needy children in Central and South America, West Africa, Nepal, Haiti and Ukraine.

The federal government’s pledge to accept 25,000 refugees to Canada has prompted a group of residents to try to help. On Thursday, Nov.

Three businesses, which are normally competitors, have banded together for a common cause, to raise money for the Barrhead and District Society’s aquatic centre fundraising effort.

The Alberta Snowmobile Association (ASA) is hoping to make students safer one school at a time. On Wednesday, Nov.

On the weekend of Saturday, Nov. 21, hundreds of people visited Fort Assiniboine for the first night of a tradition called the Journey to Bethlehem.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) is concerned that the proposed changes the provincial government is contemplating will negatively affect Alberta’s oil and gas industry.

Crown council is just as frustrated as anyone else in the increase in crime and some of the sentences criminals are receiving. That is what Jeff Morrison, chief crown prosecutor, told town council during their regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Sgt. Bobb Dodds, Barrhead RCMP detachment commander, had some good news and bad news to report to Barrhead town council during their regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Henny Mast remembers it well. On May 10, 1940 the first Nazi German troops crossed the border of the Netherlands and they didn’t leave the area until the second half of 1944. At least not in the area Mast lived with her family.

At the regular meeting of Barrhead County Council on Tuesday, Nov. 3, residents of R.R. 60 assembled to voice their concerns over the council’s decision to end the practice of oiling in their area.