Barrhead News

The Barrhead Composite High School Senior Boys Gryphons volleyball team captured the provincial high school championship on Saturday, Nov. 28 in Grande Prairie, losing only one set in the process.

At the regular meeting of Barrhead County Council on Dec. 1, assembled council met with a delegation representing the Neerlandia Co-op’s interest in having a liquor store and discussed an amendment to Land-Use Bylaw No. 5-2010.

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.