Barrhead News

There I stood on a stranger’s dock, stranded like a modern-day Robinson Crusoe, waving frantically at passing vessels. Between the gesticulating, I managed to grab a few photographs.

It was a three-day party that brought out the best in Barrhead. Even the elusive sun joined the festivities. The Blue Heron Fair Days demonstrated to one and all that the town knows how to have a blast.

Roses, pansies, poppies and petunias. Begonias, mallows, tiger lilies and lupins. These are but some of the flowers that can be seen showing their colours on the Beaverbrook property of Arnold and Joyce Christianson.

Barrhead County councillors last week raised their glasses to a proposed cottage winery. Coun. Doug Drozd hailed the entrepreneurial spirit behind the proposal. “We need more of this in the county of Barrhead,” he said.

The Barrhead Clinic recently welcomed a friendly new face to their staff, one who could not be happier with his decision to move to rural Alberta.

Name: Richard Jacobs Age: 66 Events: Swimming, 65-Plus Men’s 100m Back (gold), 65-Plus Men’s 50m Back (silver), 65-Plus Men’s 50m Free (bronze), 65-Plus Men’s 100m Free (bronze) About Jacobs: Jacobs, who was raised in England, used to be terrified of

Hopes have been expressed that the Alberta 55-Plus Summer Games will be a springboard to more events involving Barrhead and Westlock. Barrhead Mayor Brian Schulz said the July 25-28 Games had helped unify local communities.

The public will have a chance this month to scrutinize plans for a $12 million gravel operation in Barrhead county. Two meetings on the Stony Valley Project have been organized. One will take place at Mystery Lake Community Hall on Aug. 19.

What a festival it was. Four days of sporting excellence, courage, endeavour and determination came to a glorious end on Sunday. Four days when the sun shone and the spirit shone even brighter.

Members of the Meadowview 4-H Club were part of an interesting learning experience recently, when they shared in an exchange with a club from Ontario.