Barrhead News

Barrhead County Council is prepared to contribute up to $5 million to a new aquatic centre. The money would come from borrowing.

There are thousands upon thousands of different scams out there. It’s an international problem, and even Barrhead is no exception. Sgt.

Despite a heavy bill for snow removal and cuts to transportation funding, the Pembina Hills school division finished the 2013 financial year with an operating surplus of $1.

On the weekend of the De Herdt Gardens’ Artisan Christmas Market, winter’s wicked side was on full view. Snow and ice were everywhere, and the cold seemed to scald the skin. Inside, the store it was like a tropical paradise.

What writer doesn’t like to make money from his talent? When local author and poet Greg Chance Hansen sat inside the entrance to Barrhead Co-op recently for a book sale, he had plenty of dollars and cents in mind.

Barrhead’s annual Festival of Trees has continued to grow since its start in 2010, and this year was no exception. The event, put on by the Barrhead Chamber of Commerce, held a Christmas Market and Craft Sale on Friday, Nov. 29 and Saturday, Nov.

Barrhead and other rural Alberta communities are losing out because of “discriminatory” curbs on where casino fundraisers can be held.

Hundreds gathered at the Alberta Legislature on Nov. 30 to rally for the future of distance learning in the province, including about 40 from Pembina Hills.

It was numbingly cold, it had started to rain and the roads were treacherous. There was never any doubt, however, that the 14 people who assembled outside Alberta Distance Learning Centre at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday were going by bus to Edmonton.

Arjan Koekkoek steps into a green pair of rubber boots sitting outside the door of his broiler barn. As he opens the door to the barn, a wave of heat flows out into the frigid November air.