Barrhead News

Mother’s Day is a special day for all women who have been blessed with the chance to nurture another young life.

Wrapped loosely in brown paper are yellowing, brittle pages that usher a reader through the winding corridors of Barrhead’s past. 1928-29 is written on one of the bundles stacked on a series of shelves.

For a few hours on May 2, Barrhead Elementary School was the home of a shining example of technology as the University of Calgary Solar Team paid a visit.

Barrhead County residents will soon be receiving their property tax notices after the county passed its 2012 budget on May 1. As was the case in 2011, the county is raising all three of its residential, non-residential and farmland mill rates.

It may not have been a Ken Kowalski-style sweep, but Maureen Kubinec has been elected as the new MLA for Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock.

It was a packed house on the floor of the Agrena April 25 for the annual Barrhead Volunteer Appreciation and Awards Night.

In Megan Leah Pederson’s world there is artistic gold among the commonplace. Most of us would not see glittering potential in garbage bags, coffee filters or tissue paper. Yet Pederson has used them to provide extra texture to her work.

Progressive Conservative MLA George VanderBurg has been reelected in Whitecourt-Ste. Anne. With all 73 polls across the riding reporting, VanderBurg had collected 6,373 votes, or 46 per cent of the ballots cast.

Despite early opinion polls pointing to a win for the Wildrose Alliance, the Progressive Conservatives pulled out to yet another overwhelming majority victory in the 2012 provincial general election on Monday.

When three-year-old Rena Gurges plays alone in her backyard, her father knows he was right to move to Barrhead. “It tells me how wonderfully safe Barrhead is,” said Dr. Ramy Gurges, the town’s newest doctor.