Barrhead News

When playwright-actress Julia Mackey wrote her first one-act play in 2006 she could see herself performing it for a couple of weeks.

Last weekend saw the final two productions this season of Fort Assiniboine’s Journey to Bethlehem, an outdoor pageant celebrating the Nativity. More than 100 volunteers contributed to the drama, from actors to stagehands, along with live animals.

Volunteerism is described as the soul of Barrhead.

Nine-year-old girls are often happy and carefree, aren’t they? They know they are as beautiful as any princess in a fairytale, because their parents tell them so.

Ron Ketchum’s musical odyssey started many years ago. The Barrhead artist has travelled the local music scene for more than three decades.

Why step cautiously into Christmas when you can glide and slide into it … or go tumbling headlong into snow? Scores of youngsters hurtled into the festive spirit last Friday by tobogganing down a huge snowy mound illuminated outside Comfort Corner.

Communities for Children held their kickoff event and data release last week, revealing to the public the results of survey done on local kindergarten students.

As Barrhead transforms into a wintery wonderland, the time has finally come for the town’s kick off to the holiday season... Christmas Light Up! The hustle and bustle of shoppers will be quieted at 6 p.m. Nov.

Sand and gravel operators have cleared a major hurdle in plans for a pit northwest of Camp Creek. Inland Aggregates received development approval from Barrhead County Council last Tuesday.

World War II began in 1939 and raged until 1945, touching the lives of hundreds of millions of people and resulting in the deaths of over 70 million.