Barrhead News

RCMP are continuing their search for a semi-driver involved in a hit and run on Highway 43 near Mayerthorpe. The accident occurred at about 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 25, leaving a man with a broken leg, hip and pelvis.

It was performance number 611, so a little fatigue could be expected. Yet that wasn’t the case. So emotionally charged was Julia Mackey’s performance of Jake’s Gift on Friday night that this could have been the premiere.

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.