Barrhead News

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.

Her sweet spirit shines through every challenge she faces. Dad even calls Saige Werkman the happiest child he has ever seen. In her four years, Saige has endured far more than most of us will in our lives.

It was too close to call for nearly three hours after the polls closed Monday night, but in the end Progressive Conservative candidate Maureen Kubinec won by a slim margin.

Voters in the Barrhead and Westlock corridor had the opportunity to hear what the five candidates running in Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock had to say at a candidates forum April 11 in Barrhead.

A mighty water treatment plant will grow from the turning of a little sod — mighty enough to care for Barrhead’s needs for at least 25 years. Well, that’s the hope and the plan.

The tradition of pushing a new truck into a fire station harks back to the days of horse-drawn equipment. Some reports say it started in 1830.

By Helen Goldburn’s bedside at her home in England is a photograph of a young man which she always kisses before going to sleep. Once she used to talk to the man as if he were in front of her, but that doesn’t happen any more.