Barrhead News

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.

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.