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From the outside it might look as though limited progress has been made on the Westlock Rotary Spirit Centre project over the last few months, but the inside tells a different story.

Students across the county have returned to school, and there are plenty of new features — both physical and philosophical — at many of the rural schools in the county.

After 35 years in the business, Trooper is a band that still knows how to fill a room put on a good show.

This year’s 97th annual fair was a resounding success, Westlock Ag Society president Bob Jones says, and it has a lot to do with some help from the weatherman. “It went very well, as far as I’m concerned,” he said.

St. Mary School’s presentation of Holocaust survivor Dr. Eva Olsson last October has won the Evergreen Catholic teachers’ union local some recognition.

Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach was in Westlock County Aug. 19 to commission the Severson Free Run Barn, one of the largest free-range egg farms in Canada.

To say the third annual Blue Suede Festival was well attended would be an understatement — the Taphorn family farm was at capacity with close to 500 people in attendance on the first day alone.

It’s not secret that the Westlock & District Agricultural Fair is the biggest show in town, and this weekend residents and visitors alike will have the opportunity to take in three days of stellar entertainment.

Many local groups and clubs tend to come and go, so it’s always a notable accomplishment when one of them gets to its 50th anniversary.

Of the hundreds of photos he took while in Uganda, one of Eric Lawrence’s favourite shots is of a German veterinarian named Dr. Ludwig Siefert leaning out the window of the vehicle he was traveling in.