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No matter what a person’s circumstances are, there is always hope. That is the message the Watoto Children’s Choir tries to convey to audiences across the world through song and dance. On Friday, Feb.

If you’re looking to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day a few days’ ahead of time, the Barrhead Public Library and the Parent Link Centre both have some fun events planned for this Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8-9. On Feb.

Soul Sisters Memorial Foundation founder Christine Vachon is hoping to turn last Monday’s inaugural Farmer’s Appreciation Night into an annual event. Around 250 people packed the Westlock and District Community Hall Jan.

A Westlock County man is taking it upon himself to survey his fellow residents to gauge their satisfaction with county council.

Richmond Park’s own George Ryga will be remembered and celebrated during a screening of the 22-minute short documentary Just a Ploughboy , set to play at the Ukrainian Centre in Edmonton Jan. 25.

Nobody growing up today has any idea what it was like to have to use an iron lung, but Betty Properzi remembers it all too well. “A few years ago, we went to Fort St. John for a big conference and they had an iron lung there,” she said.

There were so many applications for the Santa’s Anonymous program in December that Family and Community Support Services, the organization which operates it, had to dip into reserves to make up a $5,000 shortfall.

Joe Borris, 20, with his girlfriend Olivia Litchfield at the Jan. 5 fundraiser held in Flatbush in his honour. The community raised more than $45,000 for Borris who is now partially paralyzed following an Oct. 20 accident.

The maternity ward at the Westlock Healthcare Centre sprung to life in the early morning hours of Jan. 4 as the first delivery of the new year brought Phoemella Erin Sinamban into the world.

New York City is coming to Barrhead. Or more specifically, one particular neighbourhood called Washington Heights, which is the setting of the Barrhead Composite High School(BCHS) drama department’s newest musical production of In the Heights.