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Calling all singers, dancers and performers — the Westlock and District Drama Society is hosting its fourth annual Talent Show Aug. 18 to showcase the area's artistic abilities.

The Westlock Child Care Society is in the process of installing a new "outdoor learning environment" for children at the daycare as part of the new curriculum framework that saw the daycare adopt the province's $25-a-day daycare program.

Nestled on a comfortable, blue sofa at her home in Westlock, Connie Kieser surrounds herself with colorful woolen hats and a Wal-Mart-bought knitting loom. Her fingers deftly work through the pink and blue wool.

For 73 years, Bethel Bible Camp has been offering youth in the Westlock region a chance to go to summer camp for free.

When Sister Eileen Therese Boyle came to Westlock from the Sisters of Charity in Halifax, Nova Scotia on Aug. 15, 1971 to work as a nurse in the Immaculata Hospital run by the Sisters, she came with very little luggage.

The biggest local event of the entire summer — the Barrhead Agricultural Society’s annual Demolition Derby — is set to enter its 27th year of metal-crunching action at the rodeo grounds this Friday, Aug. 10.

Often it is difficult for the organizing committee of Blue Heron Fair Days to come up with an overall theme.

After five years of heading Westlock and District Family and Community Support Services (FCSS), executive director Cindy Olchowy is calling it a career.

There were games and activities for the kids, movies, beer gardens, a pancake breakfast, a parade and the ever-popular lawnmower races at the annual Jarvie Days festival.

If the walls of the Westlock Pioneer Museum could talk, they would speak of how far the area has come in the last century. With antiquities dating back at least 100 years, the community’s history comes alive at the museum.