Opinion

For the last two weeks we’ve been covering the story about how the Shepherd’s Care Foundation (SCF) in Edmonton decided to change the way it handles its pharmacy services in all of its supportive living homes.

The pool is coming. Despite the length of time spent arguing over its price tag and debating all of the extras that will now be attached to it, the Town of Barrhead got their wish and the aquatic centre project is finally, officially underway.

Spring marks the start of fire season in Alberta and with it another year’s worth of trials and tribulations for our local volunteer firefighters.

Part of what makes a community great is the people and organizations that operate within it. Westlock is fortunate. We have all sorts of clubs, groups, associations, museums, teams and leagues that provide recreation and activities.

Yesterday (Monday, April 4), an audible sound could be heard across the Pembina Hills School division. It was the sound of hundreds of parents cheering students returning to school after a more than a week-long spring break.

The other day while I was out looking for a house that my GPS couldn’t find, because my wife wants to settle, and a happy wife is a happy life like it is said, I managed to get myself well and truly stuck. We aren’t talking a little bit stuck either.

More likely than not, unless we make efforts to the contrary, we will pass away before our stories are caught in a meaningful way.

How do you express the depth of the impact a person like Carol Farnalls has had on a newsroom in the space of an editorial? As she moves on to greener pastures and gentler climes, we at the Barrhead Leader must figure out how to soldier on, to contin

After 33 years, it’s time to say farewell. As every ending has a beginning, I’ll start with mine. I began at the Barrhead Leader not quite at the bottom of the heap, but close, as a typesetter.

Maybe we missed something. A group wants to take over W.R.