Opinion

Leave it to a resident for the solution. Following the expiration of the Alberta Environment and Parks 28-day lockdown of SW19-TWP59-RGE23-W4M, we reached out to a number of Echo Lake area residents for their thoughts.

In communities — small ones especially – there’s usually one big annual event that everyone just can’t miss, where residents can interact with each other and enjoy the summer.

Methamphetamine destroys lives.

It looks like it is back to square one for Barrhead's aquatic centre project.

In case you didn’t notice, it was an exceptionally busy weekend across the Athabasca/Boyle region.

The suggestion that if the Old Brick School building is designated a Provincial Historic Resource, its potential uses become limited and the cost of maintaining it rises sharply, is basically nonsense.

It’s been several months since Athabasca FCSS vacated the old Brick School, leaving the landmark building empty. Since then, both Athabasca town and county councils have pushed the question of the building’s future to the furthest of back burners.

So last Aug. 26 in the Advocate, Mark Francis was quoted as being able to save money on the new school by building onto the multiplex, as savings could be found through mechanical, HVACs and electrical.

My husband and I were lucky enough to be visiting from out of province during your River Rats Festival over the Canada Day holiday.

There are some events that should be considered political free zones. An event where someone can go without hearing your national, provincial or local politicians try to push whatever the hot issue of the day is.