Opinion

This year in Yellowhead, and indeed across the Prairies, we were blessed with bumper crops. We were all out on our combines for hundreds of hours, harvesting our grain and making arrangements to get our product to market.

Dear Editor, To the lady who literally took her shoe grippers off and put them on my shoes as I was struggling to make it over the icy road to the sidewalk by the Barrhead Rexall to pick up my subscription – I can’t thank you enough ...

There’s no word yet on whether Dapp School will get the six modular classrooms and other modernization work that’s needed to turn it into the Pembina North Community School. This could be good news or bad news, depending where you’re standing.

Athabasca’s brick school is more than a stern and sturdy exemplar of early 20th-century architecture — more than the sum of its Indiana bathstone and Calgary red brick parts.

And on Wednesday the winds came. They huffed and puffed, causing mayhem across the county, bringing down trees and power lines. Add ice and rain to the problem and you have driving conditions that were treacherous.

Dear Editor; 2013 has come and gone and I don’t want to let 2014 get too far ahead of me before thanking my fellow citizens and neighbours for their support over the past 21 years, both at the polls and on the street.

Dear Editor, Once again I commend Edward Goodliffe of Busby for his determined attempt to insight enlightenment to a docile populace. I fear your words fall on the ears of avarice. I would add my words in hope the baneful would awaken.

It’s always tragic when people’s lives are cut short for whatever reason, more so when it’s sudden and accidental.

On the heels of growing public awareness of the “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” event in the summer and the “Sisters In Spirit” walk in the fall, concerned Athabascans are joining another worldwide event to decry violence against women, this time on Valen

The Christmas shopping season has come and gone. How did the Barrhead businesses do during what should be the busiest time of the year? Our merchants did indeed get their Christmas rushes. However the crowds came later than ever before.