Opinion

Barrhead is richly blessed. So much goes on through the year, from sporting activities to arts and cultural events, from rodeos to fairs. How can a town so small offer so much? The answer lies with its people.

Dear Editor, In her letter, Kory Kopf has made several points that I would like to address: 1. Kopf stated that what is in the womb is not a human being, but rather a mass.

In its relatively short history, the Alberta Energy Corridor has accomplished some good things. The government/industry funded agency has a mandate to stimulate economic development in the Athabasca, Boyle and Wandering River area.

The town’s decision to waive the fees for using the walking track at the Westlock Rotary Spirit Centre is certainly a laudable move.

It seems inevitable. Every time the weather turns and winter begins, car crashes, collisions, rollovers and other incidents become far more commonplace.

It isn't often you see Main Street in Barrhead packed full of adults and children after 7 p.m., but there they were. Laughing, singing, tobogganing, huddling around a fire, and riding horse-drawn sleighs.

I am reading the book Y, by Marjorie Celona. It is about this 18-year-old girl who gives birth to a baby girl. She can’t handle having a baby to look after, so she abandons her in front of glass doors of a building even though the sign says “Closed.

Credit is due to the Village of Boyle for identifying an opportunity and wasting no time in seizing it.

Have you forgotten yet? … For the world’s events have rumbled on since those gagged days, Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways … Siegfried Sassoon wrote his poem Aftermath in 1919, just one year after the end of the First World War

Who’s to judge by the color of your hair, the kind of clothes you wear? Your body type, your facial features? No one should judge you by the way you look and how you do things.