Opinion

Constituents in the riding of Athabasca-Sturgeon-Redwater had reason to be intrigued when Premier Alison Redford unveiled her new cabinet last week.

It’s something you hear about all the time. You hear about some ATVer or snowmobiler riding through the bush, showing complete disregard for their surroundings and travelling wherever they want no matter whether it’s on private property or not.

Well, I have long suspected this, but now I know. I am the human equivalent of a rat-tailed maggot, a worm-like creature with stumpy little legs that wriggles through the mud on pond bottoms.

Dear Editor, 526 Cadet Squadron’s and the school’s partnership will continue as it has for the past 62 years. The fee that was set in the past will continue with no change.

Often we take our leaders for granted. We are quick to complain in bad times, slow to praise in good times. Most of the time we pay no attention, ignoring the behind-the-scenes effort that goes daily into making a community like Barrhead succeed.

I’m kind of late to this party, but it’s a direct byproduct of our deadlines and the election timeline. I had wanted to write about the election, and since this is my first chance, I may as well get at it.

With the federal government having ended Community Access Program (CAP) funding effective March 31 this year, it will ultimately be the rural areas that feel the sting.

Winning the election will undoubtedly seem like the easy part, once newly elected MLA Maureen Kubinec heads to Edmonton to represent her riding in the Legislature.

The Athabasca Rotary Club held their 2012 Sportsman's Diner on Friday and the event was a huge success, largely in part to the almost 500 community members who came out to support the cause.

And that’s why the only poll that matters is election day. After a long campaign that predicted the Wildrose Alliance would come away with at worst a minority government, the results last Monday night put lie to that notion in emphatic fashion.