Opinion

We’re always amazed at the generosity of Westlock’s service clubs and businesses. Throughout the year they always step up to the plate for a wide variety of worthy causes — we know because we’re the ones taking the photos and writing those stories.

Dear Editor, Hello, we are two students in Grades 8 and 9 at Covenant Canadian Reformed School of Neerlandia. We are writing to show that it isn’t just the parents who are opposed to Bill 24, but the students too.

Dear Editor, Being bullied is not something new. It has gone on for centuries. At Christmas, we think of Rudolph who was laughed at and scorned.

In August, we published an editorial asking council to reconsider a request from the Blue Heron Support Services Association (BHSSA) to waive the normal aquatics centre fee for support workers when accompanying their clients.

Let me start this column off with a warning: I’ll be discussing a story I did for this week’s Town & Country, where I reported on the controversy surrounding the new Mandatory Entry-Level Training (MELT) requirements that the province wishes to i

Last week, the Municipal District of Opportunity held a community meeting in Calling Lake. They brought in representatives from Alberta Agriculture and Forestry to speak about the forests in that area.

There’s nothing like a feel good Christmas story. People can be so generous sometimes, especially during the holidays. We want to tell you about all of them, but people can be just as modest as they are generous. More so.

On Nov. 29, the Barrhead Public Library came hat in hand to both municipal councils requesting a per capita budget increase of 90 cents, which would bring their per capita funding up to $18.44.