Opinion

Regardless of how much money one throws at policing, crime still happens. Until we live in a perfectly utopian state, there will continue to be crime. And unfortunately, there will be victims.

Look around you and you’ll realize that the businesses you frequent most in your daily life, especially in a town like Westlock, are small businesses.

It is an end of an era. On Oct. 17, recreational or adult-use marijuana officially became legal in Canada ending a 95-year prohibition. Will anything really change? We suspect not.

Dear Editor, The Rich Valley Agricultural Society regrets to inform our community we have suffered a major set back with the breakdown of our ice plant, which has delayed our ability to start up indefinitely.

When the NDP government came out with its Climate Leadership Plan a couple years ago, one of the more controversial aspects of the plan was to phase out coal power by 2030.

By our count the question on the Tawatinaw Valley Ski Hill has been answered twice in the past 12 months — once by residents and the other time by council.

Although there’s still a little time left for farmers to pull their crops off the field, it’s looking more and more like 2018 will see a repeat of the 2016 harvest. In fact, this year may be worse.

It doesn’t take much to make a positive impact in a person’s life. If you have any doubt this is true, all one has to do is take a look at the Operation Christmas Child program run by Samaritan’s Purse.