Opinion

You’ve seen a lot of coverage about volunteers in these pages in the last few weeks and rightly so. In this issue alone we have three separate stories about volunteers and the work they do.

Rumors and fact are different things. It is our job to investigate issues important to our readership and to inform them of any developments. We take the words of RCMP Sgt. Bob Dodds as fact, as he is representative of his detachment.

Just what community groups should a municipality provide funding for? And to what level? It is not an easy question to answer.

Living in a small town we are often isolated from the tragedies that happen in other parts of the world.

Today I am at a loss for words. Like everyone else in our community, I too find myself struggling to come to terms with the results of the tragic events that claimed 16 lives on a Saskatchewan highway April 6.

Dear Editor, I am writing in regards to your article on Dolberg Lake. The Edmonton based Northern Lights Fly Fishing Club are planning on closing a well-used family lake to the public.

Albertans are cowboys and cowgirls but this is not the wild west. That is a fact we had all best remember, lest we find ourselves facing criminal charges of our own for taking the law into our own hands.