Westlock News

A Westlock County man has put his name forward to run as the candidate for the newly formed People’s Party of Canada in the Peace River-Westlock constituency in the upcoming federal election.

St. Mary School Grade 2 teacher Courtney Bayuk was busy preparing her classroom last week for students who returning to the class Sept. 3.

The housing market in Westlock has seen an increase in the number of listings for sale in the last six years, but not enough buyers to balance those numbers, a problem which extends beyond the area to the provincial and even national level.

Westlock County Div. 5 voters will have a chance to meet all four candidates running in the Sept. 17 byelection at an all-candidates forum set for Sept. 5 at Pine Valley Hall in Tawatinaw.

Elvis Presley tribute artist Adam Fitzpatrick was one of 13 performers to grace the stage at the Blue Suede Music Festival in Busby Aug. 23-25. The 11th-annual festival saw more than 3,000 fans of the King of Rock n’ Roll make their way to Busby.

With harvest just around the corner, farmers in the Westlock region will be the first to tell you it hasn’t been a great year in the fields, but it hasn’t got to the point where an agricultural state of emergency needs to be declared either.

Westlock County will hold a public hearing Sept. 10 regarding future development within floodway and flood fringe areas near the Pembina River. About 25 ratepayers and concerned citizens packed into council chambers for council’s Aug.

It’s always nice to know you can rely on your neighbours, as one family in Clyde learned last week. Westlock RCMP are sending kudos to the residents who helped keep the suspect in the theft of a side-by-side in Clyde the morning of Aug.

Incumbent Arnold Viersen has officially announced that he will run for a second term as the MP for the Peace River-Westlock riding.

At just 21-years-old, Isaac Skuban is already considering a life in politics and the vacant seat on Westlock County council is his first step along the way. Skuban joins Mary Ashton-Groulx, Lori Latrielle and David Woynorowski as the four Sept.