Westlock News

The Westlock Child Care Society will submit an application to take part in a province-wide pilot project to test out $25-a-day childcare. The society held an information session Dec.

Inspectors will soon be sweeping the dirt out from under Westlock County’s rug once a municipal inspection gets underway in the next few months.

Westlock County will not declare a state of agricultural disaster following the Alberta government’s province-wide agricultural disaster declaration late last month.

The Town of Westlock and the provincial government have recognized brave local firefighters for their heroism battling “The Beast”— the Fort McMurray wildfire that scorched almost 590,000 hectares of earth from May to June. On Nov.

Following an agricultural disaster declaration from their neighbours to the west, Westlock County is considering a similar declaration within its own borders.

An engineer's report on the Town of Westlock's future water plans recommends the multi-million dollar removal of the water tower, but a lack of funds may force council to figure out a way to keep it in service.

The waiting game is over as Westlock County will finally undergo a municipal inspection, months after council sent in a request for Alberta Municipal Affairs’ involvement. The Westlock News received confirmation Nov.

Westlock Elementary School has a new $8,000 chain-link fence along its southeastern border. School principal Pierre Ouimet noted that while he was very happy the work was done by the end of the day Nov.

A motion from Peace River-Westlock MP Arnold Viersen to study the public health effects of widely-available and easily-accessible “violent and degrading sexually explicit material” was debated in the House of Commons on Nov.

There’s a new group of local female fundraisers and their goal is to donate $10,000 every three months to needy organizations. The group 100 Women Who Care — Westlock handed out its first donation Nov. 16 to the Westlock and District Food Bank.