Westlock News

Westlock County’s unionized employees have voted “overwhelmingly” in favour of filing a formal complaint in the wake CAO Peter Kelly’s severance offer.

There is little chance the new Tawatinaw Valley Ski Chalet will be ready in time for the coming ski season, and the entire ski season may be scrapped.

Demonstrators for both the Pro-Life and Pro-Choice movement waved signs at the junction of Highways 18 and 44 on Sunday, though the former dwarfed the latter by a considerable margin.

Westlock County has offered all full-time employees a severance package that includes three months pay — if they give notice by Oct. 15.

The Pax Natura Ranch for the Deaf was once again the target of a break-in, with the culprits doing significant damage. Westlock RCMP Const. Craig Armstrong said the break-in took place overnight on Friday, Sept. 26 or early morning Sept. 27.

The Westlock and District Community Hall was filled to near capacity Saturday night for the "Nelly's Project” fundraiser — the first fundraiser for the Soul Sisters Foundation, which was formed to bring awareness to mental illness and suicide prevention. County music superstar Carolyn Dawn Johnson was the featured performer at the event, which raised in excess of $100,000 for the Westlock Victim Services Unit and the Pilgrim Hospice Society. See the Oct. 7 edition of the Town & Country for more.

Westlock RCMP got some help from Barrhead, Athabasca and the Emergency Response Team in bringing and armed standoff to a safe resolution earlier this month. Cpl. Dennis Properzi said an officer in Westlock tried to pull a vehicle over around 1:30 a.

The recently discovered electrical problems at the Westlock Aquatic Centre are worse than expected, and the pool will be shut down longer than planned. At the Sept.

Efforts at collaboration between the town, county and Village of Clyde have reached an impasse.

Westlock County firefighters were kept busy last Friday when they had to deal with two stubble fires northwest of Westlock. Both fires took place in the afternoon of Sept.