Westlock News

Fifteen volunteer firefighters from the Busby and Pickardville departments left presents halfway opened Christmas morning and responded to a fire in a garage near Busby.

Students from Busby School performed their annual Christmas concert at the community hall last Monday, Dec. 20. Here, Grade 1 students Kasyn Pipke (left), Brooke Morgan and Kadin Chamzuk perform the song Chatter with the Angels.

A Pembina Hills school division bus ended up in a ditch along Highway 651 on Monday morning, delaying the school day for many children for nearly an hour.

Funding and staff shortages at Alberta Hospital, the province’s main psychiatric facility, are having a detrimental effect on the administration of justice, local lawyer Bruce Lennon says.

The Westlock and District Chamber of Commerce will continue on in 2011 with a new executive.

The Westlock Foundation is planning a 61-bed expansion to the Pembina Lodge in Westlock, but how the $5 million expansion will be financed is still up for discussion.

That snowstorm that Environment Canada said dropped over 12 centimetres of snow on the Westlock area last Tuesday and Wednesday, paralyzing the streets and frustrating residents, also did a number on the Town of Westlock’s snow removal program.

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A man from the Alexander First Nation will spend the next 118 days in jail for an impaired driving charge that dates back two years. Craig Vernon Paul, 37, was sentenced for driving with a blood alcohol level over .

Rumours abound about Pembina Hills Regional Division Supt. Richard Harvey, but board members are saying very little about his leave of absence. Clayton Jespersen, who will continue to act as board chair until the Oct.