Westlock News

Toni Siegle is the 37th winner of Clyde’s annual Volunteer of the Year Award.

Town of Westlock Council made it official last week — the mill rate is increasing slightly. Councillors voted 6-0 in favour of the increase, passing all three readings of the Tax Rate Bylaw at their April 23 meeting. Coun.

Four-straight weeks of campaigning paid off for Glenn van Dijken, who claimed the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock constituency in the April 16 provincial election. van Dijken won the riding with 68.

Wayne Rufiange didn’t win a seat in last week’s election, but it hasn’t turned him off the idea of running again. The R.F. Staples School principal and Alberta Party candidate for the April 16 provincial election finished third with 9.

Despite a 7.57 per cent average decline in residential assessment values, most Town of Westlock home owners will face a small tax increase this year.

Glenn van Dijken will ride a blue United Conservative Party wave into the Legislature with premier-elect Jason Kenney, easily capturing the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock riding with roughly 70 per cent of the popular vote.

The long-awaited turning lanes into the Westlock County Industrial Park south of town will not be built this year and may be put off until 2022.

For the second time in less than a year Village of Clyde residents will head to the polls. June 24 has been set for the byelection to fill the seat vacated by mayor Matthew White, who resigned April 1.

All five-candidates vying for the Athabasca-Barrhead-Westlock seat had an opportunity to share their platforms and answer a few questions from the audience last week as the Westlock and District Chamber of Commerce and the Westlock News presented an

Just a handful of months into his tenure as mayor of the Village of Clyde, Matthew White has stepped down and left the community.