Westlock News

Westlock County’s transportation budget is almost $1 million over budget due to gravel costs. The news that the county is $981,800 over budget came to council’s attention in a financial report presented at its Dec. 13 meeting.

City Life Farms’ owner Brian Mendieta is counting his blessings after an early morning fire burned down his barn. “I started crying when the firefighters showed up,” said Mendieta. “I’m just glad it wasn’t my house. No animals got hurt.

For the second time in three months, a train has derailed along the CN Rail Westlock Sub-Line. At approximately 2:30 a.m. Dec.

Area Progressive Conservative Party members have selected the group which represent them at next year’s leadership convention. Around 125 card-carrying PCs from the Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock constituency were at the Westlock Inn Monday, Dec.

A new lease is in the works between the owner of the Pine Valley Ski Resort in Tawatinaw and Westlock County.

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.