Westlock News

While the modernization of Pembina North Community School (PNCS) in Dapp is still targeted for early 2016, the construction of a new school at Neerlandia may be finished by this October, two months ahead of the estimated completion date.

Westlock County has awarded a $500,000 contract to raise the new $2 million, but never used, Tawatinaw Valley Ski Chalet.

The Hamlet of Busby celebrated 100 years of community and history over the weekend with three days of activities and events.

The Pembina Hills school division will establish a communications director, with an estimated price tag of $160,000, in a one-year position in order to build "communications capacity” amongst staff. In a recorded vote at the their June 10 meeting in Barrhead, trustees Annette Bokenfohr, Kim Webster, Jan Hoffart, Sheri Watson and Judy Lefebvre voted in favour of the motion to establish a communications director position, while trustees Jennifer Tuininga and Jackie Comeau voted against it.

The quarter of Crown land being used as an illegal shooting range is to be closed for 28 days by Alberta Environment and Parks (AEP).

Police are searching for a man who assaulted two store attendants with bear spray during an armed robbery at the Clyde Corner Store on Friday afternoon. RCMP say the suspect entered the store at around 3.15 p.m.

An 18-year-old man faces a long list of charges following a high-speed police chase that started near Gibbons and weaved its way though Westlock before ending in Barrhead.

On June 17 Westlock’s Bryan Carnegie will hop on his bicycle in Vancouver and set course for St. John’s, N.L. riding in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

GROWTH Alberta is losing the member organization that is responsible for its creation, as Pembina Hills trustees voted unanimously last Wednesday to withdraw from the organization on Jan. 1, 2016.

One person remains in hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following a Saturday-night crash on Highway 44 near the Dapp Corner Store.