Westlock News

Alberta's own T. Buckley (left), pictured here with Derek Pulliam on the stand-up bass, brought his mix of country and folk music to a near-capacity crowd at the Cultural Arts Theatre last Friday night.

The search for a replacement for Westlock—St. Paul MP Brian Storseth as the federal representative for the Westlock area has its first entrant.

Half a dozen RCMP officers in nearly as many police vehicles were on the scene of a fatality in Westlock’s Southview neighbourhood last Monday afternoon. The body of a 93-year-old woman had been discovered outside a residence in the area.

Although Alberta Health Services has been campaigning hard this year asking everybody to get flu immunization shots, the supply has now run dry.

New Westlock County reeve Bud Massey is ready to take what he has learned in his two months on council and apply it to where he and his fellow councillors want to take the municipality.

A Busby man is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 8 to face charges related to the deaths of his son and another man.

Since being elected as the Town of Westlock’s new mayor, Ralph Leriger has been kept busy getting up to speed as his first term in office ramps up.

St. Mary School closed out the Christmas concert season last Friday, Dec. 20 with its Nativity play. Students also used the event as a fundraiser to raise cash for a seminary in Nigeria headed up by Father Sabinus Iwu, formerly of the St. Mary Parish in Westlock. Pictured is Lanaya Wade playing the part of King Herod.

Westlock Family & Community Support Services has a full-time director at the helm in time for 2014.

The Westlock Regional Water Services Commission held an emergency meeting last Thursday, Dec. 19, to change the wholesale water rate. The new rate will be $2 per cubic metre of water, effective March 1, 2014. This is up from last year’s rate of $1.