Westlock News

Michael Smith flies through the air to break the board during the Westlock Taekwondo Club's promotion night on March 20 at the Westlock Rotary Spirit Centre. Students demonstrated the skills they had learned in the previous session, with the goal being to perform well enough to promote to the next level. Smith successfully promoted to a red belt.

In many cases finishing fifth out of eight might be cause for disappointment.

The Pembina Hills school division will no longer be footing half of the bill for the transportation and installation of six modular classrooms at the new Pembina North Community School at Dapp.

A 41-year-old Westlock man was arrested at gunpoint in the Barrhead Elementary School parking lot last Friday morning. Barrhead RCMP Cpl.

Shayla Woodcock performs her STARSkate solo routine during the Westlock Figure Skating Club's annual carnival on March 7 at the Rotary Spirit Centre. Titled "Toy Box,” the year-end carnival featured the club's skaters performing all manner of routines, often times dressed up in costumes or skating to songs reminiscent of toys one would find in a child's toy chest.

It’s unclear what the future of the Sparrow’s Hope women’s shelter is, but its doors have been closed for the past six months.

The former Sobeys employee who has admitted to stealing roughly $90,000 from the store will wait until June to be sentenced. Christine Tan pleaded guilty to one count of theft over $5,000 when she appeared in Westlock Provincial Court March 5.

Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA Maureen Kubinec is happy with the provincial government’s 2014 budget, even if there are some things she would have liked to see the area receive.

All it took was about 20 minutes of searching for Westlock RCMP to locate an alleged robber — he went across the street to the bar. Last Tuesday, Feb. 25, police got a report of a robbery in progress at around 9:20 p.m.

Amanda Punko puts the finishing touches on her piece of duct tape to stick R.F. Staples principal Pierre Ouimet to the gym wall on Feb. 28. The stunt was part of the Grade 7 project "Seven ways to change the world.” Students paid $1 to place a piece of tape over Ouimet to hold him on the wall. All the money raised went to the Second Chance Animal Rescue Society.