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Canada Day celebrated in Raymond
Posted on July 8, 2021By Al Beeber Westwind Weekly News It was the first day without social distancing or mask requirements and Raymond was ready to let loose. Throngs… Read More »
Live music’s return will be therapeutic — while fans rejoice
Posted on July 6, 2021Like a kid in a candy store, music lovers rejoice, as the live music scene opens up from a terrible hiatus due to the COVID-19… Read More »
Updates to camp kitchen, visitor kiosk discussed in Stirling
Posted on July 6, 2021By Nikki Jamieson Westwind Weekly News Options are being explored to upgrade the Village of Stirling's camp kitchen. During a regular June 16 meeting, Stirling… Read More »
Poppy funding for Stirling cenotaph project
Posted on July 6, 2021By Nikki Jamieson Westwind Weekly News The Village of Stirling has received funding for its Cenotaph Project from the Legion Poppy Fund. Through Glenn Miller,… Read More »
What a wild ride it will be!
Posted on June 24, 2021Being a full-time caregiver of two teenagers with driving ambitions and Alberta learner’s licences can be nervewracking, anxiety-causing, downright stressful – but, also a proud… Read More »
Redistribution of money, ‘unfair’
Posted on June 24, 2021Dear Editor: For decades, Albertans have watched as their hard-earned tax dollars were sent to Ottawa and redistributed among other provinces under a system of… Read More »
Doctors not immune to virus
Posted on June 24, 2021Dear Editor: Staffing challenges are not new to rural Albertans, who are familiar with the longstanding challenge of recruiting doctors to their communities.Unfortunately, COVID-19 has… Read More »
Tourism industry calling for border re-opening plan
Posted on June 24, 2021By Tim Kalinowski Southern Alberta Newspapers The Tourism Industry Association of Canada is calling on the Trudeau government to commit to border re-opening on a… Read More »
Redman presents a ‘Hot Topics’ pandemic-related webinar
Posted on June 24, 2021By Trevor Busch Southern Alberta Newspapers Lockdowns were the wrong approach to tackling the global pandemic in Canada, argues David Redman, a retired lieutenant colonel… Read More »
Alberta to re-open July 1
Posted on June 24, 2021By Nikki Jamieson Westwind Weekly News On July 1, the province reopens. In an announcement last Friday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney announced that 70.2 per… Read More »