Wetaskiwin News

Wetaskiwin Fire Services personnel responded to the community's most recent structure fire a little faster than usual.

With a growing culture change toward environmentalism and awareness of ones carbon footprint, an Alberta couple who chose to live as green as possible for a year brought its message of conservation to Wetaskiwin.

While they support the controversial booze bylaw, a pair of Wetaskiwin aldermen admitted that addressing addictions is the responsibility of the province, and not the municipality.

I SEE STUPID PEOPLE: I was in Edmonton the other day, and I still see they are handing out driver's licences to blind people.

Spreading the Spirit of Christmas is the goal of an annual campaign that collects and delivers toys and food to needed families during the holiday season.

The Wetaskiwin Warriors battled hard, but the season has come an end for the bantam football squad.

A facility that once housed more than 40 Wetaskiwin seniors is the third building to be destroyed by fire in less than a month in the community.

Statistics are dangerous and Joe Anglin, area dissident and provincial thorn, knows this.

On Nov. 17, over across the parking lot, there will be a minor disruption in service at the Civic Centre as Fortis will be doing some work from 9 to 10:30 a.m. that will require the power to be turned off in the building.

Wetaskiwin has an award-winner heading up operations at the public library. Manisha Khetarpal is the new manager of library services and has been on the job for only a few weeks.

The fall session has begun and, not surprisingly, that means that I'm spending less time on the road and more time in Edmonton.

A young group of Wetaskiwin football players couldn't be happier. The Wetaskiwin atom Wolverines captured the Capital District Minor Football Association tier 4 championship with a 31-0 shellacking over the Millwoods Grizzlies Nov.

The line stretched for a couple of blocks as dozens of Wetaskiwin and area mothers, fathers, and grandparents flocked to the Drill Hall to have their children and grandchildren inoculated against the H1N1 virus.

That's how one Wetaskiwin County councillor described a controversial bill being considered by the provincial government.

A new Wetaskiwin public safety city bylaw is keeping the RCMP busy. Bylaw 1736-08, which prohibits a number of ills from fighting in public or public urination to placing leaflets on cars and yelling, screaming or swearing in public, has seen 55 charges laid over the summer from June to September.

Wetaskiwin MP Blaine Calkins, Drayton Valley-Calmar MLA Diana McQueen, Thorsby Mayor Allan Gee, ARRGO Chairman Peter Harerli and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach cut the ribbon during the grand opening of the Alberta Rhodiola Rosea Growers Organization Processing Facility in Thorsby on Oct.

Carla Schneider and her St. Bernard service dog Angus reacquaint themselves with Eve, a German shepherd guide dog belonging to her friend John Dignard of Wetaskiwin outside The Gathering Place Monday.

Those four words begin a creed that is synonymous with the Rotary Club around the world.

While there were plenty of spooky-looking pumpkins up for auction at the 35th annual Pumpkin Ball, it was the announcement by the Wetaskiwin & District Association for Community Service executive director that truly frightened the crowd.

The driving force behind supplying Wetaskiwin and area residents with a wealth of knowledge was thanked for its efforts last week.