News

As Alberta was gripped by a sudden blitz of harsh winter weather last Friday, Dec.4, many weekend and pre-Christmas activities had to be cancelled due to difficult road conditions and heavy snowfall.

Relay for Life to help fight cancer in support of the Canadian Cancer Society returns to Stettler next June 18 for its second year.

More mobile-home parks for Town of Stettler are being considered as a strategic priority in its municipal sustainability plan developed last summer.

One of three men charged in connection with a theft on a Tees-area farm last spring have been sentenced.

Homeless, needy and unemployed people in Stettler have become a growing concern for Stettler and District Family and Community Support Services, which expects the problem could get worse with the cold winter weather and continued economic crisis.

Plans to expand and upgrade the electricity system in the Stettler and east-central region were presented during an information session Dec. 2 at Stettler Recreation Center.

Passionate to keep local rural schools open, parents and residents called for more funding, more student opportunities and more support from the community and Clearview School Division according to comments released by the public school authority following last month’s community consultations.

Alberta’s new centre-right political force, Wildrose Alliance is to have its first meeting of its Drumheller - Stettler constituency association at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 12 at the Stettler Agriplex with the party’s only MLA Paul Hinman as the guest speaker.

Over $400,000 has been granted to several local social services programs from Stettler and District Family and Community Support Services for 2010.

Stettler’s biogas project appears to have come to a halt due to the economic crisis which has gripped the industrial nations for more than a year.