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After a period of uncertainty, the Tofield/Ryley/Beaver County West office of Family and Community Social Services has found a new home.
FCSS will relocate to the second floor of the Tofield Town Office as of Jan. 3, 2017.
The staff will be packing up and moving from their current location
The Royal Canadian Legion, Tofield Branch 91, held its annual Remembrance Day Service on Friday, November 11 to a packed house at the Tofield Community Hall.
People seem to have taken to heart the message on the front of the Legion Services program this year to: “Never Forget…Always Remember,” because the hall included the very young, the very old and many in-between in years.
The hall’s side room was also full as a testament to the fact people felt the need to
Tofield School gymnasium last Thursday was filled for the annual Remembrance service honouring Canada’s war dead.
The services are part of many held in schools and halls throughout the land during this most important week of honouring those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, and thanking those who remain.
But this year, along with the more traditional elements, a candlelight ceremony was included
The county’s long-term financial future was examined by MNP LLP and presented to the committee of the whole at its Nov. 2 meeting. With the drop in linear assessment, the county is looking for alternate revenue sources.
One suggestion given in a recent study was to increase police enforcement.
Chris Lavin, a member of MNP’s advisory services branch, spoke at length
Tru Hardware owners Chris and Matt Trushinski held an official groundbreaking ceremony Nov. 1st on the site of what will be their new store in Tofield.
The Trushinski father and son team have owned Tru Hardware for the past nine years, but have bought 1.3 acres on the west side of Tofield from the Town of Tofield where they intend to build a new 16,000 sq. ft. hardware store.
The store will have two entranceways, one off Creamery Road to the west and
Tofield Tier 2 Atoms (2-0) travelled to Vegreville on Oct. 29, defeating the home team 5-3.
Tofield scored early in the second to get a 3-1 lead and then
The 2016 Fireman’s Ball, sponsored by the Tofield Fire Department Society, is an event held every three years as a fundraiser for the Stollery Children’s Hospital.
This was an especially poignant event, however, with the announcement that the funds raised – with the goal of $10,000 or more – would go towards the purchase of a specimen freezer for the Pediatric Gastro-Enterology and Nutrition Department at the Stollery.
Society President Kevin Moos told the crowd about the department’s personal reason for this choice as one of their own, firefighter Devon McCharles and his wife Theresa’s daughter, Claire, has been spending a great deal of time at the Stollery after being diagnosed with an Interleukin-10 receptor deficit.
Moos called them “one of our own fire family,” and