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By Jazmin Roe
Student Reporter
The 2012 Alberta Games were held in Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, and Parkland County from Thursday, Feb. 9th to Sunday, Feb. 12th. The games included more than 2,800 athletes, coaches, and officials from the eight different zones across the province.
By Patricia Harcourt
Editor
A Tofield area man continues to seek information regarding who is responsible for severely damaging his mailbox on Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Some people out there really enjoy winter.
They welcome it, crying Hooray instead of muttering Humbug. They own outdoor toys, like skis, sleds and noisy snowmobiles, and actually use them for something other than hanging laundry on. Blizzards bring on happy dances because these storms result in deeper snow, all the better to play in.
By Patricia Harcourt
Editor
They may be annoying for drivers at times, but those pickup trucks piloting wide load vessels in our region serve a necessary purpose and must be obeyed.
So states Sgt. Jim Warren of the Tofield RCMP of the flag persons in those pilot trucks. They are responsible for the safety of their vessel as it travels down the road and the motorists that encounter that vessel.
By Patricia Harcourt
Editor
Tofield RCMP rushed to help their fellow officers Feb. 7 after shootings left two Killam detachment members in-jured and another man dead on a rural farm site southeast of Sedgewick.
Const. Sheldon Shah and Const. Sydney Gaudette were shot when attempting to execute a search warrant for an illegal firearm at the home of Brad Clarke. Clarke died in the house after shots were fired, and his nephew, Sawyer Clarke Robison escaped. He was on the run until last Friday morning when he turned himself in after being charged with two counts of attempted murder.
Valentine’s Day chan-ges in significance as couples age.
Once they’ve passed the starry-eyed young lovers stage, when they are so much in love that their heads hurt and not talking to each other a dozen times a day brings on heart palpitations (not the good kind), Feb. 14th is no longer the day that marks how deep their love is, sort of like a high water mark after a flood. It isn’t that special day when partners prove how much they love one another with expensive gifts.