After 25 years of living in a group home with 24-7 care, Robert Shank got an answer nobody in his family could comprehend.

After retiring from R.F. Staples School nearly 15 years ago, Pembina Lodge resident Anne Sloniowski walked through the doors last Tuesday morning to work with junior high students in the cooking lab once again.

Last Monday’s Powerband concert, comprising students from R.F. Staples and Barrhead Composite High School, was a “complete success,” said RFS music director Anne-Marie Switzer.

Is Somebody Singing? In fact, all of the Grade 1-6 students at Dapp School were doing so on May 6, as part of the nationwide sing-along called Music Monday.

The Westlock Intermunicipal Library Board has been recognized as a provincial leader in innovation.

The Westlock Art Club’s annual spring sale and exhibition was a success.

While the Edmonton Oilers were in the middle of yet another loss, one Westlock man ended up winning big.

Brad and Melody Nelson received the Clyde Ag Society’s volunteers of the year award at the annual Ag 500 banquet on April 27 at Clyde Community Hall.

Last Saturday, 59 medical, nursing and physical therapy students from the University of Alberta descended on the Westlock hospital.

After more than 80 hours of rehearsal time, junior high students at R.F. Staples are ready to compete at the Zone 2 West Drama Festival at Spruce Grove’s Horizon Theatre on April 26.