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*Please note: due to a late addition to this week’s paper, this story has been continued onto the web from the front page of the print edition. Below it appears in its full form: The 2018 graduating class of Central High in Sedgewick celebrated the end of one phase of their lives, and the beginning…
(as published in the September 5 edition of The Community Press) The Flagstaff Region Featured Business is a monthly newspaper and web feature presented in partnership by Flagstaff County and The Community Press. BeDevil Enterprises 6301 – 51 Ave. Killam; 780-385-5640 Dan McRae adheres to a straightforward business philosophy that has served him – and his…
A lightning strike on the Strome Fire Hall started a fire on Friday, July 13, around 8 p.m. Firefighters were unable to enter the building, says Flagstaff Regional Emergency Services Co-ordinator Kim Cannady, “because all our protective gear was inside.” Killam and Daysland Fire Departments responded to the call and extinguished the flames. View the…
Leanne and Perry Gordon organized ‘Once more around the block for Ernie,’ a motorcycle ride around Flagstaff County to raise money for Ernie Palmer, a double-transplant patient from Strome who is currently recuperating from his transplant surgeries in Toronto, where he received new lungs and a new liver. Riders, sponsors, and other donations ended up…
“Cheerio, Cheery-up, Cheer-i-lee.” It’s the sound of spring, and heralds the return of the red-chested robin, a familiar sight in yards throughout the summer. But if it sounds like a robin, and acts like a robin, but looks like something else altogether, is it still a robin? That’s what Lloyd Seidel asked himself when he…
Flagstaff County Council heard a presentation from municipal clerk Gwenda Poyser during their May 11 meeting regarding the new Utilities Rate By-law for hamlets.
The winner of the grand prize of the Strome Curling Club’s Mother’s Day Raffle was Willa Schwab, who accepted the keys to her new Polaris Ranger from Bob Hayes on Sunday, May 8 at the Strome Community Hall.
As of Jan. 1, both Strome and Galahad became hamlets. Cabinet approved the dissolution of both villages on Nov. 17 of 2015, after public votes in both villages were overwhelmingly in favour of becoming hamlets.
Strome residents sent a clear message to the Minister of Municipal Affairs on Tuesday, Sept. 29, when 94 per cent, or 89 out of 95 voters, chose Option 2, dissolution of the village of Strome to become a hamlet of Flagstaff County.
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Residents of the village of Strome received letters this week, dated July 31, outlining the timeline for the village’s viability review, which was started by a request of Council in September 2014. “On January 30, 2015 the Viability Review Team determined that the Village of Strome was trending towards non-viability,” said the letter.