By Rob Vogt – Local Press WriterThe Willow Creek Composite High School senior varsity boys basketball team welcomed teams from around Southern Alberta this past weekend in their annual Cobra Classic tournament, taking fourth after winning their opener in convincing fashion.The Cobras hosted the Three Hills Royals, winning by a score of 98-40.Scoring for Claresholm were Hayden McClung with 25 … Read more…
By Rob Vogt – Local Press WriterResidents and community members learned more about wills, enduring powers of attorney, and personal directives at a recent Lunch and Learn.On Tuesday, Feb. 7, the Cottonwood Village Retirement Residence and Claresholm and District Family and Community Support Services hosted local lawyer Kendall Schille to talk about estate planning.She began by explaining there are three … Read more…
1937 – 2023 (Margaret) Lee Hargreaves (nee Williams) passed away quietly at home January 26, 2023. Lee was born in 1937 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She was a highly decorated Senior Girl Scout, and a member of her High School Art Club and Debaters Club, and played the bassoon in the band. After Graduating in 1955, Lee studied at … Read more…
August 18, 1938 ~ January 22, 2023 Born to Lajos and Emilia Monus and baby sister to Gizike in Doge, Hungary when Europe was at war. Graduated from high school in Kisvarda. Ida was 18 years old when she escaped the “Iron Curtain” to Austria. Her life started in Canada as a domestic and then agricultural labourer in Norfolk County, … Read more…
February 2, 1940 to December 10, 2022 The family of Henning Madsen announces his sudden passing as of December 10, 2022, at the age of 82 years in Stavely, Alberta. In early 1940, Henning was the twelfth of 14 children born to Katrine Louise and Marinus Madsen, in a simple white house in northwest Denmark in the first year of WWII. … Read more…
April 3, 1934 – Fort McLeod, Alberta January 19, 2023 – Calgary, Alberta Elaine Stewart of Calgary, AB, passed away on Thursday, January 19, 2023 at the age of 88 years. Elaine was born in Fort McLeod, Alberta on April 3, 1934, the only child of Ed and Agnes Pitt.She was raised in Claresholm and married her high school sweetheart, … Read more…
By Rob Vogt – Local Press WriterProtocols are now in place for fire departments in the Municipal District of Willow Creek to transport patients to the nearest hospital if Alberta Health Services emergency medical resources are delayed.On Feb. 3, the Towns of Claresholm, Stavely, Nanton and Fort Macleod and the M.D. issued a joint news release announcing the adoption of … Read more…