By Rob Vogt Years of hard work and dedication have paid off as volunteers put up a new playstructure at Learn-A-Lot Playschool.The equipment arrived Thursday, May 22, the site was prepared and the playstructure was assembled and installed on Friday, May 23.Tristyn Warburton, chair of the playschool board, said fundraising began when the playschool moved to its current location in … Read more…
By Rob Vogt West Meadow Elementary School’s new principal will be very familiar with the community.On May 22, the Livingstone Range School Division announced Dean Heck has been named principal of West Meadow Elementary School in Claresholm beginning in the 2025-2026 school year.Heck attended school in Claresholm and is a graduate of Willow Creek Composite High School, holds bachelor of … Read more…
By Kaiden Brayshaw, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The Southern Alberta Institute of Technology announced a partnership with Imperial Oil Limited Tuesday morning. The announcement was centered around a $37 million research facility. The facility was gifted to the institute to support its applied research. The facility, Imperial Energy Innovation Centre, is a 40,000 sq foot space, it is already built and … Read more…
By Natasha Bulowski, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Canada needs more people working in clean-tech trades, and a new solar installation course aims to make it as easy as possible to break into this line of work. George Brown College just launched new solar energy technician and solar panel installer certificate programs to prepare students for solar installation jobs. The two new … Read more…
By Rob Vogt Books are hitting the hallways of Stavely Elementary School.On Monday, April 14, the school opened its hallway library.Lining the walls of the main hallway are books, that can be signed out of this hallway library every Monday at lunch time.The hallway library is a throwback to old-school libraries where books were signed out by dating a card … Read more…
By Rob Vogt The Willow Creek Composite High School baseball team turned in a dominating performance in a win against Vulcan last week.The Cobras hosted the County Central High School Hawks at Millennium Park on Tuesday, April 15, winning by a score of 11-0.Zak Wright struck out 14 batters to lead the Cobras, giving up one hit and no runs … Read more…
By Rob Vogt Willow Creek Composite High School is just one of two schools in Alberta selected to participate in a unique challenge.Edison Motors, of Merritt, B.C, is putting on a competition for high schools that will have each school build an electric go-kart, and compete in a series of challenges.Teacher Mark Oakes said the Edison High School EV Challenge … Read more…