To the Editor;
The Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) has been competing for global grain sales for 77 years. Now the CWB is ready to compete for farmers' business.
We have developed a solid set of marketing programs designed to meet farmers' pricing, risk management and cash flow needs – in short, excellent products to create a well-rounded marketing portfolio. I invite farmers to register for e-mail updates at www.cwb.ca/email so they can receive all the details as they become available. We'll be offe

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Dear Editor;
I have often wondered about the mathematically impossible comment "they gave 110%", but I actually saw a demonstration of it this past weekend at the Alberta Winter Games in Stony Plain.
The Kneehill Peewee A Chiefs had won the right to represent Zone 2 in these games and did so in a way that earned the respect and admiration of all who watched them play. With one of the smallest team rosters at the event, they had to play with very little rest throughout the tough and demanding fiv

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Dear Editor:
I would like to further update you and your readers to the modernization process at Trochu Valley School.
Plans are continuing for the re-location of classes for the next two school years. At this point, the K to 6 classes will be housed in the current Outreach building with the addition of portable classrooms. The Outreach program will be re-located, possibly to a portable classroom as well. Negotiations will begin with the Town of Trochu to house the Grades 7-12 classes in the old

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January 20,2012
Minister of Energy - Ted Morton
Minister of Health - Fred Horne
ERCB Chairman - Dan
McFadden
Minister of Human Services -
Dave Hancock
Alberta Surface Rights Group
Re: Hydraulic Fracking Moratorium
It is respectfully submitted that the Alberta Surface Rights Group request the Government of Alberta to place an immediate Moratorium on the practice of  high pressure, multi stage, hydraulic fracturing commonly known as "Hydro Fracking". The number of increasing incidents in well to w

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