Opinion

Opinions expressed at a recent meeting of the Olds Rural Crime Watch Association reflected a concern among rural residents regarding a perceived notion of defencelessness in dealing with thieves.

Repaving a stretch of road is among a municipality's costliest capital expenditures. Depending on the scope of such a project, new asphalt can easily cost anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.

Dear Editor We at Olds High School are hosting our grade 9 Get Real Day on Tuesday, Oct. 4 and are really finding it difficult to recruit adult volunteers. We need adult volunteers from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

The average person's indifference regarding where the product he or she is purchasing might be coming from is bad enough.

Usually by this time of year, it's almost impossible to drive any distance without seeing farmers and their workers labouring tirelessly to harvest crops as the impending onset of fall beckons to the cold winter.

The Town of Innisfail has fired yet another fire chief. That's two in as many years. Good help is hard to find.

Thank you for writing your “spiel” on defining “Canadian values,” and I also found your comments very refreshing.

Usually by this time of year, it's almost impossible to drive any distance without seeing farmers and their workers labouring tirelessly to harvest crops as the impending onset of fall beckons to the cold winter.

I recently almost managed to fall hook, line and sinker for what was no doubt one of the latest email fishing scams.