BARBARA COTE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR A group of Fort Macleod women are knitting and crocheting equal amounts of love and yarn into shawls for people in need of comfort. The hand-made shawls may not always be perfect in technique, but they are always rich in compassion. What matters is that they give comfort to someone.…Continue Reading

Fort Macleod residents on Good Friday traced the symbolic footsteps of their saviour Jesus Christ. More than 70 people turned out for the annual Way of the Cross procession, which recreates Christ’s painful journey to crucifixion. “This is not simply a journey that Jesus made, but rather a journey that we all continue to make…Continue Reading

Students at F.P. Walshe school think new teacher James Fuller is going places — and so does the school administration. Fuller has been nominated by the F.P. Walshe school administration for the Alberta School Board Association’s Edwin Parr Award. The award, named after a 1920’s Athabasca area homesteader who took a great interest in the…Continue Reading

The Fort Macleod Chamber of Commerce has a new president. ATB Financial business lender Srecko Ponjavic took over leadership of the 50-member business promotion group from outgoing president Emily McTighe on Thursday at a luncheon meeting at Luigi’s Pizza and Steak House. McTighe held the position for eight years. “I have really enjoyed my time…Continue Reading

There’s not going to be a Spring Breakout in Fort Macleod this year . . . unless someone comes to the rescue. The Southern Alberta Drag Racing Association, show organizers for the last two years, has decided it will not put the show on this year. A Fort Macleod rite of spring for years, the…Continue Reading

An Alberta youth on a solo cancer run stopped overnight in Fort Macleod last week after the first leg of his journey was cut short because of strong winds. Valleyview Grade 10 student Dyllan Duperron, who left Lethbridge on Monday, March 14, battled a strong westerly wind as far as Monarch before deciding it was…Continue Reading

Two more Fort Macleod buildings have been added to the Provincial Historical Resource list. The R.T. Barker building across from the Empress Theatre and the Union Bank building across from the old Java Shop have been designated to the provincial list of buildings that are protected under the Alberta Historical Resources Act. Both buildings are…Continue Reading

The Alberta government will deliver on the promise it made nearly five years ago to build the police college in Fort Macleod. Premier Ed Stelmach said money for construction of the college will be in the 2011 budget to be announced Thursday, and that construction will start in the summer of 2012. “I want to…Continue Reading

Five years of hard work — the last three as parliamentary secretary for Finance Minister Jim Flaherty — have paid off for Macleod MP Ted Menzies. Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week named Menzies to the newly-created cabinet post of minister of state for finance. “I was pretty excited,” Menzies said in a telephone interview.…Continue Reading