Local teacher Jaimie Van Ham was honoured as the final selectee for the Zone 6 Edwin Parr Award at a banquet last week at the Heritage Inn.
Van Ham teaches at Chamberlain School in Grassy Lake, and originally hails from Bow Island. The Edwin Parr Award is given out on an annual basis to first-year teachers who have shown exceeding excellence, with various nominees from southern Alberta school divisions competing for the prestigious honour.

The Town of Taber is going to be on the search for a new chief administrative officer.
Yesterday, Gordon Frank submitted a letter of resignation, which town council will now have to deal with at Monday’s regular meeting.

As part of the shadow cabinet in opposition to the provincial government, last week Wildrose Alliance leader Danielle Smith named Cardston-Taber-Warner MLA Gary Bikman as the Advanced Education critic.
Bikman, who holds two university degrees in psychology as well as a masters of business administration, is excited to be taking on the role in the new legislature.

A realignment of the Temporary Foreign Workers Program by the federal Conservative government has streamlined it in response to labour-market demands.
Employers with a strong track record can now receive an Accelerated-Labour Market Opinion (A-LMO) to hire temporary foreign workers in high-skill occupations, including the skilled trades. The A-LMO will help employers reduce the paper burden and speed up processing time for those who have short-term skilled-labour needs.