Opinion

If you build it, they will come. The words made famous by actor Kevin Costner’s 1989 hit movie Field of Dreams might be the stuff of fiction, yet they at the same time echo an element of truth.

Police officers do what they can to curb crime with the resources available to them. However, there is only so much they can reasonably be expected to do.

Thirty-eight years ago, a hero-in-the-making dipped his prosthetic leg into the Atlantic at St. John’s, N.L. He had a lofty goal: raise $24 million – a dollar for each Canadian.

Suicide and depression are all-too-common. Hope and help are available. The message was delivered at this year’s third annual The Conversation Has to Happen…Again held at the Olds Pomeroy on Saturday.

DICKSON - The Dickson Store Museum held Sunday At The Museum on July 29 to celebrate two of its most recent accomplishments that have made the community and museum officials proud.

The town opted not to officially declare itself a no kill pet community last month but that is "essentially" what it did when new animal control rules were accepted by council as information on Aug. 27.

A marked decrease in overall crime levels in rural Alberta over the past 12 months is goods news for communities across the region.

A marked decrease in overall crime levels in rural Alberta over the past 12 months is goods news for communities across the region.

In 2010, Canada's ministers of health stated in a Declaration on Prevention and Promotion that "the promotion of health and the prevention of disease, disability and injury are a priority and necessary to the sustainability of the health system.