

All About the Bats, and the Bugs, and the Bees
It’s mid-July and we are in full summer work mode here in the Counties of Athabasca, Westlock and Barrhead. Summer is the best, it’s when all the planning and preparation done in the long winter months comes to fruition! I’m free of the office (for the most part) and outside, working to make our rural landscape more environmentally friendly. We kicked off the summer season by launching our new program “Planting for Pollinators”. We had two workshops, one in Barrhead and one i