(l-r) Derek Fildebrandt, Drumheller-Stettler MLA Rick Strankman, and Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes at Mr. Strankman's Open House Friday, February 20. Fildebrandt is considering running for the leader's job of the Wildrose Official Opposition.

A possible candidate for the  leader’s job of the Wildrose Official Opposition stopped by to support the area MLA’s Open House Friday, February 20.
    “I will be making a decision in very short order,” said Derek Fildebrandt, who attended the Friday Open House for Drumheller-Stettler MLA Rick Strankman.
    Fildebrandt put his name in the hat as Wildrose candidate at the end of January for the Strathmore-Brooks riding.
    He is the former Alberta Director and National Research Director for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.
    Wildrose members have a meeting scheduled in Calgary Saturday, February 21st, their first all member meeting since the defection of nine Wildrose Official Opposition members, including leader Danielle Smith, in December.

French Students as St. Anthony’s are spending February studying The Voyageurs, the French explorers who traversed across Canada and discovered and charted routes across the country, including into Alberta, in the 1650s. French students helped create this display at St. Anthony’s, which shows a canoe, the sash the explorers wore woven into the fence but in St. Anthony’s colours, and the beaver, which the First Nations traded with  the Voyaguers. Students who worked on the display include (l-r) Matthew Howard, Justin Sowerby, Dianne Estacio next to Madame Dubé, and Bailey Chung.
inSide photo Michele Scott