Jeff Clemens

Multimedia Journalist

Town council made a decision to set guidelines to increase the town's involvement with their United Way partnership Committee. The group has existed for several years but town council approved a term of reference for the partnership that has the town agreeing to a committee at least eight people serving on the United Way/Strathmore Partnership committee.

"It's a good cause because any money raised in Strathmore stays in Strathmore' said Megan Dutka, the interim Chair of the Partnership committee. "We can always use more volunteers too and they can find out more info from the town office."

These terms of reference will come into effect as of January 1, 2013 and the committee has meetings coming up to determine what will be happening.

Strathmore still growing, slowly

The Strathmore municipal census for 2012 was presented at council and it showed the town has had minimal growth over the past year. The town population increased only 0.38 percent which is 47 new residents. The current total number of dwellings in the community is now at 5.417.

New Library board members

Council appointed new members to the Strathmore Library Board to replace members that had left the position.

There were four members appointed to the Library board. The job of the library board is to develop policies related to framework, governance and operations of the library.