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Mountain View County operations staff members completed more than 600 kilometres of re-gravelling in 2017, the policies and priorities committee heard.

On Dec. 6, members of the Olds 4-H Multi Club presented a quilt several club members made to Doreen Mousek - a family intervention worker with the McMan Youth Family and Community Services Association in Olds.

On behalf of all those who have received hampers in the past, I would like to recognize all those who have helped or sponsored the Didsbury Christmas Helper Program.

OLDS-DIDSBURY - Olds Community Chorus is celebrating a milestone with this month's Winter Concert 2017.

About 60 area residents attended an open house at the Carstairs Community Centre on Nov. 28 to provide input into a proposed new area structure plan.

Mountain View County's agricultural service board (ASB) has forwarded its proposed 2018 budget to council for budget deliberations. The move came during the board's recent regularly scheduled meeting.

CARSTAIRS - Town councillors have voted to increase water and garbage collection rates for 2018. The votes came during the Nov. 27 council meeting. Water rates will be rising $0.10 a cubic metre to $2.

Re: "The hypocrisy of the politically correct", p. 25, Nov. 28 Gazette Straw man arguments are harmful. They cause division and spread misinformation.

DIDSBURY - It was a fun time had by all on Saturday at the Mountain View Theatre Project's dinner theatre performance of Killed to Death.

DIDSBURY - A merciless Mother Nature wreaked havoc on area highways over the holidays. Between Dec. 22 and Dec. 29 Didsbury RCMP responded to 46 collisions including 14 on Dec. 27 alone. The numbers do not include any collisions not reported.