Local News

DIDSBURY - The election in Didsbury was a month ago and the new council members are starting to get their feet wet, so to speak.

CREMONA - The Cremona senior girls' varsity volleyball team wrapped up their season with an appearance at the Alberta High School Single A Provincial Championships in Bonnyville at the end of November.

CREMONA - The Cremona Cougars senior boys' varsity basketball team have begun practice and are eager to hit the court. The team is coached by Suzanne Kempster assisted by Bruce Bird.

This week the 2019 election campaign between the governing New Democratic Party and the Opposition United Conservative Party, between Premier Rachel Notley and Jason Kenney, begins in earnest.

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.