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The new year is stacking up to be a busy time for Mountain View County, with numerous projects started in 2015 continuing in 2016, and other new projects getting underway, says Reeve Bruce Beattie.

Mountain View County councillor Duncan Milne has been appointed as the municipality's representative on the Didsbury Municipal Library Expansion Project committee. The move came during the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

I was a writer of lists most of my life, even as a teen. To remind myself of what I felt I needed to accomplish on my time off, to keep assignments organized, to keep on track with my duties at home.

Mountain View County will extend an offer to its urban municipal partners to finance the $425,636.

Half way into the school year, the Chinook's Edge School Board is looking ahead to a busy 2016. “We have some capital projects that are coming to fruition,” said Colleen Butler, chair of the Chinook's Edge School Board.

A new year sparks many resolutions and for some people that includes quitting smoking. Alberta Health Services officials say quitting tobacco provides many immediate and long-term benefits.

Mountain View County council has approved $10,000 in cemetery grant funding for 10 community organizations within the municipality. The approvals came during council's recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

The Mountain View County municipal planning commission has approved a development permit for an existing aggregate extraction gravel pit near Sundre. The approval came during the commission's recent regularly scheduled board meeting.

Although winter activity is encouraged, provincial officials say children shouldn't be outside sledding when the temperature reaches below minus 19 degrees Celsius.

With Alberta's new tougher penalties for distracted driving in effect starting this month, drivers who have gotten into the habit of paying more attention to their cellphone than the road ahead may want to consider changing their ways.