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Mountain View County council has approved funding for several groups under the municipality's health funding program. The move also came during the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

The Olds Rural Crime Watch Association – which covers all of Mountain View County – is looking for new individual, business and corporate members, says president Gerald Ingeveld.

DIDSBURY – It's tough to imagine what soldiers went through in the trenches during World War I and World War II. Some soldiers actually passed the time making beautiful art, using items that are more associated with death and destruction than beauty.

Changes to Canadian mortgage rules that come into effect this month will impact some potential real estate buyers going forward, said Shelley Kohut-Harder, an associate broker with Re/Max ACA Realty.

DIDSBURY – Plans to remove the boulevard from the 20th Avenue project will save the Town of Didsbury $100,000. The motion was made by Coun.

Members of the Mountain View County agricultural service board received an update on the planned 2017 Alberta agricultural services board summer tour planned for the region.

CARSTAIRS - The Carstairs 4-H Beef Club began in 1942, and hosted its first-ever “field day” on May 29, 1943 at a local farmyard, with five other clubs participating. Throughout the years, the club grew and the show became larger as well.

CREMONA – At the regular council meeting on Oct. 18, council approved having the village purchase the Cremona United Church building and land from the United Church of Canada for $50,000. “It will be municipal land,” said Luana Smith, CAO.

Prem Singh was born and grew up in Brooks where her father taught at Brooks Composite High School. She is fluent in Punjabi and has taught it to children at classes in the Sikh temple in Calgary. She reads and speaks Hindi.

Mountain View County (MVC) council has received year-end reports from commissions and boards. The reports were received for information at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.