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Hunters in Mountain View County are encouraged to donate meat to people in need, through a provincewide program, which has recently been introduced to the area.

An informational discussion about clubroot management and prevention drew roughly 40 local producers to the Penhold Memorial Hall last week.

Recounts in two Red Deer County divisions have confirmed the Oct. 21 voting results, resulting in the election of Connie Huelsman in Division 4 and Don Church in Division 3, officials said Oct. 22. On Oct.

Incumbent Connie Huelsman has been re-elected as Chinook's Edge School Division trustee in the Bowden/Spruce View Ward 5, according to unofficial results released Monday night.

There will be recounts in two of the six divisions in Red Deer County after ties in both Division 3 and Division 4, returning officer Nancy Lougheed told the Gazette.

Al Kemmere has been re-elected to a fourth term in Mountain View County's Division 7, soundly defeating challenger Steve Algra in the Oct. 21 election. According to unofficial results, Kemmere garnered 263 votes against Algra's 118.

With municipal councils being elected to four-year terms this week, councillors have an even bigger job ahead than their predecessors, says Mountain View County reeve Bruce Beattie.

The three Mountain View County councillors who chose not to seek re-election in 2013 have made some final official comments on the municipality and its future.

A growing number of reported clubroot infested crops has raised alarm bells for local producers in Alberta, according to Red Deer County agricultural services manager Art Preachuk.

Concerns about electronic cigarettes hooking a new generation on nicotine were recently brought up in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).