Local News

The key harvest management issue with snow on standing canola concerns not so much the precipitation (although heavy snow can cause lodging) but the frost that comes with it, according to the Alberta Canola Producers Commission.

The $6.9-million modernization and expansion Phase 1 project at the Innisfail Schools Campus is almost complete. The much-heralded $12- million Phase 2 project to modernize the campus's École John Wilson Elementary School is just starting.

Determined to keep its rural municipality free from roaming massive pests, Red Deer County has renewed its agreement with the Alberta government to participate in the Wild Boar at Large Bounty Program.

Kurt Kure has been down this road before except last time the stakes were not as high.

A proposal to get rural motorists in Mountain View County to brake for firefighters responding to fire calls in their personal vehicles has come to a screeching halt. Mountain View County council unanimously opposed first reading of a bylaw on Sept.

As the new school year gets underway this week, many new teachers are joining first-time Chinook's Edge School Division (CESD) students and returning pupils.

While one Mountain View County family is proud of their heritage of three relatives who served during the First World War, they are nonetheless struck by the pointlessness of it and all wars that have been fought since.

Residents in towns served by the Anthony Henday Water Treatment Plant will soon have a water supply that meets demand once the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission puts its new line in operation this month.

The signs were up along the roads to guide the 76 registered participants from all over Alberta and even from British Columbia to the staging area in Bearberry's West Country for a historic covered wagon ride August 23 and 24.

Members of the Mountain View BearSmart Society are advising residents to remove all bird feeders from their yards, as they have been attracting bears into the area.