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West Zion Mennonite Church is receiving a facelift to its building, beginning with the recent demolition of its 80-year-old sanctuary, a building that was constructed between the years of 1929 and 1934, said interim pastor Mal Braun.

Bob Mastin, an award-winning seed grower from the Sundre area, participated in an Alberta barley trade mission to Japan and Korea last month. He attended to promote his own Sundre-grown barley in Asia, where he says he was treated like a “king”.

Mountain View County councillors have approved a one-time $10,000 donation to the Sundre and District Chamber of Commerce in support of the chamber's visitor information centre (VIC).

Sixteen residents attended Mountain View County Deputy Reeve Patricia McKean's spring open house at the Big Prairie Hall on April 17. During the meeting the first-term councillor for Div.

The Mountain View County Agricultural Service Board has again come out in support of a local crop-growing project that supports overseas communities suffering from famine and food shortages.

Taxes are on the increase in Mountain View County after councillors passed the 2013 tax rate bylaw and the 2013 operational budget during last week's regularly scheduled council meeting. The tax rate bylaw calls for a 1.

First-term Mountain View County Division 5 councillor Bob Orr says he is still undecided whether to run in the October 2013 municipal election. Speaking at his spring open house at the James River Hall on April 11, Orr said: “I'm still up in the air.

Eighty-five people attended an open house at the Eagle Hill Community Centre on April 8 for the release of the Sundre Petroleum Operator's Group's new beneficial management practices for hydraulic fracturing.

Mountain View County councillors have OK'd the municipality's new dog control bylaw, which includes new provisions regarding agricultural guardian dogs.

A public hearing has started into proposed amendments to the Mountain View County land use bylaw that would add a new land use district titled “aggregate extraction/processing district.