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For more than 30 years Mountain View County has been protected by a dedicated group of special eyes and ears.

Mountain View County will not be pursuing legal action regarding delays in the completion of the $2.8-million Big Prairie Bridge project, said Deputy Reeve Patricia McKean.

The province's midwives are close to locking down a three-year funding contract with Alberta Health Services (AHS) even as the maternity care providers enjoy their first month under a new professional college, according to the president of the Albert

Mountain View County staff members have met with Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (AESRD) officials as part of ongoing efforts to mitigate flood dangers on the Red Deer River upstream from Sundre.

Residents in Red Deer and Mountain View counties will be voting according to new constituency boundaries in the next federal election after the Electoral Boundaries Commission for Alberta submitted its report to the House of Commons in early December

Mountain View County councillors have passed a motion expressing concerns with proposed changes being made to provincial legislation governing emergency response and preparedness in the event of oilfield emergencies.

Mountain View County councillors will be examining proposed amendments to the land use bylaw regarding gravel pits in the county.

Limiting the spread of new weeds from the horticulture industry to agricultural lands is one of the priorities the Red Deer Agriculture Service Board will be tackling in 2013, according to chairman Phillip Massier.

The Red Deer River Quality Control Committee has sent a letter to Premier Alison Redford requesting a face-to-face meeting to discuss its concerns about possible future flooding upstream of Sundre, says Myron Thompson, chairman of the committee.

Conditions were driest in decades Mountain View and Red Deer counties experienced their driest 180-day period in decades in the winter of 2012. From Nov. 1 to Feb. 14 the region on average receives between 60 and 65 millimetres of precipitation.