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It's a play about cultural diversity, the aging demographics of Canada and the lack of young people willing to take on the volunteer mantles.Still, it's meant to make you laugh.

Attempts so far by Mountain View County to buy the required amount of land for the proposed Acme Road reconstruction project has hit a roadblock.

The board of education of Chinook's Edge School Division denied three separate school trip requests at the organization's monthly meeting last Wednesday.

The path has been cleared for Pengrowth Energy Corporation and Genalta Power Systems to introduce green power to the region.

The draft Red Deer County Municipal Development Plan (MDP) is heading for the final steps to being passed by council.First reading was scheduled for Oct. 16 according to Cynthia Cvik, director of planning and development for the county.

At the recent Alberta Urban Municipalities Association's fall convention, Mountain View County's partnership with the Mountain View Regional Waste Management Commission received an honourable mention.

Friends were to band together on the weekend to help an Olds-area couple regroup after a windstorm destroyed their mobile home.

A proposed speed limit reduction in the Poplar Ridge West subdivision area of Red Deer County has been nixed.An 80 km/h section of Rge. Rd. 284, between Twp. Rd.

Red Deer County council agreed to locate a 46-metre communications tower east of Red Deer off Twp. Rd. 370 during a Municipal Planning Commission meeting Oct. 2.Coun.

Carstairs-area residents had a rare opportunity to take a look into the past recently, as Lyle Brown, who farms on a piece of land east of Carstairs in Mountain View County, brought out his grandfather's old threshing machine for a good cause.