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Mountain View County council has approved a plan to use $56,000 in excess federal gas tax funding to support the municipality’s rechipping road program. The move came by way of motion at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

DIDSBURY - "Viva Mexico!" was the chant on Sept. 15 at Zion Church as more than 400 people came out for a Mexican celebration during Mexico's independence day.

The Mountain View County subdivision and development appeal board has denied an appeal by a dog kennel owner in the Water Valley-Winchell Lake area regarding the cancellation of the development permit for the facility.

Didsbury fire Chief Craig Martin has left the department effective immediately, he said Monday. He has been the chief in Didsbury for the past three years. “I have not renewed my contract,” said Martin.

The Mountain View County municipal planning commission has approved a development permit for an industrial storage and warehousing facility in the Wessex neighbourhood. The approval came during the commission’s recent regularly scheduled meeting.

DIDSBURY - The Didsbury Lions Club members and their Westglen School helpers will be hitting the streets of Didsbury on Thursday evening, Sept. 27 from 5 to 8 p.m. collecting food for the Mountain View Food Bank.

The Chinook’s Edge School Division is committed to protecting students and staff from the dangers of tobacco use, and to encouraging smoking cessation across the education community, says superintendent Kurt Sacher.

DIDSBURY - Didsbury RCMP Staff Sgt. Chad Fournier gave the quarterly report for the department to Didsbury council at its recent meeting. He recapped the statistics for the department from January to June of this year.

About 40 people attended a noon-hour rally in Olds on Sept. 20 in support of the local and national dairy industry. Elmira, Ont.

Producers in the region are in need of a stretch of dry weather to get the harvest back on track, says Grant Lastiwka, with Alberta Agriculture in Olds.