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Mountain View County council has approved the Olds-Didsbury Flying Association’s 2019 budget. The move came by way of motion at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

The ending of operations by Trident Exploration Corporation and Trident Limited Partnership will have a "significant" impact on Mountain View County’s (MVC) tax revenues, council heard during last week's regularly scheduled meeting.

With outdoor activities ramping up at this time of year, residents and visitors alike are being advised to take steps to ensure they are not impacted by tick-borne illnesses such as Lyme disease. May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month in Canada.

Area landowners are being offered a chance to take part in a grizzly bear study now underway in the region, says Mountain View BearSmart Society (MVBS).

The provincial and federal governments should act now to address vaping by young people and the negative impacts associated with the practice, according to area school board trustees.

CARSTAIRS-DIDSBURY - A number of firefighters from both Carstairs and Didsbury fire departments did very well at the recent Firefighter Stairclimb Challenge at the Bow tower in Calgary.

Mountain View County council has approved a new 10-year mutual aid agreement for fire services with area municipalities. The move came by way of motion at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

The former NDP government’s Bighorn Country plan will be scrapped as promised by the newly crowned UCP administration, said Alberta’s new minister of Environment and Parks.

RCMP officers in the region continue to rely on community groups and ordinary citizens to combat rural crime, and in particular property crimes on farms, acreages and industrial sites, says Olds RCMP detachment commander Staff Sgt. Jim MacDonald.

CARSTAIRS -- Emergency crews responded to a train derailment south of Carstairs near the junction of highways 2A and 580. Carstairs Fire Department Chief Jordan Schaffer said that crews were called out at around 2 p.m. on May 6.