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DIDSBURY – The 3025 Didsbury Service Battalion Army Cadet Corps is seeing an increase in numbers, say officials. The local corps began its new year back in September. Squad leader Tim Kaczmarski said the corps has seen its numbers grow to around 40.

The Mountain View County agricultural service board (ASB) has reviewed resolutions scheduled to come before this week's provincial agriculture service board conference.

Before he was a politician, Preston Manning was a Christian. The Society of Friends distinguishes between a Quaker by birth and Quaker by conviction. Preston is both a Christian by birth and by conviction.

. There's a faintly Babylonian feel about Alberta politics as we wander, somewhat uneasily, into these early days of a hopeful 2018. It's all this current chatter about paying down debts and returning what's been borrowed that's doing it.

CARSTAIRS – A new bylaw will have cat owners having to license their felines. The "Cat Bylaw" was approved at the regular council meeting on Jan. 8.

DIDSBURY – The Town of Didsbury's manager of legislative and development services is moving on but he's not going too far. Christofer Atchison will be leaving the town and taking a similar position with Mountain View County.

DIDSBURY – After a very mild fall, Didsbury as well as most of Canada was hit hard with a winter storm at the end of December.

When exceptional people enter the room, they can take all the oxygen, but James Andrew Lore had the gift of adding to it.

Starting on Jan. 1, all Canadian homebuyers borrowing from a federally regulated lender will be subjected to a mortgage stress test. Stress testing is a best practice risk management tool.

Although Christmas is now behind us for another year, I hope to do a few more drive-by attempts to gaze in admiration at the array of lights. A few of the streets on my usual route are gorgeous. My dad loved the allure of the lights.