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Chinook's Edge School Division officials are reminding students and parents that replica and imitation firearms should never be brought to school without prior approval from staff.

DIDSBURY - Work on the 20th Avenue rehabilitation project is well underway.

DIDSBURY - Students at Didsbury High School were busy working hard in the community last week as part of the May Monarch program.

There's something all those 110,000 folks beavering away for Alberta Health Services instinctively understand. That is their allotted place on the org chart. Forget about Hippocratic oaths and duties of care.

When Mother's Day looms on the horizon, I admit that I have mixed feelings. My mom now sits in long-term care, mostly asleep or unaware of the person she once was.

DIDSBURY - Didsbury RCMP will be getting its new detachment commander on May 23. Staff Sgt. Chad Fournier is looking forward to leading the detachment and getting to know the area and the residents.

It was a day early, April 30, but the spirit on the Alberta legislature grounds was the same as International Workers' Day held each year on May 1 in Europe.

Mountain View County council has authorized the CAO to enter into a new 10-year agreement with the Westward Ho Campers Association for the operation of the Westward Ho campground. The move came during the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

DIDSBURY - At the regular council meeting on April 25, council passed the tax rate bylaw (bylaw 2017-05) with no increase in all assessment classes. This is the third year in a row that Didsbury has seen no increase in the tax rate.

Central Alberta Economic Partnership (CAEP) officials have responded to a Mountain View County (MVC) notice of cessation of membership.