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About 60 area residents attended an open house at the Carstairs Community Centre on Nov. 28 to provide input into a proposed new area structure plan.

Mountain View County's agricultural service board (ASB) has forwarded its proposed 2018 budget to council for budget deliberations. The move came during the board's recent regularly scheduled meeting.

CARSTAIRS - Town councillors have voted to increase water and garbage collection rates for 2018. The votes came during the Nov. 27 council meeting. Water rates will be rising $0.10 a cubic metre to $2.

Re: "The hypocrisy of the politically correct", p. 25, Nov. 28 Gazette Straw man arguments are harmful. They cause division and spread misinformation.

DIDSBURY - It was a fun time had by all on Saturday at the Mountain View Theatre Project's dinner theatre performance of Killed to Death.

DIDSBURY - A merciless Mother Nature wreaked havoc on area highways over the holidays. Between Dec. 22 and Dec. 29 Didsbury RCMP responded to 46 collisions including 14 on Dec. 27 alone. The numbers do not include any collisions not reported.

Superhero movies and television series are all the rage these days. This year alone six of the top 10 box office successes are comic book based. On TV there have been a number of new additions to the television landscape that was already crowded.

The 2017 agricultural service board summer tour of Mountain View and Red Deer counties in July came in well under budget, says Coun. Duncan Milne.

Mountain View County council has given approval to a development permit application for a new event facility in the Dogpound neighbourhood outside Cremona. The move came during the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

In spite of the cheerleading from the anti-NDP crowd, Jason Kenney and Brian Jean did not unite the right when they merged the Wildrose and Progressive Conservative parties.