Local News

DIDSBURY - Close to 100 people came out to a couple of different visioning workshops on July 20 to discuss the plans for library expansion.

With the confirmation of whirling disease in Mountain View County, area waterway-users are being encouraged to help stop the spread of the fatal fish disease.

CARSTAIRS - Development growth in the town is picking up according to the number of building permits issued during the first half of 2017.

Horseback riders make their way down 10th Avenue in Carstairs during the annual Beef and Barley Days parade.

Teresa Cutts of Crestomere 4-H has her witch's broom chewed on by her sheep during Summer Synergy, a youth agricultural symposium and competition held in Olds mid-July. The event also featured various 4-H provincial competitions.

A fleet of cars pulls out of the Aardvark Car Wash in Carstairs during the third annual Suicide Awareness Cruze.

CREMONA - A number of street paving projects are about to get underway in the village. Council awarded the 2017 street program contract to A & A Paving in the amount of $526,139.25. There were five bidders in total.

Mark Kuehn discusses high resolution soil information technology with a group of visitors in a field of canola at the Carlson farm east of Olds on July 13. The stop was part of the Agricultural Service Board Summer Tour.

Fred Bay and a group of his friends gathered last week to celebrate, well, literally Fred and Friends.

MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY - A former local resident went on a trip of a lifetime earlier this summer as part of a Canada 150 event.