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CREMONA - Cremona Minor Hockey recently celebrated a successful season with an award night celebrating all of the players and the success they had.

CARSTAIRS - Plans for the second annual Carstairs Animal Expo in early April are well underway. Organizers have made a few small but noticeable changes based on feedback from last year's event, the first one.

Olds College officials would like to see Mountain View County become one of the participants in the recently announced Werklund Agriculture Institute (WAI) program. Dr.

BOTRELL - For World of Wildlife exhibit founder Chester Mjolsness, hunting has been an opportunity to see the world.

CARSTAIRS-CREMONA - The latest Fraser Institute rankings have been released and both Hugh Sutherland School in Carstairs and Cremona Elementary School rank near the bottom for both Chinook's Edge School Division and the province as a whole.

A solar energy program involving Mountain View County has been a resounding success in its first year, according to Shannon Phillips, minister of environment and parks.

The Mountain View County policies and priorities committee has been given a review the municipality's 2017 gravel supply strategy report. The move came during the committee's recent regularly scheduled meeting.

DIDSBURY - One hundred years ago on April 9, 1917 Canadian soldiers did what neither the French nor the British were able to do: take Vimy Ridge.

DIDSBURY - After moving into his condo with his wife about a year and a half ago, Lorne Halbauer was looking for something to do. He came up with the idea of making baby quilts for organizations that care for babies such as Ronald McDonald House.

On May 16, Canadians will mark the first anniversary of the House of Commons' passage of Criminal Code amendments that allow medically assisted death (MAID). There are now about four persons per day who have MAID.