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Years ago my husband completed his biblical studies in a small rural Bible college and became a qualified pastor. We moved to Blackfalds for only a few months and our first child was born while we resided there.

CARSTAIRS - Hugh Sutherland School will be hosting the Natasha (Cameron) Neilson Memorial varsity girls basketball tournament on Feb. 17-18. The tournament helps honour the memory of Natasha who died in 2002 at the age of 21 in a car crash.

Mountain View County council has set the date for the public hearing regarding a proposed redesignation of an agriculture district property to aggregate extraction-processing district west of Olds.

Alberta ranchers should be encouraged to use social media such as Facebook and Twitter to promote the industry's benefits and safety standards with consumers, delegates heard at the Feb. 9 Ranching Opportunities 2017 Conference at Olds College.

CARSTAIRS - A local author has penned a novel for a book series celebrating Canada's 150th birthday.

CARSTAIRS/CREMONA/DIDSBURY - The latest Statistics Canada census (2016) has been released and Didsbury has passed the 5,000 mark, while Carstairs broke the 4,000 mark.

Anyone who still had the slightest illusion that if energy prices rebound sharply then the Alberta government will rapidly move towards a balanced budget just had their faint hopes crushed under a rather delicate foot.

The top Canadian 2016 census numbers were released last week and now we know the score. Alberta has a population of four million. Calgary is the fourth largest city in Canada behind Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver.

Mountain View County council has voted to establish a committee to review the municipality's policies, procedures and bylaws. The move came during the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.

DIDSBURY - A group of local residents took in the Collective Kitchen Training course at Didsbury High School on Feb. 4. The course was put on by the Mountain View Community Adult Learning Society.