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Environment and Sustainable Resource Development (ESRD) officials have completed a prescribed fire in West Central Alberta that has been planned for six years.

The Chinook's Edge School Division's board of education presented information about its recent public survey during a town hall presentation at the division office in Innisfail on May 8.

More than 60 people have attended the first open house for the proposed updated Highway 2-27 Mountain View County area structure plan (ASP).

Mountain View County councillors have deferred a vote on two funding requests for new vehicles for the Olds fire department pending an appearance before council by the Olds fire chief.

Area RCMP officers are reminding residents and visitors to be cautious of wildlife, specifically deer, on rural roads and highways at this time of year.

Security screening will return to Red Deer Airport this month in order to accommodate scheduled mainline commercial airline carrier service, say officials.

Area firefighters worked long and hard to extinguish numerous fires in the area last week, and they may get a reprieve following both Mountain View and Red Deer counties' enactment of countywide fire bans.

When 100-year-old farmer Bill Scarrott first moved to the Eagle Hill area in Mountain View County in 1929 it was almost nothing but bush. There were no paved roads, no gravel roads, just trails. The land had to be worked using horses.

A review of Mountain View County's land-use bylaw now underway will hopefully lead to a more user-friendly updated version of the legislation, says Reeve Bruce Beattie. “I think it is going well,” said Beattie.

With a potential new building project on the horizon for the Olds area, Habitat for Humanity's Mountain View chapter is putting the call out for volunteers.