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With the 2013 fire season now underway, Environment and Sustainable Resource Development wildfire rangers say West Central Alberta homeowners should be creating “FireSmart” homes.

The first public open house for the new Highway 2 & 27 area structure plan (ASP) will be held on June 12, steering committee members decided last week.

Residents who witnessed the introduction of the FireSmart program in the West Central Alberta area in 2002 say the program has improved over the years. “The process is different than what it was,” said Burnstick Lake resident Diane Lindblom.

The death of a snowmobiler in the Edmonton area on March 30 is a stark reminder of the dangers of riding on partially frozen waterways at this time of year.

Olds-Didsbury-Three Hills MLA Bruce Rowe says he plans to question Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs Doug Griffiths on several things, including concerns about municipal grant program funding, during an upcoming face-to-face meeting.

Mountain View County (MVC) councillors have approved a new fire protection agreement with the Town of Olds, which, among other things, creates an operating reserve that did not exist under the previous agreement.

A woman charged after a 26-year-old woman was attacked by two pit bulls in a Sundre trailer park last summer will go to trial Nov. 4. Rita Phillip faces a charge of aggravated assault.

Concerns of residents raised about the proposed reopening of the former Ross gravel pit west of Sundre have been heard and addressed, according to the company behind the project. Last week West-Can Seal Coating Inc.

Since December of 2010, the David Thompson Health Region Advisory Council (DTHRAC) has been working with residents and health service representatives to improve health-care services across the region.

A month after presenting Alberta cabinet ministers Diana McQueen and Doug Griffiths with 160 letters calling for flood protection work along the Red Deer River, the Sundre-based Red Deer River Quality Control Committee has officially disbanded.