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Mountain View County Reeve Bruce Beattie will be writing a letter to Alberta Transportation expressing concerns with the provincial government's current funding process for bridgework in rural municipalities.

A national safety audit of Chinook's Edge School Division's transportation program has found that the department is doing very well. The Aug. 21 audit was conducted pursuant to the provincial Commercial Vehicles Act.

Alberta's new alcohol driving legislation, which comes into effect next week, is being applauded by some and panned by others.zAs of Sept.

During its regularly scheduled meeting on August 21, Red Deer County council OK'd a proposal to subdivide 2.02 ha of a 64.7 ha portion of Agricultural District land bounded by Twp Rd. 374 to the south and Rge. Road 12 to the west.

A vicious dog attack in Sundre on Aug. 18, as well as several other recent dog-attack incidents in the district, has spurred a lot of discussion on dog ownerships, dog breeds and the penalties for dog-related injuries and deaths.

Mountain View County councillors have instructed administration to set up an open house in the near future to gauge public views on a possible upgraded flood protection berm system on the Red Deer River west of Sundre.

Mountain View councillors have passed a motion directing administration to provide an update on what fees the county is receiving for oil and gas drilling in the county.

The cost to clean up and remediate the area impacted by an oil leak near Sundre in June was estimated at $53-million in a quarterly report released by Plains All American Pipeline.

Tom McCordic, chief flight instructor at the recently opened Calgary Flight Training Centre (CFTC) at the Olds-Didsbury airport, says he likes nothing better than sharing his love of flying with new pilots.

A report detailing the water quality of the Red Deer River watershed has found that while there is adequate data to measure water quality at some points in the river, other points need more information for conclusions to be drawn.