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The Central Alberta Immigrant Women's Association (CAIWA) is hoping a $300,000 federal grant will go a long way to help women in rural communities such as Innisfail and Olds find appropriate employment.

“Hot. Hotter than hell.”That's how resident Allan Anderson, 76, described what it felt like inside Mount View Lodge in Olds during last week's heat wave.The facility at 5230-50 St.

Mountain View County residents are still cleaning up the debris left in the wake of a “possible” tornado on July 3 that tore a seven-kilometre path through farms and acreages 12 kilometres west of Didsbury.“You could see it swirling around.

A date has been set for an Alberta Securities Commission (ASC) hearing regarding a proposed RV park development in Mountain View County just west of Sundre.Sundre Development Ltd., Aspen Springs Capital Groups Inc.

MPs from the region say the federal budget implementation bill that's been criticized for affecting so many other federal acts contains those statutes to ensure the budget works.

Mountain View County council will wait for the green light from its urban partners before proceeding to the final stages of adopting a new Municipal Development Plan, Reeve Bruce Beattie said Wednesday.

ArtWalk 2012 is now underway, with 24 locations showing off the works of 23 artists.This year, Olds, Didsbury, Sundre and Carstairs are participating, with Innisfail deciding not to participate due to major construction going on in the downtown core.

Mountain View County council's proposed doubling of the minimum agricultural parcel size from 20 to 40 acres is a step in the wrong direction, said a former deputy reeve who now acts as a private agent for subdivision and rezoning applicants.

An indoor shooting range is coming to Red Deer County's McKenzie Industrial Business Park.The municipal planning commission approved the development permit during the July 3 meeting.

Five high school graduates from across Mountain View County were honoured last week for outstanding citizenship.