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The Wild Rose Hockey Challenge is shooting for a major fundraising target this year, MP Blake Richards announced earlier this month.

Residents in Springbrook who are seniors or people with limited mobility that need some help with yardwork can take advantage of a program that matches them with local youth.

A decision whether to approve a gravel pit ten kilometres west of Penhold was put on hold during a Red Deer County municipal planning commission meeting June 5 to gather more information about traffic on the C&E Trail.

A Calgary community group will receive a 33 per cent reduction in its 2012 property tax bill for a leased campground in Water Valley, Mountain View County council decided last week.

Mountain View County has set March 12 to June 5 as the fixed annual dates for road bans.

Mountain View County will continue to be a member of the Red Deer River Watershed Alliance for at least another year in the hopes it can change the advisory body from within, council decided last week.

Heavy rains and high water prompted evacuation alerts west of Sundre and washed out sections of two range roads in Water Valley last Wednesday, causing added delays for traffic already impeded by the loss of Big Prairie Bridge.

Mountain View County council last week turned down a request for a major increase in its funding to STARS Air Ambulance.

Rural Alberta Motorcycle Ride for Dad chairman Dean Harper invites area residents to participate in the charity motorcycle ride, which will take place on June 23 this year.

Council heard “loud and clear” that placing a moratorium on subdividing bare first parcels is not what people in Red Deer County want.