Local News

As the new school year gets underway this week, many new teachers are joining first-time Chinook's Edge School Division (CESD) students and returning pupils.

While one Mountain View County family is proud of their heritage of three relatives who served during the First World War, they are nonetheless struck by the pointlessness of it and all wars that have been fought since.

Residents in towns served by the Anthony Henday Water Treatment Plant will soon have a water supply that meets demand once the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission puts its new line in operation this month.

The signs were up along the roads to guide the 76 registered participants from all over Alberta and even from British Columbia to the staging area in Bearberry's West Country for a historic covered wagon ride August 23 and 24.

Members of the Mountain View BearSmart Society are advising residents to remove all bird feeders from their yards, as they have been attracting bears into the area.

Several volunteers in the Sundre and Olds area have spent the last year and a half building a house destined for Saskatchewan last week, for people helping teenage boys recover from addiction.

Didsbury-area ranchers Ron and Laurie Hunter were recently honoured as the purebred breeder of the year by the Alberta Angus Association. The couple, who operate Lauron Red Angus about 16 kilometres east of Didsbury, have 200 Angus heifers.

Some Mountain View County farms participated in the provincewide Alberta Open Farm Days on August 23 and 24, showing visitors a day in the life of their operations.

The clubroot tour has hit Central Alberta. On Aug.

The Marshall family children are Summer Synergy Scholarship superstars with all four being honoured for their livestock and academia.