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Ten of an expected 200 students from China are four days into their commercial pilot course at Sky Wings Aviation Academy, which is expected to bring in $14 million dollars over the next five years for the Springbrook-based aviation school.

A former member of parliament for the Red Deer area said the defunct Plasco deal could be revisited in the future.“We just got to get enough people saying ‘We want it,'” said Bob Mills during a presentation to the Innisfail Rotary Club.

Wildrose candidate and Beiseker Mayor Bruce Rowe stopped by the Town of Olds council meeting on March 12 to present himself and talk about his platform.

The past reeve of Mountain View County launched a fracking awareness campaign last week, calling on his council and other municipalities to press the Alberta government to get serious about regulating the controversial practice.

Two Mountain View County people were arrested last Thursday after someone threatened to blow up a well site in the Eagle Valley area and shoot at the crew working there over concerns about water contamination from fracking.

An internationally recognized anti-fracking activist who spoke at Eagle Hill last week rejected "violence or threats" as an appropriate response to public concerns.

Mountain View County was urged again last week to follow through on a 2010 engineering report and take corrective actions at the intersection of Rge. Rd. 44 and Twp. Rd. 340.

Chinook's Edge School Division students saw mixed results for the diploma exams in January, according to division statistics provided to the board at last week's regular meeting.A total of 81.

Alberta's beef cow herds are continuing to shrink, bringing up the market prices, which spells good news for producers in Mountain View and Red Deer counties, experts say.

A 20-acre rural property – once hailed by the Airdrie Humane Society as the answer to its prayers – was rezoned to Agriculture-2 last week, after the owner said there were no plans to expand it beyond its current use as a kennel.