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Ben Sures performs "Everybody Matters" at the Mountain View Music Fest

Alberta farmers will get to sell their grain on the open market next year, say the Conservatives.

Exhibitioners from around the county submitted their hobby-crafts, baking, flowers, and a variety of other items for judging at the 27th Annual Lone Pine Bench Fair this past Wednesday, which was party to more than 50 entrants this year, said fair or

Eligible wheat and barley growers have until the middle of next week to cast their vote in a producer plebiscite on the future of the Canadian Wheat Board.

Despite a small dip in attendance, organizers behind the Mountain View Music Fest (MVMF) are calling its 2011 edition a success.

On April 16, 1947 Innisfail Mayor W.H. Jackson officiated the grand opening of the town's magnificent water tower, which rose more than 100 feet, stored more than 71,000 gallons of water and was the life-giving pride of the community.

Mountain View County has put a bounty on orange hawkweed, and is asking residents who encounter it to contact the municipality's agricultural services department as soon as possible.

Officials with Spruce View's Medicine River Wildlife Centre are hoping to have the shovels in the ground later this year for an ambitious renovation and expansion of the 21-year-old facility.

With the free-roaming horse population west of Sundre continuing to grow, it's time for discussions to explore strategies for management of the animals, says Tom Daniels, forester with Sundre Forest Products.

Clubroot inspections in Red Deer County fields should be winding up this week or next, once the canola plants have stopped flowering, said Cody McIntosh, the county's assistant agricultural manager.ìThat's a pest we're worried about.