Jan. 31, 1990
The Sundre Fire Department dispatched two trucks and eight firefighters in response to a 2 a.m. blaze at the former Sunpine Forest Products Mill on Tuesday, Jan. 30. Chief John Whitesell said the fire occurred in the bucking station, where the logs are cut up into usable lengths. Although several electric motors and hydraulic pumps were destroyed, Whitesell said there was a significant amount of salvage in the building, including the control room. Despite -25 C temperatures and frozen hoses, the volunteer responders had the fire completely extinguished, in exception to a few hotspots, by 5 a.m. The call came in from one of the two maintenance men who remain on the site while the mill is shut down for the night. The fire chief did not immediately know roughly how much the damage would cost, and planned to later in the day begin an inspection.
Jan. 26, 2010
An $85,000 study commissioned by the Town of Sundre to investigate options to protect the municipality from flooding of the Red Deer River had outlined four potential projects, which ranged in price from about $1 million to $2.75 million. However, funds to cover those costs had not been secured, and council had not chosen to pursue any of the options. Heavy erosion of the river’s west bank through Sundre had created concerns about possible future flooding of the Riverside RV park and the rest of the town west of the river. Among the options — which all included $550,000 for habitat compensation — were varying levels of additional rock riprap bank protection as well as four protected spurs and six unprotected spurs. However, the process had left lots to be desired for the roughly 190 residents of the southwest Sundre Riverside RV Park. "We’ve spent $100,000 on three engineering reports and we are basically back where we were a year ago,” said John Poirier, Riverside RV spokesperson.
