Sundre News

Police are seeking the public’s help for information that could identify two suspects involved in multiple brazen, broad daylight thefts in the Burnstick Lake area. Sometime between 11 a.m. and noon on Friday, Oct.

Drivers entering a school zone are by law expected to reduce their speed to the posted 30 kilometres per hour before reaching the sign, and should not start accelerating until they have exited the zone.

Despite the recent unfavourable conditions for construction, the Main Avenue project on Sundre’s west side is progressing along and expected to largely be completed as planned.

A Sundre volunteer who had previously been left speechless after being nominated for a Minister’s Seniors Service Award said being officially recognized as a final recipient was the “icing on the cake.

The Town of Sundre has not previously had a capital financing and debt management policy, which administrative staff wants to remedy. “This is a new policy,” said Chris Albert, director of corporate services, who was joined during council’s Oct.

About a year after a handful of residents from Sundre and the surrounding area banded together to bring back a local Citizens on Patrol group, trained members have been keeping an extra set of eyes and ears on the community.

There is a big difference between projects identified in the municipality’s multi-year capital plans and those requested specifically by residents in a certain part of town, said Linda Nelson, Sundre’s chief administrative officer.

The Sundre Municipal Library’s budget is back in the black following a couple of years of financial uncertainty and deficits that forced the board of directors to draw from reserves.

The 2017-18 Sundre High School Academic Awards Night was held on Friday, Sept. 28. More than 120 current and former students were honoured for their scholastic achievements from the 2017-18 school year.

Updates to the municipality’s multi-year business planning and budgeting policy proposed by administration are intended to reduce delays and redundancies, council heard last week.