Sundre News

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.

Sundre’s council last week authorized the mayor to sign a water source protection charter on behalf of the municipality .

The seventh annual Rockin’ the Rink fundraiser for the Sundre Curling Club raised more than in the last couple of years.

The Sundre Arena is expected to open on Tuesday, Oct. 9. Town staff have for the past week been busy preparing the ice's surface for another season.

Todd MacDonald, a Sundre resident and the senior pastor at the Main Avenue Fellowship, was clearing the church's ramps and sidewalks of snow on Wednesday morning following the first major snowfall of the season that has left many people wondering wha