Sundre News

More than 30 people of all ages attended Sunday's Terry Fox run in Sundre, raising more than $1,200 for cancer research.

Sundre residents are again being asked to remove birdfeeders from their yards after a black bear and three cubs came into town last week.

Longtime former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed, who died last week at the age of 84, is being remembered by a former West Central Alberta MLA and Social Credit leader as a man dedicated and committed to public service.

The annual Terry Fox run goes at the Sundre High School on Sunday September 16, 2012 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. There are heros among us. Heros come in many forms and from every walk of life. Some of those heroes are survivors who are battling cancer.

Following a meeting last month with the Sundre Health Professionals Attraction Committee (HPAC), Sundre Mayor Annette Clews has sent a letter on behalf of council to Alberta Health Minister Fred Horne.

A TransCanada pipeline upgrade project in west Sundre scheduled to get underway in November shouldn't cause any traffic delays on Highway 27, spokesperson Patricia Poulton (above) said during an open house at the West Country Centre on Thursday.

Sundre firefighters placed third overall, 2nd in the limited pit run, at last weekend's competition in Vegreville.

A Sundre woman charged after a 26-year-old Calgary woman was attacked and severely injured by two pit bulls in a Sundre trailer park three weeks ago made her first appearance in Didsbury provincial court on Monday.

The shelves of Sobeys and Co-op food stores will be stocked with meat from High River's Cargill plant as the temporary shutdown of its rival XL Foods in Brooks continues into its second week.

Three months after hundreds of thousands of litres of sour crude oil poured into the Red Deer River from a ruptured Plains Midstream pipeline just outside Sundre, the Johnston family continues the struggle to come to grips with the fallout.