Sundre News

The Olds branch of the Royal Canadian Legion will be hosting a veterans appreciation event on Sept. 23 and 24 to honour those who served during Canada's 10-year involvement in Afghanistan.

Sundre town council has formally approved moving ahead with the expenditure of $3.5 million for the east side services water and wastewater project for 1st Avenue N.E. and the north portion of 7th Street N.E.

Darryl Murphy will be returning to the Jaws of Life tournament next year, not as its organizer but as a player in a fundraising event he's committed the last 20 years to.

Labour Day Monday became a nerve-racking one for Calgary parents camping in Water Valley, who became concerned after their two girls, ages 12 and 13, didn't arrive at their estimated time and place when boating down the Little Red Deer River.

A total of $4,500 was raised for breast cancer research in just two and a half hours after the Wild Pink Yonder Posse took the east Sundre bridge hostage on Friday, Sept 2, 2011.

A precautionary fire smoke advisory was issued yesterday for Sundre and areas that could be affected by a prescribed burn in Yoho National Park.

Parents were once again offered the opportunity to peruse the vast majority of Sundre's sports, clubs and recreation groups under one roof last week at the Welcome Back Barbeque information and registration night in the River Valley School gym.

Wary of future liability, Sundre will not pursue the idea of buying the unregistered road on school property that runs along the south side of Snake Hill and just west of the high school. However, the town will continue to maintain the road.

In order to increase staff efficiency and decrease council and staff time commitments, Sundre administration is moving to cease operations of more than half of its internal ad hoc committees. At the Sept.

Sundre's east side is on the cusp of finally realizing prosperity and growth with the recent multi-million dollar approval of two water and wastewater servicing projects and the resurrection of collapsed plans to construct a $10 million Best Western