Sundre News

The Sundre U-16 Girls team takes on Carstairs at the Bergen Field last week. The teams finished up with a rare nil-nil tie. Sundre netminder Merody Maiklem got the shutout. Meanwhile, the U-16 boys played in Three Hills last week, tying 3 - 3.

P3 Projects, how do they work and are they a benefit to municipalities? Since the inception of the proposed replacement of our aging arena through a public/private partnership, the community has had many conversations on the topic.

Sundre town council and Sundre and District Chamber of Commerce members are planning to work more closely together over the coming months to encourage new businesses to locate in Sundre and area, say officials.

PC leadership hopeful visits Sundre museum By Dan Singleton Round Up staff Caption: Museum tour - Gary Marr (right to left) tours the Sundre museum with MLA Ty Lund, and residents Jack Nicol and Rick Smee.

The Town of Sundre's 2011 tax bylaw received second and third reading at last week's council meeting. The bylaw calls for $2,406,355 to be raised by general municipal taxation. Under the bylaw, the general municipal residential tax rate is 6.

Jan Lahring, owner of Bearberry Creek Greenhouse, gives Sundre Kindergarten students a lecture on bugs in springtime during a visit to the facility last week.

The Sundre Petroleum Operators Group (SPOG) Learn at Lunch lecture series continued at the James River Hall last week, with guest speakers discussing environmental awareness issues.

The popular Bergen Rocks International Sculpture Symposium is moving to Red Deer College in 2011 - but will be back in Bergen in 2012, founder Morton Burke said Friday.

The Sundre RCMP detachment has recently added a second prisoner holding cell and plans are in the works to add lockboxes for securing police firearms, says detachment commander Sgt. Percy Leipnitz.

Area home and business owners should make a concerted effort this spring to ensure their properties are properly protected from the danger of wildfires, according to Sustainable Resource Development wildfire ranger and information officer Barry Shell