Sundre News

Fourteen-year-old Carly Carrier isn't spending the last days of her summer holidays taking it easy. Instead she's taking part in a sometimes gruelling 500-kilometre horseback journey all for the benefit of others.

Sundre motorists are being reminded that school zones will be in effect starting on September 1, with fines for speeders starting at $57 and rising steeply with increased speeds.

Wild Pink Yonder Pinkest Little Town in the West volunteers Melanie Asplund and Nathan, Carly, Karen and Barkley Carrier paint pink breast cancer awareness ribbons on the Main Avenue boulevard on Monday.

New distracted driving law comes into effect September 1 The most comprehensive distracted driving legislation in Canada will soon be implemented in our province. Alberta's new distracted driving law will come into effect on September 1.

Drowning deaths largely preventable warns Canadian Red Cross Canadian Red Cross is greatly saddened by the six drownings that have occurred in Alberta in the past three weeks.

The Sundre Forest Products Public Involvement Round Table (SPIRT) group recently met in Rocky Mountain House. There had been planned a tour for earlier in the day, but due to the wet weather it was cancelled.

A man and woman are recovering from serious dog bites inflicted on various parts of their bodies early last week.

Town employee Lisa Picard waters plants along Centre Street last Thursday. The town has dozens of hanging plants around the community. - Noel West/Round Up

Town awaiting riverbank grant funding application By Dan Singleton Round Up staff The Town of Sundre is making some preliminary preparations for riverbank stabilization work as the municipality awaits the official grant application for $2.

Pony chuckwagon driver Wade Salmond, with his daughter Marty Marie, prepares his wagon for Bulls & Wagons. From Weekes, Saskatchewan, Salmond won it all in Sundre last year and hoped to repeat in 2011. “Sundre is a good place to run,” he said.