Sundre News

Guest editorial Let's say you're a homeowner and your roof is leaking. When it stops raining, you go up on the roof with a tar brush and patch the hole. Problem solved. However, a couple of days later, it starts raining again.

Making the most of summer Sundre Daycare Centre & Valley Kids Out of School Care participants are all smiles during a recent field trip outing to the military museum in Calgary.

Over the coming weeks, Albertans can expect to see and hear a public education campaign featuring the new Alberta Emergency Alert on television, in movie theatres and on participating radio stations.

John McRae and his helper Glen Boland, prepared their pony chuckwagon only hours before the kick off of Bulls & Wagons 2011 on Friday afternoon.

Vehicles move slowly past construction workers on the Red Deer River Bridge on Thursday. Despite rainy afternoons last week, the bridge rehabilitation work is continuing on schedule, says Ron Baker, town director of operations.

The Sundre and District Chamber of Commerce has agreed to work with local doctors in an effort to bring new physicians and other health-care workers to town.

After three years of being held at the Bergen-area property of Morton Burke, the fourth annual, seven-artist Bergen Rocks International Sculpture Symposium is about to get underway in Red Deer.

Police news Tank and pump stolen Sundre RCMP are asking for public tips after a pump and tank were stolen On June 16, police receive a report that a 100 gallon Westell-Rosco slip tank and pump was taken from a property northwest of town.

Residents are being asked to keep their distance from a culvert trap set up after a black bear was spotted on Snake Hill on Sunday. A resident spotted the bear near a garbage can on the east side of the popular recreation area.

Work on the Main Avenue bridge will not be proceeding at 24 hours at day until at least August 15, town councillors decided Monday.