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Red Deer Food Bank volunteer co-ordinator Iris Boyd pulls a box of breakfast cereal out of a collection bin at the Real Canadian Superstore in Red Deer on Tuesday. Over the past two weeks Superstore customers and staff have raised a total of 372 kg. of food and $977.59 in cash for the food bank during the stores national coast to coast food drive campaign.

Seniors were urged to flood the offices of MLAs and government ministers with letters protesting a new drug plan that links the amount some people pay to their income.

The Hooves and Horns Bullarama was held at the Rimbey Community Centre on Saturday night.

Dominic Zyla, left, Alice Kolesnyk and Larry Mazzei serve up hamburgers and hot dogs for the Red Deer Food Bank at Red Deer Powersports Saturday. The volunteers found themselves cooking and serving steadily as customers lined up outside the Burnt Lake Business Park outlet to make donations over the lunch hour.

Avery Hawthorn, 14, of Blackfalds ollies over the steps at the town’s skateboard park Monday afternoon. As temperatures climbed to 12C, Hawthorn and his friend Kyle Foran (not shown) took advantage of the warm weather and hit the park for some early season riding.

Gunfire in the street was the final straw. Young homeowners from the west end of Westbrooke Road in Blackfalds have been trying for about seven years to resolve issues with a neighbour. They now fear their children are in danger from activities at the house.

Using a steady cam, director of photography Kalon McClarty frames his shot as actor Richard Meen gets readies himself for the scene while filming at the corner of Ross Street and Gaetz Ave. in Red Deer on Monday.

A man gunned down in his vehicle on an Inglewood street was described as a “gentle giant” and a loving father for an infant daughter on a memorial page posted on Facebook.

Barry Weatherall — who used to have a fear of heights — has been climbing for 16 months. He practises on the climbing wall in the fieldhouse at the Collicutt Centre and does it primarily by visualizing and remembering each of the holds that he has encountered on his way up or down. “The climbing is just another challenge that I’ve encountered and can accomplish as a blind person,” he said.Weatherall lost his eyesight 11 years ago in an industrial accident.

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