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A Red Deer resident must clean up clutter on two properties, including one where possessions encroached on a city-owned property.

Blinded by Science: Cyan, an ultrachromium print on Lustre photographic paper by Ottawa artist Cindy Stelmackowich, is one of several prints in her Anatomized exhibit presently showing at the bilton contemporary art gallery. In this exhibition, the artist finds new ways of anatomizing the interior of body, both visually and conceptually. The show runs until May 9.

Trevor Russell plants a double-flowering plum as the family cat Lilo watches him through a basement window this week. Russell and his wife Heather spent the warm spring day building and filling new front-yard flower beds outside their Vanier Woods home.

Canadian Blood Services clinic assistant Marliss Savage takes the blood pressure of first time donor Courtney Coffin, 17, in the Notre Dame High School gymnasium Wednesday.

A Don Adams Welding crew secures the southside railing on the new stage at Bower Ponds in Red Deer on Tuesday. When complete, the $300,000 structure will feature a storage room, improved power servicing, canopy and sound control vault.

Questions are surfacing as to whether 20th Avenue is far enough east for a ring road around Red Deer.

Peter Bergman of the city’s public works department moves a new street sweeping sign on Austin Drive Tuesday. The city is using the new signs on main subdivision thoroughfares to ease manpower needs to place numerous smaller sandwich signs that motorists may not even notice. The city plans to have its roadsweeping of arterial and bus routes done by this weekend.

Scott Ouellette is a man with a new heart thanks to a transplant last August, but his nickname — Tinman — has stuck.

Minister of Justice Alison Redford said Tuesday crime will happen in a community, but it’s a matter of getting a handle on it and finding new ways to tackle it.

Workers from Appollo Landscaping in Red Deer work to remove one of several large spruce trees from the Brookeview Estates property located along 32nd Street just west of Gaetz Avenue on Saturday morning. The work is being done in preparation for the widening of 32nd Street and the upgrading of the Gaetz and 32nd intersection.