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Asked to predict how we will live in the future, many envision ever-expanding cities packed with millions of people.

During the final day of a two-day conference, participants at the Alberta Fire Chiefs Association Annual Conference got the chance to get some hands on experience with several of the latest in fire fighting equipment. The parking lot behind the Capri Centre Hotel was packed with ladder trucks, aerial platform trucks, pumpers, command units and hazardous materials vehicles.

Mackenzie Peterson, left, and Eileen Bevins, look at a wooden bowl as they sort through a pile of garage sale items during the National Garage Sale for Shelter at the Royal LePage parking lot, Saturday.

Red Deer College President Ron Woodward said he finally felt like a graduating student Friday.

A 29-year-old Hobbema man was sentenced to five years in prison on Friday in Wetaskiwin court in the drunk driving death of three people in April 2008.

A soft bed with clean covers. A lock on the door, a fridge, a TV, a microwave and a tight network of friends: It’s all so much different than hiding in the bush or curling behind a dumpster, says Tracy Chalifoux.

At the Dickson Dam control room there are graphs showing the typical rise and fall of water flows as the snows melt in the plains and mountains, and the spring and early summer rains come.

The demolition of the city’s oldest hotel begins Monday.

Brian Keating was just 21 years old when he went up to the Arctic to work cleaning floors, ashtrays and everything else at the weather station on Resolute Island.

The Normandeau School property felt like a carnival Sunday as residents from the northwest part of the city gathered for some family fun.