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Sylvan Lake firefighters begin to work on scene of a multiple house fire in Sylvan Lake on Tuesday afternoon. Two houses burnt to the ground while a third was severely damaged in the blaze that was whipped along by strong southerly winds.

Homes destroyed in Sylvan Lake inferno (video)

Four houses were destroyed in a devastating fire in a Sylvan Lake neighbourhood late Tuesday afternoon, the ambient heat enough to peel the siding on nearby homes.

Sylvan Lake firefighters begin to work on scene of a multiple house fire in Sylvan Lake on Tuesday afternoon. Two houses burnt to the ground while a third was severely damaged in the blaze that was whipped along by strong southerly winds.

Woman drowns while canoeing near Rocky

A 35-year-old women drowned near Rocky Mountain House over the weekend.

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Home front – May 18

Those who want to help Red Deer achieve bragging rights in the Active Living Challenge Day can participate on Thursday. Participants get active for 30 minutes or more and register their activities online at

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Tip Toes a 8-year-old African Spurred tortoise

Sweet 16 tourism campaign launched

Tourists and locals have 16 weekends to have some summer fun in Central Alberta, from the May long weekend to Labour Day.

Tip Toes a 8-year-old African Spurred tortoise
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Fire Chief for a day

To raise awareness for Fire Prevention Week, Red Deer elementary school students recently had the opportunity to learn about fire and injury prevention in their home with their school and families.

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RCMP need help finding Innisfail bank robber

Innisfail RCMP are seeking a man who robbed the Scotiabank in Innisfail on Friday morning.

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Eight-year-old crashes SUV into apartment building

An eight-year-old boy who decided to try and drive a small SUV backed over a pole, drove into the side of a Normandeau apartment building and almost hit his mother.

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Cruise Night

Boyd —the only name he would give — dusts off his 1949 Monarch at the Red Deer Cruise Night at the Parkland Mall parking lot, Thursday.

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Home front – May 14

There will be a bouncy castle, a craft station, face painting and remote control cars at the Growing Together Gardens at Unity Baptist Church at 139 Northey Avenue in Red Deer from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to celebrate the new garden plots.

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Red Deer resident Debra Berlet has been named the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation board of directors’ president. She began volunteering with the foundation more than two decades ago when both her son and daughter

City resident to head up national CF organization

Debra Berlet has kept a steady pace for more than two decades to reach the top spot at the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Red Deer resident Debra Berlet has been named the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation board of directors’ president. She began volunteering with the foundation more than two decades ago when both her son and daughter
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Busy as bees

A bee flies to toward a flowering tree in the Grandview area, Thursday. Worker bees only have a life expectancy of approximately 28 to 42 days and will travel nearly two-and-a- half km to a nectar or pollen source.

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Tax rebate for city seniors?

A Red Deer city councillor is suggesting low-income seniors could benefit from a $100 property tax credit to help them to stay in their homes as long as possible.

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Volunteer opportunities – May 15

Alzheimer Society is seeking Event Day volunteers for the Investors Group Memory Walk on Saturday June 19 at Sunnybrook Farm Museum.

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Switchboard – May 14

MAGnificent Saturdays offer free art making with a professional artist from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery in downtown Red Deer. The May 15 session is called Stone Soup and other stories. All materials supplied. Families welcome. Phone 403-309-8405.

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Dennis at the market

This photo of Red Deer Market director Dennis Moffat by Headley Blake shows Moffat in a restful pose as he conducts his duties at the Red Deer Market.

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Sunnybrook Farm

Sunnybrook Farm Museum staff member Monica Trautman learns to bottle-feed Molly, a three-week old-calf Wednesday.

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Road, bridge upgrades planned for Red Deer

Drivers can anticipate minor delays when road crews begin about $6 million worth of crown paving, bridge repairs and other maintenance through Red Deer this summer.

A bench overlooks the pond at the Parkland Memorial Park located near Gasoline Alley.

Parkland Memorial Park features hundreds of trees

Not far from the noise of passing traffic and the smells of fast food burgers in Gasoline Alley is a treed park gaining in popularity.

A bench overlooks the pond at the Parkland Memorial Park located near Gasoline Alley.
Avid Central Alberta bluebird watcher D. Murray MacKay captured this pair of mountain bluebirds — male on the left

Bluebird blues

It’s shaping up to be another bad year for mountain bluebirds.

Avid Central Alberta bluebird watcher D. Murray MacKay captured this pair of mountain bluebirds — male on the left

Officials gear up for a busy May long weekend

Mounties will be once again be joined on the May long weekend watch by sheriffs, peace officers and staff from several government departments.