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There will be a race for the mayor’s chair in Red Deer.

Monte Carlo evening The Rotary Club of Red Deer Sunrise will present the seventh annual Evening in Monte Carlo dinner on Saturday, Sept. 25, at the Capri Trade, Hotel and Convention Centre in Red Deer.

One-year-old Kaynin Lund and his mother Kristie delight in seeing Charlie the porcupine at the Kweery Wood Nature Centre Saturday.

A group sporting red bras fashioned into hats takes part in the Red Hat Ladies’ hat parade at the Capri Centre on Sunday. About 300 members of the group plus their guests took part in the Red Hat and Crown Jewels event hosted by Popovich Patio Dinner Theatre.

There are signs the federal government may be stepping back from a deadline for infrastructure stimulus funding.That is good news for Clearwater County, whose contractors have been battling nasty fall weather while trying to get a major Sunchild Road paving project completed before frost shuts down construction.

The cap on the number of people Alberta can nominate to become permanent residents has been raised as the demand by employers and temporary foreign workers remains strong.

Nature Savvy Saturdays at Kerry Wood Nature Centre are offered from 1 to 4 p.m. each week. All ages invited to drop in and for a seasonal nature-inspired craft or activity.

Gavin Anderson Women’s Outreach executive director Barb Barber show some of the items that were loaded into the 980 back to school backpacks distributed to Central Alberta students this year.

Red Deer RCMP traffic services will conduct photo radar in a number of locations until Saturday, Sept. 25.

Sanitary engineer by night. Off-the-wall creator of the My Life As A Grum by day.