News

Red Deer RCMP are searching for a stolen dirt bike after part of the front window at Precision Cycle Works was smashed early Wednesday morning.

Sadie a nine-week-old English Bull Dog gets some attention from veterinarian Lisa Lomsnes as Eastview Middle School students Sydney Levy and Rebecca Tedrick look on.

From the left, St. Elizabeth Seton Elementary grade four students Kallie Volk, Rylee Cassidy, Ashley Sveinson, Bryce Blunden and Jesse McIntyre traverse along the wall in the gymnasium at the school on Wednesday.

Central Alberta will get 276 new or upgraded continuing care beds — including 100 beds in Red Deer — over the next two years.

Red Deer residents pushed for creative decision-making, a 50-metre swimming pool and more timely ice and snow removal as part of Wednesday’s public open house on the upcoming 2011 municipal budget.

An elderly woman was killed after being struck by a Peterbilt semi-tractor on a farm property north of Ponoka on Tuesday morning.

Home-made pies for sale by the Ladies of Sunnybrook Farm on April 15 and 16 at the Bower House. Apple, raisin, cherry, rhubarb and more will be available to purchase for $10. For more information call 403-340-3511.

Each spring, volunteers at Sunnybrook United Church in Red Deer, including John Russell, above, take out their branch trimmers and get to work on the lilacs along the north side of the church’s property.

Red Deer’s most heavily used traffic corridors will be closely monitored by photo radar until April 20. Red Deer RCMP report that 30th Avenue, 40th Avenue, Gaetz Avenue, Taylor Drive and 77th Street will be watched.

Some Mirror residents are upset about diesel fumes and noise from trains idling nearby.