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Two knife attacks on Red Deer taxi drivers in the last few weeks have police working hard to solve the crimes, and drivers and owners wondering what more they could do to combat the brazen attacks.

Don’t worry, Sylvan Lake sunbathers.

It was as circuitous trip, over three continents and the equator, but Chinook’s Edge superintendent Jim Gibbons finally arrived back in Alberta in time for the school board meeting on Wednesday.

RCMP are looking for man who skipped out of paying a taxi fare early Wednesday morning in south Red Deer.

City of Red Deer RCMP Const. Shawn Marchant speaks to Denise Workman’s Grade 2 class about bicycle safety during a visit to the school on Tuesday. The resource officer makes several visits to the school each year to discuss safety issues with students.

Canadian Blood Services is offering you an “Assignment: Saving Lives!” If you are a student in Grade 12 or a University/College student in Red Deer, you can become a blood donor recruiter and have opportunity to win an Educational Bursary.

Joshua Ajohn of Alien In-Line keeps a watchful eye on Bryce Diehl as they skate around the gymnasium at Grandview Elementary on Tuesday.

Andrew Glazebrook’s natural edge turned bowl, Darren Petersen’s blown glass Spiral Vessels and Susan Woolgar’s chalk and pastel Evening in Venice are among the pieces currently on display in the Viewpoint Gallery in the city’s Cultural Services Centre at 3827 39th St.

Family Drop-In Storytime is offered on Saturdays at 11 a.m. in the children’s department at the downtown branch of Red Deer Public Library.

Dianne Finstad of Red Deer has been named an honourary member of the Alberta Human Ecology and Home Economics Association in the awards ceremony at the group’s 75th anniversary conference.