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The head of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind and all CNIB staff members from Alberta gathered in Red Deer on Tuesday to kick off Vision Health Month.

A Grade 9 Rimbey student collapsed during a high school football practice and died later in hospital on Monday.

Let’s just hope celebrity doesn’t go to its feathery head.A peregrine falcon — Red Deer’s newest TV star — has been spending its time preening and primping and otherwise playing to the camera in its perch atop the Telus tower in Highland Green.

The Lacombe Police Service is investigating the possibility that a 17-year-old was car surfing when he was injured on Friday night in a school yard parking lot in Lacombe.

City of Red Deer public art co-ordinator Pat Matheson, left, and Golden Circle executive director Andrew Dale look closely at a new installation at the Golden Circle on Sunday afternoon.

It might not be the big apple, but the Town of Lacombe set to taste life as a city.The Town of Lacombe council voted unanimously on Monday to move forward with the proposal to switch Lacombe from town to city status as of Sept. 5.

Roy Farrington, left, of Farrington Diving Services and friend Peter Arseneault prepare to float the I’m Alone off a sandbar in Sylvan Lake Monday. The boat got grounded after the rudder snapped in high winds and the owner let it drift towards the lake’s south shore. The two men used floats to lift it off the sandbar before towing it to the marina.

Central Alberta school divisions have come together to determine some of the top capital priorities for schools in the region.

Monthly Midweek mezz Movie is offered on April 28 from 4 to 5:45 p.m. in the Waskasoo/Kiwanis Meeting Room at Red Deer Public Library Downtown Branch. Teens are invited to see The Princess Bride, and enjoy snacks. Phone 403-755-1146, or email to jwaters@rdpl.org.

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