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Red Deer Curling Centre has dropped plans for a new rink and will look at a multimillion-dollar overhaul and expansion of its current facility.

A man charged with sexually assaulting and robbing an elderly woman will have a trial next fall.

Family Snowshoe is offered at Kerry Wood Nature Centre on Feb. 6 from 1 to 4 p.m. If you’ve always wanted to try snowshoeing, drop in and try the obstacle course, or other snowshoe challenges, weather permitting. Admission by suggested donation of $3 per person, or $10 per family. Call 403-346-2010.

RCMP are looking for a man accused of sexually assaulting a child on the Sunchild First Nations Reserve.

ack Hanna visits Innisfail in a Friday, Feb. 12, episode of Jack Hanna’s Into the Wild featuring Discovery Wildlife Park

From the left, Anna Gordon, Alexis Rudrum, Veronica Panteluk, Nadine Skogen and MacKenzie Caddy practise at the dance studio at Red Deer College on Wednesday. Under the direction of their teacher Cheryl Tweet, and along with their Red Deer College Conservancy of Dance pre-primary ballet classmates, the girls are preparing for their spring recital, The Land of Candy Show.

Dylan Steimecke, 2, drives his all-terrain vehicle as he leads his mother, Tammy, off the Blindman River south of Blackfalds Tuesday. They and Dylan’s father, Ryan, and grandfather Myron Andersen spent the afternoon touring a length of the river to the west.

Louicius Michel thought he could return to teaching a few weeks after digging his daughter’s body out of the rubble in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

World-class attractions focused on railway and other ground transportation are being promoted for sites in downtown Red Deer and Red Deer County by a group that has been working quietly for a year on the vision.

This untitled charcoal sketch on newsprint is part of Paul Boultbee’s show Shadows of Trees on display in the Marjorie Wood Gallery at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre. The show by the well-known city artist runs until March 28 and features a reception Friday from 5 to 7 p.m.