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Red Deer Emergency Services fire-medics did a little bushwhacking mid-day Tuesday as they battled a brush fire on the hillside south of Parkland Mall and north of Riverside Light Industrial Park.

Gulls try to get in on the bread Sam Stairs feeds ducks and Canada geese as Steve Rozalen photographs them at Bower Ponds Monday. Central Albertans took to the outdoors in droves as the temperature climbed to 22C.

Gardener Joe Pelz of the city’s Parks, Recreation and Culture department clears mulch from around the roots of a Morden rosebush in City Hall Park Monday

Adrienne Day, left, of Parkland Industries hands out garbage bags to Cheryl Hansen of the South Wal-Mart store at the barbecue launch of the Green Deer campaign Monday.

Two RCMP officers from the Maskwacis detachment in Hobbema are credited with saving a young man’s life when they pulled him unconscious from a burning house on Sunday night.

Red Deer City Councillor Lorna Watkinson-Zimmer was in an English village on Monday anxiously awaiting word of when she can come home.

Before going into the ring to be judged in the Juvenile Medium Female class, Keith Molder from Balgonie, Saskatchewan, whispers to Shahkell to keep her settled down.

The Medicine River Wildlife Centre is warning people not to pick up small white-tailed jackrabbits, which it says are beginning to show up all over Red Deer and Central Alberta.

Horseshoes start on May 4, weather permitting, at the Golden Circle Senior Resource Centre.

There were no multiple winners as Michael Buble, K’naan and Johnny Reid claimed Juno Awards on Saturday, but for Jacksoul, one more trophy was plenty.