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Barb Weddell strolls through the Lions Campground with her granddaughter Mabel Weddell. Barb’s husband Pete gets the campground up and running in the spring. The campground officially opened for the season on Saturday. Staff are expecting the sites to fill up as the weather improves.

Lacombe Composite High School Ram Kodi Knight, left, and Hunting Hills Lightning Sara Codd scramble for the ball during a game near the Collicutt Centre, Thursday. Soccer in Red Deer usually gets off to a cold start, and the high school season sees its share of wet fields.

Alberta Health Services is revisiting its plans to shut down Valley Park Manor and Red Deer Nursing Home.

Living Well with a Mental Illness: Learning Together is a series of discussion and lecture classes offered on the second and fourth Tuesday of every month from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at A Gathering Place.

A lawyer representing a 23-year-old man charged after a Red Deer couple was killed in a collision said the matter may be resolved without a trial.

A one-vehicle collision on 47th Avenue in Red Deer early Thursday afternoon left a vehicle on its roof and a woman in hospital.

Connie Walsh hangs photos of her two sisters, who suffer from multiple sclerosis, while Radhika Nair readies MS Society pamphlets and Walsh’s husband Jim cooks hot dogs outside the Real Canadian Superstore on Saturday.

Plans to use a camera-fitted remote-controlled miniature helicopter in Sylvan Lake this summer have been grounded, says a spokesman for RCMP K Division.

Red Deer Advocate web producer Leo Pare, centre, offers McDonald’s South first assistant manager Greg Veres, left, and restaurant manager Sherry Roxin McHappy Day items during McHappy Day at the McDonald’s south location Wednesday.

New rules governing how the RCMP use stun guns are basically a continuation of the process started a few years ago, Red Deer’s top policeman said on Wednesday.