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Kolrosing, an old method of rubbing coal dust into carved wood, will be offered at Norwegian Laft Hus on April 10 from noon to 5 p.m.

A Mallard duck and his mate walk on the ice along the edge of a pond at McKenzie Ponds Monday while they and other water birds wait for the ice to melt. The warm weather expected over the next several days should help melt much of the remaining ice and snow, as highs in the mid-teens are expected.

Graclela Garcia Ramirez, carefully transplants seedling petunias into trays as she and co-workers prepare trays of plants to stock the Dentooms Garden Centre. Dentooms greenhouse staff are also busy preparing plants to be shipped to greenhouses across Canada as well as preparing stock for Dentooms Garden Centre, which is opening May 1.

A fast-burning fire near Bentley last week robbed an elderly woman of her deceased husband’s daily diaries, which dated back to the 1960s.

WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. faces a maximum penalty of more than $16 million, a record civil penalty against an automaker, for failing to promptly notify the U.S. government about defective gas pedals among its vehicles.

You don’t call the West Country’s wild horses an invasive species and hope to ride away unscathed.

Documentary and Discussion takes place on April 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. at Kerry Wood Nature Centre. View a documentary film followed by refreshments and candid debate. Cost is $3 per person at the door. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Phone 403-346-2010.

Tara Rogers and her daughter Alyssa, centre, race with other children and parents at the start of the Easter egg scavenger hunt at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre Sunday. The Easter Spring Fling featured three nature-themed egg hunts for children of various ages where they had to answer nature-themed questions plus Easter- and spring-related crafts and activities.

From the Western blue flag to the rattlesnake plantain, Red Deer resident Tony Blake has tracked down plants from the exotic to the ordinary, as part of a hobby that has him travelling around his own community and the province each summer.

Breaking up could be hard to do.Provincial Electoral Boundaries Commission members might well be advised to tread lightly when divorcing the southern stretches of Red Deer from the Red Deer South riding,