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Hours after Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout was kidnapped by armed gunmen along a crumbling road in war-torn southern Somalia, a local reporter set out to track her down. Ahmed Mohamed says he was approached by a former colleague of Lindhout’s.

This colour photograph by Red Deer photographer Hedley Blake titled Frigid Winter is one of several art pieces hanging in the Kiwanis Gallery at the downtown branch of the Red Deer Public Library.

Freed after 15 tortuous months in captivity in Somalia, Canadian freelancer Amanda Lindhout and another foreign journalist arrived Thursday in neighbouring Kenya amid claims that a $700,000 ransom was paid for their release.

Alberta authors Robin and Marian White will hold a book-signing of their award-winning environmental coffee table book, Wild Alberta at the Crossroads.

Bob Diewold gets his soup spiced up a little by L. J. MacDonald at a United Way Soup Benefit Luncheon that ran at the Hub on Ross on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

There have been 24 confirmed cases of a type of severe allergic reaction called anaphylaxis in Canadians who have received an H1N1 flu shot, including one person who died after getting vaccinated, the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday.

Red Deer College’s Art Society will hold a Christmas sale on Nov. 25 and 26, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the RDC Forum. Items for sale will include drawings, paintings, ceramics, jewelry and much more.

Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout, freed after 15 months of captivity in war-torn Somalia, said Wednesday she was isolated, beaten and tortured, and dreamed of walking through Vancouver’s Stanley Park to stay sane and not lose hope.

Staff members from the Valley Park Manor and the Red Deer Nursing Home challenged one another to see which group could raise the most money for the United Way.

United Way has developed its own hour of power. To help boost their 2009 campaign, organizers for the Central Alberta region are asking workers to donate an hour of their salaries or wages.