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A seven-year-old Haitian girl’s fascination with snow caused a little bit of a kerfuffle in Ottawa on Wednesday.

ACFA Regionale de Red Deer is seeking Event Volunteers for their first Carnaval of Red Deer, March 5 and 6, 2010.

Military dress uniforms are among the displays set up by the Blackfalds and Area Historical Society within the Blackfalds Public Library. The society’s new space inside the library’s meeting room is larger, enabling the society to display more and varied items from its collection. The library is open 10 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.

The parents of a brain-damaged infant in Edmonton are getting more time to line up medical specialists who can review his condition.

Squadron commanding officer Capt. Chris Kosack, left, stands with proud cadets Kaylee Tims, just promoted to Warrant Officer 1st Class (the highest ranking cadet) and Daniel Schropfer, just promoted to Warrant Officer 2nd Class, of 24th Squadron, Red Deer, Royal Canadian Air Cadets.

Craig Stubbard, left, and Gary Skinner play a game of shinny Sunday afternoon at the Kinsmen Community Centre outdoor rink.

Lacombe Fire Chief Tom Fisher has missed Christmases, birthdays, recitals and hockey games, all in the line of duty.

Wildrose has its Red Deer army, grey-haired and balding though it might be.As conservative commentator Link Byfield suggested at the organizational meeting for the Red Deer North and South constituency associations for the Wildrose Alliance Party on Monday night, there’s no way pull “the big Alberta switcheroo” — upsetting a long-governing political party — without “a small volunteer army” in the community.

A three-month wait — and counting — to get a long-term care bed for a Red Deer man with severe dementia is unacceptable, says his family.

Alberta’s problem isn’t that it spends too much, it’s that it doesn’t collect enough taxes to keep up with growth, said a research director with the Parkland Institute.