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With a wink and wiggle of their tails, lion dancers summoned luck and fortune to the delight of guests at a Chinese Moon Festival on Saturday.

Hope for a future without breast cancer grew on Sunday at Red Deer’s 9th annual CIBC Run for the Cure.

Red Deer Olympian Deidra Dionne has faced a number of hurdles over her 15-year freestyle ski career that’s affected her life and career.

More and more working people are losing their homes because they can’t afford the rent, says Stacey Carmichael.

The Harper government has survived yet another confidence vote.The House of Commons voted 144-117 today against a Liberal motion to bring down the minority Conservatives.

A pickup truck hauling a trailer narrowly avoiding slamming into a train on Thursday afternoon, taking out the railway crossing signals instead.

Sierra of Taylor Drive Music Jam is held the first Saturday of every month from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Cost $2, includes refreshments. Everyone welcome to play and instrument, dance or simply listen to the music. Next jam session is Oct. 3. Phone Chris at 403-341-3385.

Lorinda Dykstra paints large pink ribbons on the windows of Millerdale Pharmacy this week. The symbols are to mark October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month and in anticipation of the CIBC Run for the Cure to support the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation on Sunday. The event begins with final registration and donation drop-off at 8 a.m., followed by the warmup at 9:45 and the run itself along one- and five-km routes at 10 a.m., with the awards handed out at 11.

A Red Deer RCMP crackdown on outstanding warrants landed 14 people in jail and recouped more than $33,000 in unpaid fines.

Recently retired Red Deer College president Ron Woodward has been recruited to employ his community-building skills with the Red Deer’s 749 Communication Squadron.