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Anna Sheridan, left, the Central Alberta Women’s Emergency Shelter volunteer co-ordinator, and shelter fundraiser Tara Heppel ready poinsettias for sale at Bower Place Shopping Centre Wednesday.

Alberta Seniors and Community Supports Minister Mary Anne Jablonski has a personal and simple way to determine whether the program that supports 9,200 people with disabilities is doing its job.

A flash fire at a well site sent flames shooting into the air northwest of Rimbey Wednesday.

Red Deer City RCMP have recovered $250,000 in stolen property — including numerous vehicles — after search warrants were executed in Central Alberta on Tuesday.

A Rocky Mountain House man facing criminal charges in relation to the death of a teenager has reserved his plea until early January.

This snowy winter scene is one of numerous landscape paintings by Janice Williams in her show Search For Light which runs until Dec. 29 in the Red Deer Public Library’s Kiwanis Gallery. A meet the artist reception is planned for Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the library’s Snell Auditorium.

Forshee Hall family dance nights are the first Friday of each month, Oct. through June, from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Admission is $8 per adult, children 17 years and under are free. Evening lunch is included. Live old time music.

The annual Christmas Bazaar at Westerner Park is on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The craft show and sale, being held in the Prairie Pavilion, will include over 200 exhibits such as baked goods, jewelry, home decor, pet products, clothing and more.

A Bluffton-area woman with life-threatening injuries was flown by STARS to an Edmonton hospital Tuesday after her SUV collided with a tractor trailer near Sylvan Lake.

Garrett Bogle followed by Adrian Christ, Kevin McGourty, Sara Lamb and other members of the Red Deer Nordic Ski Club make their way along the ski trails at Great Chief Park on Tuesday evening under a full moon. Volunteers worked hard following Monday’s snow storm to blown snow and set track for Red Deer Skiers to enjoy.