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Rosie Posie of Heart of a Child adds the finishing details as she paints a butterfly on two-year-old Nadali Davenport’s face during the Victims of Crime Awareness Week Community Information Fair at the Blackfalds Arena on Sunday. The fair provided activities for kids, a car seat clinic and information on community agencies and victims services.

Baruch Laskin, the tall man of Calgary, tries to get a high five from four-year-old Braedan Brouilette of Ponoka. Braedan was apparently glad his dad is smaller. If he wasn’t, going for a walk would be rather difficult, when holding hands.

There were no confirmed cases of swine flu in Alberta at press time Monday, but family physicians across the province and Alberta Health Link phone lines were getting swamped with questions from the public.

Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery closed for renovations on the weekend — but not before visitors made their mark with paint brushes and markers on museum walls Saturday afternoon.

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A woman died in a single-vehicle rollover on Hwy 2 near Bowden this morning. Innisfail RCMP Const. Mark MacDougald said the woman was driving north when her SUV left the road and rolled in the median in front of the Bowden Refinery at about 7 a.m.

Melissa Robertson gets encouragement from fire-medics Glen Carritt, centre, and Andre Perrault as she uses a three-kg hammer to move a kaiser sled’s 72-kg weight at the Ed Howell Fire Training Centre on Thursday. She was one of many fire-medic candidates put through the same seven-station obstacle course every city fire-medic qualifies on annually to test physical fitness. The city is looking to hire 35 fire-medics this year to satisfy new provincial ambulance requirements.

The search continues for a suspect believed to have used an explosive to rob a jewellery store in Olds on Thursday morning. RCMP were called to Stevens Jewellery at 5014 50th Ave. at 10:15 a.m. after staff reported that a robbery attempt was underway and they believed the suspect was carrying an explosive.

A Mirror man who was peppered with two shotgun blasts following the theft of a farmer’s ATV said he would have done the same thing if someone was stealing his property.

An Olds RCMP officer strings crime scene tape around the front of Stevens Jewellers following a robbery Thursday morning.