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This is a very busy time of the year for Stewart Morgan with Mow Value Lawn Care and working until the sun goes down is not unusual. On average, he drops off two loads of yard waste a day at the Red Deer’s waste management facility. The facility is inviting Red Deer residents to drop off their yard waste, which should only include grass clippings, leaves, tree branches and garden material, for free from now until May 9.

An RCMP officer was killed Tuesday while conducting speed enforcement on Highway 2A near the town of Millet, about 53 kilometres south of Edmonton.

At one point during the Fusco Brothers juggling act — part of the annual Shrine Circus Tuesday — Emilio Fusco was successful in juggling 10 hoops without dropping any of them. Other attractions during the show at the Enmax Centrium included a poodle dog act, Chinese acrobats, contortionists, and of course clowns.

Fire bans have been put in place for the counties of Red Deer, Lacombe, Ponoka, Stettler and Kneehill.

An RCMP officer has been killed in a traffic accident while on duty south of Edmonton.

The second annual Hike For Hospice drew close to 200 runners and walkers, ranging in ages from one to 91.

A small Olds dog has been inducted into the Purina Hall of Fame.

Innisfail-area hog producer Jim Smith has a very bad feeling about his industry’s future on a day when six new human cases of the H1N1 flu virus were announced in Alberta.

City of Red Deer Recreation, Parks and Culture Department employees Jason Brooks, in the sweeper, and Adam Donovan work to clear a winter’s worth of debris from the roadway leading through the Lions Campground on Monday. The campground opened for the season on Friday with the east end sites opening first. The west sites shown here will open after the cleanup is complete.

Red Deer’s wastewater treatment plant has enough space to expand and meet the needs of the city and surrounding region for the next 25 years, according to a planning document approved on Monday.