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Al Bidyk of the City of Red Deer Public Works department searches for a 43rd Street catch basin at the entrace to Rotary Park, in order to use pressurized steam to free the basin and its underground drain of ice Tuesday morning. The icy drains and the partially blocked underground Waskasoo Creek culvert at 49th Avenue were cleared, allowing for 43rd Street’s re-opening later in the day.

Bowden Mayor Cody Berggren is no stranger to barnyard odours, but the pong coming from the nearby prison’s composting centre was a whole different animal.

A count Saturday at the Medicine Lake Ski Hill near Bentley showed very few at the hill were wearing helmets, despite the recent death of actress Natasha Richardson, who died of head injuries after falling at a Quebec ski hill. She was not wearing a helmet. Here, waiting for the lift is Marc Adrian, 15, and friend Chris Scott 15, both from Sylvan Lake. The two snowboarders said they only wear helmets in the mountains to protect their heads from rocks in the event of a fall.

K.C. Conrad shovels dense, wet snow from the back of his pickup truck Monday. He was on his way to work in Drayton Valley and didn’t want the extra weight slowing him down. Many Central Albertans were still busy removing the 15 cm of snow dumped in Saturday’s storm, then drifted by Sunday’s north wind.

Caleb Brownell, 6, catches too much air off a jump at the bottom of a Clearview park slide and is thrown from his toboggan Monday. With the week off from school for spring break and the arrival of new snow, conditions were perfect for children playing outdoors.

Red Deer and District Pro-Life meets the fourth Tuesday of each month, Oct. through June (except December), at 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church library. Next meeting is March 24. Phone 403-340-2229.

Mentor. Statesman. Hero.Family and a wide community of friends will bid their final farewell on Thursday to Roy Brassard, former Mountain View school trustee, Olds-Didsbury MLA, cabinet minister and chair of Chinook’s Edge Public School Division. Brassard, 78, died of leukemia on Friday.

A former Red Deer Advocate managing editor and member of a well-respected Red Deer family has died in Calgary.

CALGARY — The driver of a Calgary school bus that struck a parked gravel truck, killing one child and injuring 11 others, pleaded guilty to careless driving and was fined the maximum $2,300 on Tuesday.

Circus Montreal presented a gourmet blend of circus, comedy and theatre in one-man show — Circo Abra at CentreFest ’08. Aytahn Ross tells the audience that he’s going to extinguish the blazing end of his baton by swallowing it.