Strathmore

As summertime begins to come to an end, fall activities are starting to pop up in Strathmore.

The Strathmore Full Gospel Church will be hosting a Fall Festival for residents to get involved with.

The event will take place at Kinsmen Park on September 13.

After being in the works for over a year, Strathmore is finally getting a shawarma shop.

Earlier this week, it was announced that Persian Shawarma would be hosting its grand opening on Sunday (Aug. 31) at 11 a.m.

Despite this, the shop has already opened to customers with a quiet soft launch beginning on Monday.

The shop is located at 100 Ranch Market just off of George Freeman Trail.

Lead poisoning impacts cattle in Saskatchewan every year, potentially killing multiple animals in a herd. Not only is there the concern associated with losing cattle, but there is also potential for lead to enter the food chain – because of this, testing is required in lead poisoning cases to protect public health.

Researchers say pediatricians, family doctors and parents need to learn more about what kind of performance-enhancing substances kids are using when they work out or play sports.

Seventeen per cent of more than 800 Canadian pediatric specialists surveyed say they saw adolescents who needed medical attention due to dietary supplements or performance drugs over the previous year.

The majority of cases were boys and more than half of them were between 13 and 15 years old.

Almost a third of the patients were even younger — between 10 and 12 years old.

The head of the Alberta Energy Regulator has cancelled an application hearing for a potential coal mine, a move that he acknowledged is "without precedent."

The hearings had been scheduled for a proposed underground coal mine in Grande Cache, Alta., owned by Summit Coal Inc., which would produce about 3,562 tonnes of coal per day.

Workers dangle from ropes as they brush the last bit of white paint on the trim of the Okhmatdyt children’s cardiac hospital in Kyiv.

Below them, a damaged children's stroller and construction supplies sit atop a tree-covered garbage heap. Windows of some surrounding buildings are still boarded up with plywood.

One year after a devastating rocket attack on Ukraine's largest children's hospital that killed four and injured a dozen, the century-old facility is getting ready to reopen — with help from the Canadian Red Cross.

Environment Canada (EC) has issued a heat warning for Wheatland County, including Strathmore, Lyalta, and Carseland.

"Daytime high temperatures ranging between 29 and 33 degrees Celsius are expected this week. Overnight lows will vary greatly, ranging between 10 and 16 degrees Celsius depending on location." wrote EC.

Residents are asked to take precautions to protect themselves from the heat, including:

An Alberta cabinet minister is promising to follow the rules following an unusual late-night tour of the legislature last week for controversial American Christian singer Sean Feucht.

Family Services Minister Searle Turton says he led Feucht and others through the domed building late Friday after the singer held a concert on the legislature grounds.

Feucht later posted a short video on social media of a "worship session," with him and others singing in the building's rotunda.

Alberta's parks minister says a fisher is expected to recover after being attacked by a grizzly bear in the province's south.

Todd Loewen says the attack took place over the weekend near Milk River, 300 kilometres south of Calgary, close to the U.S. border.

Loewen says there were cubs with the grizzly when the attack took place, so the bear may have been acting defensively.

He says details are still being gathered, but that there have not been any sightings of the grizzly since the mauling.

The issue of trade and tariffs is on the mind of everyone involved in agriculture.

President of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA), Keith Currie says there was a lot of uneasiness - especially in the agriculture sector -  back in January when President Trump first started talking about tariffs, but then we didn't know exactly what that would involve.