Strathmore

A new residential and recreational community is coming to the Hamlet of Delacour.

Delacour Development Corp. acquired 315 acres of development land which will be called Delacour Crossing.

According to Statistics Canada, Delacour had a population of just five people in 2021.

According to the organization, there will be 480 premium home sites with 50- to 65-foot-wide lots, green spaces, a connected pathway system, and communal parks, along with an amenity village for recreation, events, and social gatherings.

The Hussar Agricultural Society is asking for community support to help upgrade its local arena.

Three community members submitted letters to the Growing Home contest, hosted by BAS, highlighting the need to beautify the facility.

The organization is one of three communities competing to win the top prize of $25,000.

According to society staff, the arena plays a major role in the community by hosting local hockey, ringette, and community events.

Many communities across southern Alberta rely on volunteer firefighters — including the villages of Standard and Beiseker.

Standard Fire Chief Mark Duguay says the organization has 13 members who respond to calls across Wheatland County.

"There's structure fires, there's grass fires, wildland fires — whatever we're called to. Medicals, whatever they need us to go out to, we go out to."

Two of the Alberta Law Foundation's provincially appointed board members have resigned in protest over proposed legislation that they say amounts to political interference in how vulnerable people access the justice system.

The bill would give Justice Minister Mickey Amery final say on grants over $250,000 that the foundation provides to community legal clinics and researchers.

The foundation says it funds about 65 non-profit service providers every year through interest earned on lawyers' trust accounts, not government coffers.

The Eagle Heights Development received the green light to resume after the development permit was cancelled earlier this year.

At a hearing on March 27, Broadstreet Properties appealed the cancellation of their development permit. Following the hearing, the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board granted the appeal, allowing the original development permit to stand as issued.

Students at Chestermere High School's fine arts academy are in the final stretch of rehearsing for their annual spring musical.

A production of Grease will be coming to the city in late May, with students from all across the school helping with the production.

"With my class, they're responsible for doing all of the stage acting, and I let the students orchestrate their own choreography as well," said drama teacher Christine Fulthorpe.

Now that the snow is gone, Skatemore Girls has resumed weekly meetings at the Strathmore Skatepark.

The group held its first meeting on Thursday, Apr. 10.

"It's so exciting. It feels so good," said founder Becca McDonald. "I definitely missed the community over the winter."

At each gathering the group supplies residents with skateboards, snacks, and safety equipment, alongside a Bluetooth speaker and karaoke. 

"I try to bring a hula hoop and craft stuff, so they don't even need to come and skate. They can just hang out."

The StrathmoreNow online auction is heading into the weekend with plenty of great deals for residents to take advantage of.

A few of the auction items include:

Residents of Wheatland County will soon see street sweepers back at work.

According to the county, several areas will undergo street sweeping, including:

• Cheadle and Carseland: April 22 to 23
• Speargrasss and Namaka: April 24
• Gleichen and Cluny: April 25 to 28
• Muirfield and Rosebud: April 29

County staff say sweeping dates may change due to weather or mechanical issues.

Liberal Leader Mark Carney said Thursday he would pass tougher laws to stop people from being harassed at their places of worship, part of a suite of crime and justice measures he unveiled at a campaign stop in southern Ontario.

The promise comes after more than a year of reports of rising hate targeting Jews and Muslims in Canada following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel in 2023, and the war in Gaza.