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Red Deer City Hall will be illuminated in yellow tonight as Red Deerians join the world in remembering the victims of the atrocities of the Holocaust.

Monday, Jan. 27 marks 80 years since the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where more than one million people were sent to gas chambers, was liberated. 

The National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa serves as a permanent reminder for Canadians to stand together against intolerance and hatred, and to renew our commitment to fight against racism, discrimination and antisemitism.

Central Alberta will experience warmer-than-average temperatures to start the week.

Rob Griffith is a lead meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.

"Western Canada is under a ridge of high pressure," he explained. "We'll be seeing warmer than average temperatures for this time of year at least through the early part of the week."

The region is expecting a high of around plus six on Monday with sunny skies and plus one on Tuesday. The low tonight is minus seven.

The Town of Didsbury has announced that the main ice surface at the Didsbury Memorial Complex will remain unavailable for the 2024/2025 season. Efforts to restore it with a rental chiller unit have failed.

The update was shared in a Friday press release, following weeks of work to implement the plan approved earlier this month.

The Red Deer Rebels fell short Sunday in Calgary in their bid to win two in a row this weekend.

The Rebels were outscored 6-1 by the Hitmen after beating the visiting Moose Jaw Warriors 5-1 on Saturday.

Red Deer had lost 13 straight before Saturday's win at Peavey Mart Centrium.

Penalties were the big story in this matchup for Red Deer, who gave up a trio of power play markers.

Carter Yakemchuk opened the scoring for the Hitmen at 7:32 of the first with his 15th goal of the season. Tanner Howe would make it 2-0 at 6:52 of the second.

Team Skrlik will represent Alberta next month at the 2025 Scotties Tournament of Hearts after a thrilling 6-5 win over Team Kaufman in the finals of the 2025 Alberta Women's Curling Championship Sunday in Rimbey.

Skrlik had a 5-4 lead heading into the 8th end when Kaufman was able to steal one to tie things up at 5. The teams blanked the 9th leading to Skrlik's game-winning shot in the 10th.

Skip Kayla Skrlik commented on the game-winning takeout.

Motorists can expect traffic disruptions on 19 Street in Red Deer. 

Starting today (Jan. 27), until Feb.14, the intersections of 19 Street and 46 Avenue, and 19 Street and 49 Avenue will be reduced to one through lane and turning lane, while crews work to install signal light infrastructure. 

Motorists in Sylvan Lake are being advised of a road closure on Monday due to a sewer line repair.

The closure will impact the 4500 block of 45 Street from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Construction schedules are tentative and subject to weather conditions. 

Click here for updates.

The Monday, January 27, Regular City Council Meeting will start at 10:30 a.m. in a closed session.

It is anticipated that Council will move to open after the lunch break at 1 p.m.

CONSENT AGENDA:

Citizen Representative Appointments to Housing and Homelessness Integration Committee: Council will appoint two replacement representatives to this committee. One Indigenous Community Representative and one Business Community Representative.

2025 Tax and Fleet Borrowing Bylaws (first reading):

The Canada Grains Council (CGC) is welcoming the recent CUSMA panel ruling, which determined that the restrictions Mexico placed on genetically modified (GM) corn were not scientifically justified.

According to Earthquakes Canada a relatively small earthquake happened about 30 km ENE of Lake Louise.

The quake which had a magnitude of 4.5 M, happened at around 4:30 Sunday morning. Some people in the area said they could feel the earth moving, but there were no immediate reports of damage.

Earthquakes Canada says, on average over 4000 quakes are recorded every year in our country. That is about 11 per day. Of those 4000, only about 50 are felt.