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The Provincial government's new Local Growth and Sustainability Grant aims to help municipalities grow their infrastructure.

On October 22, Minister of Municipal Affairs, Ric McIver, announced that with this new grant, they are providing $20 million a year for three years to municipalities to help them update their infrastructure as needed.

Okotoks mayor, Tanya Thorn, says that while it's great the province is providing this funding, she feels it's not quite enough.

The Town of Diamond Valley is disappointed after finding out some of their festive Halloween decorations had been taken.

A scarecrow decked out in orange and a green alien are the decorations that have gone missing. 

"We take pride in promoting a welcoming environment through our seasonal displays, and it would be wonderful to see these items returned to the community," said the Town of Diamond Valley in a post.

Municipal enforcement has been made aware of the missing decorations and the town asks you to be on the lookout for them. 

Some surveying work is going to be completed this week.

Crews will be surveying along 338 Avenue and 32 Street in Okotoks as part of their 338 Avenue/32 Street design project.

They will be completing drone surveying in the area, and will be staying in the ditch, which isn't expected to cause traffic disruptions.

The work will take place from October 29 to November 1, as long as the weather cooperates.

During that time, there will be signage, crews, and equipment in the area, so the Town is reminding everyone to use caution while in the area.

For the second time this season, the Okotoks Oilers and the Cranbrook Bucks played a home-and-home series and split the back-to-back games over the weekend.

When the BCHL Interior Division rivals met in September, it was the home teams coming away with the win. In this weekend's contests, it was the opposite, with the visiting teams going home victorious. 

The High River Flyers only had one game on their 2024-2025 HJHL schedule this weekend.

The Flyers were in Didsbury on Saturday night (Oct. 26), with the Mountainview Colts edging out High River 3-2 in overtime. The Flyers have come away with at least one point in their last three games and have gone 1-0-2. The win came from a 6-1 victory on the road to the Coaldale Copperheads, and the first overtime loss came to the 9-3-0 Medicine Hat Cubs on October 18.

The ATCO Field at Spruce Meadows will be the setting for a Championship match in the Canadian Premier League.

Cavalry FC earned their way into the Championship match with a 1-0 victory over the Forge FC in Hamilton on Sunday.

Cavalry FC got their first-half game-winning goal from Tobias Warschewski.

The club now has two weeks to prepare for the Championship final, which will be held on Sunday, November 9, at 1 p.m. at ATCO Field.

Cavalry FC will face the winner of the semi-final match between the Forge and Atlético Ottawa.

Two games were on tap for the Carstar Okotoks Bisons this weekend.

The Herd trampled the Coaldale Copperheads on Friday night (Oct. 25) at Murray Arena in a 6-2 win. Sam Callahan had a first-period hat trick and finished the night with four points. McCallum Bakken picked up two assists on Callahan's hat trick, with Kaelan Bodnarchuk, Hunter Cobb, and team captain Jake Snashall adding a helper each. Callahan sits tied for first place for most goals in the league, as he has 13 goals in 11 games.

Alberta Grains regional meetings are scheduled across six regions within Alberta from October 28 to November 15. 

These annual meetings offer Alberta’s 18,000+ barley and wheat farmers a detailed look at the commission's research, advocacy and extension efforts funded by their checkoff dollars.

A veteran Ottawa journalist is firing back against what he says are "entirely false" claims by a former Conservative cabinet

Canada's long-held consensus on immigration is under threat but has not disappeared, the immigration minister said in an interview after announcing a major cut to the number of newcomers to Canada. 

On Thursday, Immigration Minister Marc Miller and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans to slash Canada's immigration targets by 20 per cent next year and admitted the Liberal government did not get the balance right after the COVID-19 pandemic.