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Cereals Canada recently released their 2024 Canadian Wheat Crop Progress and Harvest Assessment Update.

Harvest operations are still underway in many areas of the Prairies.

Stats Canada surveyed farmers in June with estimates showing Canadian farmers planted over 8.2 million hectares of non durum wheat this year, a 3% decrease from last year, while durum acreage showed a 5 per cent increase to nearly 2.6 million acres.

Non-durum wheat is grown across the country in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, and in southern Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.

On Saturday, a special ceremony for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation happened in George Lane Park.

Local Indigenous Blackfoot artist Jared Tailfeathers. Tailfeather's traditional name is Silkomh Kokomii which means Calling Crane and has been working for months on an old cottonwood tree. The tree is estimated to be well over 100 years old, which could predate the formation of the Town of High River.

The Carstar Okotoks Bisons were up to their old tricks with a 7-0 dominant victory over the Coaldale Copperheads on Friday night (Sept. 27) and then strung another win on Saturday with a 5-2 win over the Cannex Cochrane Generals at Murray Arena.

The Town of High River was asking all residents to conserve water earlier today, effective immediately.

It was due to an issue with the town's water treatment plant.

Town staff worked on solutions to remedy the situation.

The Town took to Facebook at just after 3 p.m. to let everyone know the issue has been resolved, and people are able to return to normal water usage.

The Okotoks Oilers were able to pick up their first win of the 2024-2025 BCHL regular season on Saturday night, with an 8-5 beating on the Cranbrook Bucks.

Their first time facing off in a regular season game came on Friday with the Bucks hosting the Oilers at Western Financial Place, the same arena the former Kootenay Ice of the WHL used to play in. 

The High River Flyers will likely want to put this past weekend in the rearview mirror as it wasn't their best showing.

On Friday (Sept. 27) they visited Medicine Hat to face the Cubs and will want to forget about the game as they fell 10-1. Aidan Schopf would get the lone goal for the Flyers with Eastan Robert and Jonah Thomas getting the assists. High River was outshot 49-22 in the game.

The Canadian Country Showcase, hosted by Courtney Fielder, airs every weekend on Saturdays at 12 PM and Sundays at 4 PM. Courtney engages in conversations with both emerging country music artists and the established stars we’ve come to love, celebrating their milestones and new releases.

The Strike at the Port of Vancouver may be over, but we could see more disruptions to Canada's Supply Chain.

Late Friday, the Grain Workers Union Local 333 agreed to a tentative four-year deal with the Vancouver Terminal Elevator Association taking them through December 31, 2027.

The four-day strike involved over 600 workers at the six bulk grain export terminals at the Port owned by Viterra and Richardson International, G3, Cargill and Alliance Grain.

Western Grain Elevators Association noted that workers were back on the job Saturday morning.

Parts of Southern Alberta are going to be windy today (Oct 1), but Foothills County won't be too bad.

Environment and Climate Change Canada Meteorologist Stephen Berg says that Okotoks won't get a wind warning today.

"Generally, Okotoks area will be gusting to about 50, maybe 60 km/hr for this afternoon," Berg explains. "Stavely, kind of towards the southwest, had a gust of about 72 km/hr, but that's a bit of an outlier as it kind of becomes more gusty towards the southwest, especially at higher elevations."

At their September 23 meeting, High River Town Council signed a proclamation to officially recognize the month of October as Disability Employment Awareness Month (D.E.A.M).

The Town of High River will help raise awareness for D.E.A.M. by lighting up the town hall red on Tuesday evening (Oct. 1).