Strathmore

Wheatland County is encouraging residents to apply for the 2025 Community Enhancement Fund.

⁣⁣"The Community Enhancement Fund provides grant funding from Wheatland County to enhance, promote, and support groups and organizations that bring a broad range of enjoyment, benefit, beautification, recreation, entertainment, participation, and enhancement projects to Wheatland County," wrote the county in a news release.

The deadline to submit applications is January 31, 2025.

For details, visit here.

Last Cowboy Standing, a rodeo operating in Strathmore, has been awarded Event of the Year at the Bull Riders Canada finals.

The finals took place at Sylvan Lake on November 15 and 16 and sanctions rodeo events across the country, including Last Cowboy Standing.

"All of the carded members are able to vote on who had the best event, so it's voted on by the riders, personnel, and all of the members," said Cale Pribyl, CEO and owner of Lazy P Rodeo Company, which runs Last Cowboy Standing.

The folk and country band The Travelling Mabels are heading to town on Saturday (Nov. 23) at the Strathmore Travelodge.

The Strathmore Musical Arts Society is bringing the band in for a special holiday-themed event.

The group consists of Lana Floen, Therry Lawson, Keith Floen, and Eva Levesque.

Levesque is one of the singers with the band and she says they met at a party in Winnipeg in 2008.

Canada Post and the postal workers union found slivers of consensus Tuesday amid talks with a special mediator, but "a lot of ground" remains between them on the key concerns as a countrywide strike entered its fifth day.

“On smaller issues, we were able to find some progress,” said Canada Post spokesman Jon Hamilton in a phone interview.

"The special mediator has helped facilitate those discussions. So we're going to continue to be at it. We're committed to getting collective agreements," he said, adding that arbitration is off the table for now.

Canada's inflation rate climbed back up to two per cent in October, shifting expectations slightly in favour of a smaller, quarter-percentage point interest rate cut next month. 

The report from Statistics Canada on Tuesday said prices in October increased at a faster annual pace in five out of the eight major components of the consumer price index.

A major driving factor of the uptick in headline inflation was gasoline prices on an annual basis falling to a lesser extent in October compared with September.

A Calgary family has donated $30 million towards the new Arthur J.E. Child Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

The facility is also known as the Calgary Cancer Centre, and philanthropists Stan and Marge Owerko provided the funds.

The centre will help serve patients battling the disease across southern Alberta including Strathmore and Chestermere.

According to a news release from the Alberta Cancer Foundation, the donation brings the total amount raised for the OWN.CANCER campaign to $298 million, making it one of the largest fundraising efforts in Alberta's history.

The Agra Risk Wheatland Kings had a tough weekend, losing their first game in over a month.

The Kings lost their first matchup in eight games, 3-1 versus the Coaldale Copperheads on Saturday (Nov. 16).

The club will hit the ice this weekend to take on the Cannex Cochrane Generals at 8:15 p.m. on Saturday (Nov. 23) and the Rocky Rams on Sunday (Nov. 24) at 4:30 p.m.

Chestermere residents who are expecting physical copies of their supplementary tax notices will have to wait a little longer.

According to the city, delays can be expected following the Canada Post strike affecting Chestermere and Strathmore.

"These notices are issued to all new homes, buildings, and additions that were completed/occupied within the current tax year," says the city in a news release.

The city mentioned if residents live in a property or building completed this year, should look into receiving the annual notices electronically.

It was another successful year for the Strathmore Municipal Library's Cat Cafe, which took place on Saturday (Nov. 16).

The event, which is in partnership with Happy Cat Sanctuary, brought around 100 people to take part. Each person got a few minutes to snuggle with the eight cats who were up for adoption.

"Everybody really liked it," said Audrey Riess, a volunteer with the sanctuary. "Some people waited about an hour or so because we could bring in about eight or nine people because kittens like to get under people's feet."

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