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Every month, MIX 107 and Southfort Chevrolet team up to award the Half Grand Helping Hand to an individual, community group, charity, or sports team that could use a $500 boost.

November's recipient is Bailey Enokson. 

Bailey is a single mother of four children who lost her home in the Woodsmere Close fire in Fort Saskatchewan On October 16th.

Thankfully, every member of the family was able to escape the fire safely.

The Sturgeon Spirits high school football team is your 2022 Gilfillan division champions. 

The Spirits completed their perfect season on Saturday (Nov. 5) after defeating the St. Albert Skyhawks by a score of 28-0 at Commonwealth Stadium. 

The game was tight going into the half, with the Spirits only leading 7-0, but Sturgeon head coach, Chad Hill, says his team was able to pull away as the game went on. 

"In the second half, we did what we do," said Hill. "We dictated the pace both offensively and defensively." 

Farm Credit Canada's Drive Away Hunger Campaign continues.

Carla Warnyca, FCC's Manager of Community Investment says the program basically brings Canada's agriculture and food industry together to share the food that is produced with those who need it the most. 

A fire has destroyed the Morinville Plaza Inn and Suites. 

Emergency crews were called to the scene on Sunday (Nov. 6) evening at about 8:30 p.m. to a two-level structure fire at the hotel. 

RCMP and fire crews say they successfully evacuated about 27 residents in the building; no human injuries or deaths were reported. Police did confirm, however, that there were pets who perished in the fire. 

Brad Gushue put a flourish on his team's dominant curling to become the first men's Pan Continental champion on Sunday.

To inject levity in a lopsided 11-3 win over South Korea in the final, Canada's skip weaved his final stone of the eighth end under his front leg and delivered it outside of his knee for a trick shot.

"I've done it a lot in clinics and stuff like that and shown kids," Gushue said. "Usually I can hit the rings, but I'm a little disappointed it went through there. Epic fail."

Elk Island Catholic Schools and Elk Island Public Schools held their Remembrance Day ceremonies today (Nov. 4).

The ceremonies, both in-person and virtual, featured slideshows and speakers who talked about their experiences in the military.

At Saint John Paul II in Fort Saskatchewan, they had armed forces members, RCMP officers, and even Mayor Gale Katchur in attendance.

The ceremony was planned by fifth grade teacher Michelle Ethier.

"I often have a lot of things from previous years that I put together," Ethier said. 

WestJet says a system-wide outage is impacting its operations, resulting in "growing delays" across its network and cancellations.

The Canadian airline says its contact centre is unable to access guest reservations as a result of the outage.

WestJet says it's working to restore service to its system, though it hasn't provided a reason for the outage.

Calgary International Airport says in a tweet that guests flying through its airport may be delayed "due to a WestJet global IT outage." 

It says guests should check with their airline for flight information.

Legend has it that when Canadian troops stormed ashore under a hail of German gunfire at the French port of Dieppe in August 1942, one of the hundreds who eventually died in the attack was carrying an old flag.

Exactly how that red and white flag ended up at the Nazi-held French port — and even whether it was definitively there — remains a mystery.

But more than 80 years later, that flag will play a central role in commemorating the doomed raid on Dieppe during this year’s national Remembrance Day ceremony — thanks to three Americans.

"Freedom Convoy" organizer Tamara Lich insists she was never directly told to leave Ottawa last winter when protesters in hundreds of vehicles blocked streets around Parliament Hill as they called for an end to COVID-19 mandates, even after the Emergencies Act was invoked.

During cross-examination Friday, Lich told the Public Order Emergency Commission that when police told protesters in a mid-February meeting to depart, she took it as a suggestion.

She and other organizers had testified on Thursday that police did not tell them to leave the city.

Stats show that one in four Canadians will experience a mental health problem at some point in their life. 

Over the years access to agriculture-related mental health support has been growing through organizations like Do More Agriculture (DMAF).

Executive Director Megz Reynolds says we have been as an industry, starting to talk more about mental health and starting to take steps forward with our mental health.