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On Thursday (Jun. 23), the Town of Lamont held a special event to honour six centenarians at the Lamont Healthcare Centre.

The five living centenarians gathered for an evening of praise, celebration and cake. 

Also in attendance was mayor Kirk Perrin, several family members and an RCMP officer to congratulate the six women.

After more than two years of economic turbulence through the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's workforce participation overall appears quite rosy for women.

The share of women aged 25 to 54 years old is at its highest level ever in the country at 85 per cent. Meanwhile, unemployment for all workers hit a record low, according to Statistics Canada.

But experts say while looking at the economic big picture might seem like cause for celebration, a closer inspection at the details offers a more nuanced look at the uneven recovery that has not uplifted all groups of women equally.

An area man is serving prison time for killing a woman while driving drunk.

James Novosel, 38, admitted to impaired driving that caused the death of Rhonda Lynn Moyah, 47, and injuries to her 9-year-old daughter after a collision in mid-September of last year.

Parker Kellington has been selected to play on the U18 Team Alberta at the Football Canada Cup Tournament. 

The 17-year-old is entering his 10th year of football. He spent seven years as part of the Fort Sask Falcons Football program and currently plays Tier 1 football at Bev Facey High School in Sherwood Park. 

He explained that he had gone to the tryouts for U18 Team Alberta before and came up short, but this time he made the cut from around 600 players to the final 40. 

Another edition of Canada's Farm Show at REAL (Regina Exhibition Association Ltd ) District is officially in the books. 

Exhibitors have started pulling out equipment after what organizers say was a very successful event. 

Kirk Westgard, the new Vice-President of Agriculture for REAL says attendance and interest in the show was outstanding with the first day attendance totals up 18 per cent from 2019 levels.

It’s shaping up to be a picture-perfect weekend ahead of Garth Brooks’ back-to-back concerts at Commonwealth Stadium. 

Although the threat of rain hung around early Friday (Jun. 24), cloudy skies and gusts of wind blowing at 40-50 km/hr at times will subside around 6 p.m., and once the concert begins at 7 p.m., you can expect to see a mild summer evening at around 18 C. 

Overnight, temperatures will drop to a low of 10 C. 

A new update has been released regarding Fort Saskatchewan's latest affordable housing complex.

Due to supply chain issues, construction on the Muriel Ross Abdurahman Court is slightly behind schedule, but Heartland Housing Foundation anticipates opening the building in early 2023.

While applications have not yet opened, Heartland Housing Foundation has released details on eligibility requirements with the hopes of opening up the application process this fall.  

On Thursday, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Marie-Claude Bibeau, announced that the interest-free portion of the Advance Payments Program will increase from $100,000 to $250,000 for the 2022 and 2023 program years. As a result, participating producers will save on average $5,500 in interest costs over the next two years. This change will represent total savings of up to $61 million over two years for approximately 11,000 producers.

A mail carrier says her out-of-pocket costs for delivering packages along her rural route have doubled because of the steep hike in gas prices and cost of living being experienced by many Canadians.

"The stress is exhausting," said Jennifer Henson, a Calgary mother of two boys and one of 11,000 rural and suburban mail carriers delivering letters for Canada Post across the country.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising to defend abortion rights in Canada and around the world after what he calls a "devastating setback" in the United States.

He and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly reacted Friday to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn its 50-year-old Roe v. Wade ruling that had guaranteed countrywide access to abortion.