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Due to construction work, Fort Saskatchewan’s Transfer Station and Recycle Depot will temporarily close from June 6 to 10.  

For those who cannot wait to get rid of unwanted materials during this time, the city recommends visiting nearby transfer stations, including the Broadview Enviroservice Station in Strathcona County.  

Hair Mantra in Fort Saskatchewan has been selected as a finalist for the 2022 Alberta Business Awards of Distinction in the Diversity category.  

The downtown hair salon was nominated to the provincial level after winning the Inclusion and Diversity award at the 2021 Fort Saskatchewan & District Chamber of Commerce Business Awards.

Canada has purchased more than 20,000 rounds of artillery ammunition for Ukraine, Defence Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday.

Anand, speaking at the Ukrainian Cultural Centre in Victoria, said the $98-million purchase will include the needed fuses and charge bags and comes from the $500-million Ukrainian military aid package announced in April's federal budget.

She said the rounds, which are the NATO artillery standard of 155 millimetre and will work with the artillery guns Canada shipped to Ukraine in April, are "exactly what Ukraine has asked allies to provide."

The farmers' market is set to return for the summer.

The event, put on by the Fort Saskatchewan and District Chamber of Commerce, will run every Thursday from June 9 until Sept. 14 for a total of 15 markets. 

From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. you can shop for local goods, listen to live music and enjoy snacks from a variety of food trucks. 

To celebrate the opening day on June 9 there will be free hot dogs available for the first 1000 people who attend the market.

The Oilers won two games over the weekend to pull ahead of the Flames 2-1 in the Western Conference semi-final!

I was elated, not just because I love the Oilers but also because Shayne Hill at Eagle 100.9 had to pay up on the bets we had for games two and three.

The game two Oilers win meant Shayne had to paint her nails in Oilers' colors! As you can see above, it's a great look!

The game three win forced Shayne to write a poem in honor of the capital region... and boy... did she ever!

Fifty-two Albertans drowned in 2017. Since the pandemic began, this number has nearly tripled.

The City of Fort Saskatchewan has partnered up with the Lifesaving Society, an organization aiming to inform people about safe water practices. Their Lifejacket Loaner Stations provide free-of-cost lifejackets for rent at swimming pools all across the country, with 42 locations available across Alberta and the Northwest Territories alone.

Harbour Pool is the latest addition to their Lifejacket Loaner Stations, with a station being in front of the pool from May 24 until Sept. 5.

A 23-year-old woman has been arrested after two men arrived at the Strathcona County Hospital with stab wounds.

The men claimed they were assaulted in a vehicle while driving down Highway 21 in Sherwood Park. Both men suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. They have since been released from the hospital.

The Strathcona County RCMP arrested Denise Deschamps of Wetaskiwin. She has been charged with aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, and two counts of disobeying a court order.

Sherwood Park resident Ken Lesniak has won the Community Service Award for this year's Strathcona County Awards of Excellence.

Lesniak has lived in Sherwood Park for 46 years and is now retired but has a lengthy list of accomplishments he continues to add to. 

“I am very humbled to be receiving [the award]. There are a lot of people in Strathcona County and in the communities that do lots of community service. I am honoured to get it so, I have mixed feelings over it in that regard,” said Lesniak.

Some of his work includes:

RCMP are warning the public about what is being called the “Head Office Bitcoin scam.”

Over the last several months, scammers have been targeting businesses across Alberta in a sophisticated scam to receive Bitcoin currency, defrauding employees and businesses.  

Kseniia Zinenko stepped outside of the Winnipeg airport Monday evening after a nine-hour flight from Poland to Manitoba's capital city.

The 30-year-old is one of more than 300 Ukrainian nationals who were on a federally chartered flight to bring people fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine to Canada. 

"Very tired," Zinenko replied when asked how she was feeling after arriving in Winnipeg. "But the Canadian people (are) very good to meet us."