Lacombe

Lacombe’s Ben Rainforth showcased his knowledge and skills as a Red Deer Polytechnic (RDP) welding journeyperson, yielding a bronze medal at the 47th WorldSkills Competition in Lyon France.  

Residents of Penhold and surrounding area will get a chance to share their concerns with local RCMP.

The Innisfail RCMP and the Town of Penhold, will be holding a Town Hall meeting on October 9 at 6:30 p.m., at the Penhold Library in the multiplex.

The Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce is moving forward with recommendations from the Report on Homelessness Taskforce.  

The primary recommendation in the report was to create a not-for-profit society led by business leaders, Indigenous partners, the City of Red Deer, and other community representatives.  

“The feedback we have received overwhelmingly supports the recommendations we have proposed in our report,” said Scott Robinson, CEO of the Red Deer & District Chamber of Commerce. 

The Blackfalds Bulldogs wrapped up their first preseason in the BCHL on a winning note.

The Bulldogs held on to beat the Okotoks Oilers by a score of 2-1 in front of 166 fans at the Eagle Builders Centre.

Brayden Gourley opened up the scoring for Blackfalds on the power play midway through the second period.

Wolf Giles would net the eventual game-winner, putting the Bulldogs up 2-0 five minutes into the third.

Kade Duell scored the lone goal for Okotoks at the 8:17 mark of the final frame.

Organizers for the 2024 Pan Continental Curling Championships are still looking for volunteers.

Co-Chair Gail Perepelkin was busy signing people up last week at the Lacombe Fall Active Living Fair.

"We're looking at people volunteering for at least four draws," she said. "The time commitment would be about four hours a day."

Perepelkin says they need a total of about 200 volunteers. They are currently sitting at about 160. 

The Rotary Club of Lacombe is gearing up to host its third annual Taste of Lacombe event, taking place on October 26 at the Lacombe Memorial Centre.

The evening is a fundraiser for the Cranna Lake Project.

Rotary member Ingrid Luymes says Taste of Lacombe is a great way to sample local restaurants and beverage providers.

"It's a really fun night where people get to dress up, if they want to, and basically just come and eat appetizers and drink samples all night long," she remarked.

Four Provincial grower organizations have announced $13.4 million in funding for the newly launched Gate Capital Campaign.

Led by Cereals Canada, the $102 million Global Agriculture Technology Exchange project (otherwise known as Gate) will be built in downtown Winnipeg.

The new facility will provide office space for Cereals Canada as well as new state-of-the-art technical areas such as analytical labs, pilot processing and research facilities.

In her evening address to the province, Premier Smith announced that her cabinet and Treasury Board have approved a new school construction accelerator program to address the province's exploding student enrollment growth.

"We will be increasing our K to 12 capital budget for new school spaces and modernizations to approximately $8.6 billion over the next three years," she said. "This will allow us to complete actual construction on approximately 50,000 new student spaces over the next three years and to complete and open 150,000 new spaces over the next four years."

On Aug. 31, Olds RCMP responded to a local hotel, during an ongoing drug investigation. 

When inside the hotel room, officers saw a quantity of what was believed to be Fentanyl.

A male was arrested for possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and the room was secured. 

A search warrant was later issued. 

On Sept. 1, the Olds RCMP Crime Reduction Unit, Olds RCMP, Didsbury RCMP, along with the Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response Team (CLEAR), executed the search warrant.

They seized the following:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Liberals have lots to ponder after losing a second stronghold in a byelection in Montreal.

"Obviously, it's never fun to come so close and not win a byelection," Trudeau said this morning in French, a few hours after Elections Canada confirmed the Bloc Quebecois had defeated the Liberals in LaSalle—Émard—Verdun.