Airdrie

With Halloween officially over, some local pigs would love to munch on your Halloween pumpkins when you want to get rid of them.

According to Kelly Worthington, co-owner of Whispering Winds Farms (just west of Didsbury), they will be happy to take your pumpkins rather than tossing them in the green bin.

Whispering Wind Farms is the second-largest Kunekune (which means fat and round in the Maori language) pig breeder in Canada.

This year's annual Air106.1 FM/DiscoverAirdrie Halloweenie Roast brought out many spooky, creepy, cute, bizarre, and mysterious little characters.

Blackleg is a disease in canola mainly caused by the fungus Leptosphaeria maculans. It’s a serious disease that affect canola plants in the seedling stage by attaching to the stems and working up the stem as it grows, inhibiting the movement of water and nutrients within the plant. It can cause upwards of 50% yield reduction in severe cases. Blackleg was first spotted in western Canada in 1975 in north-east Saskatchewan. 

Residential school survivors are calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism, echoing one of the findings in a report about unmarked graves and burial sites associated with the institutions.

Doug George, a survivor of the Mohawk Institute, said Canadians need to acknowledge the schools' place in history and to ensure the children who died are not silenced.

It is officially here, Our Halloweenie Roast is today! Make sure you come on out, say hi and grab a hotdog before you go trick-or-treating.

This year we will be located at the Superstore and will be serving hotdogs from 3-6 p.m.

The Airdrie Food Bank will be on site taking donations so if you can donate non-perishable food items, please do.

The Halloweenie roast is brought to you by Shilo Storey, Real Canadian Superstore, Party City and many more.

An Olds resident, Brett Durand, is gearing up for retirement after a life-changing win of $1 million in the WESTERN MAX draw on September 17. 

Durand, who had previously won a Free Play on a WESTERN MAX ticket, recently decided to cash in that ticket, leading to his big win.

"I scanned it and thought, 'There’s no decimal!'" he recalled with a laugh. "I kept looking for the decimal place and gradually realized it was actually a million!"

Excited to share the news, he rushed home to tell his wife.

Nice Horse's performance of the Canadian national anthem at the Seattle Seahawks vs. Buffalo Bills game on Sunday was one to remember.

Katie Rox, one of the band's lead singers, was born and raised in Airdrie and talked about why they got to sing in front of the large crowd.

"They do a Canadian Appreciation Day. From what I understand, the Seahawks and the Buffalo Bills have a lot of Canadian fans, so they take a minute to celebrate Canada, which I think is awesome."

As Halloween night approaches, Airdrie residents can expect a chilly night for trick-or-treating. Temperatures will drop to around minus 10 degrees Celsius, which is chillier than previous Halloween nights in years past. 

Danielle Desjardins with Environment and Climate Change noted that while tonight's forecast aligns closely with historical averages for this time of year, it is colder than in recent years. Over the past five years, the coldest recorded temperature on Halloween was minus 10.8 degrees in 2021.

Airdrie-Cochrane Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Peter Guthrie, who also serves as the province's Minister of Infrastructure, confirmed that he attended an Edmonton Oilers playoff game last spring.

In a light-hearted social media post, Statistics Canada revealed some of the spookiest-named locations across the country, including one in Alberta.

It appears that Grave Flats, Alberta, made the list. Still, commentators noted that there are quite a few more creepy-named locations in Alberta, including Dead Man's Flats and Minnewanka Landing, which, when translated from the Nakoda language, means 'the water of spirits.'