Airdrie

Alberta Health Services (AHS) is addressing a significant issue with its Connect Care electronic health record system. The issue has impacted approximately 14,000 patient referrals across all AHS zones, including 3,329 in the Calgary zone, encompassing Airdrie.

AHS has identified 31 patients across the province who require immediate follow-up due to potential negative health outcomes resulting from these delays.

Thousands of kids across Canada benefit from 4-H programming each year.

Ben Graham, chair of the Canadian 4-H Foundation says 4-H has an enormous impact on our youth.

"It's about team building, learning parliamentary procedure, how you run a meeting, and how to public speak. It's about how to manage projects, whether it's computers or dogs - canine, whether it's beef cattle. It's a real diverse opportunity for kids to learn skills that help them become better leaders and contributors to their community."

Beyond Ready is this year's theme for National 4-H Week.

Residents and commuters should be prepared for a temporary road closure near Crossfield from this morning until the afternoon.  

The Canadian Crop Hail Association member companies are investigating 630 claims of crop damage from isolated storms that hit farms across Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan during the week of September 16-22.

Rodney Schoettler of Saskatchewan Municipal Hail Insurance noted that September brought an unexpected surge in claims:

He says the claim count is much higher than typical [for this time of year] and the severity of losses at this stage is costly to producers and insurers.

Farmers are making some good progress with the harvest. 

The latest crop reports show in Manitoba, 73 per cent of the provincial crop is now in. 

This week's crop report shows there's still some spring wheat, barley and oats to come in.

The canola harvest is now at 78 percent complete, dry beans are at 60 per cent, soybeans at 29 percent,  17 per cent of the flax is now in with the corn harvest just getting underway in Eastern Manitoba.

In Saskatchewan, 91 per cent of the crop is now in with harvest most advanced in the southwest at 99  per cent complete.

Emotional mourners gathered by the hundreds in cities across Canada on Sunday to honour the victims of Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel that sparked the still raging war in Gaza and roiled tensions in the Middle East and beyond.

In the nation's capital, a sea of Israeli flags could be seen draped over participants in front of Ottawa City Hall, with Canadian flags waving alongside them as they called for the release of hostages still being held in Gaza.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau repeatedly reiterated calls for a ceasefire in the Middle East on Saturday as he blamed Hamas, Hezbollah and Israel for a staggering number of civilian deaths.

But Trudeau stopped short of outright condemning Israel for beginning a ground war days after the Israeli military crossed the border into southern Lebanon.

"We need to see peace in the region," Trudeau said from Paris on the final day of the Francophonie summit.

A previously reported missing teenager from Olds has been found.

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• Update: RCMP seek help locating missing 16-year-old from Olds

"He has been located safe. Olds RCMP would like to thank the public and the media for their assistance," police said a brief update. 

The 16-year-old was reported missing earlier on Saturday. 

The community is rallying to support a local business owner after a fire damaged his Carstairs Liquidauction shop on Friday night.

A friend of the owner and business neighbour, Carstairs resident Mike Lorber, initially spotted smoke that evening.

"My wife and I happened to be in our shop around 7 p.m. [Friday] night, and I was doing a little work on my computer. My wife looked outside and noticed some smoke," Lorber said. "We both left our shop to look at our friend's shop, [which] essentially had smoke rolling out of it, out of the eavesdrops and out of the windows."

A previously reported missing teenager from Olds has been found.

"He has been located safe.  Olds RCMP would like to thank the public and the media for their assistance," police said a brief update. 

The 16-year-old was reported missing earlier on Saturday. 

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