News Contents

• Provincial MLAs receive 4.5 per cent salary increase
• Town ordered to upgrade water system
• Eco-friendly businesses take center stage at annual Trade Fair
• Stockton Block cornerstone of downtown’s history
• Officials hopeful beetle spread slowed
• Seminar to help attract employees
• Alberta pork producers facing serious challenges
• Province approves strychnine to control gopher population
• Hospital’s cardiac unit gets boost
• Local Lions Clubs lauded
• Writer-in-residence to assist local talent
• Residents support community standards bylaw
• New lagoon fails to entice developers
• Provincial trade agreement raises concerns
• Town updating on-line presence
• RCMP cruiser damaged in chase
• Singer recalls foothills roots fondly
• Crime
• Research shows fishermen floundering rules
• News from the Valley Neighbours
• Council approves urban forest plan
• Construction forces move of fire department offices
• Reality back in real estate market
• New home buyers offered incentives
• Towns form disaster response team

A Walk in the Park

Okotoks resident Lonnie Donaldson takes her one-year-old fox-terrier Jenny for a stroll through Sheep River Park on Monday afternoon. photo by Blair Braitenbach