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Guthrie, who served temporarily as Energy Minister under the previous UCP government, will take over the infrastructure portfolio from Nathan Neudorf.

“There’s been a lot of challenges and adversities students have encountered over the school year – I’ve literally seen blood, sweat and tears. I had a student that actually sewed her finger, and I also had a student who made a ribbon skirt with a broken heart – she had tears falling as she was making it.”

Hoping to provide residents of Rocky View County with more transparency and an improvement in customer service, new changes have been made regarding the municipality’s development permit notification process.

Six Springbank students attended the provincial championships at Foote Field, which wrapped up Alberta's high-school track season and featured the best athletes from across the province in grades 10 through 12.

The Stockmen's Memorial Foundation hosted a Pie and Poetry event on June 8, as part of the Seniors Week festivities in Cochrane.

Cochrane Tourism executive director Jo-Anne Oucharek said getting west-bound travellers to stop in Cochrane was one of the main goals of the project’s idea.

Town of Cochrane council is considering how to upgrade and improve the level of emergency medical service (EMS) available to residents.

With the UCP garnering so much of its support from rural ridings, small-town Alberta will surely enjoy unprecedented influence in the legislature for the next four years. 

“RVS appreciates the opportunity we have had to explore a new educational offering for students on the property,” the statement reads. “We are taking this time to explore the needs of our students across the division more broadly to consider what a new program might include in the future.”

The move is a significant one for the organization, according to SCALS program coordinator Tanya Klappe, but also one that brings it in line with 87 other CALP groups across the province.