Sundre News

The Sundre Fire Department has a new temporary location to prepare for a variety of emergency scenarios.

I'm very proud to be the leader of the Sundre Fire Department. The community and surrounding area should be very grateful to have such a great group of dedicated volunteers who rise up to face the mishaps that this world tends to throw at us.

Attendance for the fifth annual Rockin' the Rink might have been down this year, but all things considered during the prolonged economic downturn, it could have been much worse, said a Sundre Curling Club past president.

Without a healthy core of successful businesses that range in size from just a few employees to perhaps even hundreds, no community can hope to achieve long-term sustainability, let alone growth, said Mike Beukeboom, Sundre and District Chamber of Co

The Town of Sundre council was not keen to sign an interim agreement with Mountain View County council, citing among other reasons concerns regarding a complete lack of consultation in the process.

If one was to base his or her worldview on nothing more than mainstream media headlines, that individual might end up indefinitely hiding under a rock in a perpetual state of paranoid fear.

A Sundre resident recently inquired during a council meeting why the Town of Sundre's portion of landscaping at the new seniors' facility remains incomplete.

Phlebotomist Joanne Skibsted shares on Sept. 16 a moment with Bruce Dunn after drawing a vial of blood during the Man Van's stop in Sundre at the local ATB branch, which partnered with the organization that started the annual initiative. The tour is the first and only mobile men's health clinic, offering free Prostate Specific Antigen blood testing throughout Calgary and rural southern Alberta for men over the age of 40. Visit www.prostatecancercentre.ca/manvan for more information.

Sundre as well as surrounding area residents are encouraged to don their thinking caps and attend a community brainstorming session later this month.