Sundre News

A Calgary Police Service detective told the Round Up he quickly suspected arson was the cause of a fire that destroyed one business and threatened several others in the city.

Life has an unpleasant tendency to throw a life-altering curveball once in a while. When it throws several of them at once, it can leave a person feeling helpless and searching for reason.

Following on last year's successful creation of a new natural path on Snake Hill, volunteer members of the Sundre Bike n' Ski Club recently sought permission from council to establish another trail.

A missing quadriplegic male was located west of Sundre last week. Walter Lungal, 57, had last been seen leaving his Eckville residence on Wednesday, April 13 driving a Silver Buick Terraza.

BEISEKER ó Beiseker RCMP are currently seeking public assistance to locate 47-year-old Michael Robert Mullock. He was reported missing by his family on Monday, April 11. He was last seen by his family near the family home in Acme on Friday, March 25.

Inuit author Michael Kusugak spoke to River Valley School students on Thursday, March 31. The Grade 2 curriculum studies different communities in Canada, including the Arctic. Kusugak has been coming since he lived in Water Valley about 20 years ago. He is an Inuit author from Rankin Inlet now living on Vancouver Island. His storytelling career began following an encounter with Robert Munsch, who encouraged him to tell his stories.

Ways to pressure the government and Alberta Health Services to reverse the plan to decommission 15 long-term care beds at the Sundre hospital were recently discussed.

Good project management led the roughly $1.5-million project to reconstruct 10th Street West to come in about $192,000 under budget, said Sundre's administrator. "It's clear that it was managed quite well," said Dave Dubauskas.

The Sundre Art Society's upcoming annual art show and sale provides local talent with a creative outlet as well as an opportunity to present their work to the community, said the group's president.

Greg McMullen got dressed in a tutu along with 16 other Sundre Minor Hockey Association coaches during a friendly exhibition game against the midget Huskies at the Sundre Arena for the last day of ice on Thursday, March 24. Based on admission profits, organizers said more than 250 people attended and about $12,000 was raised for minor hockey. The midgets got to play against the coaches for being the team to win a challenge to raise the most money.