Sundre News

Town officials will be exploring alternate locations for the Sundre Community Garden, after five residents told councillors they are in opposition to the selected location during the council meeting on July 7.

Some Sundre businesses will be affected by a provincial decision to increase Alberta's minimum wage in September. The general minimum wage will increase from $9.95 per hour to $10.20 per hour, and the liquor server minimum wage will increase from $9.

Sundre's fire chief is looking forward to receiving a river rescue boat for the Sundre Fire Department this fall, after he again had to use his personal boat to perform a river rescue last week. A family was stranded on the Red Deer River around 7 p.

Sundre council passed second and third readings for an amendment to the town's Land Use Bylaw to allow for the construction of duplexes on 12th Avenue NE, despite hearing several residents voice their opposition to the proposal.

Thousands of acres of land in the McDougal Flats area to the southwest of Sundre could be under a development moratorium, pending a vote by Mountain View County councillors.

The Sundre Museum was broken into in recent weeks with exhibits damaged and a wolf hide stolen. “They had gotten in through the page wire fence that's around the enclosure,” said Darlene Smee, manager of the museum.

A book club is up and running at the Sundre library to encourage students not to lose touch with reading over the summer.

Town of Sundre officials were unsuccessful in their bid for a $200,000 from the Alberta Flood Recovery Erosion Control Program to construct a 100-mm gas line that would service the residents and businesses on the east side of Sundre.

An 82-year-old blind resident of Sundre has moved into the Foothills Lodge with his Seeing Eye dog, after he was initially denied a request for his dog to reside with him there earlier this year.

Jason Nixon defeated MLA Joe Anglin in the Wildrose Party nomination contest to be the party's candidate for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre in the next provincial election. “I'm very excited about the results,” Nixon told the Round Up.