Author Archives: Sheldon Spackman
Public participation to begin about permanent shelter site criteria
Within the next month, the community will have an opportunity to share their input on the site criteria for a future permanent shelter site with a summer deadline for Red Deer city council to choose a...
May 10, 2022
Red Deer city council considers designating a downtown Entertainment District
Red Deer city council has considered the development of a new bylaw following a request from the Downtown Business Association (DBA) to designate the Ross Street Patio (RSP) area as an Entertainment D...
May 10, 2022
Red Deer city council approves changes to Community Standards Bylaw
Red Deer city council approved amendments to the Community Standards Bylaw Monday, as it relates to noise and livestock in the city.The Community Standards Bylaw, originally adopted in 2007, was devel...
May 09, 2022
Rebels lose overtime heartbreaker to Oil Kings
Following back-to-back shutout losses in Edmonton to start their best-of seven WHL playoff series against the Oil Kings, the Red Deer Rebels returned home for Game 3 Monday night and fell just short t...
May 09, 2022
General surgery patients continue to be diverted from Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre
Officials with Alberta Health Services (AHS) have provided an update on the temporary diversion of general surgery cases that continue at Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre. Heather Kipling, Communicat...
May 09, 2022
Red Deer Olympic swimmer to compete at Commonwealth Games
A Red Deer Olympian is among those named to the Canadian swimming team for the upcoming Commonwealth Games. On May 9, 2022, Commonwealth Sport Canada (CSC) and Swimming Canada announced that 22 year-o...
May 09, 2022
Specialists to coordinate on organ donation and transplantation opportunities in Alberta
A new provincial program will coordinate an Alberta-wide response to improve organ donation and transplantation opportunities.Twenty-two specialist physicians in intensive care units and emergency dep...
May 09, 2022
rdnewsNOW's Josh Hall promoting IBD awareness as Gutsy Walk's Local Honorary Chair
You're on a plane and the seatbelt light flashes, out for your first date with someone special, or in the middle of a career-changing job interview...Those sound exciting, but what if at any moment, t...
May 08, 2022
Workplace safety "everybody's problem" the message at Steps for Life Walk
In an instant -- one that Karen Poirier never could've anticipated, but certainly hoped would never come -- she and eight-year-old daughter Kira were physically without their husband and father foreve...
May 07, 2022
Red Deer RCMP announce new Officer in Charge
Acting City Manager Sarah Tittemore has announced that Superintendent Holly Glassford has been selected as the new Officer in Charge (OIC) of the Red Deer RCMP detachment. Glassford, who has been the ...
May 06, 2022