Category Archives: Red Deer
Red Deer nurse returns from four-month mission to Chad
Leah Kennedy helped families and small children deal with malnutrition and other chronic health issues facing the African nation. Leah Kennedy is a surgical nurse who normally works out of Unit 24 at ...
Dec 09, 2019 Surgical nurse Leah Kennedy of Red Deer recently returned from a mission to the Republic of Chad where she worked with young children suffering from malnutrition and other chronic health issues in the African nation.(Supplied)
Emergency response exercise happening Wednesday
Some City of Red Deer facilities will be busier than normal when The City practices its emergency plans as part of an annual emergency response exercise on Wednesday, December 11.City Hall and the Col...
Dec 09, 2019
RCMP arrest stolen vehicle suspect hiding in a hay stack
A 20-year-old Calgary man is facing a charge of possession of stolen property after Mounties arrested the suspected driver of a stolen vehicle who was found hiding in a hay stack in a barn near Bowden...
Dec 09, 2019
Poor driving conditions on QEII: RCMP
It's been a bad day on the QEII Highway in the Red Deer area, so much so that local Mounties are telling drivers to stay away if at all possible. RCMP have been busy attending collisions between Red D...
Dec 09, 2019
Provincial grant funding to support safe and respectful learning in Alberta schools
The provincial government is taking steps to educate school employees across Alberta on their responsibilities to ensure students are safe from abusive situations.Education Minister Adriana LaGrange w...
Dec 09, 2019 Minister of Education Adriana LaGrange (left) and Respect Group Inc. Co-Founder Sheldon Kennedy (right) speak with students at Eastview Middle School in Red Deer on Monday.
RDC speakers’ series to challenge "celebrity effect" on information
Red Deer College says the next installment of its Perspectives: Canada in the World speakers' series will challenge the myths, assumptions and pop culture influences on how we consume information.On T...
Dec 09, 2019
Red Deer's Christmas Light Tour is back!
Red Deerians can once again bolster their holiday spirit by embarking on the 2019 Christmas Light Tour.With many local homes already decorated for the season, Jim Elliott and his son A.J. have put tog...
Dec 09, 2019 One of many local homes decorated for the Holiday Season that can be viewed as part of the 2019 Red Deer Christmas Light Tour. (Supplied)
Human rights conference for youth happening this week
A few hundred Red Deer students will attend the first ever Central Alberta Stand Up for Human Rights Conference this week.The event is taking place Tuesday at the YMCA in north Red Deer.Event co-organ...
Dec 08, 2019
MISSING: Aimee Bulani, 35, of Ponoka
DEC. 12 - Ponoka RCMP are pleased to advise that Aimee Bulani has been located, safe and well, last night.
Dec 08, 2019 (RCMP)
100 Men and 100 Women raise more than $100,000 in 2019
It was another successful year for Red Deer's 100 Men and 100 Women Who Care groups which donate quarterly to various local charities.Members take in presentations from nominated organizations, and th...
Dec 08, 2019