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Local green thumbs will have the chance to expand their perennial beds this weekend. The Okotoks Garden Club is hosting its fourth annual Plant Share at Ethel Tucker Park on June 3 from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., with plant check-in beginning at 9:30 a.

An initiative by a local women’s shelter is making men the voice of ending gender-based violence. Rowan House Emergency Shelter hosted Leading Change, a training session led by the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters in town from May 24 – 26.

Okotoks town council will renovate and lease out a downtown-area building is purchased last month until it decides on a long-term plan for the site.

An Okotoks woman dedicated to bringing joy to others has committed to donating to 150 charities in 2017. Linda Curtis doesn’t plan to write cheques to anyone – in fact, donating cash of any sort is against her rules.

Proposed changes to electoral boundaries in Alberta have local MLAs shaking their heads.

What began as a source of entertainment has become a path to a career behind the video lens for a Foothills Composite High School graduand. A passion for film is leading Josh Sim to a future in advertising and video.

Canadians will have a picture of an Okotoks resident’s grandfather in their wallets. Okotokian Leah Koski attended the unveiling of the sesquicentennial $10 bill in Ottawa earlier this month with her mother Pauline Dempsey.

Salaries have been settled and now Okotoks area teachers will hunker down with their respective school boards to resolve concerns at the local level.

Details from a child luring and prostitution case that shocked the Foothills will be heard Aug. 17.

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