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Sometime sports can go beyond just being a game. While school divisions across Alberta are concerned about provincial cuts to education, there’s one school in Okotoks that is elated with recent events in tiny Raymond, Alberta.

A struggling economic climate in Alberta has many citizens taking a magnifying glass to all levels of government. The Okotoks Ratepayers Community Group formed last spring with the intent to be a watchdog on all things council.

It appears the United Conservative Party is listening in regards to rural crime. Justice Minister Doug Schweitzer introduced on Nov.

The jury is out to determine whether the provincial government’s budget of $58 billion announced on Oct. 24 is going to be a trick or a treat. Trick may be too harsh of a term.

The federal election has come and gone, but Albertans and Foothills residents may be left hoping that their voices will be heard. Foothills voters overwhelmingly re-elected Conservative John Barlow in the Oct.

Don’t expect the affable couple of Edouard and Jessica Maurice to open their doors to strangers any day soon at their acreage south of Okotoks.

There will be celebrations aplenty across the Foothills, from Blackie to Millarville in recognition of this country’s 152 anniversary.