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Around Red Deer April 24th…..

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2:33 pm – RCMP are looking for a suspect after a 49 year old man was beat up in Red Deer’s Riverside Meadows neighbourhood on April 21st. Read More.

2:15 pm – A Teacher from RDC has been honoured with a 2016 Top Instructor Award! Read More.

2:01 pm – École Secondaire Notre Dame High School fine arts students will gather to celebrate theatre arts by participating in the Zone 4 West One-Act Play Festival on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week. Read More!

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1:53 pm – Red Deer RCMP have made several arrests over the past 12 days and seized numerous stolen vehicles, i.d. and other items in the process. Read More.

10:25 am – Charges have now been laid against two men accused of crashing a stolen truck that fled Police into a house in Red Deer’s Clearview Ridge neighbourhood on April 21st. Read More.

10:18 am – Just a reminder of the road construction underway in Lacombe this week. From April 24-27, ATCO Gas crews will be working in the intersection of Highway 2A and 50 Avenue decommissioning an old gas main. Lane restrictions will be in effect for eastbound traffic on 50 Avenue. Please use 47 Avenue or Wolf Creek Drive as alternate routes. More details here.

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10:05 am – The École Secondaire Notre Dame High School Boys Handball team played in the Zone Final Friday night. After a slow start, the Boys got their act together and ran away with the game. Up 11 – 5 at the half, the Boys rolled to 27-11 victory over Hunting Hills! The team will now take part in Provincials starting on Thursday at 6:40pm, then again at 11:40am Friday morning. Games can be live streamed at this link.

9:56 am – Have a nice looking property in Red Deer County? Have it nominated to be part of the 2017 Rural Beautification Tour! Read More.

9:45 am – City staff in Lacombe have been taking advantage of the few nice days we’ve had this spring to upgrade the Michener Park campsites. They’ve added new gravel to all the camping sites, all around the fire pits and the picnic tables. City officials say the road leading into the campsites will be refinished as well. Once the work is finished, the campground will look like new again, and better serve the recreation needs of campers well into the future.

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9:35 am – Street sweeping resumes in Blackfalds again today:

Parkwood Road
Prairie Ridge Ave.
Prairie ridge Cl.
Pinewood Cl.
Premier Cr.
Prospect Cl.
Parkside Cr.
Cascade
Coachill St.
Cooper Cr.

9:28 am – Firefighters from around the Region, including the Town of Penhold, took part in some training in Red Deer on Saturday. Along with Ponoka County Fire and Rescue, trainess were kept busy at the City of Red Deer training grounds performing live fire training drills. Students maneuvered through a smoke filled three story building for search and rescue exercises, climbed the aerial ladder, extinguished a simulated car fire and learned about over haul once the fire is out. 

9:02 am – Grade 8 Girls singles and doubles Badminton will be playing in the city finals at St. Francis of Assisi Middle School today. The games will take place between 4 – 8 pm.

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8:39 am – Blackfalds RCMP are looking for a stolen excavator. It’s a Caterpillar 345CL excavator, from a work site near the intersection of Highway 2 and Highway 597 (Blackfalds/Joffre exit). It’s believed the excavator was loaded on a flat deck trailer being towed by a Semi Truck. The excavator was loaded 200 yards North of the Blindman Bridge on Highway 2, in the North bound lanes, so an entire lane would likely have been blocked during the loading process. The incident occurred sometime between 7:30 pm on April 21 and 7:00 am on April 22.

8:34 am – A Boil Water Advisory is in place for seven properties in Red Deer’s Westpark neighbourhood. Read More.

8:22 am – The Boil Water Advisory previously issued for the Hamlet of Springbrook is now over. Read More.

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Top Five Huge Stories the Media Buried This Week

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#5 – CNN panel lectures America on military “accountability”… and then melts down when Scott Jennings points out that no one was held accountable for the disaster in Afghanistan or Biden’s open border.

NEERA TANDEN: “The military requires accountability. It’s the most accountable organization. You are supposed to be accountable to higher-ups. Politics isn’t supposed to have to do with any of this, and the fact that that’s happening, that they’re just basically saying nothing to do here, is a big problem, I think, for those who believe in accountability.”

@ScottJenningsKY: “I think Republicans aren’t interested in any lectures on accountability in the military after the Biden administration. I mean, the bar for getting rid of a Secretary of Defense is apparently pretty high. You can get 13 people killed and go AWOL and not tell the commander in chief, and that’s not a fireable offense.”

“But these lectures about accountability and national security after letting 10 million people into the country who raped and murdered and committed violent acts and no remorse or accountability.”

NEERA TANDEN: “What are you talking about? They closed the border.”

#4 – Bill Gates says we won’t need humans “for most things.”

During an appearance on The Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon asked Gates a pretty direct question: “Will we still need humans?”

Gates responded, “Not for most things. We’ll decide … There will be some things that we reserve for ourselves, but in terms of making things and moving things and growing food, over time those will be basically solved problems.”

VIDEO: @TheChiefNerd

#3 – Rep. Jim Jordan hammers NPR CEO Katherine Maher for three straight minutes over political bias, the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up, and NPR’s 87-to-0 Democrat staff ratio.

REP JORDAN: “Is NPR biased?”

MAHER: “I have never seen any political bias.”

JORDAN: “In the DC area, editorial positions at NPR have 87 registered Democrats and 0 Republicans.”

MAHER: “We do not track the voter registration, but I find that concerning.”

JORDAN: “87-0 and you’re not biased?”

MAHER: “I think that is concerning if those numbers are accurate.”

JORDAN: “October 2020, the NYPost had the Hunter Biden laptop story, and one of those 87 Democrat editors said, ‘We don’t want to waste our readers and listeners’ time on stories that are just pure distractions.’ Was that story a pure distraction?”

Video + Transcript via @Kanekoathegreat

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#2 – Utah becomes the first state to officially BAN fluoride in all public drinking water.

For decades, fluoride was accepted as a safe way to prevent tooth decay. Few questioned it.

But last year, in a dramatic legal twist, a federal judge ruled that fluoride may actually lower children’s IQ—and cited evidence that could upend everything we thought we knew.

That ruling sent shockwaves through the public health world.

Judge Edward Chen pointed to scientific studies showing a “high level of certainty” that fluoride exposure “poses a risk” to developing brains.

He ordered the EPA to reexamine its safety standards, warning that the margin for safety may be far too narrow.

At the center of the case: dozens of peer-reviewed studies linking everyday fluoride exposure—even at levels found in U.S. tap water—to reduced intellectual capacity in children.

It wasn’t just one paper. The National Toxicology Program, a branch of the U.S. government, also concluded that higher fluoride levels were “consistently associated” with lower IQ in kids.

They flagged 1.5 mg/L as a risk threshold. Some communities hover right near it.

In response to the growing evidence, Utah passed HB 81, banning all fluoride additives in public water.

The law takes effect May 7. It doesn’t ban fluoride completely. Anyone who wants it can still get it—like any other prescription.

And that’s the point: Utah’s lawmakers say this is about informed consent and personal choice.

This issue is no longer on the fringe. Across the country, cities and towns are quietly rethinking water fluoridation—and some have already pulled out. Utah is the first state to take bold action. It may not be the last.

The conversation surrounding fluoride has shifted from “Is it helpful?” to “Is it safe?” And for the first time in nearly a century, that question is being taken seriously.

VIDEO: @TheChiefNerd

#1 – RFK Jr. Drops Stunning Vaccine Announcement

Kennedy revealed that the CDC is creating a new sub-agency focused entirely on vaccine injuries—a long-overdue shift for patients who’ve spent years searching for answers without any support from the government.

“We’re incorporating an agency within CDC that is going to specialize in vaccine injuries,” Kennedy announced.

“These are priorities for the American people. More and more people are suffering from these injuries, and we are committed to having gold-standard science make sure that we can figure out what the treatments are and that we can deliver the best treatments possible to the American people.”

For years, the vaccine-injured have felt ignored or dismissed, as public health agencies refused to even acknowledge the problem. Now, there’s finally an initiative underway to investigate their injuries and to provide support.

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‘Lot Of Nonsense’: Kari Lake Announces Voice Of America Is Dumping Legacy Outlets

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From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Hailey Gomez

Special Adviser for the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) Kari Lake announced Friday that Voice of America (VOA) will terminate its contracts with The Associated Press, Reuters, and Agence France-Presse.

VOA, an international broadcasting state media network, is funded by USAGM, with former President Joe Biden requesting in March 2024 a budget increase for the 2025 fiscal year to further support the radio network. In an X post on Friday, Lake announced USAGM will end its “expensive and unnecessary newswire contracts,” adding that some of the major agreements included “tens-of-millions of dollars in contracts” with AP News, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.

“USAGM is an American taxpayer funded News Organization with an 83-year history. We should not be paying outside news companies to tell us what the news is—with nearly a billion-dollar budget, we should be producing news ourselves,” Lake wrote. “And if that’s not possible, the American taxpayer should demand to know why.”

During a meeting with VOA staffers Friday, employees were reportedly told to “stop using wire service material for their reports,” according to Newsmax. Notably, audio, video, and text reports have often been used to supplement coverage from locations where reporters are not present, the outlet reported.

In an interview with Newsmax prior to the official contract cuts, Lake discussed how the agency was finding “a lot of nonsense that the American taxpayer shouldn’t be paying for.”

“Today, I started the process of terminating the agency’s contracts with the Associated Press, Reuters, & the Agence France-Presse. This will save taxpayers about 53 million dollars. The purpose of our agency is to tell the American story. We don’t need to outsource that responsibility to anyone else,” Lake wrote in an X post regarding the interview.

Disputes between The AP and the White House began in February after the corporate media outlet was revoked press access for refusing to call the Gulf of America by its new name. The AP filed a lawsuit on Feb. 21 against White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich for injunctive relief.

Lake was sworn in as USAGM’s special adviser on March 3, saying she’s “looking forward” to serving America and “streamlining” the agency. The cuts from the agency follow President Donald Trump’s push for his second administration to review the government’s wasteful spending.

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