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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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From MSNBC host Rachel Maddow to businessman and television personality Mark Cuban, a slew of media leaders divulged what they got wrong this past year in a Semafor article published Monday.

Media missteps included NBC News President Rebecca Blumenstein underestimating the impact of inflation on politics, Fox News anchor Dana Perino incorrectly predicting Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce would get engaged and CNBC financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin not putting “DOGE and the pairing of Elon [Musk] and Vivek [Ramaswamy]” on his 2024 Bingo card, according to the piece. Despite the variety of answers, one topic — Joe Biden’s lack of mental acuity — seemed to sit at the top of the list for many respondents.

“Like many others, I was completely, utterly, totally, embarrassingly wrong about [President Joe] Biden’s lack of mental competence,” progressive British-American broadcaster Mehdi Hasan told Semafor.

Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election in July following a disastrous June debate performance in which he appeared to lose his train of thought several times and stated he “beat Medicare.” Prior to the decision to exit the race, the White House made various efforts to mask the effects of his age, with the president wearing sneakers rather than dress shoes and taking shorter steps up Air Force One.

The White House actively denied claims Biden’s mental health was declining, with White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre characterizing a video of the President wandering away from world leaders at the G7 Summit as a “cheap fake” and claiming it was orchestrated by Republicans. Much of the corporate media supported the White House’s effort, with panelists on MSNBC’s Morning Joe describing a June article from The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that detailed the president’s declining mental health as “outrageous,” and CNN’s Bakari Sellers suggesting in July, well after the debate, that there was no reason to believe Biden could not serve for another four years.

Other examples of the media downplaying concerns over Biden’s mental acuity include The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg rushing to the president’s defense after co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin said Biden could have a “senior moment” on stage prior to the debate and MSNBC analyst Mike Barnicle describing members of the Democratic Party as cruel in July for trying to oust the president from the 2024 race.

More recently, former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza apologized in a YouTube video posted in December for waiting too long to investigate concerns that Biden’s mental acuity was deteriorating, admitting that as a journalist he should have “pushed harder earlier for more information about Joe Biden’s mental and physical well-being.”

American talk show host Brian Lehrer made a similar apology in his response to Semafor: “Many callers to my show said Joe Biden was in no shape to run for re-election. I mostly dismissed it as ageism. Then I watched the debate.”