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More Money For Schools, Robbery Arrests, Severe T-Storm Watch!

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2:38 pm – A Severe Thunderstorm Warning has been issued for the Rocky Mountain House – Caroline region. Read More.

2:31 pm – Blackfalds resident Natasha Regnier was shocked when she scanned her lottery ticket and won $100,000 on the March 1st Western Canada Lottery Corporation EXTRA draw. Read More.

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1:28 pm – A number of recent arrests in Red Deer involved suspects fleeing police at high rates of speed; fortunately, no injuries resulted from those acts. Read More.

1:13 pm –  Red Deer County Council has approved the recommendation to update the Community Services strategic plan. This will review the County’s role in important areas such as recreation, libraries, housing, transportation and family and community support services. Results from the survey held this spring will be used to prioritize new programming.

12:56 pm – Heads up Sylvan Lake drivers! There’s a pair of road paving projects underway in the Town for All Seasons to make note of. Details Here and Here.

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12:34 pm – Red Deer County has a new Fire Smart Specialist. Find out who it is.

12:01 pm – RCMP have arrested and charged a third person in the robbery and attempted robbery of two gas stations in the early morning hours of June 14th in Red Deer. Read More.

11:46 am – Meteorologists with Environment Canada have issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for the Red Deer area and other regions to the west, north and northwest. Details Here.

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11:30 am – The Alberta Government has announced that an additional $75 million will be invested into school district’s across the province for the 2017-2018 school year. Both the Red Deer Public and Red Deer Catholic Divisions will receive over a million each. Read More. Click here for the list of Classroom Improvement Fund Grant Recipients.

11:18 am – The annual Mayor’s Garden Party in Red Deer is scheduled for Wednesday, June 28th from 2 – 3:30 p.m. in City Hall Park. Read More.

10:09 am – The City of Red Deer has provided an update on construction taking place in the Riverlands neighbourhood. It’s a water trunk realignment project on 45th Street. Officials say you can expect to see other construction activity in the area picking up in mid-July that will continue for most of this year and next. Work will include:

  • Utility work along Alexander Way and the riverfront portion of 45 Street
  • Road construction on the riverfront portion of 45 Street
  • Site preparations for plaza spaces and Alexander Way

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9:38 am – Check out some live tunes on the Ross Street Patio today from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.! Read More.

9:34 am – Road construction continues throughout many parts of Red Deer today. Find out where.

9:08 am – Members from the Olds and Didsbury RCMP detachments responded to a report of a crashed plane at the Didsbury/Olds airport around 10:40 am June 19th. Local EMS and fire were also dispatched to assist. Read More.

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9:00 am – St. Elizabeth Seton School in Red Deer raised $1,300 in their Father’s Day Fun Run this past Sunday, June 18, 2017 at Kin Kanyon for a new school playground! Read More.

8:45 am – Red Deer RCMP are proud to announce that Corporal Karyn Kay has been recognized by the Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police for her outstanding service, and in particular for the work she leads with Red Deer youth who are at risk of becoming involved in criminality. Read More.

8:38 am – Parents/guardians and grandparents of students at École Mother Teresa School in Sylvan Lake are invited to join the school community in the Fine Arts Room to celebrate their middle school students at a special Year-end Awards ceremony! It runs from 6 – 8 pm.

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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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