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Around Red Deer May 19th – May 22nd

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4:38 pm – The Highway 12/21 Regional Water Services Commission held a groundbreaking ceremony at the Mirror Community Hall today to celebrate the Mirror to Bashaw portion of the Highway 12/21 Regional Water Line. Read More.

3:12 pm – The Lacombe Police Service is seeking the public’s assistance in locating 14 year old, Rayona Steele. Rayona is considered as a runaway and was last seen in Lacombe on May 15, 2017. When last seen she was with her Rottweiler dog, “Tank”, that may still be travelling with her. Rayona Steele is described as: · Caucasian · 5’3” tall · 119 lbs · Red hair with purple ends · Blue eyes. Contact the Lacombe Police Service at 403-782-3279 if you know where she is.

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12:26 pm – RCMP have arrested a man and woman in possession of a large quantity of stolen identification documents after a traffic stop in the Town of Sylvan Lake. Read More.

12:17 pm – Innisfail RCMP are looking into a suspicious incident involving a young student outside John Wilson Elementary School. Read More.

11:46 am – Red Deer property owners can expect to receive their 2017 property tax notices in the mail in the next few days. Read More.

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11:01 am – Strong social and family relationships and good mental health are among the goals of programs chosen to receive funding from Red Deer & District Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) for the next three years. Read More.

10:56 am – Earl Dreeshen, Member of Parliament for Red Deer – Mountain View will be speaking to Bill C-46 An Act to amend the Criminal Code (offences relating to conveyances) in the House of Commons today. The Bill deals with proposed changes to impaired driving laws. The speech will take place at approximately 11:30 AM Mountain Time and will be broadcast on CPAC and available online at www.parlvu.parl.gc.ca

10:50 am – The Town of Innisfail has provided an update on it’s search for a new C.A.O.. Read More.

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10:44 am – Just in time for the Victoria Day long weekend, the Town of Innisfail’s new RV Dump Station opens today! Details here.

10:38 am – 48th Avenue construction gets underway in Sylvan Lake on Tuesday, May 23rd. Read More.

10:26 am – As part of the Broadway Avenue/Highway 2A realignment project in Blackfalds, all trees in the area are scheduled to be mulched in the next week. Read More.

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10:07 am – Don’t forget, Red Deer’s Public Market gets underway for another season on Saturday! Read More.

10:00 am – The Woody’s RV Marathon is taking place in Red Deer this Sunday! Details Here.

9:46 am – Transit riders make note of the Transit Schedule changes in Red Deer County this Victoria Day long weekend. Details here.

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9:41 am – Canada Post has converted all Rural Route addresses in Red Deer County to the 9-1-1 Municipal Address. Read More.

9:37 am – Plenty to do around the City of Red Deer this weekend. Find out more.

9:31 am – It’s another busy weekend at Red Deer’s Westerner Park. The Hunting Hills High School Graduation May 19th, Parkland Arabian Horse Show May 19-21 and YC Alberta on Saturday, May 20th. Details Here.

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9:22 am – RCMP are investigating a robbery at the Tarmack Liquor Store in Rocky Mountain House that occurred on May 14th 2017. Suspects left with an unknown number of liquor bottles. Read More.

9:11 am – Starting Tuesday, May 23rd, parking will be limited in Great Chief Park for the next month while the parking lots are being paved. Read More.

9:07 am – Construction of the 67 Street and Johnstone Drive roundabout and surrounding roadways will resume next week. As a result, there will be traffic impacts in the area. Read More.

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9:00 am – Rocky Mountain House RCMP are happy to report that Waylon Frencheater has been located safe and unharmed. Police would like to thank the public for their assistance in this matter.

8:56 am – Rimbey RCMP are asking for the public’s assistance to identify a person of interest in the investigation of a minivan theft from the Rimbey Best Western on April 23. Read More.

8:50 am – Heads up Red Deer drivers, there are some road closures planned throughout the City starting on Tuesday, May 23rd. Read More.

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8:43 am – The May long weekend kicks off summer, and an increase in drownings in the province. As a result, the Life Saving Society has water safety tips for Albertans before this holiday weekend. Read More.

8:10 am – A ground breaking ceremony will take place at the Mirror Community Hall today to mark the official start of construction on the Mirror to Bashaw Water Transmission Line. The event starts at 2:00 pm and is being hosted by the Highway 12/21 Regional Water Services Commission. Dignitaries attending the event include:

  • Blaine Calkins, MP, Red Deer-Lacombe
  • Ron Orr, MLA, Lacombe-Ponoka
  • Brenda Knight, Highway 12/21 Commission Chairperson
  • Todd Simenson, Regional Leader, Stantec Consulting Ltd.

8:01 am – It’s Graduation Day for Grade 12 students at Red Deer’s Hunting Hills High School! The Ceremony starts at 11:00 am at the Centrium & Pavillion in Westerner Park, with the Grand March and Banquet starting at 6:00 pm. 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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