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The Alberta Green Party met for their annual general meeting on Saturday at the Morningside Hall east of Ponoka but it didn’t start under the most amicable of circumstances as before the meeting had even begun, a large portion of the party’s executive walked out in protest.

Rimbey RCMP have laid the charges against two drivers in respect to the circumstances surrounding a collision between a stopped school bus and a gravel truck last April near Rimbey that claimed the life of 17 year-old Jennifer Dawn Noble and sent two other students to hospital.

The official grand opening is still a number of months away, but several departments at the new Rimbey Hospital are already on the move and within the next week or so, long-term care patients will also be on the move.

A former Rimbey-area resident will be receiving a very prestigious award from the University of Alberta. Dr. Garry M. Lindberg, formerly of the Hoadley district, will be receiving the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award at a ceremony later this month.

With elementary and high school now back in session, the Rimbey RCMP would like to remind the public about the importance of maintaining safe driving habits while proceeding through school zones, and the warning isn’t just for the locals or the speeders either.

While the death toll in Canada continues to rise in the wake of a listeriosis outbreak that resulted from tainted meat being distributed from a Maple Leaf processing plant in the Toronto, residents in Rimbey have no need to worry, particularly in the case of two prominent sandwich shops in the community.

Health researchers at the University of Alberta are urging parents to keep their young children off of all-terrain vehicles.

A meeting held on Saturday, Aug. 13 could go a long way in determining if an expanded marina facility within the Summer Village of Parkland Beach at Gull Lake will stay at its current location or will have to be removed.

Calgary Mayor Bronconnier and Edmonton Mayor Mandel’s recent calls for new taxing powers for their cities brings to mind a joke that has been making the e-mail rounds recently.

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