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A Buck Lake couple has gone a long way in helping out a group of children living in an orphanage half a world from Alberta.

It’s not every day that an Olympic Games participant or a world champion visits a school, but for the students of the Rimbey Elementary School, they got two in one following a visit last week by six-time world wrestling champion and 2004 Olympian Christine Nordhagen.

It’s a motto they’ve used throughout their entire history, and following a key arrest made recently in connection to an incident in Rimbey where a police cruiser was rammed a number of times, the RCMP does indeed, always get their man.

According to a statement released by Western Financial Group (WFG) on March 6 of this year the company announced their intentions of submitting a proposal to acquire Community Savings lock, stock and barrel.

as pretty much a foregone conclusion and within less than one hour, Lacombe-Ponoka MLA Ray Prins knew he was well on his way to winning his second term in office following the March 3 provincial election.

There was a protest against the provincial government in Rimbey last Wednesday, and it didn’t have anything to do with the recent election or any of the opposition parties.

An early morning incident on Highway 20 south of the community resulted in a Rimbey RCMP cruiser being heavily damaged and the officer behind the wheel receiving treatment for minor injuries.

A two-month multi-jurisdictional investigation that targeted street level drug sales in central Alberta has resulted in 19 individuals facing a combined 82 drug related charges, including two individuals from Rimbey.

In less than two weeks voters will be going to the polls for the Alberta general election on March 3.