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City of Airdrie Briefs: City may include cats in dog bylaw

City council directed staff to look into adding cats to the recently amended Dog Bylaw, Oct. 3. Airdrie resident Vonnie Reed asked council to do something about cats roaming local neighbourhoods at the regular council meeting.

City council directed staff to look into adding cats to the recently amended Dog Bylaw, Oct. 3.

Airdrie resident Vonnie Reed asked council to do something about cats roaming local neighbourhoods at the regular council meeting.

“With no cat bylaw in place, these pets are legally allowed to be roaming. What do you do?” she asked.

“Airdrie residents need council’s voice and vote to add cats to Dog Bylaw No. 788 Section 301. Some pet owner’s choose to allow their cats and kittens to roam freely in Airdrie. No consideration for the safety of their pet. No respect for the property of others.”

Section 301 of the bylaw states owners of dogs running at large will receive a fine up to $250 on first offence, double on second and triple on third offence.

“Calgary has had a cat bylaw for two or three years so it will be good to see their successes and challenges,” said Alderman Fred Burley.

Mayor Peter Brown hopes the new premier will allow Airdrie to re-enact the integrated fire and ambulance service that was separated by the Province in July 2010.

Alison Redford was elected leader of the Progressive Conservative Party, Oct. 2, and was sworn in as premier, Oct. 7.

“Our quality of service is less than it was with the integrated system and we are looking at a $4 million budget shortfall,” said Brown. “We need to investigate and see if it is viable to get our service back.”

Council unanimously directed staff to look into re-implementing the combined service.

“I truly feel there is a political will for this now,” said Brown. “We need to get on these guys and get our service back if that is the right thing to do for our community.”

In honour of National Family Week, Community Links has organized a number of activities to bring families together.

“The theme this year is Turning Your Family Values into Action,” said Laurie Jacob-Toews, community development services manager with Community Links.

“It is really about taking time out of your busy lifestyle and doing things together. It’s about deciding what is important to your family and spending quality time together.”

On Oct. 7, families can take part in Family Movie Night at Roxy Theatre starting at 4:30 p.m. $10 will get the whole family in to see Happy Feet. On Oct. 8, dads can bring their children six years old and younger to the library for Daddy N’ Me drop in from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. On Oct. 9, family swim will be free at Genesis Place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“City council has offered to have free family swim, which allows those families who wouldn’t be able to afford that activity to get out there and have some fun together, ” said Jacob-Toews.

For more information on National Family Week, visit www.frp.ca


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