Local News

For the second time in as many months, Airdrie and the surrounding area felt the wrath of Mother Nature on Aug. 7 as thunder, lightning and hail rolled through the region over a seven-hour period from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

A grenade found by employees in the glove box of a vehicle destined for auction at Adesa Calgary auction house on Veteran’s Blvd. NE on Aug. 5 was inert, according to RCMP. “The pin and the lever were still there, but the fuse had been taken out.

Calgary Police Services (CPS) said they are looking for witnesses to a single-vehicle collision involving an Airdrie man that occurred at 10 a.m. on Aug. 5 on Stoney Trail approaching Peigan Trail in the city’s south.

Former Rocky View County (RVC) reeve and current Division 4 councillor Rolly Ashdown announced his intention to seek the Conservative Party nomination for the new Bow River electoral district on July 31.

The public hearing on the City of Airdrie’s new City Plan will be reopened after staff received questions from residents and developers about the process used to present the plan.

After major hail storms that damaged Airdrie businesses, cars and homes on Aug.

Lori McRitchie, executive director of the Airdrie Food Bank, said their clients will continue to be able to access emergency support during the organization’s move to their new building the week of Aug. 18.

Airdrie students will be able to open the doors of two new schools this fall. W.H. Croxford High School, Airdrie’s new high school, currently under construction on the corner of Yankee Valley Boulevard and Chinook Winds Drive and C.W.

The annual Mountain Shadow Music Festival comes to Cochrane’s Mitford Park on Aug. 23 and 24. This year’s festival features a great line-up of 10 local bands and two headliners.

Residents in Rocky View County (RVC) watched the skies on Aug. 6 and 7 as severe thunderstorm warnings were issued for most parts of the county. The storm produced heavy winds, rain and golf ball-sized hail over both days’s afternoons and evenings.