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ne person is dead after a car crash on April 18 that occurred at the Blackfalds overpass on Hwy 2.

You see it almost everywhere - the water bottle. Even children are encouraged and allowed to have a water bottle on their school desk.

Students at Ponoka Composite High School will be working with new and upgraded equipment in the near future thanks to a substantial grant given by Skills Canada Alberta and the Alberta Government.

Twelve hospital beds have been closed at the Ponoka General Hospital and eight beds have been closed at the Centennial Centre for Mental Health and Brain Injury due to staff shortages in the David Thompson Health Region.

The stakes are higher than ever as farmers in the Ponoka area prepare to seed their fields this spring.

A major feed manufacturing company in Ponoka will continue after being recently purchased.

The Town of Ponoka hosted a public meeting regarding the proposed annexation from county to town on April 14. Over 100 people met at the Kinsmen Centre to discuss the issues that would come if the annexation were to be executed.

The 2008 Mary Readman Write On Contest is an opportunity for local youth to get involved in the newspaper industry and the contest deadline has been moved up to Friday, April 25 by 5 p.m. The contest has three categories for local youth to submit stories into the paper.

A deadly school bus accident near Rimbey on April 9 resulted in the death of 17-year-old Jennifer Dawn Noble, a Grade 12 student at Rimbey Junior/Senior High School.

Before he even spoke comedian Lorne Elliott had set the atmosphere with his wild hair, energetic grin and small guitar at the Kinsmen Community Centre on April 6.