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Being tough has paid off. The third annual Wranglers Tough Enough to Wear Pink Day raised $9,000 on June 29 during the Ponoka Stampede in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

Karen Green, left, runs from Scott Kebel during a water gun fight on Aug. 14. The fun afternoon wind up party marked the end of the Ponoka Jubilee Library’s summer reading program and offered cake, prizes, games and a slip and slide.

Having a home is something vitally important in order to live a healthy life. For people in Alberta who are on Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped (AISH) maintaining a home with $1,088 per month can be difficult.

Celebrating 100 years of agriculture was felt throughout the Ponoka County Fair Aug. 8 to 10 with many great activities representing the past and future of agriculture.

Breast cancer was battled one step at a time by four Ponoka women during the Weekend to End Breast Cancer walk on Aug. 8 to 10.

The Town of Ponoka has prepared a draft of a curfew bylaw and a lot of people in town think that it is a good idea. The bylaw states that council deems it appropriate to protect the safety and health of children and to enact a curfew bylaw would accomplish those objectives.

On Aug. 1 the first gun was turned into the Hobbema RCMP as part of a newly started gun amnesty program running from Aug. 1 to Nov. 30. As the people of Hobbema work to clear the streets of gun violence RCMP received a report of a body being found on the Samson Townsite on Aug. 2 at 9:20 a.m.