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Mayor Alanna Hnatiw said council decided to switch to virtual meetings in response to the province’s calls for social distancing to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Alberta’s chief medical officer of health and officials will provide an update on COVID-19 and the ongoing work to protect public health at 3:30 p.m.

Rodda said the county would now offer a $200 “community connection” grant for any local activity designed to build community, which could be block parties, swap meets or community cleanups.

The CERB application portal is slated to open on April 6

MacDougall said the panels should reduce the county’s greenhouse gas emissions by 64.5 tonnes a year, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says is the equivalent of recycling 3.1 garbage trucks full of waste instead of landfilling them.

Autopsies on a female and male being completed today

The plant was one of four major capital projects paused by Pembina as part of a $1.1-billion cut to its 2020 capital plan made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and significant declines in world energy prices, the company said in a press release.