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Author and Dragon’s Den personality David Chilton will speak at the third annual Regional Business Symposium in Morinville on June 20.

Instead of pressing forward with its plans to purchase 12 additional rental apartment units, the St. Albert Housing Society now wants to buy 64.

Average sales for single-family homes in St. Albert dropped by 5.7 per cent in May, compared to the same month last year, the Realtors Association of Edmonton reported this week in their monthly housing bulletin. St.

Construction work on St. Albert Crossing is expected to resume next month and finish this year. The three-storey building, located next to Socrates Restaurant on St. Albert Trail, was planned as a medical professional centre.

Providing milk and hot lunches and reversing its lunch schedule have earned Neil M. Ross Catholic School an award for nutrition innovation.

The St. Albert Gazette earned several top industry awards June 8 at the Alberta Weekly Newspaper Association banquet and awards ceremony.

Helping out at the Edmonton Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is deemed to be a prize volunteering opportunity by many animal lovers.

It only took a matter of weeks for one 38-year-old Edmonton woman to be smitten with a man she met on Match.com. The woman, who wished to remain anonymous, had recently left a marriage.

The fourth annual TEDx Edmonton is taking a leaf from the Starship Enterprise. It’s theme this year is The Future of … . TEDx is a non-profit organization devoted to spreading new and innovative ideas.

Approximately 30 construction workers occupying one single-family home in Grandin will be moving to new locations in the near future, according to the city manager.