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The Gazette sat down with St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse for a year-end "fireside chat" to discuss the highlights of 2010 and the challenges ahead in 2011. Here is the first of a two-part series.

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Delays at an Inglewood Drive housing complex mean new residents won’t be able to move in until sometime in 2012 instead of spring 2011. Located at 2 Inglewood Dr., Lions Village Inglewood is an independent-living facility for seniors.

Christmas is over but the Christmas Seals are still waiting for this city's Santa to arrive. The annual campaign of the Lung Association of Alberta and Northwest Territories is running shy of its goal in St. Albert.

Morinville residents will have to give up their armadillos and elephants under a new pet law currently before town council. Council tabled a draft of its new Responsible Pet Ownership bylaw at its Dec. 21 meeting.

Syphilis infections in Alberta are continuing to increase despite a two-year effort by the province to halt the outbreak. The province had 267 cases of new infection in 2009 for a rate of 7.4 per 100,000 residents.

As a freeze on funding for severely disabled students enters its fourth year, school boards across the province, including St. Albert, are finding creative ways to stretch their resources to provide for students. Both the St.

Albertans should not be surprised if the province doesn't present a balanced budget by 2012-2013, a goal stated repeatedly by members of the Conservative party in 2010.

Morinville now tosses almost a third less trash than it did two years ago, according to a recent report, despite the town’s growing population.

A Morinville flower shop has been named a finalist in the 2011 Alberta Business Awards of Distinction in the Small Business category. The Flower Shop is one of 38 businesses across the province nominated for the provincial awards.