Reading Time: 2 minutes The investment in Alberta grains sector continues. GrainsConnect Canada has announced its second elevator for the province while Agrocorp Processing is moving ahead with a $6.5-million expansion of its local grain- and pulse-handling facility. “What we are actually doing is building a new plant beside the old one,” said Colin Topham, Agrocorp’s managing director, adding […] Read more
Global grain companies like what they see in central Alberta
GrainsConnect Canada is building a new $30-million elevator at Huxley while Agrocorp is expanding its Innisfail operation
Construction of Bowden grain terminal delayed until spring
Paterson Grain says it is disappointed it couldn’t start building the $40-million terminal this fall
Reading Time: 2 minutes Paterson Grain is delaying construction of its Bowden grain terminal until spring. The family-owned Winnipeg-based grain-handling company had hoped to begin construction this fall but meeting Alberta Environment requirements in regards to wetlands is taking longer than expected, said the company’s corporate development officer. “It is unfortunate, but it does not change our view of […] Read more
Ghosts get elbowed aside on Pizza Night in Rowley
Reading Time: 3 minutes Whenever Rowley has faced oblivion, locals have always come up with a plan — sometimes mischievous ones — to save their dusty locale on the central Alberta prairie. The hamlet, located 38 kilometres north of Drumheller, was fading away in the mid-1970s, when a group of men staged the now famous break-and-enter party into a […] Read more
GrainsConnect puts Innisfail terminal project on hold
The Japanese-Australian joint venture is going ahead with a Saskatchewan grain terminal but is reviewing its plans in Alberta
Reading Time: 2 minutes A new high-throughput grain terminal planned for Niobe is now in jeopardy of being derailed. Construction of the $30-million to $40-million GrainsConnect Canada facility on a site one kilometre north of Innisfail was supposed to start this year, with the terminal opening in 2017. But the project has been suspended and the company is considering […] Read more
BOOM BOOM: A double dose of good news for Alberta’s farm scene
Two new mega elevators boost competition and their cutting-edge loop tracks mean super-fast turnaround times
Reading Time: 4 minutes Back-to-back announcements that Red Deer County will soon have its first-ever super-sized grain terminals are giving farmers multiple reasons to celebrate. “It’s more good news when it comes to choice for marketing — not that we ever want to see an overbuild situation — but I’m sure these folks have all done their homework,” said […] Read more
‘The Revenant’ wins Oscars and the hearts of Alberta cowboys
Innisfail’s Ivan Daines and friends proudly did their bits on screen and now celebrate film’s success
Reading Time: 3 minutes When rodeo legend Ivan Daines tuned into the Academy Awards last month, he was as joyous as any cowboy could be when “The Revenant” claimed best actor and director honours. “‘The Revenant’ is such a great movie. I was very proud when Leonardo (DiCaprio) won, and proud Alejandro (González Iñárritu) won,” said Daines. “It’s almost […] Read more
Uncertain future for iconic grain elevator
Dorothy landmark lost its roof in summer storm
Reading Time: 2 minutes Linda Miller was napping during the afternoon of July 22 when she was suddenly awakened by a thunderous boom. “There was terrible wind, terrible noise. There was rain and hail,” said Miller, a sixth-generation resident of Dorothy, a popular ghost town tourism destination along Highway 570 at the southeastern end of the Drumheller Badlands. The […] Read more
A genealogical mystery brings a family together
Winnie Benson wanted to know the fate of her great-great-grandmother, but she found something much more
Reading Time: 3 minutes For more than a quarter of a century Winnie Benson had dreamed of this moment. With Carstairs’ Dawn Taylor at her side, she knelt down on the sun-scorched ground of a long-forgotten southern Alberta cemetery and caressed the ancient etchings of a flat gravestone marking the final resting place of Drusilla Ennis, the pair’s great-great-grandmother. […] Read more
Naked crows found in Red Deer a rare pair — thank goodness
The nearly featherless juveniles found in central Alberta are only the second known case in North America
Reading Time: 2 minutes The crow has never been a symbol of nature’s beauty, but even their most ardent admirers wouldn’t warm to a pair of naked juveniles recently found in central Alberta. But the rare featherless baby crows are causing a sensation among wildlife lovers, and even one of North America’s most respected ornithologists. It’s only the second […] Read more
Stirling’s tombstone mystery is finally solved
But there are calls to have discarded monuments at fish pond removed
Reading Time: 3 minutes For the past five years Stirling’s Cody Kapcsos has been on a solitary mission to solve the mystery of who’s buried in the abandoned pioneer cemetery near the ghost hamlet of Masinasin. Kapcsos, who has also spent countless hours restoring the cemetery, could only identify four of the known 11 burials at the site, located […] Read more
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