An investigation of 10 Tory constituency organizations launched by the province’s chief electoral officer over illegal donations is becoming a political hot potato for Premier Alison Redford’s government.
Earlier this month, Progressive Conservative Party president Bill Smith acknowledged the existence of an investigation in a press release on the party’s website. Smith also directed 73 other constituency organizations to conduct an internal review of donations received over the past 36 months. The 10 constituency organizations under investigation were not revealed.

In an attempt to keep more girls in soccer at older age levels, the Taber and District Soccer Association will be doing an experiment for the upcoming 2012 season.
The association will be making the U12 category gender specific, dividing it into girls and boys teams.

A long-awaited road licence agreement discharging Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) caveats on town-owned properties has finally been drafted after more than four years of negotiation.
At the Jan. 16 meeting, town council voted unanimously to authorize CAO Barb Miller to execute a road licence agreement between CP Rail and the Town of Vauxhall, which will discharge caveats on properties within town boundaries, and located along 1st Avenue.

Nearly 1,500 people packed the Enmax Centre on Saturday, including many of the Vauxhall Academy of Baseball Jets family past and present to pay tribute to one of its fallen.
Tanner Craswell, a Prince Edward Island native and former shortstop of the Jets, was remembered along with Mitch McLean and Tabitha Stepple, as the three young adults who were victims of a murder-suicide near Claresholm a little over a month ago on Dec. 15, gunned down by Stepple’s ex-boyfriend, Derek Jensen, who eventually turned the gun on himself. All were in their early 20s and Craswell and MacLean were on their way to the Calgary airport to fly home for Christmas when the shootings occurred.