There may be a touch of fall in the air these days, but despite cooler temperatures starting to prevail, municipal election races are heating up across the province.
After completing his first three-year term, Coun. Brian Hagen has decided to run again as an incumbent for the Town of Vauxhall council in the upcoming Oct. 18 municipal election.
Hagen said there is still much left for him to contribute.
“I was first elected in 2007 and feel that, as a council, we had so much on our plates at first that it felt like we were spinning our wheels. But now we are finally getting to some major projects and I would like to see them through to completion.”

On Aug. 12, RCMP were advised of stolen LED lights and garden ornaments from outside a residence in Vauxhall.
Neighbourhood inquiries revealed that around the same time, other neighbours also had LED lights taken from outside their residences, or had potted plants damaged.
Anyone with information on who is responsible for taking these lights, ornaments or damaging the potted plants, are asked to call the Taber/Vauxhall RCMP at 403-223-4447, and provide the file number 2010-970057.

Last week’s first-quarter fiscal update indicated the province’s finances haven’t shaped up quite like the Stelmach Conservatives might have hoped for by the fall.
But the fiscal doomsayers have also been convinced to hold their tongues because the status quo has been maintained despite continued economic and revenue uncertainty.
In a press conference last Wednesday, Minister of Finance Ted Morton illustrated the see-saw situation between revenues and expenditures that has succeeded in maintaining fiscal projections outlined in the 2010 budget. 

Board members with the Horizon School Division got a closer look at its financials at its August meeting for the period up to June 30.
Horizon School Division is staring a $996,285 operating deficit in the face as of June 30. Original operating deficits were being forecasted as high as $1.3 million before the July announcement by Minister of Education Dave Hancock in July to fulfill a commitment to school boards by providing funding for a 2.92 per cent increase in teachers’ salaries.