Several SE Alberta municipalities listed among latest round of infrastructure programming grants

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on January 26, 2022.

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Several municipalities in southeast Alberta are listed among the latest round of infrastructure programming grants from the federal government and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.

The grants are meant to help towns and villages create systems to schedule and track maintenance for and replacement projects of things like roads, bridges and other public works.

On Monday the FCM awarded grants between $30,000 and $50,000 to the Town of Taber, Special Areas Board, Hanna and Wheatland County.

Oyen was among nine eastern Alberta municipalities in the Palliser Asset Management Project that each received similar amounts.

In total, 38 municipalities in Alberta shared $1.7 million.

COVID claims life in SW Sask

The number of active COVID-19 cases in southwest Saskatchewan fell to start the week after a steep climb to this point in the month, but another death was recorded in figures published Tuesday.

A total of 371 positively diagnosed cases were considered active on the day, down from an all-time high of 412 on Sunday. The health region includes two sub-regions, including the Maple Creek area (59 cases at present) and Swift Current area (312). A total of 37 people have died in the region, and 977 province-wide, according to the Saskatchewan Health Authority.

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