Agriculture

5 Golf Prizes will be won this weekend! Ticket sales close Sunday, April 7!!

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4 months ago

Time is running out! Deadline for the CACAC 2019 Dream Home Lottery less than 10 days away.

CACAC Dream Home Lottery: Golf Giveaway Weekend Event – BBQ and 5 golf prizes up for grabs!

We invite you to join us for our Golf Giveaway event, starting today, Friday March 29^th! In addition to the amazing Dream Home Lottery prizes, we also have 5 golf prizes that any golfer would enjoy!

Here’s how to enter – buy your DHL tickets directly at the home this weekend and be entered in for the draw of your choice. The more Dream Home Lottery tickets you buy, the more ballots you receive and the more chances you have to win!

Prizes generously donated by: Ponoka Golf Club, Ramada Red Deer Hotel Suites & Alberta Springs Golf Course, Royal LePage Network (Alberta Springs Golf Course), Whispering Pines Golf and Country Club, Wolf Creek Golf Resort. Prizes will be drawn Sunday, March 31^st at 5pm.

We will also be joined by local radio stations throughout the weekend: Saturday, March 30^th – Real Country 95.5 on location from 1-5pm, Sunday, March 31^st – Kraze 101.3 on location from 1-5pm.

Stop down on Saturday for a BBQ from 1-4pm! Hamburgers and Smokies donated by Nossack Fine Meats, buns donated by Cobs Bread, and condiments and supplies donated by Tony Roma’s and Reid & Wright Advertising.

Buy your tickets this weekend at the Dream Home at 57 Larratt Close, Red Deer to get your tickets before it’s too late. Tickets start at just $35 with over $1.8 Million in prizes to be won! To purchase tickets online or for more information visit our lottery website: cacaclottery.ca or call: 1-833-475-4402

We need your help; the vulnerable children of Central Alberta need your help. All proceeds from the Dream Home Lottery will be in support of the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre. Every ticket sold supports the CACAC and is an investment in the promise and possibility of a healthy future for our children and our community.

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The Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre is a not for profit organization rooted in the protection and recovery of today’s most innocent and vulnerable – our children. The Centre is comprised of a collective that is driven by the courage to support children, youth, and their families affected by abuse, enabling them to build enduring strength and overcome adversity. We work in a collaborative partnership with the Central Region Children's Services, Alberta Health Services, Alberta Justice, Alberta Education, the Central Alberta Sexual Assault Support Centre and the RCMP. Together we harness our collective courage to provide children with supported recovery. It takes courage and bravery for a child to share their story of abuse, for families to bring their children forward, to believe, to listen without judgement, and to seek justice. Supporting the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre today is an investment in the promise and possibility of a healthy future for our children and our community.

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Agri-Culture

Kraay Family Farm Celebrates 20 Years of Farmtastic Fun

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5 days ago

July 18, 2019

Lloyd Lewis

July 17, 2019 | Lacombe, AB –

from Kraay Family Farm

Kraay Family Farm is proud to celebrate 20 years of growing memories – your memories and ours!

The Kraay Family Farm is excited to announce that in honour of a milestone two decades of operation, the 2019 corn maze design honours and celebrates 20 years of family-friendly farm fun. The maze covers 15 acres of land and incorporates the Kraay Family Farm 20-year logo.
“We often get questions about why there is a crow in our logo. Our family is Dutch in origin and the name ‘Kraay’ actually means ‘Crow’ in Dutch. That, and there are a lot of crows around here!” explains Rachel Kraay. Rachel and Reuben Kraay own the farm together with Reuben’s parents, Ed and Linda Kraay.
“We are so grateful for the many guests who have encouraged, supported and had fun with us over these last 20 years! To own and operate a business where we get to watch our kids and our community’s kids grow up and to be part of families enjoying time together is amazing and truly a blessing for us,” says Rachel Kraay, one of the owners of the Kraay Family Farm.
Ed and Linda started the farm as a means to supplement the income from their small hog farm. Reuben was traveling after high school and visited a similar type of farm with a corn maze and other agritainment attractions and suggested the idea to his parents. “Ed and Linda like to have fun and try new things so, together with friends of theirs, they started the farm on a whim one year with just a corn maze, a slide, and a few picnic tables and fire pits,” continues Kraay, “The farm has just grown from there! Reuben and I joined his parents in 2005 after our first child was born and we’ve been adding to the farm ever since!”

Agriculture

Scrapie, a disease related to mad cow, found in two flocks of sheep in Alberta

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5 days ago

July 18, 2019

The Canadian Press

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says some sheep in Alberta have been infected with scrapie, a fatal disease that affects the animals’ nervous system.

The federal agency’s website says classic scrapie, which can be transmitted to other sheep and goats, was confirmed last month in two Alberta flocks.

Scrapie belongs to the family of diseases that includes mad cow disease in cattle, chronic wasting disease in deer and elk, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

Health Canada says there is no known link between scrapie and human health.

The CFIA says scrapie can only been seen in adult sheep between two and five years of age and can take years to develop.

Once an animal appears ill it typically dies within a few months.

The Canadian Press