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Camrose City council conducted a wide variety of business at its first regular meeting in Camrose County chambers May 6.

Street closure

Council approved requests from Camrose Cruisers to close 50 Street between 48 A Avenue and 51 Avenue on May 25 for the annual Car Show and Shine, and Exhibition Drive on May 24 and May 26 for the 100-foot race trials.

The Camrose Elks and Royal Purple raised a flag outside their hall May 5 to mark May as Hearing and Speech Month.

"We're going to be raising funds for the Elks and Royal Purple Fund for Children throughout the month of May with our pancake breakfasts, casinos, auction sales and bingos," said Camrose Elks exalted ruler Gerry Czapp.

Former Camrose Kodiaks' defenceman Karl Stollery and the Colorado Avalanche agreed to a one-year contract for next season.

A team of local cyclists is gearing up for the annual Ride to Conquer Cancer, which benefits the Alberta Cancer Foundation, June 22 and 23.

"We have a small team of five riders this year. Our strength in not in our numbers, but in our character," said Joanne Miske. "But, we don't want that to stop us from riding and raising funds."

Big River is composed of four musicians from the west coast who re-live the recordings of Johnny Cash in the style and with the sound of the man in black himself.

The Big River band will be at the Bailey Theatre on May 18 for an 8 p.m. show.

The number of vehicle collisions declined by 1.2 per cent in 2012 to 676 according to a Camrose Police Service traffic analysis.

Twenty-eight of the collisions involved injuries, while 613 resulted in property damage over $6,000.

Twenty-eight resulted in property damage under $2,000.

City council listened to concerns of the Camrose Airport Commission at its May 6 committee of the whole meeting about snow clearing at the Camrose Airport.

The airport was rendered  unusable for a period of time during the first part of March after the accumulation of snow on the runways reached more than three inches.

Camrose Fire Association members delivered Fire Rescue teddy bears to the children of the Stollery Children's Hospital.

"We went up with 85 teddy bears and by the time we left we didn't have any left," said Camrose Fire Association member George Parnall.

Camrose City council has approved the use of an automated voting system in the Oct. 21 municipal election.

City manager Damian Herle told council May 6 that automated voting is not something that is new.

"Municipalities have used automated voting for a number of years," said Herle.

"Some (municipalities) still do it by hand but the number is few."