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The 40th Anniversary of Terry Fox’s Marathon Of Hope “An Astounding” Year For Acme Run!

Despite an economic downturn and a virtual run event due to a pandemic, the Acme Community Run Site #AB1022 had one of the highest fundraising years in 32 years as an official run location. With just three years ranking higher in fundraising revenue, run organizers and the Calgary Terry Fox office are calling Acme’s 2020 event, pulling in $5120 from 48 participants, “impressive!

The Linden-Acme Growing Project, once again held at the C.C. Toews Farm, was again a great success. A total of 2935 metric tonnes of barley silage, sold at $38.00 per tonne, for a total of $111,530. The drive-through supper was met with overwhelming support; so much that some people had to be turned away at the end of the evening. 530 dinners were served. This year’s total from cash donations was $43,560.

In the past 16 years the project has been able to contribute a total of $1,689,188 t

Fishing Derby 2020, hosted by the Linden & District Ag Society, was held on Saturday, August 22 at the Linden coulee campground.

There was an awesome turn out this year with 19 entries in the 12 years and under age group category, three entries in the 13 - 17 year category, and 16 entries in the adult 18 and up category for a total of 38 contestants! To keep everyone’s energy up the AG Society served up a BBQ lunch of hot dogs and drinks. The winners of this year’s event: in the

The hot weather has been hitting some folks hard these days. But, these buddies decided to make a good thing of it. Dane and Fritz, both nine years old, set up their lemonade stand on holiday Monday, just off Main Street, Three Hills. The boys offered different sizes of lemonade, with or without ginger ale, and with or without lemons. The boys report the idea was “good to the last drop.”