Abby Fooks’ first album My Kind of Fun was officially released November 27, 2015.
  Abby, daughter of  Ben and Candice Fooks, wrote three of the songs, Unpredictable, Holding On and Possessed.  She sings three other songs that were written by  Saber Drive and Judith Morissey and instrumentation was provided  by Mike James and Jeff Dawson of Vancouver.   Abby said her favorite song on the album is Unpredictable.
    Earlier this year, she released the single “Breakaway” that has been well received and is also on the album.
    This past April she was the opening act for Jason Hastie and the Alibi at the Badlands Community Facility. She performed for the Stettler Festival of Lights, November 26 and has plans to attend the talent show in Morrin. She gave locals a sneak preview of her new music, last month at Drumheller’s Got Talent.
    Director of Radio Promotions Canada Oscar Furtado will also being working with Abby, getting interviews and her songs out to radio stations across Canada.  
    She would love to be successful in the music business but has a back up plan to become a teacher of music and band at the elementary school level.  
    Abby is 16 years of age and is currently attending school at Drumheller Valley Secondary School.

    Two Drumheller hockey players have found a way to support the good work The Salvation Army does, and also showed they are up to a hard day’s work.
    Last Sunday was the 22nd annual FunTeam benefit games held at the Drumheller Memorial Arena. For more than two decades young hockey players have been taking to the ice to collect donations for the Salvation Army Food Bank, and every year has been a great success for the charity and the players.
    An important aspect of the annual games is the players are not encouraged just to make a donation, but to go out and earn the funds to buy groceries to give. This teaches the value of hard work and the true spirit of giving.
    Nicholas Chapin is a member of the Varsity Chinook team and his brother Thomas has played with the hockey organization. They are the sons of Cam and Marnee Chapin of Munson.
    On Saturday, November 21, the two were at Freson Bros. grocery store and single handily worked a barbecue to raise the funds.
    Nicholas said he is grateful to Freson Bros., which supplied the barbecue supplies to allow the two boys to raise $524.
    This led to a shopping spree that stuffed three shopping carts chock full of groceries for The Salvation Army Food Bank.
    Nicholas says they did the same thing two years ago and felt it would be a success again this year.
    “I think it is a good way to give back to the community,” said Nicholas.