Principal Lloyd Boody of Three Hills School has received recognition for supporting student athletics at his school.
    Boody has received the Lorne Wood Award from the Alberta Schools Athletic Association (ASAA).
    The Lorne Wood Award is presented annually in recognition of a school administrator who actively models, supports and promotes sportsmanship through their involvement in school athletic programs.
    Boody has been teaching for 28 years, and has spent ten of those as the principal of Three Hills School.
    “It means that our school community is doing a really, really good job. I get the opportunity to be the head cheerleader,” said Boody.
    He said he believes a part of measuring the success of a school is how well the teach-

ers engage the students both inside and outside the classroom, and an award such as this shows how well the school staff have invested their time, with the result being quality relationships with the school’s students.
    Eight separate zones were able to recognize individuals for outstanding contributions to their zone. Zone secretaries, in consultation with members of their zone, nominate deserving individuals for the Zone Award of Merit.
    The ASAA recognizes one person from an Alberta school for the Lorne Wood Award.
    The awards were presented at an ASAA banquet in Red Deer December 4, 2014.

The Rosebud Community Enhancement Society (RCES) is wrapping up another successful year of beautifying the village.
    RCES is the group responsible for planting and maintaining the flowers and trees throughout the town during the year.
    The volunteer society was first formed in 1976, with its main focus to enhance the beauty of the Village of Rosebud.
    The group’s most recent project was setting up Angel Square, the Christmas light display in the centre of Rosebud.
    In addition to that, the society’s  LaVerne Erickson said the group received a grant this year and was able to purchase new fitness equipment for the community’s recreation room.
    Erickson said the group also worked to plant a number of new trees around town in 2014.
  “A mixture of evergreens, some green ash, maple and some aspen, and poplar. So we’ve got a complement of trees around.”
  Erickson said the planting of trees is done annually by the Enhancement Society. Rosebud residents grow the trees on their own property, then when they’re ready, take them and plant them around town.
  “We’ve planted hundreds and hundreds of trees over the years,” Erickson said.
  “Not all of them live, but that’s why it looks like a park down here - we always plant more trees.”
  Erickson said he’s worked at growing trees and planting them throughout Rosebud for 40 years.
    For 2015, the group would like to try and build at least one gazebo in town, said Erickson, in addition to expanding the Christmas light display.