Graham Giffin was named the Rotary Club’s Citizen of the Year at the annual Celebration of Excellence tonight at the Badlands Community Facility. Runner up was Gary Toft. 

Priscilla Berniko was named Most Courteous Employee with the other nominee being Lynda Dolan.

Chase Sattler and Eden Hilchey were awarded with the Male and Female Athletes of the Year Award, respectively. 

The Town of Drumheller named students Evelyn Stanger and Brigo Castillo as the Youth Leaders of Tomorrow. 

For the Drumheller and District Chamber of Commerce awards, Jason Blanke claimed Business Professional of the Year, Boston Pizza won Large Business of the Year, Small Business of the Year went to AMR Dance, Voodoo Cycle & Motorsport won Most Promising New Business, the Salvation Army claimed the Arts, Culture, and Community Award, and Boston Pizza won the Diversity Leadership Award.

The Drumheller Public Library is extending their offer of free library cards until the end of 2018.

Locals will be able to pick up their free membership until December 31, 2018, open to people registering for new cards and people renewing existing library cards.

“We are excited to continue offering free library cards to the community during these difficult times,” said library board chair Vanessa Page.

The free cards were originally offered as part of the Canada 150 celebration, sponsored by the Drumheller Public Library and the Drumheller Library Society. They have since issued 872 new library cards, compared with 412 in the same period last year.