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Youth charged in Bruderheim stabbing BY JANA SEMENIUK A 14-year-old male has been charged after he stabbed an older man in Bruderheim on Sept. 8. RCMP Cpl. Troy Savinkoff con-
36-year-old victim expected to recover firmed the incident and said a 36-year old man received a single stab wound
and was taken to hospital where he was expected to recover.
Savinkoff said the youth was charged with aggravated assault and taken before the justice of the peace. He was released and will be back in court on Sept. 24 in Fort Saskatchewan.
The Genesee and Wyoming Railroad used time allotted at the Alberta Industrial Heartland Association’s annual conference, Sept. 11, to announce they are building a new yard in the Heartland west of Bruderheim. The new railway yard will go by the name of Alberta Heartland Railway.
New short line railroad announced for AIHA BY JOHN MATHER During a presentation by Liz Cornfield from the Genesee and Wyoming Railroad during the Alberta Industrial Heartland’s annual conference Sept. 11, the company announced it will be putting in a rail yard in the Heartland. Cornfield gave a brief overview of the company stating it had been operating for 125 years. Owned by Brookfield Properties it owns or leases more than 100 freight railroads across North America serving 2,000 customers with more than 13,000
track miles. Originally headquartered in Rochester, New York, it is now headquartered in Darien, Connecticut. “We’re a leader among our peers,” stated Cornfield. She said the company works very hard to provide excellent customer services. In their announcement, she said its subsidiary, Alberta Heartland Railway, had entered into an agreement with Gasia Energy Corp. including a longterm lease of more than 50 acres on which it intends to construct a multi
service rail terminal to serve Gasia and other AHR customers. Located east of the North Saskatchewan River on Highway 830 between Highway 15 and Township Road 560, the proposed terminal boasts proximity to several of the largest industrial facilities within the Alberta Industrial Heartland and is contiguous to Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Canadian National (CN) rail lines. Once fully built, the terminal will feature multiple loop tracks and provide customers with freight-rail trans-
portation, as well as a suite of other services, including storage for up to 1,200 railcars and railcar-to-truck transloading. Gasia, itself, has acquired a site and completed engineering to build a 62,000 barrel per day processing plant near Bruderheim. It has also received permitting from the Alberta Energy Regulator and construction is expected to start in the third quarter of this year with completion and start up expected in late 2027.