26-05-2018 02:48 via edmontonjournal.com

Farmers ecstatic after province calls off northeast bridge project

The potatoes are safe and the farmers are ecstatic.
Alberta officially backed away Friday from a contentious river bridge project that threatened to take out either a popular northeast market garden or many of their neighbours.
That had Janelle Herbert of Riverbend Gardens shocked and relieved. “That’s crazy. I feel like it’s surreal,” said Herbert, who’s been fighting this bridge project since the public learned about it in about 2011.
“Now we can invest with
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