RCMP has found the man injured in yesterday’s early morning shooting.

Police say they were contacted after a 24 year old man checked himself into the emergency room with a gunshot wound.

The man is reportedly not cooperating with the investigation so far.

The shooting happened in Morgan Meadows yesterday morning shortly before 4 a.m.

Police say they found evidence of gunfire in the front door of a home, and trail of blood leading away from it.

It’s believed stray rounds also hit nearby homes, and RCMP adds it’s lucky that none of the families and children sleeping at the time were hurt.

Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact local police or Crime Stoppers.

A brand new 102 acre silica sand storage facility is opening up Sexsmith later this spring. The Evergreen Transloading mega centre will serve oil and gas companies in the area who use the sand in fracking. Evergreen CEO Ryan Peterson says the site is expected to open sometime in June.

Right now we’re 70% done the facility, so in total there will be six 2000 metric tonne silos. We’re going to have a total of 12,000 metric tonnes of vertical storage. It truly is a first class facility, it is state of the art, it’s all computer automated.

Peterson says while they will be opening the mega centre up this spring, he says the facilities will continue to grow and expand for years to come.

RCMP are looking for the public’s help as they investigate an early morning shooting at an east end home. They were called to the home near 93rd avenue and 92nd street at around 3:45 am after a complaint of gunshots. When they arrived, there was nobody in the house, however there was evidence of gunshots in the front door. They also noticed a trail of blood leading from the front door to a nearby parking lot. Through their investigation they believe the injured person may have left the scene in a full sized pickup. They want to know who lives at the house and who may have been the person injured. If you can answer either of those questions, you are asked to call the Grande Prairie detachment.

The County of Grande Prairie is creating a Corporate Services division, which will include it’s Assessment, Finance, Systems, and Legislative Services departments. The change was originally recommended through a study done for the County back in 2009. But CAO Bill Rogan says the recent retirement of some senior staff gave them look at it again and act on the proposal.

“We looked again at what those recommendations were in that 2009 study, and just thought it was time given the growth in the organization over the last few years.”

The changes also include the creation of a Operations Manager position in the Public Works department. Rogan hopes to have the two new positions, as well as their Director of Planning posting, all filled by August.

Apartment owners in Grande Prairie will see a significant difference when they receive their 2014 Property Taxes. City Council voted last night on the new bylaw, which makes tax rates for apartment buildings in the city equal to those of low density residences, a difference of nearly 18%. Mayor Bill Given says this change will positively and directly impact the bottom line of apartment operations in the city.

“But I don’t think anybody’s under any illusions that this will have a direct impact today or tomorrow on the per month rental rates. This really is something that’s intended to put the right incentives in place to spur on future development.”

Given says the change will cost the city about a million dollars in lost revenue, but it won’t have an impact on any other tax payers because the province reduced the amount of education taxes for this year.

In the past, high density residences were treated as a commercial, profit earning business, and were taxed as such.

Work will begin later this year on the expansion of the Muskoseepi Park trail into North Bear Creek. City Council approved a tender for the nearly $1.2 million project at last night’s regular meeting. Parks Planner Lindsay Juniper says there are three parts to the project.

“Basically what we’re going to be doing is adding just over 900 meters of new trail. The trail will be starting at Centre 2000 and it will terminate at a new parking lot that will be built on the land that is directly west of Kal -Tire.”

Juniper says It will also include an interpretative playground area for kids. The new trail is 100th Anniversary Legacy Project, which the city initially committed $747,168 dollars to in 2011, however due to an increase in cost, council decided to set aside another $800,000 dollars of MSI funding to help cover any shortfalls.