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ARTICLE SNIPPET: "The Town of Huntsville will be applying to the Joint Emergency Preparedness Program (JEPP) to fund a large-scale mock disaster in 2009." ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Hernen explained that typically a JEPP application involves a 50/50 spending commitment between the program and the municipality or organization making the application. However, in light of the upcoming 2010 G8 Summit being held at Deerhurst Resort in Huntsville, Hernen said, “they’re willing to look at a different funding formula for us,” and that the town would be applying for a grant to cover 100 per cent of the cost."

Calgary woman delivers identical quadruplets A rare set of identical quadruplets will be reunited Friday at a Calgary hospital after spending their first night apart Thursday - two in Canada and two in the United States. Karen Jepp, 35, of Calgary delivered four healthy little girls Sunday at a hospital in Montana, after being sent there because of a shortage of neonatal beds in Canada. Babies Calissa and Dahlia, the strongest of the newborns, were flown to Alberta by air ambulance Thursday afternoon with their father, J.P. Jepp - only two babies can be accommodated at once in the air...

The quadruplet sisters, Autumn, Brooke, Calissa and Dahlia, born to Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jepp began life with the odds stacked heavily against them. First, successful delivery of naturally conceived identical quadruplets occurs only once every 13 million births. According to Dr. Jamie Grifo of the NYU Fertility Center in New York, there are only 50 living sets of such twins in the entire world. More daunting, the Jepps are Canadians. That Karen and J. P. Jepp lived with their 2 year old son Simon in Calgary, Alberta presented a potentially life-threatening challenge Friday night when Mrs. Jepp began...