The Farmers Market on 4th Avenue showed off how versatile it can be.

High River's Mayor says residents of the town have good reason to feel proud of how far it's come in the past year.

Craig Snodgrass says, for him, one of the biggest improvements was the removal of homes in the Wallaceville area.

"I was getting very nervous that that wouldn't get done this year," he says."Delays and change of (provincial) government was frustrating but it's done, a couple of things left in there to do yet but for the most part we're taking care of that as well."

He says building berms and other infrastructure is pretty easy compared to making sure the people are doing alright mentally after such a huge disaster as the flood in 2013.

He says everyone handles it differently and that's why council talked a lot about Family and Community Support Services during budget discussions.

"Our folks over at FCSS, it's an absolute rock star group over there and I think everybody in this town appreciates everything they do but, we're not out of the woodwork yet with making sure that all of our residents and all of our people are taken care of and getting the proper care they need to get through this," Snodgrass says.

The mayor says the reconstruction of the downtown core has exceeded his expectations and admits it's a change and not everybody accepts it but he says once people are seeing it, they're experiencing it and they get it.