Local girl makes good.

That's what happened for Okotoks country artist Maddison Krebs at the Canadian Country Music awards earlier this month.

"I got selected top ten for this contest to win a development deal with a publishing company, it' actually the biggest publishing company in Canada, Ole'," Krebs says. "There's recording involved and management, it's songwriting as well so I can get into the room with songwriters that I may not have been able to get into before."

Krebs gets $40,000 for recording, management and songwriting help to take her career further.

She says she's never won anything before and though she'd just enter for the exposure but was thrilled to have actually won.

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