Category: Events

  • BBC: Lindo Wing Confirmed for Royal Birth

    BBC: Lindo Wing Confirmed for Royal Birth

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  • Diamond Valley Volunteer Appreciation Celebration

    Diamond Valley Volunteer Appreciation Celebration

      Bring your favourite volunteer to the Turner Valley Golf Club on Thursday, April 16, 2015 starting at 5pm. Food, refreshments and gifts will be provided free of charge at this open house as we take time to recognize and show appreciation to the many volunteers who contribute their valuable time and energy to the…

  • Turner Valley School News: Hey Kids! Get ready to be Jumpcredible

    Turner Valley School News: Hey Kids! Get ready to be Jumpcredible

      Turner Valley School is pleased to be holding a Heart & Stroke Foundation JUMP Rope for Heart event on Thursday April 16th at 2pm. All money raised will support the Heart & Stroke Foundation in their mission to promote children’s health and fund vital heart and stroke research. JUMP Rope for Heart encourages kids…

  • RCMP – St Alberta: Oilers Hockey Game to Raise Funds for Wynn/Bond Families

    On Saturday, April 18, 2015, at 7:15 p.m., at the Go Auto Arena in Servus Place, the Oliers Alumni, including Ryan Smyth, Jason Strudwick, Fernando Pisani and many more former Oilers will facing off against a RCMP team to raise funds to support the Dave Wynn family and the Derek Bond family. Fernando Pisani spearheaded…

  • Birth of a Nation Day Ceremony in Okotoks Today

    Birth of a Nation Day Ceremony in Okotoks Today

      The Town and the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 291 Okotoks are hosting a public event to recognize the Canadian troops who fought at the battle of Vimy Ridge on April 9th, 1917. A special march starts at 6pm from the Elks Hall (62 Elizabeth St.) and proceeds to the Cenotaph for a brief Remembrance Ceremony…

  • High River Online: The High River Food Bank Needs Your Help

    High River Online: The High River Food Bank Needs Your Help

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  • Healthy Development April Conversation Meeting

    Healthy Development April Conversation Meeting

    Next week’s regularly scheduled (first Tuesday of the month) “Healthy Development” meeting will be at the usual time of 7:00pm, but the meeting will be held at the Turner Valley Golf Club.    *********  Tuesday, April 7, 2015, 7:00pm at the Turner Valley Golf Club    **********   The reason behind the shift in venue…

  • New Seminar Coming to Calgary – Horses 301

    New Seminar Coming to Calgary – Horses 301

    This article is courtesy of the Horse Industry of Alberta We have developed another seminar in our Horses 101 and 201 series. Introducing Horses 301! This seminar continues to build on understanding horse behaviour and will cover preparing the horse for riding and developing effective horsemanship and communication skills in the saddle.We will be presenting…

  • The Easter Egg in Christianity

    The Easter Egg in Christianity

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Easter eggs, also called Paschal eggs,[1] are decorated eggs that are often given to celebrate Easter or springtime. As such, Easter eggs are common during the season of Eastertide (Easter season). The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate…

  • Run for Rowan

    Run for Rowan

    Rowan House is pleased to once again part-ner with the Millarville Half Marathon Run to the Farmer’s Market! Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 13th. This fun, point-to-point race starts at the Oilfields Arena in Black Diamond, passes through beautiful west country and ends at the Millarville Race Track where you can shop the vendors…

  • Volunteers Are The Salvation Of The Badlands Passion Play

    Volunteers Are The Salvation Of The Badlands Passion Play

      200 Volunteer Actors Invest 30,000 Hours Into The Annual Event Drumheller, Alberta — This July the Canadian Badlands Passion Play will celebrate its 22nd season with nine final performances of the ‘Gospel of John’. “More than 50,000 people have seen the John script in the past four seasons and the responses have been overwhelmingly…

  • Diamond Valley Easter Church Services

    Diamond Valley Easter Church Services

      Gospel Church – Black Diamond 212 Center Avenue West Good Friday – April 3rd – 7pm Easter Sunday – April 5th – 10:30am Lewis Memorial United Church – Turner Valley 125 Royal Ave Good Friday – April 3, 2015 – 7:00 pm Easter Sunday – April 5, 2015 – 7:00 am at the Big…

  • Community Emergency Response Team Summit Coming to Calgary

    Community Emergency Response Team Summit Coming to Calgary

    Alberta Floods – Slave Lake Fire – H1N1 Alberta labelled “Disaster Capital of Canada” CALGARY, AB – After a large-scale disaster, local governments do not have the capacity to manage the over-whelming needs of an entire community. With dependence on municipal services, residents are exposed to longterm recovery efforts. Networks of prepared individuals and local…

  • New Scrapbooking Event Supports Rowan House

    New Scrapbooking Event Supports Rowan House

      Friendly company, great food and creative energy recently filled the Valley Neighbours Club in Turner Valley. The Sheep Creek Arts Council hosted its first Crop Fest scrapbooking event in March. Festivities included all-day scrapbooking, make-and-takes, shopping and a silent auction and 50/50 draw—raising over $2,000 for Rowan House. The shelter’s Ally Cramm, who manned…

  • April Fool’s Day – Pranks and Superstitions

    April Fool’s Day – Pranks and Superstitions

    Unlucky Day April Fool’s Day can be a day for pranksters but many consider it unlucky. It was once believed that those who wed on April 1st would never be able to trust their spouse or that a man who married on April 1st would always play second fiddle to his wife. In farming communities…