Category: Grassroots

  • Foothills Lions Club Helping Promote Local Business

    The Lion’s Campground has generously created a board to allow local businesses to put up information about themselves. Thanks to the Lions, you can take your business card, menu or information brochure to the campground and ask their office to place it on their board (Maximum 8.5’ X 11’). The board is available now and…

  • Come out to Longview for a Great Weekend of Music & Art in the Park

    August 16th and 17th, 2014 at Smith-Fuller Centennial Park Come and treat your senses to a weekend of funky and fantastic music, art and crafts in Longview. Admission is by donation and the gate receipts will be donated to local causes and other local charitable service groups still to be announced. Please donate what you…

  • XX Glasgow Commonwealth Games – July 31st

    XX Glasgow Commonwealth Games – July 31st

    [break]1. England: 44 Gold – 40 Silver – 39 Bronze 2. Australia: 36 Gold – 36 Silver – 41 Bronze 3. Canada: 27 Gold – 13 Silver – 25 Bronze 4. Scotland: 14 Gold – 13 Silver – 16 Bronze 5. India: 13 Gold – 20 Silver – 14 Bronze 6. New Zealand: 13 Gold…

  • Healthy Tips from Pharmasave: Are You Prepared for an Emergency?

    Before help arrives – what you can do When you arrive on the scene of an accident, you need a clear plan of action. Otherwise it’s easy to panic. Your first priority is to make sure that you and the injured people will be safe from any other hazards. Check the area for anything that…

  • MD of Foothills: Fire Restriction Order – Burning / Fire Ban

    There is a Burning Ban on all open fires including burning barrels and Fire Works in the Municipal District of Foothill #31. All open fires are to be extinguished and any open burning permits cancelled. This ban will be in effect until all areas in the MD of Foothills receive substantial moisture and approval is…

  • Bar U Old Time Ranch Rodeo: Traditional Skills Still Used Today

    Bar U Ranch National Historic Site – Action so close you can taste it! Old Time Ranch Rodeo returns to the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site on Sunday August 10th beginning at noon. Established in 1882, the Bar U was one of the foremost ranching operations in Canada. Now, teams of working cowboys from…

  • Theft of Tent Trailer in Black Diamond – More Information

    A tent trailer has been stolen out of the driveway of a home in Black Diamond. It happened some time between Monday night July 28th and Tuesday morning July 29th. The owners have filed a police report and have learned that one of their neighbours had an attempt made to steal their trailer also. This…

  • Livestock Emergency Response Unit

    This article is courtesy of the Horse Industry Association of Alberta You are driving down the highway with three horses in your trailer, when suddenly a truck appears out of nowhere heading right for you. You swerve, hitting the ditch, and over goes your unit, ending in a crumpled mess. A nightmare for anyone who…

  • AMA: We All Scream For (Free) Ice Cream

    Edmonton – When the summer heat hits, there’s nothing like a cold treat to cool you down. The ice cream truck is synonymous with childhood, and since 1902, its melodic chimes have brought children running, with change in hand, for an ice cream or popsicle. This July, the Alberta Motor Association (AMA), set out to…

  • PERLHAZE: The Pleased To Meet You Tour!

    After years of chance encounters, near misunderstandings and missed opportunities, Alberta-raised, Toronto based Terra Hazelton and Toronto native Sophia Perlman, best friends and both jazz singers by trade, discovered a mutual love for country, folk and singer-songwriter music, and an uncanny “who’s singing now?” vocal blend. Since the band’s Christmas baptism by blizzard, PerlHaze has…

  • Have You Been to the Farmers’ Market This Summer?

    The Millarville Farmers’ Market invites you to spend a Saturday with them. Bring your re-usable shopping bags, wagons, umbrellas and visitors from out of town for a shopping experience like no other! Small Fee to Entire the Grounds The proceeds from your $3.00 admission fee help to support programming at the Millarville Racetrack. Did you…

  • Creative Logic ~ July 29th, 2014 – Week 217

             

  • Meet hitchBOT – A Hitchhiking Robot Traveling From Coast To Coast This Summer

    Collaborative research project to explore if robots can trust humans with Canadian hitchhiking adventure TORONTO, ON. – A trivia-loving, wellington-wearing, tweeting robot will be hitchhiking across Canada this summer, one ride at a time. hitchBOT left from Halifax, N.S. on July 27th and its ultimate destination is Victoria, B.C., more than 6,000 km away. hitchBOT…

  • Athletes, Crowds and City Break Records As Glasgow 2014 Reaches Halfway Point

    World-beating athletes and incredible crowds are ensuring the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games is off to a sensational start. At the half-way point, Organisers revealed the number of Commonwealth and World record which have been toppled, the record-breaking tickets sales and the unprecedented crowds which have thronged across the city to soak up the once-in-a-lifetime atmosphere…

  • XX Commonwealth Games in Glasgow – Medal Count for July 29, 2014

    1. Australia: 32 Gold, 26 Silver, 34 Bronze 2. England: 31Gold, 26 Silver, 27 Bronze 3. Scotland: 13 Gold, 10 Silver, 12 Bronze 4. Canada: 13 Gold, 5 Silver, 14 Bronze 5. India: 10 Gold, 15 Silver, 10 Bronze 6. New Zealand: 9 Gold, 9 Silver, 11 Bronze 7. South Africa: 9 Gold, 7 Silver,…