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Albertan EcoHeroes Take One Step Closer To Receiving Prestigious Environmental Award
Calgary, AB – Thursday, at Calgary’s Eau Claire Market, hopeful nominees joined the Alberta Emerald Foundation (AEF), its sponsors, volunteers and other members from the local community, for the announcement of the 25th Annual Emerald Awards Finalists. Over the past weeks, a panel of knowledgeable third-party judges with cross-sectoral experience rose to the challenge of…
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Government Invests in Community Programs that Support Families and Prevent Violence
Community organizations are receiving Family and Community Safety Program grants for local programs and services that support the safety and well-being of Alberta families. As part of the Family Violence Framework, the Alberta government is investing $3.5 million in one-time funding to support programs that protect women and girls, Indigenous, immigrant and rural communities,…
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CPAWS Alberta: we take Mike Morrison (#mikesbloggity) into the outdoors
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society has released its first in a series of videos about what 3 million Albertans do in the outdoors, and our need to enjoy our wilderness sustainably. Our recent survey of 1300 Albertans shows: – over 3 million (76%) Albertans pursue outdoor recreation – over 450,000 of us snowshoe – 88% of Albertans want…
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Rowan House Hope & Healing Gala Fast Approaching
Emergency Shelter’s Annual Fundraiser Almost Two-Thirds Sold High River, AB – The countdown is on as Rowan House Emergency Shelter hits the one month mark until its annual Hope & Healing Gala. The event, set for Saturday April 23rd, plans to be another entertaining evening with an important message, and a few tickets are still…
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Benefits of Senior Dogs
What you see is what you get Older dogs are open books. From the start, you’ll know important things like their full-grown size, personality and grooming requirements. All this information makes it easier to pick the right dog and forge that instant love connection that will last a lifetime. If you’re not into surprises, an…
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How can we Measure Hidden Homelessness?
By Emma Woolley, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness/Homeless Hub: York University This question came from Kristina B. via our latest website survey: “To what extent is it possible to measure “hidden homelessness” (for example, when the person cannot afford their own home and has to resort to crashing with family or friends – possibly often moving frequently)?” It…
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Inaugural Donald Ethell Award presentation to Okotoks youth
Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell and Colonel [Ret’d] the Hon. Donald Ethell will be in Okotoks Wednesday, March 30 to present the inaugural Donald S. Ethell Youth Award from the Lieutenant Governor’s Circle on Mental Health and Addiction. The first recipient of the award is Okotoks resident Cole Whalley, who is being honoured for the dedication,…
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Why Remember?
We must remember. If we do not, the sacrifice of those one hundred thousand Canadian lives will be meaningless. They died for us, for their homes and families and friends, for a collection of traditions they cherished and a future they believed in; they died for Canada. The meaning of their sacrifice rests with our…
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World Water Day: The Future of the Smart City
A smart city is an urban center that harnesses technologies, such as IT, to improve the quality of life of residents, manage available resources such as roads and water in economically sustainable manner, and reduce environmental pollution. Thank you New Jersey Institute of Technology – NJIT Fall 2011 for sharing this infographic.#WorldWaterDay http://graduatedegrees.online.njit.edu/mscs-resources/mscs-infographics/big-data-and-the-iot-the-future-of-the-smart-city/ Source UN…
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Millarville Junior Gardeners
The Junior division of the Millarville Horticultural Club will have their first meeting in 2016 on Thursday, April 28th at 7 pm in the Library of the Millarville Community School. All junior gardeners and their families are invited to attend. We will do some planting of vegetables and flowers, discuss garden plans and products, and…
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Statement from the Alberta Association of Midwives – March 18 2016
Alberta Health Services has released the allocation of 2,774 funded courses of care for 2016/17 to Alberta’s midwifery practices. In 2015/16, the relaxation of a restriction on the opening of new practices resulted in a number of midwives moving between practices and some opened new practices in order to serve rural and underserved Albertans to meet…
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Millarville Wildcats Take on the Calgary Stampeders in Epic Basketball Game
The fourth game in the 2016 TELUS Stampeders Basketball Program saw a visit to the nearby town of Millarville on Thursday afternoon for a fun-filled contest at Millarville Community School. The likes of Andrew Buckley, Ben D’Aguilar, Rene Paredes, Adam Thibault, Spencer Wilson, Quinn Smith and Brandon Boudreaux picked up a 42-32 victory over the boys and girls representing…
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Millarville-Stockland 4-H Club March News
Submitted by Jackson Collard, Club Reporter The Millarville-Stockland 4-H Club’s public speaking competition was on February 7th at the Millarville Racetrack Hall. We wish to send a great big thank you to our judges, Danna Ormstrup, Kathleen Arkes, David Cranswick, Myrtle Siebert, Janette Macmillan, Jill Stephenson, Donna Kendall, Barb Castell and Anne Marie Mullane. All…
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Samaritan Filters now in Schools in Five Countries, Protecting Children from Potentially Deadly Polluted Water
Samaritan’s Purse Canada’s water filters for schools & small communities adapted from its BioSand Filters for households; those filters are benefiting 1.5 million people in developing world What is the world’s water problem? 1) More than 600 million people are trying to survive each day while drinking unfiltered water. 2) Someone, often a child, dies every…
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Sheep Creek Arts Council: AGM and Upcoming Classes
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