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Help Rowan House from the Comfort of your Phone!
We have been nominated for Cargill’s Together We Thrive contest and we need your votes to help us win $25,000 toward our food budget. Visit: http://www.togetherwethrive.ca/vote/details/rowan-house-emergency-shelter You can vote once a day, every day until the contest closes June 30th, 2015. Share on social media and help us spread the word!
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Grand Prize Winners Drawn for the 2015 Foothills Hospital Home Lottery
CALGARY — The winners of the two Grand Prize show homes and several of the vehicles were drawn live on Global Calgary’s Morning News on May 28th. Cathy Edmond, Executive Director at the Calgary Health Trust, drew ticket #097181, belonging to Thelma Dennis of Calgary. Ms Dennis won the “BMW” draw, and has a…
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Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program: MP John Barlow Encourages Applications
The Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program is part of Canada 150 Celebrates, the Government of Canada’s celebration of our country’s 150thanniversary. Through investments in community infrastructure, the Government of Canada will invest in projects that celebrate our shared heritage, create jobs, and improve the quality of life for Canadians. Under the theme Giving back to…
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Grate Groan Up Spelling Bee Buzzing Back to the Foothills
The Grate Groan Up Spelling Bee is the hottest competition in the Foothills. This hilarious, action packed event has 12 teams of 3 adults competing in a battle for bragging rights to spelling supremacy. Each team collects pledges and donations that support literacy and learning. The Team that collects the Gratest Pledges is awarded…
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Legion Acknowledges First Anniversary of their National Partnership with Ride for Dad
Ottawa – Last year, in an effort to generate greater awareness about prostate cancer, The Royal Canadian Legion, in collaboration with Ride for Dad, launched a national partnership. “We are grateful that, through our Legion Riders program, we are able to participate in this important annual Ride for Dad event once again,” says Dominion…
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4-H Valley ACES Club Had Excellent Showing at 4H on Parade
Submitted by Councillor Gerald Pheil Our local 4-H Club, based out of Turner Valley, featured well at the 4-H on Parade at Stampede Park over the last four days. They participated in archery, public speaking and life skills, coming home with three second place, one first place ribbon and a Grand Champion Banner. Their…
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Literacy for Life Taking Another Jump in the Show Ring
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Hope & Healing Gala Surpasses Committee’s Goals
Rowan House’s Gala Planning Committee is excited to shut the book on another successful event! After months of hard work and tremendous community support, we are thrilled to announce the event greatly exceeded expectations—selling out to a crowd of 320 people and raising over $100,000 after expenses. We can not thank you enough for…
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Sheep River Health Trust – Golf 4 Wellness
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Brief to the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs on Bill-C59
OTTAWA, ON – The Royal Canadian Legion was on Parliament Hill to speak to members of the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs about Bill C-59, an act to implement certain provisions of the budget tabled in parliament on 21 April 2015 and other measures. Please see below for the Brief to the Standing Committee on…
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Work Underway to Move Lancaster KB882 to Edmonton
Assessment complete, preservation work to be done this summer, dismantling and shipment scheduled for next spring Since announcing in late March that Avro Lancaster KB882, now located in Edmundston, NB, will be moving to the Alberta Aviation Museum in Edmonton, AB, our team has been busy preparing for the re-location. The museum has hired…
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Piece of Manitoba Tundra in Wisconsin Zoo
Retired Tundra Buggy becomes essential part of new Arctic Passage polar bear exhibit Winnipeg, May 28, 2015 – For decades, people have been coming to Northern Manitoba to experience wild polar bears, and now a piece of the province’s history has been set in place to begin a new life in Madison, Wisconsin. Frontiers North…
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Foothills Lions Family Spray Park in Turner Valley Open!
As of noon today, Saturday, May 30th, 2015 the new spray park in Turner Valley is officially open. Despite the temperature being under 30 degrees there were some very eager children ready to try it out. As parents and grandparents stood and watched dressed in jackets and hoodies the kids were oblivious to the cooler…
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Oilfields Food Bank Votes in New Executive
The AGM was held and a new Board of Directors was elected. We have been familiarizing ourselves with the systems in place and streamlining them wherever possible to save time, as well as building more efficiencies into what we’ve been doing. We asked if anyone had a laptop and printer to donate and were…
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Lions Club Donates To Strathmore Games
The Alberta 55+ Summer Games Committee received a donation of $20,000 to help cover the costs of the games from the Strathmore Lions Club at a wine and cheese event last November. The local organizations on hand for the presentation were Alberta 55+ Summer Games committee members (l-r) Chair of the Board Donalda Ledene, Director…
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