Category: Voices

  • Literacy for Life Taking Another Jump in the Show Ring

    Literacy for Life Taking Another Jump in the Show Ring

    Literacy for Life has an entry, for a second year, in the Spruce Meadows Horses Jump to Give a Leg Up Initiative sponsored by the Calgary Sun and Conoco Phillips! Come out and cheer us on at Spruce Meadows! Our horse is fantastic. Prizes awarded June 6th. We hope to win 1st Prize and $10,000.00…

  • Hope & Healing Gala Surpasses Committee’s Goals

    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…

  • Sheep River Health Trust – Golf 4 Wellness

    Sheep River Health Trust – Golf 4 Wellness

    The 12th Annual Golf 4 Wellness Charity Golf Classic will take place on July 9th, 2015 at the Turner Valley Golf Club. Check out this ad for all the details.

  • Brief to the Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs on Bill-C59

    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…

  • Work Underway to Move Lancaster KB882 to Edmonton

    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…

  • Piece of Manitoba Tundra in Wisconsin Zoo

    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…

  • Foothills Lions Family Spray Park in Turner Valley Open!

    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…

  • Oilfields Food Bank Votes in New Executive

    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…

  • Lions Club Donates To Strathmore Games

    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…

  • Nomination deadline for the Légion d’honneur medal has been extended to July 31, 2015

    Nomination deadline for the Légion d’honneur medal has been extended to July 31, 2015

    Veterans Affairs Canada was pleased to inform the Legion that the Government of France has extended the nomination deadline for the Légion d’honneur to July 31, 2015. The Embassy of France is looking for candidates who took part in the battles and military operations surrounding the landings in Normandy and Provence during the liberation of…

  • More articles from other sections

    More articles from other sections

    Don’t forget, the Gateway Gazette is part of a larger, publication network called Panoptic News. Be sure to check out other articles posted in the other sections too! While some of these sections may seem more logical at specific times of year, they are available year round for those who have a desire to access…

  • Planet Waves Weekly Horoscopes for May 29 – June 5, 2015

    Planet Waves Weekly Horoscopes for May 29 – June 5, 2015

      By Eric Francis Aries (March 20-April 19) You never know what you’re going through till you’re going through it; and you never know what others are going through till you figure it out. Then you have to figure it out a few more times, and slowly get to what seems like the bottom of…

  • Government of Canada Helps Preserve History and Heritage in Southern Alberta

    Government of Canada Helps Preserve History and Heritage in Southern Alberta

      Member of Parliament John Barlow announces funding for the Crowsnest Historical Society Coleman, Alberta – The Government of Canada has provided the Crowsnest Historical Society with $4,176 in funding through the Museums Assistance Program. This support will allow the Society to undertake a collections‑management project for the Crowsnest Museum and Archives. The project will…

  • Bring Your Swimsuits – Spray Park Will Be Open

    Bring Your Swimsuits – Spray Park Will Be Open

    Grab your swimsuits and towels and meet at the NEW Foothills Lions Family Spray Park in Turner Valley for the Grand Opening tomorrow at noon! P.S. There will be cake too!

  • FSD Peak Athletics Hockey Program Donation to Alberta Children’s Hospital

    FSD Peak Athletics Hockey Program Donation to Alberta Children’s Hospital

      On Friday, May 22nd the FSD Peak Athletics Hockey Program travelled to the Alberta Children’s Hospital to present a donation of $2,297.79 to the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation. A large part of the FSD Peak Athletics Hockey Program over the past 2 years has been community service initiatives. In addition to having Kindergarten buddies,…