Category: Voices

  • 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…

  • Millarville-Stockland 4-H Beef & Sheep Club: Getting Ready for the Shows

    Millarville-Stockland 4-H Beef & Sheep Club: Getting Ready for the Shows

      Club Reporter Ethan Beck Spring is here and the warm weather means it is grooming time. This March we have been getting our animals ready for the upcoming shows by clipping and sheering our animals. On the 22nd of March there was a sheep clinic held at the Thorlacks Cattle Company in Airdrie. It…

  • Millarville Horticultural Club 2015 Junior Program

    Millarville Horticultural Club 2015 Junior Program

    Do your children like to play in the dirt? Have they ever wanted to grow their own vegetables or flowers? Please join us on Wednesday, April 22 at 7:00pm in the Learning Commons to find out more about a program geared for junior gardeners. • Information on garden location, soil, plant care, harvest • If you…

  • The Sheep River Ramblers Need your Vote

    The Sheep River Ramblers Need your Vote

    We need your help! As much help as we can get! Sheep River Ramblers, the library’s walking/hiking club, have been nominated for a 2015 Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Library Service and we are eligible for the YOU Libraries award, which is a people’s choice award, chosen by online voting by Albertans. Go to the…

  • 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…

  • Birth of a Nation Day to be Honoured in the Foothills

    Birth of a Nation Day to be Honoured in the Foothills

      The annual Birth of a Nation Day will be held in both Okotoks and Turner Valley and will involve the surrounding communities. In Turner Valley a parade will be leaving the Dr. Lander Memorial Swimming Pool parking lot at 6:30pm ending at the Turner Valley Legion for a short Cenotaph Service. In Okotoks the…

  • Finalists Announced for the 24TH Annual Emerald Awards

    Finalists Announced for the 24TH Annual Emerald Awards

      EDMONTON, AB – “And the finalists for the 24th Annual Emerald Awards are…” Friday, at Edmonton’s City Hall, nominees joined the Alberta Emerald Foundation, its sponsors, volunteers and other members from the local community, to find out who would be taking another step towards receiving the coveted environmental award. Over the past weeks, a…

  • New Appointment to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Announced

    New Appointment to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Announced

      OTTAWA – The Honourable Erin O’Toole, Minister of Veterans Affairs, today announced that Christopher J. McNeil will join the Veterans Review and Appeal Board, which provides Veterans, Canadian Armed Forces and Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) members, and their families, with an independent avenue of appeal for disability benefits decisions made by Veterans Affairs…

  • Letter to the Editor ~ Turner Valley Water

    Letter to the Editor ~ Turner Valley Water

      I spent a couple of hours yesterday with a very tolerant young man who sat and listened to me nattering away about some of Turner Valley’s history, at least as I know and have experienced it. I am a witness to horrendous amounts of mercury pollution from testing done years ago in Turner Valley,…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Food Group

      By Reena Nerbas Caring for a Glass Table Hello Reena, I was brave and ordered a glass kitchen table. It will be delivered soon; I am now having second thoughts. Do you have any advice on how to take care of a glass table? We will be using it as our everyday table, not…

  • Help the Beast Stick It To Cancer On April 11

    Help the Beast Stick It To Cancer On April 11

      Brampton, ON – Help the Brampton Beast Stick it to Cancer with a themed walk, BBQ and hockey game on Saturday, April 11 as the Beast take on the Missouri Mavericks during Fan Appreciation Weekend. Register as an individual or as a team to raise money to support the fight to end cancer, with all proceeds…

  • Letter to the Editor ~ Turner Valley Water Reservoir Appeal

      This letter has been sent to Gilbert van Nes, General Counsel and Settlement Officer for the Environmental Appeals Board: Re: Appeal related to Turner Valley Water Reservoir Brought forward by Roxanne Walsh and Julie Walker I find it difficult to write this letter without emotions being involved. For the last 9 years I have…

  • Earth Day Network Kicks Off U.S. and Global Activities on Massive Scale for 45th Anniversary of Earth Day

    Earth Day Network Kicks Off U.S. and Global Activities on Massive Scale for 45th Anniversary of Earth Day

      Billions of Citizens Worldwide will Stand Up, Speak Up and Sign up to Take Action for Earth Day  WASHINGTON, DC: Bringing the poverty, development, climate and sustainability communities together to build a broader and more inclusive global movement is the theme of this year’s Earth Day, says Kathleen Rogers, President and CEO of Earth…

  • From My Bookshelf ~ Featuring Frances Itani and Gordon Henderson

    From My Bookshelf ~ Featuring Frances Itani and Gordon Henderson

      By Lynn Willoughby Tell ~ Frances Itani I have read several of Itani’s novels and while they are slow paced, almost graceful, they were a good read.  This latest book is slow to the point of boredom and left many unanswered questions at the end.  As I turned the last page I couldn’t believe…

  • Calgary to Cochrane Trail: Campaign Update

    Calgary to Cochrane Trail: Campaign Update

      Over $30,000 raised in less than 30 days toward the $100K construction cost of the Calgary to Cochrane Trail. COCHRANE, AB – Only 30 days into the campaign, (launched February 25 at MEC in Calgary) donations are pouring in as individuals, families, hiking clubs, community groups and businesses are all stepping up to make…