Category: Voices

  • REALTORS® Give Back Through Governors’ Grants

    REALTORS® Give Back Through Governors’ Grants

      CREB® Charitable Foundation accepting funding applications from local charities Calgary – CREB® Charitable Foundation’s Governors’ Grants program awards funds to charities that support housing and shelter-related initiatives in the Calgary and area community. “We’re excited to invite charities to apply for the Charitable Foundation’s Governors’ Grants,” says Jeffrey Mikolajow, CREB® Charitable Foundation president. “The…

  • Earth Hour: What Are You Doing?

    Earth Hour: What Are You Doing?

     

  • Planet Waves Weekly Horoscope for March 20 – 27, 2015

    By Eric Francis   Aries (March 20-April 19) — You’re about to discover the missing piece. Yet it will be more like a scrim is lifting and you can suddenly see the full scene for what it is. What you discover was missing will turn out to be very nearly everything. That everything is context.…

  • Parachute and Procter & Gamble Partner to Educate about Poison Prevention

    Parachute and Procter & Gamble Partner to Educate about Poison Prevention

      TORONTO – Parachute, the national charitable organization dedicated to preventing injuries and saving lives, is partnering with Procter & Gamble Canada (P&G) to educate Canadians and help reduce the number of incidents as a result of access to laundry detergent products by children. The announcement was made during Poison Prevention Week, with the focus this…

  • Lions Den: Serving our Foothills Community

    Lions Den: Serving our Foothills Community

      Submitted by Lion Carol Gibson Members of the Foothills Lions Club believe in their motto “We Serve”. In the year 2014, members contributed over a 30% increase in volunteer hours over 2013 volunteer hours. Foothills Lions Club members volunteered 11,025.25 hours in 2014 in their communities. Organizations and events that needed volunteers were diverse.…

  • Tunes for Trails

    Tunes for Trails

    We are pleased to announce our annual Tunes for Trails date, which is May 2, 2015 at the Bragg Creek Community Hall. Skuzzy and the Woodticks are at it again and will surely keep you and your friends entertained throughout the evening. Barauch will be our Stage Man, providing his usual stoic announcements and jokes.…

  • Longview Library Offers Personal Service to Seniors and Shut-Ins

    Longview Library Offers Personal Service to Seniors and Shut-Ins

      I would like to remind the Seniors and Shut-Ins in our community that the library would be very happy to bring you books and return them for you. We have an eager group of volunteers who would be glad to do this. You can call Joan, our librarian, at 403-558-3927 and request a book…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Removing Dog Hair from Clothes

      By Reena Nerbas Stretching Shoe Dear Reena, I purchased a new pair of shoes and when I returned home, I noticed that one shoe fits looser than the other. Is there any way to stretch the tight shoe so that it fits comfortably? Thanks, Randy Dear Randy, Put the nozzle of a hair dryer…

  • From My Bookshelf ~ Featuring Ian Morris

    From My Bookshelf ~ Featuring Ian Morris

      By Lynn Willoughby Why the West Rules – For Now ~ Ian Morris Non-fiction can sometimes be hard reading.  I often feel like a student again unless the language is readable and the author has a sense of humour.  I would describe this book as a quick lesson in world history, geography, sociology, anthropology,…

  • The Birth of the Fair Chase and the Teddy Bear

    The Birth of the Fair Chase and the Teddy Bear

    Of all of the well-documented hunting exploits of President Theodore Roosevelt, it is ironic that the most famous of his storied adventures was an unsuccessful black bear hunt in the swamps of Sharkey County, Mississippi. On November 14, 1902, Roosevelt traveled from the White House to Mississippi to settle a border dispute between Mississippi and…

  • Sheep Creek Arts Council: Annual General Meeting

    Sheep Creek Arts Council: Annual General Meeting

      The Annual General Meeting and election of officers for the Sheep Creek Arts Council is to be held on Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 2pm in the Arts Council gallery at 133 Sunset Blvd West in Turner Valley. Brenda Thompson, President of the Council, invites all members and interested people in the community to…

  • Rowan House Hope & Healing Gala Over 50% Sold!

    Rowan House Hope & Healing Gala Over 50% Sold!

      Emergency Shelter Hopes for First Ever Sell-Out Event High River, AB – 2015 is shaping up to be a great year for the Rowan House Hope and Healing Gala committee. The annual fundraiser is still 7 weeks away and the event is already over 50 percent sold. The planners behind the gala are crossing…

  • WHO and World Food Programme Join Forces to Reach Zero Ebola Cases

    WHO and World Food Programme Join Forces to Reach Zero Ebola Cases

    GENEVA – WHO and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are combining their forces in a new partnership in the Ebola-affected countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The arrangement combines the logistics strength of WFP with WHO’s public health expertise to help get the current Ebola outbreak down to zero cases in West…

  • It’s Time to Take the Plunge!

    It’s Time to Take the Plunge!

      The Polar Plunge, presented by the Alberta Law Enforcement Torch Run, is a unique opportunity for individuals, organizations, and businesses to support Special Olympics Alberta athletes by jumping into our frigid winter lakes. The last plunge is this Saturday, March 14 in Calgary’s Arbour Lake. The fun starts at 12 noon. You still have…

  • Planet Wave for March 13 – 20, 2015 with Eric Francis

    Planet Wave for March 13 – 20, 2015 with Eric Francis

      By Eric Francis   Aries (March 20-April 19) If you think you’re unstoppable, you probably are. But you have to be clever about it. In particular, use your mind first, rather than banging your head on anything. You have a number of tools at your disposal. The most important of which is your ability…