Category: Voices

  • Okotoks’ Big Rock Part of Historic Project

    Okotoks’ Big Rock Part of Historic Project

      The Okotoks Erratic, a seven-million kg glacial erratic considered sacred by southern Alberta First Nations, was selected for inclusion in the CyArk 500 Challenge list of world’s most significant cultural heritage sites. (Photos courtesy Alberta Culture and Tourism) CyArk was founded in 2003 to ensure heritage sites are available to future generations, while making them…

  • Know an Albertan EcoHero? Nominate Them for an Emerald Award

    Know an Albertan EcoHero? Nominate Them for an Emerald Award

      Alberta Emerald Foundation receives nominations for provincial “Environmental Oscars” EDMONTON, AB – “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking,” said Albert Einstein. “It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” For the past 25 years, the Alberta Emerald Foundation has embodied a similar concept as Einstein’s as their…

  • Millarville-Stockland 4-H Club January News

    Millarville-Stockland 4-H Club January News

    Submitted by Jackson Collard, Club Reporter The Millarville-Stockland 4-H Beef and Sheep Club ended 2015 with a farm tour on December 20, 2015, organized by Martie Blatz. After visiting several farms we had a lovely lunch thanks to Dawn Jardie and Paul Rishaug. The Club then had a busy start to the new year. On…

  • From My Bookshelf: Elizabeth George and Will Ferguson

    From My Bookshelf: Elizabeth George and Will Ferguson

    By Lynn Willoughby A Banquet of Consequences    Elizabeth George This author of the Inspector Lynley crime novels has been around for 2 decades.   I have read many of her books and always enjoy the working relationship  and its problems between Lynley and Barbara Havers, his partner.  So I was disappointed in this book…

  • Happy New Year from the Longview Library!

    Happy New Year from the Longview Library!

      Happy New Year! The library is gearing up for a very active winter season. The Crib Club is meeting again from 2 to 4 every Thursday. Peggy Gillis is offering Drop In Knitting sessions again, if there is enough interest shown. And on Tuesday, January 19th. from 12 to 1 p.m. there will be…

  • On Second Thought……The Future of Weather

    On Second Thought……The Future of Weather

      By Jonathan Pollard “The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” – Patrick Young, American author Folks, a ‘cold front’ isn’t just a between-the-sheets phenomenon, and thermocline isn’t just another fun word to spell with Alphagetti.…

  • Parachute Canada: Catch our New Concussion PSA at Your Local Theatre!

    Parachute Canada: Catch our New Concussion PSA at Your Local Theatre!

      Concussion, the new Will Smith movie that opened in theatres on Dec. 25, shines a light on the invisible injury. The biographical sports medical drama tells the real story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian forensic pathologist who was the first to publish his findings about chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease that…

  • ROYAL RAMBLE-Penguin Walk Resumes for 2016

    ROYAL RAMBLE-Penguin Walk Resumes for 2016

      Calgary, AB – The Calgary Zoo’s popular Penguin Walk returns for another royal waddle through the zoo. Starting on Sat. Jan. 9, 2016, the king penguins will be walking every day at 11 a.m. “A daily walk is a positive enrichment tool for the king penguins,” says Dr. Malu Celli, Curator, Calgary Zoo. “The birds…

  • TransCanada Lawsuit Spotlights Weak Climate Change Connection to Keystone

    TransCanada Lawsuit Spotlights Weak Climate Change Connection to Keystone

    Rejection of the pipeline was never about climate change By Kenneth P. Green and Taylor Jackson, The Fraser Institute Jan 13, 2016/ Troy Media/ – The Keystone XL saga has taken a new twist. On Jan. 6, TransCanada (the company that would have built and operated the Alberta to Texas pipeline) launched two lawsuits over U.S. President…

  • Planet Waves Weekly Horoscope — January 15 – 22, 2016

    By Len Wallick Aries (March 20-April 19) — In Star Wars, Luke Skywalker — restless and eager to leave the confines of his home planet — complains to C3PO that, “If there’s a bright center to the universe, you’re on the planet farthest from it.” He says this at a crucial point in his life…

  • Solutions & Substitutions by Reena: Wrapping Up the Holidays

      By Reena Nerbas Removing oil from clothing Hi Reena, I’m wondering if you can help me! My daughter was stirring/mixing some organic peanut butter the other day and a big “glop” of oil landed on the front of her favorite university sweatshirt. I’ve tried soaking it in OxiClean and water for several hours and then washing…

  • Oilfields Food Bank Thanks Dedicated Volunteer

    Oilfields Food Bank Thanks Dedicated Volunteer

      Pictured is Sharon Herriman, long-time ‘head wrangler’ at the Food Bank. Sharon has given her time every week, often more than once a week, for more than 20 YEARS as the Coordinator at the Oilfields Food Bank.  Through it all she had the full support & help of her husband Don. Together they quite…

  • CFIB calls for emergency debate in legislature on Alberta’s economic crisis

      AB government urged to put moratorium on any major new public policies until economy has recovered CALGARY, January, 2015 – Following Friday’s Statistics Canada release of Alberta’s job numbers, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) is appealing to the Alberta government to recall the legislature early for an emergency debate on the economic crisis plaguing…

  • Help Okotoks Become the Next Kraft Hockeyville!!

    Help Okotoks Become the Next Kraft Hockeyville!!

    We are very excited to announce that Okotoks has been nominated to be the next Kraft Hockeyville. The winner of the Hockeyville contest wins $100,000 in arena upgrades and gets to play host to an NHL exhibition game next season. This is a great opportunity for the kids in Okotoks to show how much community…

  • Sheep Creek Arts Council: New Year – New Programs

    Sheep Creek Arts Council: New Year – New Programs

      Submitted by Muriel Dais The Sheep Creek Arts Council wishes to invite new and existing members to join us on Thursday, January 14th, 2016, to renew memberships, view examples of the 2016 projects and enjoy coffee and free draws. The appreciation session will be from 7 to 9 in the evening at 133 Sunset…