Author: Gateway Gazette

  • From My Bookshelf: Ann Patchett

    From My Bookshelf: Ann Patchett

    By Lynn Willoughby Commonwealth  –  Ann Patchett This novel explores the marriages, the lives of two families living in Los Angeles.  We discover how a chance encounter unravels many lives.  “It is a story about people’s stories.” Mainly this is the story of six children from divorced parents who spend summers together in Virginia. While…

  • Province Releases Draft Caribou Range Plan

    Province Releases Draft Caribou Range Plan

    The government has released a made-in-Alberta draft plan to help woodland caribou populations across the province recover. Alberta’s Draft Provincial Woodland Caribou Range Plan is a working document that seeks to find a balance between achieving self-sustaining caribou populations, meeting federal requirements under the Species at Risk Act and addressing economic and environmental realities here at home.…

  • Calgary-based Organizations Receive Federal Support to Develop and Promote Clean Technology

    Calgary-based Organizations Receive Federal Support to Develop and Promote Clean Technology

    December 20, 2017– Calgary, Alberta – Western Economic Diversification Canada Technology and the innovation it helps promote are key to the future of Canada’s economy. This is why Western Economic Diversification Canada is committed to supporting technologies that will advance the Government of Canada’s environmental objectives, create jobs and stimulate growth in the clean tech…

  • More Families to Get $25-a-day, Quality Child Care

    More Families to Get $25-a-day, Quality Child Care

    The Government of Alberta is keeping its promise to expand access to affordable child care with a plan to create up to 78 additional $25-a-day Early Learning and Child Care Centres thanks to an agreement with the Government of Canada.   The expansion of the pilot program, which was launched in the spring, will create…

  • Tips to Keep Healthy Habits as you Age

    Tips to Keep Healthy Habits as you Age

    The most recent census data taught us that for the first time, older Canadians outnumber children in Canada. As we prepare for the aging of the population, it’s important to practice healthy habits so we can all age well. Incorporating the following habits into your routine will help keep you on the path to healthy…

  • Easy Chicken Fajitas

    Easy Chicken Fajitas

    As I was deciding what meal I wanted to make that incorporated chicken, I wanted to stay away from just baking a chicken breast and cooking green beans as a side. I wanted to have some variety and a recipe that had more than one ingredient. For me, chicken is very easy to make plain,…

  • RCMP Airdrie ~ Investigate Attempted Theft at ATB Financial

    RCMP Airdrie ~ Investigate Attempted Theft at ATB Financial

    Airdrie, Alberta –  Airdrie RCMP are asking the public for assistance with an on-going attempted theft investigation at the ATB Financial branch located at 1700 Market Street in Airdrie. On December 27, 2017 at approximately 2:52 am, an alarm sounded at the ATB Financial branch located on Market Street. Airdrie RCMP attended immediately and found that an…

  • Preston Rivulettes Women’s Hockey Team ~ Nationally Recognized

    Preston Rivulettes Women’s Hockey Team ~ Nationally Recognized

    This hockey team pushed the boundaries of women’s sport and inspired thousands of Canadian women striving for equality in this and other sports.

  • Healthy Hints from Pharmasave: Let it Snow….

    Healthy Hints from Pharmasave: Let it Snow….

    Sing along while you let it snow, let it snow, let it snow – but you know that eventually you’ll have to reach for that shovel and start digging out. But this, too, can be fun as long as you keep a few things in mind when shovelling. Keep warm to avoid hypothermia, which comes from…

  • Planet Waves Weekly Horoscope: December 26, 2017

    Planet Waves Weekly Horoscope: December 26, 2017

    Here’s your weekly horoscope by Eric Francis from Planet Waves.

  • Royal Canadian Legion and 16 Wing share Christmas Dinner with Veterans

    Royal Canadian Legion and 16 Wing share Christmas Dinner with Veterans

    From 16 Wing Borden Working in close partnership with Veterans Affairs Canada, the Sunnybrook Veterans Centre in Toronto, Ontario, is one of the largest Veterans’ care facilities in Canada. Sunnybrook offers offer long-term and complex hospital care to Veterans from the Second World War and Korean War. Not long after Sunnybrook opened as a war…

  • Turning Hurricanes into Music

    Turning Hurricanes into Music

    A meteorologist and a music technologist are turning data from tropical storms into musical graphs. Can listening to storms help us understand them better? Hurricane Sandy, sonified. By Mark Ballora, Pennsylvania State University and Jenni Evans, Pennsylvania State University During the 2017 hurricane season, major storms in the North Atlantic devastated communities in and around Houston, Florida, Puerto Rico and…

  • Turner Valley School Access Update

    Turner Valley School Access Update

    Our new portable classroom is finally in the works. If you were at our school earlier this month, you would have seen the fencing that has been put up to mark off the area where our new portable is being placed. During construction, we are closing off the south boot room completely. There will be…

  • People Foods to Avoid Feeding Your Pets

    People Foods to Avoid Feeding Your Pets

    ASPCA Our Animal Poison Control Center experts have put together a handy list of the top toxic people foods to avoid feeding your pet. As always, if you suspect your pet has eaten any of the following foods, please note the amount ingested and contact your veterinarian. Alcohol Alcoholic beverages and food products containing alcohol…

  • Christmas in the Trenches

    Christmas in the Trenches

    Written and performed by John McCutcheon