Author: Gateway Gazette

  • Pharmasave Black Diamond’s Flyer is worth checking out!

    Pharmasave Black Diamond’s Flyer is worth checking out!

    Pharmasave weekly flyers are packed with savings on all kinds of merchandise. This week it is really good – check it out!

  • Holiday Ideas for Quality Time at Home

    Holiday Ideas for Quality Time at Home

    The holidays are a joyful time to share with family and loved ones. Open your home as well as your heart, and bring everyone together to celebrate around your home theatre this holiday season: Blast from the past. Having everyone together for the holidays is the perfect time to take a stroll down memory lane. Work…

  • RCMP Nanton ~ Hit & Run Driver Located

    RCMP Nanton ~ Hit & Run Driver Located

    On December 20, a man was entering his vehicle on Slade Drive, Nanton when he and his car were hit by a pickup truck.

  • Healthy Hints from Pharmasave: Rough Sledding?

    Healthy Hints from Pharmasave: Rough Sledding?

    Every year, emergency departments treat children injured in sliding accidents. When minor bruises and bumps give way to broken bones and serious injuries of the head and spinal cord, it’s a sign that parents and children should be reminded of safety while playing outside. There are several precautions you can take that can help protect your child against injuries.…

  • High Country Rural Crime Watch: Year End Wrap Up of Recent Events

    High Country Rural Crime Watch: Year End Wrap Up of Recent Events

    Law efforts have been particularly rewarding this past month. Calgary Police and the RCMP broke up a Calgary crime ring that had also operated in the Priddis and Millarville area. That had an immediate effect on break-and-enters here.  Police recovered 1.3 million dollars’ worth of stolen property, including forty-seven vehicles, along with bobcats, ATVs, trailers,…

  • Carbon Offsets are Important, But They Won’t Fix Plane Pollution

    Carbon Offsets are Important, But They Won’t Fix Plane Pollution

    By Susanne Becken, Griffith University and Brendan Mackey, Griffith University   Australia is an important player in the global tourism business. In 2016, 8.7 million visitors arrived in Australia and 8.8 million Australians went overseas. A further 33.5 million overnight trips were made domestically. But all this travel comes at a cost. According to the Global Sustainable Tourism Dashboard, all Australian domestic trips…

  • A Smart Road Map to Lower Carbon Emissions? Look to Texas, of all Places

    A Smart Road Map to Lower Carbon Emissions? Look to Texas, of all Places

    Texas switched from coal to natural gas and dramatically cut carbon emissions. Why doesn’t Canada follow its example? By Mark Milke Contributor Canadians for Affordable Energy One marvellous aspect of promoting a country or region’s comparative economic advantage – location, natural resources, the education rates of a population – is that if it’s allowed to…

  • How To Keep It Green with Eco-Friendly Christmas Decorations!

    How To Keep It Green with Eco-Friendly Christmas Decorations!

    By  Sarah Burke ‘Tis the season, and you know what that means? Lots of drink, food, decorations and… well, lots of everything really. Christmas is all about overindulgence, excess consumption and… Giving? Family? Love? Something like that. But really, it’s all about stuff. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be so damaging. There are multiple guides out there to help you…

  • Santa-worthy Cookies

    Santa-worthy Cookies

    Whether you’re participating in a cookie exchange with friends or making a treat for St. Nick, add these adorable reindeer cookies to your holiday baking this year. As sweet to look at as they are to eat, the salty pretzel antlers complement the season’s favourite flavours of ginger, cinnamon cloves and sweet molasses. These homemade…

  • IAU Approves 86 More Star Names

    IAU Approves 86 More Star Names

    By Deborah Byrd, EarthSky News “These professional astronomers are claiming the exclusive right to give ‘approved’ names to the stars. But the stars – and the sky – belong to all of us.” There’s been a debate among professional astronomers about who should have the right and/or obligation to name stars and other space objects. The…

  • Canada to Order 88 New Fighter Jets, Preferably not from Boeing

    Canada to Order 88 New Fighter Jets, Preferably not from Boeing

    Canada is planning to replace its aging fleet of 77 CF-18s (bought in 1980s) with 88 new fighter jets. An order is estimated to be worth approximately between $12 to $15 billion. The bidding process is going to be formally launched in 2019, the winner should be awarded the contract in 2022, making 2025 the…

  • Millarville Horticultural Club – Heritage Seeds

    Millarville Horticultural Club – Heritage Seeds

    Every second Tuesday of the month (Sept to May) at 7:30pm a speaker is arranged to talk and share their knowledge with the club. We meet at the Millarville church house. Our next meeting is January 9, 2018 at 7:30pm. Shane from Wild Rose Heritage Seeds in Lethbridge will be  talking about his local seed company. It is an…

  • We are Women, Hear Us Rev

    We are Women, Hear Us Rev

    CALGARY, AB – The Motorcycle Show – Calgary, presented by Dalton Timmis Insurance returns to the BMO Centre, Stampede Park January 5-7, 2018.  Calgary is the first stop on the Canadian tour providing Calgarians with the very first opportunity to check out the new 2018 showcase of new motorcycles, scooters, ATVs and side-by-sides from all the…

  • Take Care on Highways During the Holidays

    Take Care on Highways During the Holidays

    Albertans are advised to use extra caution on Alberta highways this week and over the holiday season. Areas of southern Alberta have been experiencing heavy snowfalls that are affecting driving conditions. Accumulations of 15 to 25 centimetres are expected in the Calgary and Lethbridge regions and to the east, while accumulations west of Calgary toward…

  • Supporting Family Violence Survivors in Fairview

    Supporting Family Violence Survivors in Fairview

    The province is helping train front-line workers to better support women and children affected by family violence. The Crossroads Resource Centre and Women’s Shelter in Fairview has been awarded a $9,000 Status of Women grant to train staff in trauma-informed care to better support women and children fleeing violence. Staff will be trained in people’s…