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  • Millarville Horticultural Club: Seed Catalogues

    Millarville Horticultural Club: Seed Catalogues

    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 will be on Tuesday February 12th.  Bring your favorite seed or bulb catalogue. We will be placing bulk orders and comparing notes…

  • Planet Waves Horoscopes: January 21 – 28, 2019

    Planet Waves Horoscopes: January 21 – 28, 2019

    By Eric Francis ARIES — Our society has come to the point where it’s impossible to do much of anything without imagining how it might be perceived by some vast public, or one’s idea of the public. Yet it’s essential now that you conduct your creative or sexual experiments in the sanctity of your inner…

  • Images on Stone: the Secrets of Rock Art in Canada

    Images on Stone: the Secrets of Rock Art in Canada

    QUÉBEC CITY/CNW Telbec/ – Astonishing, mysterious images drawn or painted on rock walls or carved in stone across the Canadian landscape: rock art reflects the cultures of Indigenous Peoples who have been living on the territory for thousands of years. To provide the public with an opportunity to discover the wealth of this Indigenous cultural…

  • New Research Shows 58% of Food Produced in Canada is Wasted

    New Research Shows 58% of Food Produced in Canada is Wasted

    Second Harvest and Value Chain Management International release The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste Report (Toronto – January 17, 2019) Nearly 60 percent of food produced in Canada – amounting to 35.5 million metric tonnes – is lost and wasted annually. Of that, 32 percent – equalling 11.2 million metric tonnes of lost food –…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness: National Non-Smoking Week: What are your reasons?

    AHS Weekly Wellness: National Non-Smoking Week: What are your reasons?

    Over the past 30 years, Canada has dedicated a week to advocate and promote awareness about the health effects of tobacco. Alberta Health Services (AHS) recognizes National Non-Smoking Week during the week of Sunday January 20th – Saturday January 26th. During this time, we hope to provide information on the resources and support services that…

  • Tackle Systemic Inequality in Post-Secondary Education, Says Green Party

    Tackle Systemic Inequality in Post-Secondary Education, Says Green Party

    CALGARY – Post-secondary education in Alberta needs a dramatic overhaul, according to the Green Party of Alberta. Ever-increasing tuition rates are further reducing accessibility to post-secondary education.  Both the federal and provincial governments exacerbate the suffering of low-income students and their families with rising interest rates, creating student loan bondage. “With the start of the…

  • Nanton RCMP Arrest Two Involved in Copper Wire Thefts

    Nanton RCMP Arrest Two Involved in Copper Wire Thefts

    Nanton, Alta. –  Following a tip from an observant citizen, RCMP have laid charges and seized stolen copper wire. On January 15, Nanton RCMP were alerted to a suspicious vehicle west of Nanton. Nanton members with the assistance of High River Traffic Services located the vehicle and arrested two males. RCMP seized a large quantity of copper wire stolen from industrial sites. Bradley…

  • New Investment Supports Innovations to Help Canadians Live Longer, Healthier Lives

    New Investment Supports Innovations to Help Canadians Live Longer, Healthier Lives

    Federal funding helps launch a hub to commercialize preventative health technologies related to aging Surrey, British Columbia – Seniors are an important part of families, communities and workplaces. They help grow Canada’s economy and can share valuable knowledge and experience. As Canada’s aging population grows, we face new challenges and opportunities to ensure the continued health…

  • Oversize Load Travelling on Highways 14 and 21

    Oversize Load Travelling on Highways 14 and 21

    Another wide load will travel from Edmonton to the Fort Saskatchewan area starting this weekend and it could disrupt traffic. The 682-tonne, 63-metre-long piece of petrochemical development equipment, called a de-ethanizer stripper, will be moved from Edmonton to the Industrial Heartland over four days, Jan. 19-22. The stripper separates ethane from liquid natural gas to be…

  • Okotoks Council Approves Land to Advance Affordable Housing Through Partnerships

    Okotoks Council Approves Land to Advance Affordable Housing Through Partnerships

    Okotoks, AB: At the January 7 meeting, Town Council directed administration to purchase land to advance affordable housing and transitional housing within Okotoks, in partnership with Westwinds Communities and Rowan House. Westwinds Communities is proposing to build a 60-unit facility with 15 units allocated as market housing and 45 units as non-market (affordable) housing. Westwinds…

  • Announcing the 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees

    Announcing the 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees

    Alberta Sports Hall of Fame On December 3, 2018 we hosted three press conferences in Red Deer, Edmonton, and Calgary where we had the honour of announcing the names of the nine individuals and one team that will be inducted into the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame in 2019. We look forward to celebrating the…

  • Statement from MLA Dave Hanson

    Statement from MLA Dave Hanson

    ST. PAUL, AB (January 16, 2019): Dave Hanson, United Conservative MLA for Lac La Biche-St. Paul-Two Hills, has issued the following statement: “Yesterday night, my constituency office in St. Paul was vandalized, with our front windows shattered by large rocks thrown through them. “Thankfully, nobody was injured as the vandalism took place after hours when neither…

  • Hummel Family Pulls Together to Create Impactful Memorial Scholarship

    Hummel Family Pulls Together to Create Impactful Memorial Scholarship

    Pulling together is a hallmark of the Hummel family, and through the creation of the George and Alice Hummel Neuroscience Award, they are supporting research at the University of Lethbridge that will benefit families for years to come. Siblings Ruth Hummel Thomson (MA ’10), Eleanor (Hummel) Smith (BEd ’91) and Bernie Hummel recently established the…

  • Take Action on Radon in your Home

    Take Action on Radon in your Home

    Health Canada is warning homeowners about the risk of radon, the number one cause of lung cancer for non-smokers. All homes have some level of radon, the question is how much. In fact, based on current housing stock statistics and Health Canada’s research, close to a million homes have high radon levels in the country.…

  • From My Bookshelf: Unsheltered

    From My Bookshelf: Unsheltered

    By Lynn Willoughby Unsheltered ~ Barbara Kingsolver Kingsolver’s extensive research, her exposure of history as seen through the eyes of her characters, the mix of fictional and non-fictional characters, all kept me coming back.  As in all her writing, there are no lack of social issues of the day.  This book did not disappoint. The…