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Planet Waves Horoscope for June 13 – 20, 2016
By Eric Francis Coppolino ARIES — Every revolution begins with words, but you must get beyond that phase quickly. State your intentions and your plans to yourself, for the sake of clarity — then move on to your points of action. You have a rare opening to turn ideas into physical momentum, and it won’t…
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‘Tin Star’ to Begin Filming in High River June 14
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Alberta’s EcoHeroes Recognized at 25th Annual Emerald Awards Celebration
CALGARY, ALBERTA – On June 8, environmental leaders from across the province gathered at Calgary’s Telus Spark for the announcement of the 25th Annual Emerald Awards. Presented by the Alberta Emerald Foundation (AEF), the uniquely-Albertan award recognizes and celebrates environmental excellence in 12 cross-sectoral categories. Earlier this year, the AEF received 70 nominations for the prestigious awards.…
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Going It Alone
By Kim Inglis Canadians have many options when it comes to managing their investment portfolios. Most opt for full-service investments firms while others choose discount brokerages or robo advisor services. Those choosing to go it alone should make sure they fully understand their options before proceeding. I recently received an email from an elderly…
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MD of Foothills Receives Donation of Land from TransCanada to Support First Responders for Training Facility
MD of Foothills and Town of High River to collaborate on regional Emergency Services Training Centre. A regional Emergency Services Training Centre will soon be developed, just outside of High River on 60 acres of land donated by TransCanada Corporation to the Municipal District of Foothills. The vision for the training centre is that it…
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Calgary Leads Stem-Cell Cure for Kids with Sickle Cell Anemia
Novel therapy grows a new immune system from transplanted family stem cells CALGARY — Alberta Children’s Hospital here is believed to be the only pediatric centre in the world that is successfully using a novel stem cell transplant procedure to cure children of sickle cell anemia. To date, seven girls and two boys with the…
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Celebrating Graduation and aising awareness of cystic fibrosis from coast to coast
By Richard Cairney (Edmonton) Some students dive straight into the workforce after graduation, some travel to exotic locales to decompress. But Stephane Magnan, who is graduating this spring with a degree in mechanical engineering (biomedical), is cycling across Canada to raise funds and awareness for cystic fibrosis. You wouldn’t know it by looking at him…
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From My Bookshelf: Featuring Kelli Estes
By Lynn Willoughby The Girl Who Wrote in Silk ~ Kelli Estes History is full of brutality, most of it unrecorded. We in Canada have just heard the results of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but we cannot pat ourselves on the back over how we handled Chinese citizens after the railway was completed, nor…
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A Way Home Launches the Youth Homelessness Community Planning Toolkit
“Preventing youth homelessness means doing things differently.” To support the enhanced capacity to respond to youth homelessness in unique local contexts across Canada, A Way Home has developed a toolkit to help communities create plans to prevent, reduce and end homelessness among young people. Ending youth homelessness involves a number of critical elements and actions. These include…
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Faith Forum ~ I Don’t Want Religion!
By Gloria Wessner That might sound weird coming from someone who writes about God, but it’s true! I don’t want to be bound up in religion, which traditionally is understood as being boring, impersonal, duty-bound, can be full of rituals yet unfulfilling. What I want and need is a living, breathing and dynamic personal relationship…
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Groundbreaking of the Southbank Medical Building in Okotoks
The groundbreaking of the Southbank Medical Building was celebrated on Wednesday, May 25. The new state-of-the art- facility will offer physicians, specialists, chiropractic, physiotherapy, massage and pharmacy services. With the addition of these new services, Okotoks and area residents will have more options for the treatments they require. Having the best possible health care available…
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Navigating the SHIFT to a Sustainable Calgary
The Federation of Calgary Communities, SAIT and P2S Calgary are hosting a workshop on June 13th from 4:00-7:30pm at SAIT Culinary Gardens to delve deep into the challenges of urban redevelopment and sustainability. This is an opportunity for the development community to engage with students, community associations, and professionals and faculty from across the broad…
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Foothills MP John Barlow Raising Funds for Easter Seals Camp Horizon by Hosting the Second Annual RIDE TO HORIZON July 29th and 30th, 2016
High River, AB – Cyclists will again be hitting the road for the second annual Ride to Horizon cycling event in the Foothills riding. Easter Seals Camp Horizon has undertaken a huge $10 million fundraising effort to renovate the dorms at Camp Horizon, and on July 29-30 MP Barlow and his team will once again be…
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From Royalty to Rat-Kangaroos: Planet Comes Together to Mark World Environment Day
Sunday, June 5th was World Environment Day From royal families to farmers, politicians to schoolchildren, tens of thousands of people all over the world marked World Environment Day (WED) with events from Bhutan to Honduras to take action against the environmental challenges facing the world today. At the heart of the action was Angola –…
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