Tag: Good News

  • Curbside Giveaway Day in Okotoks

    Curbside Giveaway Day in Okotoks

    Sunday, May 22, 2016 – 9:00am to 4:00pm RAIN OR SHINE! *the day after the Parade of Garage Sales Give your reusable unwanted items a new home and keep them out of the landfill! Don’t trash your unwanted items, they may be someone else’s treasure! Set reusable unwanted items out at the curb on Giveaway Day.…

  • Calgary Girls Explore High-Tech Options

    Calgary Girls Explore High-Tech Options

    More than 700 girls from Grade 9 classes around Calgary explored the worlds of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) earlier this month. Explore IT is an annual conference that took place at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Mount Royal University and the University of Calgary. The 17th annual Explore IT exposed young women to high-tech careers…

  • Planet Waves Horoscope for May 16 – 22, 2016

    Planet Waves Horoscope for May 16 – 22, 2016

    By Eric Francis ARIES – How important is your opinion? I would propose that admitting to the facts of what you know is more meaningful than your idea of what they might mean. Facts, by which I mean things you can demonstrate to be true for you now, must point to the need for a…

  • Okotoks Conservation Educators

    Okotoks Conservation Educators

    Between the months of May to September, the Town of Okotoks embarks on a campaign of conservation awareness in our community. Five Conservation Educators visit approximately 2,000 households and 200 businesses educating the community on water and energy conservation and waste management. The Educators also attend all summer community events and provide conservation presentations to children at schools…

  • Why Do You Love Black Diamond?

    Why Do You Love Black Diamond?

    Black Diamond Survey    Call for all enthusiastic residents, business owners and visitors to Black Diamond to complete a new survey. The Town of Black Diamond has received a grant to perform research to evaluate and develop a brand strategy. We hope most residents, business owners and visitors will complete the full survey online. There…

  • AHS Weekly Wellness News: Sunglasses – more than just a fashion statement

    AHS Weekly Wellness News: Sunglasses – more than just a fashion statement

    Sunglasses are a “must have” for big-sky prairie summers and there is more to think about when selecting them than style and cost. Sunglasses can protect your eyes from the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) light and can dramatically reduce the risk of damage to your eyes. In the same way your skin can be…

  • Dear Earls: Your Beef Dilemma is Already Solved

    Dear Earls: Your Beef Dilemma is Already Solved

    Canadian cattle producers are among the most responsible producers anywhere in the world, justifiably proud of their humane treatment of their animals By Hubert Lau, President & CEO, BIXSco EDMONTON, Alta. / Troy Media/Dear Earls, Congratulations on your renewed commitment to sourcing beef from here at home. Canada’s beef-eaters and producers applaud you. The good news is…

  • What To Do With The Kids® Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Complete Production of its New App for Sitters and Nannies

    What To Do With The Kids® Launches Kickstarter Campaign to Complete Production of its New App for Sitters and Nannies

    A new app from What To Do With The Kids® is in the final stages of production following the work done by Mobile Application students at Ottawa’s Algonquin College and has launched a Kickstarter Campaign to hire a seasoned professional to finish the project in time for its release this summer.  SitterAdvantage is an app…

  • A Mom’s Shoes are Hard to Fill

    A Mom’s Shoes are Hard to Fill

    A future in healthcare is a family affair Story by: Sharman Hnatiuk Rei Calisin knew he wanted to become a respiratory therapist (RT) when he job shadowed his mother, an RT on the Stollery Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), for a day in high school. Now Rei, 25, works side by side with…

  • SAIT Opens Campus to Evacuees

    SAIT Opens Campus to Evacuees

    Close to 350 people evacuated from their homes in Fort McMurray remain sheltered in residence facilities at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). Through coordination with Calgary Emergency Management Agency (CEMA), SAIT Security and Residence teams worked around the clock since Tuesday, May 3 to ensure rooms were clean and available for displaced residents…

  • Lesser Slave Lake Rural Innovation Forum

    Lesser Slave Lake Rural Innovation Forum

    Rural Economic Development & Opportunities for Diversification June 27th, 2016 10:00-4:00pm Northern Lakes College, Slave Lake  This is a workshop for local governments, industry leaders, economic development agencies, and technology innovators to create important relationships across sectors, learn about innovative solutions that are economically and environmentally sustainable; and to identify innovative and value-added projects, partnerships…

  • Alberta Young Speakers for Agriculture launches youth speaking competition at Calgary Stampede

    Alberta Young Speakers for Agriculture launches youth speaking competition at Calgary Stampede

    CALGARY (May 10, 2016) – The Alberta Young Speakers for Agriculture (“AYSA”) has announced its inaugural public speaking competition for Albertan youth to share their passion about the agricultural industry. The competition will be held during the Calgary Stampede and offers youth ages 11-24 an opportunity to share their views in a speech on a…

  • Newfie Night Fundraiser in Nanton for Fort McMurray

    Newfie Night Fundraiser in Nanton for Fort McMurray

    The Boys & Girls Club of the Foothills (serving Black Diamond/Turner Valley/High River and Nanton) invites you to our Newfie Night coming up on Saturday, May 28th at the Nanton Community Memorial Centre (2204 – 18th St). Tickets are only $60 per person for an amazing steak & lobster dinner followed by a Newfie comedy, silent auction and much…

  • Heartland to Begin Filming Season 10 on May 17

    Heartland to Begin Filming Season 10 on May 17

    HIGH RIVER, AB: Heartland film crews will once again return to High River on Monday, May 16 and will be in the downtown area until the evening of Tuesday, May 17. On Monday, May 16 crews will be parking equipment and vehicles along the former railway tracks and gravel area between 1st and Centre Street…

  • Annual Jumpstart Charity Check Stop to be Held on May 28 in High River

    Annual Jumpstart Charity Check Stop to be Held on May 28 in High River

      HIGH RIVER, AB: Town of High River Community Programming will be holding their annual charity check stop in support of the Jumpstart sport children’s charity on Saturday, May 28. “This is a special day for children and youth in our community,” said Iva Woodward, community programmer with the Town. “All funds raised stay in…