Tag: Good News

  • Turner Valley School News: Winter Activities Keeping Everyone Warm

    Turner Valley School News: Winter Activities Keeping Everyone Warm

    Can you believe another month has come and gone? February is here and we are full speed ahead again after the break. Students and staff have been working hard as we focus on literacy and numeracy in the building. During the last week of January we celebrated Family Literacy day, which featured a camping theme which made many of us crave the…

  • Lunar New Year: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    Lunar New Year: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    (Google/Alyssa Winans) The Lunar New Year is being celebrated on February 8 with a Google Doodle. The New Year ushers in the Year of the Fire Monkey, the ninth in the 12-year zodiac cycle. The monkey represents “quick wittedness” and “smarts,” according to Google. “Doodler Alyssa Winans illustrated a family of monkeys in the traditional…

  • High River officially opens for business with new Manager of Economic Development

    High River officially opens for business with new Manager of Economic Development

    HIGH RIVER, AB: The Town of High River is pleased to announce that Shawna Stonehouse has been hired to lead the new economic development office as part of a project aimed at enhancing the local economy. Originally from Red Deer, Stonehouse moves home to Alberta to begin her new position on Feb. 8 and brings…

  • Come Inside for Family Day at the Legislature

    Come Inside for Family Day at the Legislature

      Family Day at the Legislature has moved indoors for 2016, and there is plenty of free family fun to look forward to inside. Family Day at the Legislature Monday, February 15 – 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. “This February 15 all Albertans are encouraged to gather together and celebrate the heart of our province,…

  • From My Bookshelf ~ Featuring Louise Penny and Richard Wagamese 

    From My Bookshelf ~ Featuring Louise Penny and Richard Wagamese 

      By Lynn Willoughby The Cruelest Month – Louise Penny This is a Chief Inspector Gamache novel, one of a series.  They all take place in the same location with many of the same characters – more or less, so it all seems very familiar and friendly.  However, there is no doubt that this is…

  • Faith Forum ~ How’s It Going?

    Faith Forum ~ How’s It Going?

    By Gloria Wessner Now that the New Year is well underway, how’s it going for you? Perhaps it’s going very well, 2016 has brought a new outlook, a new significant other and perhaps some positive other new changes. The reality for most people is that this year is going a lot like 2015 and is…

  • Alberta and the Group of Seven: Teachers, Students and Colleagues

    Alberta and the Group of Seven: Teachers, Students and Colleagues

      New art exhibit opening February 8, 2016 Alberta and the Group of Seven: teachers, students and colleagues, an Alberta-centric Group of Seven exhibit, is opening on February 8 in the Borealis Gallery, located in the Legislative Assembly Visitor Centre. This is a unique opportunity to view works from public and private collections from all…

  • Rowan House: Sharing our Gratitude

    Rowan House: Sharing our Gratitude

    Rowan House’s Christmas campaign a resounding success  Rowan House would like to take this opportunity to once again thank the Foothills for it’s generous support throughout the Christmas Season. We were overwhelmed by your kindness. This year was our busiest Christmas yet and the residents who had to spend the holidays in shelter were able…

  • The Valley Neighbour’s Club: Where Friends Gather

    The Valley Neighbour’s Club: Where Friends Gather

      The Members of the Valley Neighbour’s Club would like to tell you a bit about ourselves, with the hopes that you will join us. We have many activities during the week………floor curling, euchre, an exercise class, bridge, line dancing, whist and Bingo. We have an excellent library created by generous donations. We are not…

  • Foothills SNAPS 1st R.E.D. Identity Card Program

    Foothills SNAPS 1st R.E.D. Identity Card Program

    Foothills Special Needs Association for Parents and Siblings (SNAPS) has undertaken the 1st R.E.D. initiative in High River, the M.D.’s of Foothills and Willow Creek to provide Identification Cards to persons with visible and hidden special needs including seniors, adults, youth and children and community as a whole. This project is being funded by the…

  • Mobile Tourism Training Program Lets Students Earn and Learn on the Go

    Mobile Tourism Training Program Lets Students Earn and Learn on the Go

    Collaboration between the Government of Alberta, Olds College and the Alberta Hotel & Lodging Association (AHLA), has led to the development of a new mobile tourism and hospitality training program that will be available this fall. Government and the AHLA each contributed $500,000 to develop the training videos, which will be easily accessible to students…

  • Planet Waves Weekly Horoscope for February 5 – 12, 2016

    Planet Waves Weekly Horoscope for February 5 – 12, 2016

    By Len Wallick Aries (March 20-April 19) — If there is anything that recent years may have taught you, it’s an appreciation for both the specific and the complex. You are better able to ascertain the unique nature of each individual person, place or situation in your life. You understand more about how to perceive…

  • SAIT is Rebranding

    SAIT is Rebranding

    Calgary, AB — Work to redefine the SAIT brand is currently underway and a new brand will launch by fall 2016. SAIT’s impressive rate of growth and transformation over the last 15 years has made it a global leader in applied education — but the brand used to define the relationship SAIT has with students, employees,…

  • Victoria Believes in Love: The City is Named the Most Romantic City in Canada by Amazon.ca for the Fourth Year in a Row

    Victoria Believes in Love: The City is Named the Most Romantic City in Canada by Amazon.ca for the Fourth Year in a Row

    Calgary is number 6, making the top 10 North Vancouver and Waterloo continue to show love and affection, remaining at No. 2 and No. 3 on the annual top 20 list British Columbia and Ontario dominated the list with six cities each in the top 20 SEATTLE, February, 2016 /CNW/ – Victoria continues to let…

  • Reel Reflections: The Big Short

    Reel Reflections: The Big Short

      Economic Jenga By E. P. Whinters What if you had the opportunity to make your most incredible dream come true, to actually achieve the success you have always dreamed of for yourself? … But it comes far from great for many others? Or at the collapse of an institution our reality is built on? It’s…