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Province to Fully Protect Castle Area
Commercial forestry in the Castle Special Management Area has been stopped and the process to designate the entire area under Parks’ legislation is underway. “Protecting the Castle is critically important for the biodiversity and water quality of this entire region. Under Parks’ legislation, and with the input of all Albertans, we will permanently protect…
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From My Bookshelf – Featuring Harper Lee and J. Ryan Stradel
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3 Best Practices to Minimize Lodged Crops
The combines have begun roaring across western Canada in the past couple of weeks which means that once again it is the grueling point of year where every minute counts when it comes to getting your crops off in a timely fashion. One of the biggest factors that contribute to an inefficient harvest are crops…
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Warning to Calgary Cat Owners: Keep Them Indoors
By Calgary Humane Calgary, AB — Calgary Humane Society, Calgary Police Service and Animal & Bylaw Services are warning cat owners to keep their pets indoors following several recent incidents where cats have been found mutilated, severely injured or killed. Calgary Humane Society Protections Officers have investigated the unusual or suspicious deaths of 12 outdoor cats this year…
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Stable Footing for the Brotherhood of Mankind
The City of Calgary’s Public Art Program has been successfully working on a comprehensive conservation work for the Brotherhood of Mankind artwork, also known as the Family of Man. The Brotherhood of Mankind artwork is one of the most prominent landmarks and tourist attractions in our city located outside the former Calgary Board of Education.…
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Rowan House Scores with Donation from Flames
Flames Foundation awards $15,000 grant to shelter Rowan House Emergency Shelter is $15,000 closer to our annual fundraising goal thanks to the Calgary Flames Foundation for Life. We recently applied to the foundation, requesting support for our Branches program which provides preventative education and awareness about the cycle of abuse, as well as the effects…
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STARS is Hosting an Open House to Celebrate 30 Years in the Air
30 years ago, two physicians, Dr. Rob Abernethy and Dr. Greg Powell, shared the belief that they and others working in emergency medicine could save more lives if only they saw patients sooner. Out of that vision and with the pioneering support of the Lions of Alberta Foundation, STARS was born on December 1, 1985.…
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Come Mingle With The Mounties
Local RCMP Regimental Ball to be Hosted by Turner Valley RCMP. By Pam Jones, Editor. Prestigious, Historical, Fun and Entertaining. These words all came to mind when Sgt. Paulina Larrey-King told me that our local RCMP Detachment were going to be holding a local Regimental Ball at the end of September. While pondering why these…
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Global Privacy Sweep Finds Half of Websites, Apps are Sharing Children’s Personal Information
An international project aimed at understanding how websites and apps collect and share children’s personal information had mixed results. Of the 1,494 websites and apps analyzed around the globe, 67 percent were found to collect children’s personal information and 50 percent shared information with other organizations. The Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner was…
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Many Hands Make Great Art
Calgary — The power of many will be evident this September when the first three of six community-built projects will take to the streets during Beakerhead, all made possible with funding from the Calgary Foundation. In May, Beakerhead issued a design call for community-built creations that could be a part of this year’s Beakerhead.…
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Oilfields Food Bank Invites You to their General Meeting
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The New Rowan House Turns Three!
Community & stakeholder celebration planned for September Rowan House staff and volunteers celebrated three years in High River July 30th, and what a wild three years it has been! We opened our new facility supporting women and children leaving abusive situations on July 30th, 2012. 11 months later we were impacted, along with many…
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Help Alberta’s Chiropractors Give Toasty Toes to Vulnerable Albertans
Inaugural #ToastyToes Sock Drive aims to collect 100,000 pairs of socks for shelters in partnership with United Way “Sometimes socks can be more important than bringing people food because food is not hard to get, but it seems to be harder and harder to get socks all the time. Without socks you get sores…between your toes…
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Lake Louise RCMP – Fatal Motor Vehicle Collision
On September 2, 2015 at 1:20 PM Lake Louise RCMP responded to a report of two vehicle MVC with injuries, on Highway 93 approximately 6 km’s north of the Saskatchewan River Crossing. The investigation revealed a Southbound Honda Civic crossed the centre line and collided head on with a Northbound motorhome. The collision resulted…
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Wildrose Prasad Panda Wins Calgary-Foothills
Elections Alberta – Unofficial Results: Elector Count: 32,212 Grochowski, Antoni (IND): 46 (0.36%) Hawkesworth, Bob (NDP): 3,270 (25.71%) Houston, Blair (PC): 2,746 (21.59%) Keeping, Janet (GPA): 377 (2.96%) Panda, Prasad (WRP): 4,877 (38.35%) Taylor, Mark (AP): 610 (4.80%) Zahid, Ali Bin (LIB): 791 (6.22%) Voter Turnout: 12,717
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