Tag: Southern Alberta

  • Oilfields High Quest Team Heads to the BC Coast

    Oilfields High Quest Team Heads to the BC Coast

      All the  best to students, staff and parent volunteers who are adventuring out to the Sunshine Coast, BC next week. Activities include: ·         Open Water SCUBA certification ·         Kayaking to the Copeland Islands Provincial Marine Park (overnight) ·         Hiking part of the Sunshine Coast Trail ·         Stand-up paddle boarding, ·         Low Ropes Course. ·         Exploring…

  • Montrose Bridge Closure

    Montrose Bridge Closure

      HIGH RIVER, AB: Starting Monday, May 25, Montrose Bridge along 5 Street S.E. will be closed for approximately four days. The closure is necessary to allow crews to tie-in to a water main as part of the Canadian Tire development. Access to Sheppard Family Park will continue to be available from 12 Avenue S.E.…

  • Local Artists to Create Calgary’s Largest Yarn-Bombing

    Local Artists to Create Calgary’s Largest Yarn-Bombing

    On June 9th, 2015 the Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF), in collaboration with This is My City Art Society (TMC), will unveil Calgary’s largest yarn bombing as a kickoff to celebrate the beginning of its newest affordable housing build! CHF has purchased a home that has been slated for demolition; in its place, a brand new,…

  • Employers Welcome $507 Million WCB Refund

      Business owners want refund of surplus triggered at a more reasonable level CALGARY – The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) welcomes the half billion dollar surplus distribution from the Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB) to employers across Alberta.  In a letter to CFIB dated May 14th, 2015, WCB President Guy Kerr announced $507 million…

  • University to Grant Canadian Music Icon Ian Tyson Honorary Degree

    University to Grant Canadian Music Icon Ian Tyson Honorary Degree

    The University of Lethbridge Senate is pleased to announce its fourth 2015 Honorary Degree recipient – Canadian music icon Ian D. Tyson. “It’s very exciting to have one of our country’s foremost musicians and entertainers accept our offer of an honorary degree,” says University of Lethbridge Chancellor Janice Varzari. “His music has long reflected the…

  • Girls Get Active!

    Girls Get Active!

    Saturday, May 30, 2015 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm at the Okotoks Recreation Centre. Spend a day with the girls! Back by popular demand! Girls 9 to 13 years old are invited to a fun day of activities. This afternoon of fun provides an opportunity for girls to participate in a wide variety of healthy activities.…

  • Premier Designate Notley Statement on School Budgets

    Premier Designate Notley Statement on School Budgets

    Premier Designate Rachel Notley issued the following statement May 12, 2015: “I have asked that the outgoing Government of Alberta extend the school budget deadline by a month – to the end of June. The people of Alberta voted last week for a new government that is committed to funding enrolment growth properly. We will…

  • Millarville Horticulture Club: Don’t Miss the Annual Plant Sale

    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. June 4 is our annual plant sale at the Millarville Race track quonset. 7pm sharp. Locally grown perennials and shrubs grown by our club…

  • Wordfest Announces Indigenous Voices Series at 20th Festival

    Wordfest Announces Indigenous Voices Series at 20th Festival

    Drew Hayden Taylor, Richard Van Camp and Aaron Paquette Among Artists to Appear in Expanded Indigenous Voices Series at 20th Wordfest Calgary, AB – In celebration of its anniversary year, Wordfest is presenting a dedicated Indigenous Voices Series featuring renowned artists from First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities at the 20th Festival, October 13-18, 2015. Drew…

  • Taking the Plunge into Digital Marketing

    Taking the Plunge into Digital Marketing

    Forget Mad Men: Here’s the new office setup By Sharon MacLean, Troy Media EDMONTON, ALTA. —  You’ve finally decided to take the plunge. It’s time to update your company marketing using digital strategies and tactics. Where do you begin? Even the job titles are confusing. What’s a content manager, anyway? Does that person also refresh…

  • High Country Rural Crime Watch Meeting Tonight

    Everyone is invited to attend tonight’s Meeting with the High Country Rural Crime Watch Association, the M.D. of Foothills Emergency Management and our partners who responded to the recent April 2015 Fire events in our area.

  • Diamond Valley: Project Green Day is Tomorrow, Saturday May 23rd

    Diamond Valley: Project Green Day is Tomorrow, Saturday May 23rd

    The Towns of Black Diamond and Turner Valley are asking volunteers to come out and help with Project Green Day on Saturday, May 23 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 noon. Both communities will be spruced up for the summer, thanks to this annual event. We will be looking for volunteers to help plant trees on…

  • Okotoks RCMP Officers seek Arson suspect

      OKOTOKS, Alberta – On May 8, 2014 RCMP Okotoks was called to assist Okotoks Fire Department with a fire at 35 Riverside Drive. The ensuing fire damage has since displaced three neighbouring local businesses and the fire remains under investigation. Video of the fire was captured by the security system and depicts an adult male…

  • From Scissors to Soap

    From Scissors to Soap

    Strange you may ask how a seasoned hair stylist makes the move to soap making? Well, Colin McConnell of Bar 13 Soap Works found it a very natural (no pun intended) step. For years Colin had been researching non-chemical hair products to use in his High River Salon which was the first Organic Salon, partly…

  • Foothills School Division News: Distinguished Leadership Award Winners

    Foothills School Division News: Distinguished Leadership Award Winners

      Sherry Agasoster-Jones, Principal of C. Ian McLaren School in Black Diamond, joins École Percy Pegler School Principal, Dinah Shortt as a recipient of the 2014-15 Distinguished Leadership Award, presented by the Alberta Teachers’ Association’s Council for School Leadership.   Sherry and Dinah (pictured here) will be among those recognized at the Board’s annual Employee…