Funds are important but fun comes first, says April Simard. Simard, Community Engagement and Events Manager for Stepping Stones Crisis Centre, hopes to set fundraising records at this year’s Festival of Peace gala. But once you have your ticket and you’re in the hall, she says, you’re in for a great time. “We just want […]
Covenant Health presented its 2026 Service Through Christ Award to the Bonnyville Health Care Auxiliary for 75 years of service and community care. The award was presented October 27 at a ceremony in Edmonton. There are currently 46 active members in the Auxiliary, who volunteer their time to operate the hospital gift shop, organize the […]
The Don Conrad Theatre won’t quite become a Victoria’s Secret fashion runway at this season’s Elk Point Allied Arts dinner theatre production. But with or without Victoria, there are plenty of secrets behind an illicit lingerie operation set in New York City. The play, Nana’s Naughty Knickers, is a comedy by Katherine DiSavino. Bridget is […]
Local branches of the Royal Canadian Legion launched their annual Poppy Campaign on Friday. Local poppy drives are part of the Legion’s national campaign, which gives Canadians an opportunity to remember the country’s war dead while supporting veterans and the community. “Each year, Canadians step up with amazing support for the National Poppy Campaign,” says […]
Chères lectrices, chers lecteurs, je vous retrouve cette semaine. Il me semble que le mois d’octobre s’est occupé de filer à vitesse grand V. Aussi vite que le vent qui souffle depuis hier, en rafales de 70 km/heure. Des anniversaires à fêter, des funérailles, de la visite, des élections, un long weekend et déjà je […]
From time to time someone suggests to me that I am gypsy-like. That might explain why being a touring musician appeals to me: the exploring life of a wandering troubadour, a minstrel, at times court jester. An ancient trade right up there with prostitution. “Somewhere there’s musicHow faint the tuneSomewhere there’s heavenHow high the moon” […]
“Live by the Spirit, … keep in step with the Spirit” Galatians 5:26 In the last few years, we have been marking the change from the end of summer to the beginning of winter with a short fishing trip to one of our favourite lakes. This year we spent two afternoons on this lake and […]
“Enter his gates with thanksgiving.” Psalm 100:4 Our planning of Thanksgiving dinner started at the grocery store. I was picking up items from a shopping list when I saw bone-in hams on sale. I put a big one in the shopping cart, thinking of our family gathering on Thanksgiving Monday. That started a process of […]
“The Silk Road” is an evocative notion, and redolent with imagery. It is, in fact, not a single passage from Europe to China, but a vast network of roads and tracks, cities and waypoints that lubricated the east-west trade of the first 15 centuries of the last millennium. Of the nearly 6,500 kilometres of identified […]
Country roads can take me home, but we enjoy driving from post to post to post—especially in early September. King, Henry IV of France wished for “a chicken in every pot” for every peasant during the late 16th or early 17th century. We hope for a hawk on every post. Adult and juvenile hawks, mainly […]