Lake Ridge Community Church in Chestermere, where I serve as one of the pastors, comes out of a rich and generous Swedish tradition. While you may still find a...
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Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Drinking Coffee (and Loving Your Community) Like the Swedes
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Brother Can You Spare A Wine?
Brothers can get a lot done when they work together. Romulus and Remus founded the city of Rome. Wilbur and Orville Wright invented the airplane. Those...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Viva Valpolicella
In the days of my callow youth, there were many glasses of plonk table wine consumed without a second thought, as Alberta was adrift in a desert bereft of fine...
Columnists - Leela Aheer
MLA report April 5
Hello Chestermere! I have so much to chat about with you this week, I don’t know where to start. Sometimes 1000 words is just not enough. I wanted to...
Columnists - Martin Shields
MP Report – grain backlog bad for producers
This spring, a decline in railway service for the grain sector has seen performance numbers drop dramatically. That’s resulting in the worst grain...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Spending Time
Enjoying your neighbourhood, friends, and family requires that ever so rare and limited commodity: time. Like the sand in an hour glass, the changing digital...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Plank Pose & Pints
The annual drunken bacchanalia of St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone for another year. I can only dimly recall how the days of my squandered youth were...
Columnists - Leela Aheer
MLA report March 30
Hello Chestermere! I first would like to apologize for not attending some of the great events held this past week in our lovely little city. I was looking...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Easter Hope
This week is full of new life and fun for many in our community. Easter is also a time for people to come together. My own family is preparing to gather around...
Columnists - Martin Shields
MP report – Spring updates on CSJ, C-71
The spring session of parliament is here. I think most of us in Bow River wish that spring had actually arrived with it. Eight months of snow is a lot, even by...
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