National Martini Day has just recently passed us by, taking place on June 19 every year. In past years, I would get all gussied up in my fanciest duds and hit...
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Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Dreamy Martini
Columnists - Karen McKee
Seeking Life Balance.
“Have regular hours for both work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.”...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Alberta Bourbon
Today is National Bourbon Day, and while the spirits in my liquor cabinet are typically stocked with fine Scotch or whiskies from our local Alberta craft...
Columnists - Leela Aheer
The provincial government is expanding mental health services in rural Alberta
The provincial government is expanding mental health services in rural Alberta. The provincial government has partnered with Counselling Alberta to ensure...
Columnists - Marilyn King
“They just know”
I recently had lunch with a friend who told me this story involving her dog, Simba. “March 2019 while spring skiing I fell, not a spectacular fall, more the...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Heavenly Beer
History buffs may recall that monasteries were some of the first organizations to brew beer on a regular basis. Way back in the Middle Ages, a French order of...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
John McKnight: Finding Our Neighbourhood Treasure Chest
Imagine finding something so good that you would change your life to have it. What would it have to be? One of Jesus’ teachings used this analogy, he said...
Columnists - Marilyn King
Rescue dogs- Part 2. Who rescued who?
Fay walked out of the restaurant with the leftovers in a bag. Only a few more days left in a small town on the outskirts of Puerto Vallarta Mexico, she...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Bubble Trouble
After a long winter of lockdowns, summer is a time of garden parties, wedding dinners, graduations, and other special occasions that call for sparkling wines...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
The Pouteaux’s Were Here
Our plane lowered through the clouds over a choppy section of the Atlantic Ocean, though I could not hear or smell the ocean over the roar of the turbine...
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