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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...
Columnists - Marilyn King
May 20 was National Dog Rescue Day.
Part 1. Have you noticed that for just about everything there is a “National Day”? There are a large number of not-for-profits, charities and organizations...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Distinctly Chestermere
What makes your neighbourhood special? This is the question that a community in London, England first asked about 30 years ago. They began the Local...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Alley-Oop
Just a few weeks before the pandemic hit Alberta in March of 2020, the fourth-oldest brewer in our fair province changed hands. This was shortly after...
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