Years ago when I was just starting college, one of the staff members at the college hosted the strangest and most memorable adventures for students. Without...
Tag - Faith
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Stop
This month marks the first time in my life that I’ve been given the gift of a sabbatical. After fourteen years as a pastor I am taking a whole month just...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Party People
About five years ago a group of near-strangers in my neighbourhood did something unusual. They blocked off a road, hauled out a barbecue, inflated a bouncy...
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Why We Need Bugs
My parents drove a big Chrysler Cordoba while I was growing up. I remember after road trips gathering around the front of our car with my little sister poking...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Gift Culture
I love the phrase, “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” We can strategize to make amazing businesses, neighbourhoods and thriving community, but...
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Remembering Jean Vanier
Creating a thriving community requires good people-focused policies, sustainable budgets, and good governance. These are all important and essential. However...
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Allowed
If you could change something about your spouse, what would you change? That’s a dangerous question, isn’t it? Often in the early days of romance...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Not Your Grandmother’s Library
Libraries are a neighbourhood hub of activity where we meet others in our community, find resources, and connect over shared interests and passions. Libraries...
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Spent
Doing good, loving others, sharing your life, and caring deeply is costly work. Sometimes we do not realize how much we’ve expended on others until...
Columnists - Preston Pouteaux
Getting Out and Building Up
We have everything we need to build something amazing here in Chestermere. You were born with curiosity and the ability to create, to mend, to nurture, and to...