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    • Stop

      By on June 10, 2019

      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...

    • Party People

      By on June 3, 2019

      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...

    • Why We Need Bugs

      By on May 27, 2019

      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...

    • Gift Culture

      By on May 21, 2019

      I love the phrase, “culture eats strategy for breakfast.” We can strategize to make amazing businesses, neighbourhoods and thriving community, but it will only take...

    • Remembering Jean Vanier

      By on May 13, 2019

      Creating a thriving community requires good people-focused policies, sustainable budgets, and good governance. These are all important and essential. However, what our imaginations  need are...

    • Allowed

      By on May 6, 2019

      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...

    • Not Your Grandmother’s Library

      By on April 29, 2019

      Libraries are a neighbourhood hub of activity where we meet others in our community, find resources, and connect over shared interests and passions. Libraries are...

    • Spent

      By on April 23, 2019

      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...

    • Getting Out and Building Up

      By on April 15, 2019

      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...

    • Plogging

      By on April 8, 2019

      We can thank the Swedish for Ikea, a culture of afternoon coffee and sweets, and a new neighbourhood movement called, ‘plogging.’ Plogging is a combo...