Seventy-five-year -old Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands recently hung up her scepter and handed over power to her middle-aged son. Her subjects cheered, a few...
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Columnists - Mansoor Ladha
Time for the Queen to pass scepter to Charles
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
Beer: The Motion Picture
Located approximately 100km south of Chestermere is quite possibly the nerdiest town in the province. Yes, gentle reader, I am speaking of the Town of Vulcan...
Columnists - Tricia Ingram
Perennials for Shady Areas
Having a shady garden is not the pain in the backside that many people think it is! There are loads of beautiful, easy perennials that flourish in shade! We...
Columnists - Tricia Ingram
Chestermere is a Community In Bloom!
Calling all civic pride! The best news I have heard this season is that the folks at the Town of Chestermere are entering the Town into the Communities in...
Columnists - Mansoor Ladha
The perils of modern travel
Some time ago, a friend told me that you need a holiday after a holiday. How true. We have just returned from a five-week marvelous holiday in the United...
Columnists - Jai Murugan
(Loch)
Some second cousin eight times removed with a different name, on my father’s side married his sweetheart while stationed in Britain during the war. Later...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
International Whisky Day
A very special day has just slipped by on the calendar. No, gentle reader, it’s not my two-week anniversary with that young lady with Pinot-soluble...
Columnists - Nick Jeffrey
You Don’t Have The Stones
Readers in the audience with an archeological bent may wonder how beer was made before the availability of metal brewing vessels. Students of history will...
Columnists - Tricia Ingram
Is Perception Everything?
Twenty years ago, when my husband and I first approached a bank about getting a loan to build our greenhouses, the banker we were meeting bemusedly listened to...
Columnists - Jai Murugan
(hose)
Alas, hail the mighty hose! The genius who invented it (Jan Van der Heiden, Dutch, 1652) was without doubt a practical man, and thinker on shortcuts to hard...
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