Category - Columnists

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 - 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...

Columnists - Leela Aheer

MLA report May 30

.Hello Chestermere-Strathmore readers. Did you know that Alberta is on track to surpass the GDP levels of 2014? What does that mean exactly?Well, here is the...


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