Features
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Signs of our Times
It is pleasantly surprising that there are still some old wooden signs around town, peeking out from trees, innocently sitting at corners, or lovingly kept...
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Don’t Let Your Kids Acquire Nature Deficit Disorder
Four words that today’s children will almost never hear are: “Go outside and play.” For children born after 1980, their play worlds are constrained and...
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Sunday May 26th “Purina Walk For Dog Guides”
“Can you see, hear and have overall good health? That’s something we’d all like to answer an affirmative “yes” to. But the fact is that...
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Behind the Scenes of a Great Red Ribbon Competition
As most volunteers know events do not just happen they require a great deal of preparation. Planning for the 2013 24th annual Chestermere Country Fair...
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Novel Book Club Reads “An Echo Through the Snow”
Andrea Thalasinos’s debut novel is a good winter read as much of the story involves dogsledding and is set in Wisconsin in winter and in...
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Chicago – A Stage West Review
Going into this, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I’d missed the 2002 movie of Chicago that came out, I’d never seen a previous performance...
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Chestermere Station — Lost then Found
When the Chestermere Historical Society published Saddles Sleighs and Sadirons in 1961 no one thought to include a caption under the picture of ‘Chestermere Station.’ ...
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Sump pumps protect from flooding
Sump pumps protect my basement from flooding. The best way to get rid of that excess ground water is into my floor drain, right? After...
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Brain Injury
CHESTERMERE – My neighbours have a fairly large family and one of the boys is a healthy 10 year old. He often drops by to...
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Alberta Hearing Center
CHESTERMERE – There is no doubt that your hearing is one of the senses that is always on duty no matter the time of day,...
