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Crystal Cross Child and Keeyah Orr are planning an exciting summer for Fort Macleod’s young people. Cross Child and Orr…Continue Reading

Runners, walkers and cyclists will join the quest to find a cure for a rare genetic disease. The 18th annual…Continue Reading

Southwest United Rugby Football Club capped a strong season Saturday with a bronze provincial medal. United won two of three…Continue Reading

ANDREW WALMSLEY – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR This past weekend the F.P. Walshe Flyers girls’ rugby team participated in their 11th consecutive provincial championships. They are the only program in the province with that record, and the fact that they had medaled in all 10 of their previous provincial championships put pressure on the new crop of…Continue Reading

“By the 1930s artists were capturing scenes from many Canadian landscapes,” Annora Brown wrote from the Ontario College of Art. “Their canvases depicted Quebec, Ontario, outpost Winnipeg and a strip of the West Coast.” But her own prairie region “was as little known as the Antarctic landscape!” She resolved to change that omission, though I’m…Continue Reading

Contributor – Herb Johnson (who turned 80 last week) This book report will not deal with a specific novel. It…Continue Reading

The Kainai Peacemaking Program received a 2016 Alberta Community Justice Award on Friday. The program, which combines traditional Kainai teaching…Continue Reading

JOYCE SASSE – GAZETTE CONTRIBUTOR There’s a treasure chest of Annora Brown paintings located in the Collections and Research Archives of Calgary’s Glenbow Museum. The shame is that only occasionally have they been displayed or lent to other public institutions. The blessing is that they have been so carefully preserved they are of pristine quality.…Continue Reading

The Southwest United Rugby Football Club continued its surprising run Monday by capturing the zone high school boys rugby championship.…Continue Reading