26 Jun
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The ironing board

Barbara EllisJune 26, 2020

Today’s the day, I can’t put it off any longer. I have to get that ironing done. With all the determination I could muster, I wrestled my ironing board out of the cupboard and dragged it into the living room.

The ironing board resisted and would not co-operate as I tried to open it up and stand it on its leg. Guess you are getting to be as old as me, I thought, but I am not replacing you, you will just have to wait me out until someone tosses you in some re-cycle bin.

I look at the old thing and...

14 Jun
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Tiny homes for Canada’s larger-than-life heroes

Sheila AddiscottJune 14, 2020

In November, on Remembrance Day, we remember those who have given their lives in service for Canada. Nevertheless, there are thousands of Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) veterans who return after their service who struggle to find their way home.

Calgary-based Homes for Heroes Foundation has tackled this issue head-on, and this November is opening Canada’s first village of tiny homes in Calgary, providing an innovative and caring solution to homelessness among veterans.

The Homes for Heroes Foundation was the idea of Murray McCann and co-founded with Dave Howard in response to the growing number of military veterans struggling to reenter civilian life...

9 Jun
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Seeing Europe by boat

Jerry CvachJune 9, 2020

Seeing the European continent from a cruise ship is a very different experience. We booked our first cruise in 1988, and how the times have changed since then. When we were packing back then, we needed an extra suitcase just for...

5 Jun
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15 hours to South Korea

Andrew McCutcheonJune 5, 2020

Cracking open a beer at 6:00 a.m. at Incheon airport isn’t the way I’d normally celebrate Canada Day. But after 20 hours of travelling, sleeping in airports and nearly missing a flight in Los Angeles, our little tour group from Lethbridge,...

17 May
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Three generations share a trip

Lesli Christianson-KellowMay 17, 2020

My family had visited Vancouver Island a few times, but this time we would experience it through my father-in-law’s eyes. It had been a long winter and he wanted to see spring on the coast. My father-in-law, Roy, grew up on...

8 May
Mark Paul at Kerby Centre community outreach
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Kerby community reaches out to Calgarians

Andrew McCutcheonMay 8, 2020

Over the days that made up the slow descent into self-isolation, social distancing and “essential work only” Kerby Centre may have closed its doors, but its essential work continues. Under health recommendations from the province, the centre was closed to the...

6 May
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Look for the helpers in times of crisis

Andrew McCutcheonMay 6, 2020

Fred Rogers, of Mister Rogers and PBS fame, had important things to say about helpers. “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘look for the helpers,” he said....

5 May
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Celebration in quarantine

Angie FriesenMay 5, 2020

This year my Birthday was unlike any other Birthday I have ever had. To be honest, I really didn’t know what to expect and I tried my best to keep my expectations low given the current COVID-19 situation unfolding in...

4 May
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I badly needed a job, in a well-heated office!

Jaroslav MariaMay 4, 2020

January 2020 was the fifty-first anniversary of my first and only employment interview for any job. It was an experience probably never to be repeated by anyone as hiring practices have changed so much over the decades. Businesses have indisputably...

7 Apr
Lou Lamy
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Lou Lamy and 1st Canadian Parachutes

Andrew Glen McCutcheonApril 7, 2020

Lucien “Lou” Lamy was born in northern Manitoba in 1925. He served in the 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion in World War Two. Every year, his group of former paratroopers would meet on the anniversary of D-Day in June to commemorate...