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• Watch: Food knowledge grows from in-school garden

  25-01-2019 23:52 via edmontonjournal.com
  An in-school garden club has brought together junior high students to learn about growing and preparing food in Edmonton. Students at Ottewell Junior High School, under the guidance of math and foods teacher Ruth Rancier, come together to care for the garden, which provides food for their cooking classes.
  Students learn to choose seeds, plant them and care for edible plants and flowers. They then prepare meals with homegrown ingredients. Using worms to make compost, the students care for their f
  
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• AGLC's licensing freeze thaws to allow 10 new retail cannabis shops

  25-01-2019 23:41 via edmontonjournal.com
  The Alberta government will issue 10 new retail cannabis licences thanks to increasing supply after a months-long licensing freeze.
  The province stopped issuing shop licences in November, citing the national supply shortage that has plagued the industry.
  At the time, the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC) said there were more than 700 applications from about 430 applicants in the queue for an Alberta store licence.  Each applicant can apply to run up to 37 stores.
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• Green inventions need Skills - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 23:26 via stalbertgazette.com
  Green inventions need Skills  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert students get hands on with the trades and sustainability at Skills Exploration Days.
  
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• North Ridge aims to expand north - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 23:25 via stalbertgazette.com
  North Ridge aims to expand north  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert's North Ridge neighbourhood could expand north of Villeneuve Road if an amendment to the neighbourhood's area structure plan gets the green.
  
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• Watch: New interchange to link Leduc with the airport, airport with Highway 2

  25-01-2019 23:18 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley has announced $33 million in funding for a new interchange at 65 Avenue and Highway 2 in Leduc.
  Leduc Mayor Bob Young said the interchange project has been a priority for a long time.
  “This interchange will unlock more access points to the airport enabling continued commercial development … in and around EIA and Leduc,” he said.
  The province, the City of Leduc and the airport each previously contributed $1.2 million for project design.
  
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• Most gas priced at 90.9 in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 23:16 via stalbertgazette.com
  Most gas priced at 90.9 in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteMost gas prices in St. Albert are back to 90.9, following an increase to 99.9 earlier this week. The majority of stations along St. Albert Trail are.
  
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• What’s on your plate? - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 23:14 via stalbertgazette.com
  What’s on your plate?  St. Albert GazetteHealth Canada's new food guide recommends big changes to what you serve at your dinner table.
  
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• Crowdfunding challenge aims to build businesses - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 23:01 via stalbertgazette.com
  Crowdfunding challenge aims to build businesses  St. Albert GazetteLocal entrepreneurs Krista King and Meagan Ryan have thrown their business in the ring for a chance to win a new competition. Build Her Business is a.
  
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• Man shot in Lacombe Park neighbourhood - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 22:30 via stalbertgazette.com
  Man shot in Lacombe Park neighbourhood  St. Albert GazetteSome residents in Lacombe Park are on edge after a shooting in their neighbourhood led St. Albert RCMP to ask the public for help. Officers responded to a.
  
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• Notley announces $33 million for interchange in Leduc

  25-01-2019 22:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley has announced $33 million in funding for a new interchange at 65 Avenue and Highway 2 in Leduc.
  “It will create roughly 8,300 jobs and it will generate about $600 million in investment,” she said at a Friday news conference at the Edmonton International Airport. “We need better ways to link Leduc with the airport, and the airport with Highway 2.
  “It’s a global trade corridor.”
  Her announcement came on the heels of a campaign-style sp
  
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• Puzzle is picture perfect - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 22:10 via stalbertgazette.com
  Puzzle is picture perfect  St. Albert GazetteREVIEW Puzzle Stars: 4.0 Starring Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Bubba Weiler, Austin Abrams and Liv Hewson Directed by Marc Turtletaub.
  
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• Help Wynn legacy campaign help fight hunger - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 22:00 via stalbertgazette.com
  Help Wynn legacy campaign help fight hunger  St. Albert GazetteThe people behind the Wynn Against Hunger campaign are preparing for the second annual food drive to boost support for the St. Albert Food Bank. First,
  
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• Sentencing Monday on Broncos crash - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 21:45 via stalbertgazette.com
  Sentencing Monday on Broncos crash  St. Albert GazetteSentencing is set to begin Monday in a Melfort, Sask., courtroom for the driver of a semi-truck who collided with the Humboldt Broncos team bus in April.
  
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• "So many horror stories": RenovationFind aims to protect homeowners from being ripped off

  25-01-2019 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  When it comes to renovations, you can apparently live the life of Riley.
  Years ago that wasn’t necessarily the case, as local entrepreneur Keith Riley, a partner in Edmonton-based K&J’s Custom Granite, kept hearing about how homeowners were being taking advantage of. In some cases, homeowners’ dreams of carefree living and hassle-free home renovations were turning into nightmares.
  “I met a lot of homeowners through K&J’s that were being taken advantage of by
  
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• Growing Things: Lawn fertilizer can hamper apple tree production

  25-01-2019 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Q: We would appreciate your advice regarding an apple tree. We have one apple tree that is a several years old, which we have fertilized with all-purpose fertilizer, and it has never borne fruit. Would the fertilizing regime described in one of your recent columns — alternating general and high phosphorous fertilizers — be appropriate for this tree? We have some haskap berry bushes nearby which we also fertilize with all-purpose fertilizer, and they bear lots of berries, so we
  
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• Canmore's Versant development brings home mountain views

  25-01-2019 21:17 via edmontonjournal.com
  Even though Angela Grekul of Edmonton travels to Canmore at least once a month to work, she insists that life in the small mountain town is about slowing down and enjoying life.
  Her nine-to-five job is in wealth management, however three years ago a colleague and fellow art lover invited her to become co-owner of Avens Gallery in Canmore, thereby beginning the slow transition from a hectic life in the provincial capital to a more serene existence in the mountains, despite the fact she’s th
  
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• Review: Dierks Bentley balances party and polish at Rogers Place

  25-01-2019 21:16 via edmontonjournal.com
  Partying on a Thursday night has always been something of a fool’s errand, so when Dierks Bentley raised a glass to Rogers Place and remarked “it’s close enough, let’s call it the weekend” the message was delivered with a tongue-in-cheek charm that’s come to characterize the 43-year-old country superstar.
  Of course there was plenty of reason to party on this particular Thursday, thanks to a crowd-pleasing lineup that included openers Tenille Townes (more on he
  
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• Business Beat: Jack’s Sandwich Shack right around the corner - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 21:09 via stalbertgazette.com
  Business Beat: Jack’s Sandwich Shack right around the corner  St. Albert GazetteSubs away Jack's Burger Shack has opened a new sandwich shop. Jack's Sandwich Shack is located at 15 Perron St., where Ong Hanoi Style Fried Chicken ...
  
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• Frozen find on Fawcett turns heads - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 21:07 via stalbertgazette.com
  Frozen find on Fawcett turns heads  St. Albert GazetteWithin the last decade, Wood has built architectural wonders on his front lawn. He freezes H2O into small ice bricks and over a period of weeks builds an artwork ...
  
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• Horne won’t seek re-election - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 21:03 via stalbertgazette.com
  Horne won’t seek re-election  St. Albert GazetteSpruce Grove-St. Albert NDP MLA Trevor Horne has told the Gazette he will no longer be seeking a provincial seat in the upcoming spring election. Horne,
  
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• De-icing agent hasn't damaged St. Albert roads - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 20:47 via stalbertgazette.com
  De-icing agent hasn't damaged St. Albert roads  St. Albert GazetteSt. Albert will be letting Edmonton do the heavy lifting when it comes to looking into dangers of using a calcium chloride treatment to keep ice down on roads.
  
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• Edmonton police officer disciplined for pushing man down stairs at detox centre

  25-01-2019 20:37 via edmontonjournal.com
  An Edmonton police officer accused of pushing a man down a flight of stairs outside the Hope Mission has been found guilty of professional misconduct.
  The officer, identified as ‘Constable A.A.’ in a Jan. 16 disciplinary decision, was one of two officers tasked with transporting a man to the inner city shelter on Sept. 23, 2015.
  As they were exiting their police van, they were approached by two other men who were frustrated after waiting for a bed for several hours. The men appe
  
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• Flying Canoe Volant Festival - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 19:41 via stalbertgazette.com
  Flying Canoe Volant Festival  St. Albert GazetteCome celebrate your inner voyageur with light, music, legends and dance! In the spirit of a great winter city, the Flying Canoë Volant is a creative and interactive ...
  
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• Social Seen: 2019 Pride Gala

  25-01-2019 17:13 via edmontonjournal.com
  2019 Pride Gala
  Where: Art Gallery of Alberta
  When: January 19
  What: Pride Centre of Edmonton’s gala event
  Featuring: Food, entertainment including performances by Edmonton Vocal Minority, silent auction and opportunities to mingle with members of the LGBTQ2S+ community and allies.
  Codie McLachlan hits some of our city’s best bashes to snap photos for our weekly Social Seen column. He is an Edmonton photojournalist. Email your event suggestions to arts@edmontonjournal.
  
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• Dining Out: Tasty and tasteful, Aarde finds its place along 104th Street

  25-01-2019 17:12 via edmontonjournal.com
  Even in Edmonton, increasingly known for being a foodie city as new spots open their doors every few weeks, there will always be room for restaurants that take care in their dishes and care of their customers.
  Take Aarde (which means earth in dutch), on 104th Street downtown, carving out a niche of its own in an area already crowded with relative newcomers like Bundok, Bottega, and DOSC.
  Despite having opened its doors in November, Aarde has already established itself by providing careful s
  
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• Wine column: Corsica wines reflect history of conflict and conquest

  25-01-2019 17:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  While planning for an upcoming trip to France I was reminded of two often overlooked island destinations on my bucket list. One, just a short ferry ride off the southeast coast of Newfoundland — a place called Saint Pierre and Miquelon — is the last remaining French territory, dating back to when New France occupied much of the North American east coast. It is a place where the Euro and the rich French culture persevere, and I remember reading somewhere about a small wine shop locate
  
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• "We want to take this as far as we can": Local rockers Altameda return home supporting second album

  25-01-2019 17:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  Second time was the charm for Edmonton rockers Altameda.
  After picking up glowing reviews for their debut album, 2016’s Dirty Rain, the four-piece sequestered themselves in a cabin to record a follow up with local producer Jeff Kynoch. Tracking completed, they sat down and decided that maybe they needed to step it up a notch.
  “It could have been a lo-fi project, which would have also been cool, but we decided that we needed a more polished direction,” explains singer Troy Snate
  
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• Friday night freezing rain risk in St. Albert - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 15:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  Friday night freezing rain risk in St. Albert  St. Albert GazetteCloudy and a 60 per cent chance of flurries Friday morning, but warming temperatures should make it easier for St. Albert. The daytime high of 2 C and.
  
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• Edmonton weather: The sun now sets after 5 p.m. and we can live again

  25-01-2019 14:39 via edmontonjournal.com
  A look at today’s Edmonton weather by Environment Canada.
  Friday morning temperatures at the Edmonton Blatchford station that measured -0.1 C with 13 km/h winds out of the west, northwest contributing to a -4 wind chill.
  The time has come Edmonton for us to crawl out of the darkness and step into the light — we shall hibernate no more! OK maybe a touch melodramatic, but there’s something uplifting about looking out of your window at 5 p.m. in the middle of Januar
  
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• Friday's letters: Target consumers, not oil firms

  25-01-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  Re. “All of us must pay true costs of consuming oil,” Opinion, Jan. 24
  Craig Cameron wants oil companies to go away by way of economic suicide. It’s at best simplistic if he thinks that the climate problem will be solved if Canadian producers of oil disappeared.
  He forgets about consumers; they are actually the ones who put carbon into the air. His strategy would have Canadian consumers emit carbon from Saudi, or U.S., Russian or Venezuelan oil. Just as is the case in Eastern C
  
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• Editorial: Oilers need culture change

  25-01-2019 14:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  This isn’t the way things were supposed to turn out. In 2015, the city’s diehard but perennially disappointed sports fans were bursting with pride and marvelling at the promise of better times ahead.
  The Edmonton Oilers, having churned out yet another season of mediocrity, reaped the ultimate prize by winning the draft lottery and the right to draft Connor McDavid, who would waste little time staking his claim as the best player in the world, easily eclipsing even the team&rsquo
  
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• Teacher fined $200, gets reprimand for slapping a student with disabilities

  25-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  A Grande Prairie family is frustrated and angry after a teacher who admitted to hitting their 10-year-old disabled child received a $200 fine and letter of severe reprimand from an Alberta Teachers’ Association conduct committee.
  “To me, it’s another slap in the face,” the boy’s mother, Lisa Lovean, said of the committee’s penalty, which was announced Wednesday after a hearing in Edmonton.
  Melinna Dianne MacKenzie, a public elementary school teacher in Grande
  
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• Elise Stolte: Audit into city payment system illustrates need for workplace respect

  25-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The City of Edmonton got more bad news about workplace harassment Thursday, along with a good example of how it can affect the bottom line.
  Last July, accounts payable office co-ordinator Darlene Woodham came to council to say she and seven of her co-workers were driven to tears by a manager who wouldn’t believe their concerns. They were trying to raise the alert about issues they saw in the new city invoice payment system.
  Instead, they got blamed for not doing their job pr
  
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• David Staples: 'Any other market besides Edmonton would have abandoned the Oilers a long time ago': Sports business expert

  25-01-2019 11:00 via edmontonjournal.com
  The ineptitude of the Edmonton Oilers has made the organization the laughingstock of the National Hockey League.
  With the Decade of Darkness now on a nasty two-year comeback, could things get so bad that it will impact the financial health of the arena district and owner Daryl Katz’s business fortunes?
  In that regard, it’s lucky for Katz that Edmonton is so hockey mad.
  “Any other market besides Edmonton would have abandoned the Oilers a long time ago,” says University of
  
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• "He didn't become terminally stupid overnight": Brian Burke defends Peter Chiarelli

  25-01-2019 08:14 via edmontonjournal.com
  Burke also says of new GM: “They need a guy with experience, brains and balls.”
  This in from provocative Sportsnet commentator Brian Burke, his assessment and partial defence of his good friend, former Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli, spoken just after Chiarelli was canned.
  “He didn’t become terminally stupid overnight,” Burke said of Chiarelli. “But the fan reaction to this was white hot and there would have been a mob outside the building tonight.&rd
  
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• Notley says Kenney 'too big a risk' as she ramps up campaign rhetoric

  25-01-2019 03:24 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley signalled an election is close at hand Thursday when she ramped up her campaign rhetoric, taking aim at UCP leader Jason Kenney and his promise to curb government spending.
  “I want to lay out the clear choice in the election, because I actually believe quite strongly that the choices Mr. Kenney will make are too big a risk for the people of Alberta,” she said during a speech at an Edmonton Chamber of Commerce event attended by various NDP MLAs and staffers.
  She
  
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• Watch: Ice On Whyte kicks off with cool carving contest

  25-01-2019 02:47 via edmontonjournal.com
  The 2019 Ice On Whyte Festival brings the beauty of ice carving to the streets of Edmonton. The festival runs from Jan. 24 to 27 and Jan. 31 to Feb. 3, 2019 at Whyte Avenue & Gateway Blvd. in Edmonton.
  Ice On Whyte is a recurring ice carving festival that features delicious food, beverages, cool ice carving lessons and fun special activities. Ten teams of Ice carvers compete in the Canada Cup of Ice Carving, which features some of the best carvers from around the world.
  
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• Watch: Premier Rachel Notley addressing the Chamber of Commerce

  25-01-2019 02:23 via edmontonjournal.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley speaks to the media after addressing the Chamber of Commerce Provincial Leaders Series during a luncheon attended by various NDP MLAs and staffers at the Westin Hotel in Edmonton.
  Notley signalled an election is close at hand Thursday when she ramped up her campaign rhetoric, taking aim at UCP leader Jason Kenney and his promise to curb government spending.
  Kenney’s deputy chief of staff Matt Wolf said Thursday that the UCP will release a detailed and fully-co
  
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• Notlley says Kenney 'too big a risk' as she ramps up campaign rhetoric

  25-01-2019 01:32 via edmontonjournal.com
  Premier Rachel Notley signalled an election is close at hand Thursday when she ramped up her campaign rhetoric, taking aim at UCP leader Jason Kenney and his promise to curb government spending.
  “I want to lay out the clear choice in the election, because I actually believe quite strongly that the choices Mr. Kenney will make are too big a risk for the people of Alberta,” she said during a speech at an Edmonton Chamber of Commerce event attended by various NDP MLAs and staffers.
  She
  
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• The Recipients - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:23 via stalbertgazette.com
  The Recipients  St. Albert GazetteThis celebratory exhibition features the work of the four 2018 recipients of the 2018 Alberta Craft Awards. The Alberta Craft Awards honour individuals and ...
  
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• Vernon Ah Kee: cantchant - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:18 via stalbertgazette.com
  Vernon Ah Kee: cantchant  St. Albert GazetteReferencing the 2005 Cronulla race riots that took place near Sydney, Australia, cantchant provides a compelling statement on the racially motivated conflicts ...
  
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• A Midsummer Night's Dream - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:17 via stalbertgazette.com
  A Midsummer Night's Dream  St. Albert GazetteFilled with lovers, fairies and rustics, A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies. With misapplied love potions, mistaken ...
  
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• Portraits - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:12 via stalbertgazette.com
  Portraits  St. Albert GazetteOn its base level the portrait can convey the likeness of a person in physicality, personality, or even mood. From traditional beading by Sharon Rose Kootenay ...
  
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• Lake of the Strangers - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:12 via stalbertgazette.com
  Lake of the Strangers  St. Albert GazetteLake of the Strangers is a powerful new play by Jacquelyn Cardinal and Hunter Cardinal. Inspired by ancient Nehiyaw mythology, this story follows two brothers ...
  
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• Highway 628 reconstruction west of Edmonton to begin in 2021

  25-01-2019 01:11 via edmontonjournal.com
  A 15-kilometre stretch of highway connecting Stony Plain, Spruce Grove and Parkland County with Edmonton will undergo a two-phase reconstruction to improve road conditions.
  Highway 628, which is about 10 kilometres south of Highway 16, has long been a concern for residents who say the soft shoulders, washboard ruts, speeding drivers and dangerous plumes of dust make driving the road hellish and dangerous.
  The first stage of the realignment and reconstruction will be between 231 Street at th
  
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• Boarder X - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:11 via stalbertgazette.com
  Boarder X  St. Albert GazetteBoarder X features new work by Indigenous artists that use snowboarding, skateboarding and surfing to demonstrate knowledge and relationships to the land.
  
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• The Alberta Baroque Music Society presents Baroque Musical Delights - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:09 via stalbertgazette.com
  The Alberta Baroque Music Society presents Baroque Musical Delights  St. Albert GazetteThe concert features Nora Bumanis, harp and Heeyun Park, soprano. Music includes the Concerto for Harp by Handel, the Aria Piangero la sorte mia from ...
  
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• U of A High School Honour Band Weekend - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:08 via stalbertgazette.com
  U of A High School Honour Band Weekend  St. Albert GazetteAccomplished high school music students from across the province gather for the High School Honour Band weekend, culminating in a grand finale ...
  
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• Healing and Forgiveness in Scripture - St. Albert Gazette

  25-01-2019 01:08 via stalbertgazette.com
  Healing and Forgiveness in Scripture  St. Albert GazetteThe Gospels invite us to experience healing, reach out for reconciliation, and grow God's reign here on earth. Join us for three evenings as we explore the power ...
  
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• Central Alberta RCMP officer charged with two counts of assault in 2017 Nisku gas station arrest

  25-01-2019 00:33 via edmontonjournal.com
  A central Alberta RCMP officer has been charged with assault for hitting a man in the face with a pair of handcuffs during a November 2017 arrest at a Nisku gas station.
  The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) was instructed to conduct an investigation following a police-involved confrontation at a gas station on Nov. 15, 2017 where two men were arrested on outstanding warrants for possession of stolen property, executive director Sue Hughson said at a news conference Thursday.
  The RC
  
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