Reading Time: < 1 minute Alyssa Henderson from Bashaw is the 2017 4-H Alberta Premier’s Award recipient. Henderson is a member of the Central Lacombe 4-H Beef Club, and was chosen from among the province’s top 4-H members to receive this award during the 60th annual 4-H Selections program at Olds College. She will represent 4-H Alberta at various regional 4-H […] Read more
Bashaw 4-H’er named Premier’s Award recipient
Celebrate Canada’s 150th with your family’s cattle brand
Alberta’s Cowboy Trail is steeped in history, and one man is working to wrangle it
Reading Time: 3 minutes History Wrangler’ Rob Lennard has a million and one stories about Alberta’s past. But few capture the imagination quite the same way as his stories about cattle rustlers. “People appreciate hearing about the cattle rustlers,” said Lennard, historian at the Bow Valley Ranche and official ambassador of the Cowboy Trail. “Before barbed wire fences, you […] Read more
Hit the road — there’s summer fun in every direction in Alberta
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’re planning to head out on the highway this summer for adventure, consider trying some new routes. The events you can experience may be closer than you think — or take you to a corner you’ve never seen before. But two things are clear. The definition of fun is as vast as the Alberta […] Read more
Alberta 4-H leader stands out in a very big crowd
Reading Time: < 1 minute There are nearly 7,400 volunteers working to support 4-H clubs across the country — and so standing out isn’t easy. But that’s just what Caroline Boddy of the Golden Prairie 4-H Club has managed to do. The Forestburg resident was recently chosen as the 2016 National Volunteer Leader of the Year. The award recognizes the […] Read more
Family sawmill a link to the pioneer days of Alberta
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s well known that the Leonardo DiCaprio movie “The Revenant” was filmed in southern Alberta. What’s not is that a lot of building materials used to create the West of 1820s came from the Brooks Sawmill near Cochrane. The film is one of several westerns the sawmill has supplied among its highly eclectic client list. […] Read more
Mane Event heads east and south
After expanding to Red Deer 11 years ago, B.C.-based Mane Event is adding shows in Ontario and Arizona
Reading Time: 3 minutes As organizers of the Mane Event return to Red Deer for the 11th time, the show is jumping to new heights this year. The equine educational expo, which began in Chilliwack, B.C., is now a four-stop tour after expanding both east and south this year — adding shows in London, Ont, and and Scottsdale, Ariz. […] Read more
Do it right and your small town could be ‘cool’
Reading Time: 3 minutes Imagine your rural town with bustling streets, thriving businesses, and growing numbers in the local school. Sound a little far fetched? Especially as you look around and see no signs of any such vision? But peer closely into the future — there’s a good chance your rural town could one day have a whole lot […] Read more
Historic Alberta ranch to be preserved as cattle operation
Reading Time: 2 minutes One of Alberta’s oldest ranches will remain a working operation thanks to a conservation agreement with the Nature Conservancy of Canada. When it was founded in 1882, Oxley Ranch covered 200,000 acres, making it one of the four largest ranches in the foothills. The remaining 2,266 acres will now be preserved from cultivation, drainage of […] Read more
College student turns brewery waste into a budding business
Reading Time: 3 minutes Two years ago, Alex Villeneuve was pressing the moisture out of spent grain with two stainless steel bowls in his Olds College dorm room, wondering what he was doing with his life. But that all changed when he was awarded a $5,000 innovation incubator grant — the “launching point” for Ceres Solutions Ltd., a company […] Read more
Trapped in a flash — the horror waiting inside a grain bin
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’ve ever had a near miss in a grain bin — and lots of you have — this is the horrible fate you nearly suffered. It starts when your foot sinks past the ankle and the grain reaches your lower calf. Eight or nine seconds later, the grain is up to your chest. And […] Read more
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