
April 11th, 2018 ~ Vol. 89 No. 15
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Slush Cup 2018 wraps up the season
There were slips, spills and solid runs at Sunday’s 2018 Slush Cup but one thing remained consistent: everyone left the course with a smile on their face. The Slush Cup event,where skiers and snowboarders attempt to come down a run and successfully glide across a pool of water, marks the end of the 2017-2018 season at the Pass Powderkeg SkiArea (PPK). Many achievements and “firsts” were hit this season.
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Shootout at the Bellevue Café
The story of the 1920 deadly shootout between police officers and train robbers in the Bellevue Café has all the makings of an exciting mystery crime thriller fit for Hollywood screens, but the Frank Slide Interpretive Centre has taken this gripping event and turned it into [...]
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Winter won’t go away
Last week I traveled to Lethbridge to keep an appointment (check-up) with my doctor, following [...]
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In a ring, while we sing, of the joys of spring … and hold our collective breath
As snow continues to fall, and society loosens its grip on last summer’s rekindled white-knuckle fear of wildfire, winter-weary Albertans are screaming for signs of spring. They want to see [...]
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Council updates: correction, cannabis, highway, beautification
In a Council update article published on February 28, the Pass Herald reported that there is no surgeon on staff. However, Dr. Bertus Rietsma with the Crowsnest Surgery and Vein Clinic is a surgeon living locally who provides surgical services at the [...]
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More Than Meets the Eye
It is a sure sign of spring (no pun intended) when one sees those wind-whipped cascading waters pouring down onto the old highway that at one time wrapped around the south edge of Emerald Lake. It used to be that we got to drive by that [...]
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The perennial Easter Lesson
I was six years old, and in the street of my school, there were more horses than cars. The world looked different than it does today, but the human behavior was the same. There was a bigger kid in the schoolyard, and he was [...]
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Fundraising for local man diagnosed with MS
At 25 years old, Derek Sharp seemed to have it all going for him. He was very active outdoors, he ran his own welding business with many high-profile clients in northern Alberta, he was a father to three sons.
So when he first started [...]
So when he first started [...]
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Great Divide Trail info session draws a full house
About 50 people gathered for a Great Divide Trail Association (GDTA) information session at Country Encounters on March 21 to learn more about the plans to relocate a section of trail just [...]
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Jeff Paulsen
Born in Cranbrook, BC, Jeff grew up with four older brothers, (two of whom have passed), whom he said, taught him many practical life skills -- including discipline. He is grateful to still have [...]
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Workshop teaches how to free dog from trap
Each year, the Fish and Wildlife office in Blairmore receives a handful of incident reports where people’s dogs get caught in a trap or snare.
Fish and Wildlife District Officer for Blairmore John Clarke organized a [...]
Fish and Wildlife District Officer for Blairmore John Clarke organized a [...]
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This and that!
It’s been an interesting week of information, some good and some bad. Being a publisher, I get probably 20 calls or messages a week regarding [...]
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Tagging- Art Form or Vandalism
Back about 13 years ago I got interested in an unusual expressive phenomenon that seemed to be growing by leaps and bounds. What caught my eye one day back then was a tag left on the old abandoned Ridgemont School in Fernie near where I lived at the time. It was very [...]
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