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January 19, 2021

Dolly’s Birthday Today. Happy Birthday Dolly!

Dolly Parton and Queens of Country, though I guess Tanya Tucker was a Princess at the time. Dale Evans definitely the Queen. Classic garage door decor!

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January 11, 2021

Doug & Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award – Katie Ohe – 2020

Legacy Awards Calgary Arts Development 2020. Katie Ohe

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January 9, 2021

Chapter 34 Vital and Danny Thebeau

CHAPTER 34 Summer of 1975 My friend, Jack Moore was keeping a few horses; he told me I should have one. I thought about it. I had a brother-in-law that…..

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November 26, 2020

Harry Palmer -Photographer

A long-time supporter of the arts in Calgary, and our dear friend, Harry Palmer passed away this month. When we think we know a story, it is easy to assume…..

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April 4, 2019

Ringo Starr’s Beaucoups of Blues

I bought this when it came out, 1970-71ish, and I’ve owned it ever since, I always heard Ringo had made it for his mother, who loved country music.  A few…..

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March 30, 2019

A Message For You Ch. 30 – Feel Good About Your Job! – Vital Thebeau

CHAPTER 30 The job that I enjoyed was working alone on the forklift – most of the time that was my job – to keep this forklift going. The operators…..

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March 16, 2019

A Message For You- Ch. 29 – Getting an Education!

CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a license to work in the mill, they wanted all the mechanics to have their…..

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April 7, 2018

5 Apps that mark your place! or do they?

In our tiny beachside cottage on a sheltered Vancouver Island bay, a stones throw from the water, I felt like the painting by Millais, The Boyhood of Raleigh, peering out…..

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March 3, 2018

6 Quotes: William F. Buckley, Jr. on collectivism, freedom, and power.

Today is the tenth anniversary of the death of William F. Buckley, Jr., founder of National Review and the father of postwar American conservatism. In his honor, here are six quotes…..

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November 10, 2016

Frederick Albert Tilston, VC, 1990

  On March 1st, 1945, he led “C” Company in a 500-yard attack across muddy terrain soaked by recent rain and snow, through barbed wire and enemy automatic weapons fire……