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Support your High Rive Fire Department
Support your local fire department by buying a 2012 calendar featuring High River’s own brave, hard working men and women. Your $20 goes towards the building a new training facility for the department. Great Christmas gift idea or stocking stuffer. Photographed by local photographers.
Peace Park
In 1932, a group of Rotarians from Alberta and Montana made history by convincing their respective national governments to unite Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta with Glacier National Park in Montana to create the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. This blending of majestic lands, featuring the longest unguarded boundary on earth (5,000 miles) was originally [...]
Making the most of those fall root vegetables
Ratatouille with Grilled Chicken Recipe provided by Bistro Provence, Okotoks Serves 6 Ingredients: 2 medium zucchini (cut in half lengthwise) 1 medium Japanese eggplant (cut in half lengthwise) 1 red bell pepper (cut into 1 inch wide strips) 1 red onion, peeled (cut into ½ inch wide wedges, leave root end intact) 2 medium tomatoes [...]
What the World Needs Now – Is a Few More Blacksmiths (a lament for wrought iron.)
These days, blacksmithing seems akin in antiquarianism to a job in the fur trade or a car dealership selling only Model Ts. But for one of the last remaining master blacksmiths in the country, it says we are truly a people disconnected from the elements – earth, water, wind, fire – and our past. By Peter Worden Martin [...]
Budget Your Way to Freedom
People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan. When it comes to money management, the plan that prevents failure often comes in the form of a budget. A budget is a list of all planned expenses and anticipated revenues. It is a plan for saving and spending, not a cause for people to run [...]
Rock & Rollers – Not your Momma’s Social Club
By day she may be your check-out girl at Safeway, an honour student in the faculty of business or a physiotherapist at your neighbourhood clinic. In the evenings she laces up her roller skates, dons a superhero getup, goes by a badass name, and takes her place in a rowdy roller derby pack. By Pat [...]
Look what I found: Boom Boom Cards!
“Be the change you want to see in the world”, Ghandi might have coined the phrase but you can actually do something today! I found this little treasure at Sundara in Okotoks, possibly the only store for hundreds of miles selling decks of good deeds. As soon as you register your deck, Boom Boom! gives [...]
From The Editor Fall, 2011
This fall issue is a marker for three years of bringing Routes magazine to the foothills! I am proud of the product and all the staff who work so hard to make it happen. Putting together this issue for you started a bit earlier than normal. Writer, Mary Savage began in January, to arrange a [...]
At the Heart of Holmes
Contrary to public opinion, Mike Holmes never believed he was destined to become a contractor, let alone a Canadian icon in the construction industry, but from the age of six, and by virtue of his father’s influence, he was constantly fixing or building something. Never at a loss for words or ideas, this natural born [...]
