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Darrel Janz: at home – on air.

Sep 4th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Lead Story

By Pat Fream Photos by Neville Palmer For many, he is the distinctive voice delivering the daily news over the dinner hour. For some, he’s a regular at the local barbershop. Others know him as the robust bass in High River’s Willow Creek Gospel Quartet. No matter how you know Darrel Janz, you feel like [...]



Get Excited!

May 31st, 2010 | By admin | Category: Editor's Note, Lead Story

Each issue I gather as many of our contributors as I can for a photoshoot. I do this for a reason – I think it’s nice to be able to put face to a writer. Also, I hope it will encourage you to send me an e-mail and comment on the styles and stories in [...]



Sacred Journey to Motherhood

May 7th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Lead Story

She comes to the world

A tiny tender being…

No guilt, no shame, no fear, no name

And even if her form is slightly marred,

ears curled… fingers wrinkled…

In fact she is flawless



Right in the Folking Living Room.

Apr 15th, 2010 | By admin | Category: Lead Story

“Music is coming around / Back playing in people’s parlours / It’s just me singing for you.” -Corin Raymond, musician By Peter Worden Photos by Neville Palmer Something beautiful is happening in the living rooms of the nation – something powerful and, at the risk of sounding ambiguously alliterate, something patriotic too. It requires surprisingly [...]



Fire in the Belly: Kamla Hari McGonigal

Mar 27th, 2010 | By admin | Category: In Profile, Lead Story

“The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference.” – Elie Wiesel By Sandra Wiebe Breezing through university degrees faster than a speeding bullet, raising two boys, managing a nursing career, and baking specialty cakes all in a single bound, Kamla McGonigal comes across as a modern day superwoman. Yet through it all she [...]



Shot on Location

Sep 6th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Lead Story

Shot on Location By Pat Fream Photography by Neville Palmer Dear old Alberta has something filmmakers want: pristine Rockies, sculpted ranchlands, colossal sky, haunting badlands, contemporary cityscape, and a whole slew of directors, producers, technical crews, actors, and wranglers ready and willing to lend their expertise to the movie making business. So why is Alberta’s [...]



From Pitchforks and Mud, To Veils and Lace’

Aug 10th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Lead Story

By Blair Braitenbach Photos by Neville Palmer “If I am at a cocktail party, which isn’t very often,” explains Lee McLean, “and people ask me what I do, I’ll say I am a rancher’s wife, that I had an antique shop for many years.  I tell them what we do as a guest ranch and [...]