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A group of St. Albert singer-songwriters are uniting their voices to help a city family that lost their home to a fire.

Things are really going to cook at the St. Albert Public Library this summer. Mythical creatures are the focus of the new summer reading games for kids and fire-breathing dragons are going to be a bit of a problem.

The St. Albert Public Library stepped outside of the box both figuratively and literally on Wednesday afternoon to promote some of its new programs to an active audience.

Artistic director Janice Flower has selected Big, The Musical as St. Albert Children's Theatre 2015 winter production. Big, adapted from the feature film starring Tom Hanks is about a little boy who makes a wish to be older and overnight is aged to adulthood.

It’s been a while since the batty Addams Family made an appearance with their creepy, kooky characters. It’s tough to improve on the talents of 1960’s sitcom actors John Astin and Carolyn Adams.

Laughter and screams were heard at Paul Kane High School parking lot as excited students ducked under clouds of flying coloured powder. This was no ordinary school day.

Last Sunday a St. Albert Gazette newspaper carrier was shocked and thrilled when a singer she’d never met crashed her concert at West Edmonton Mall.

Pride has come to St. Albert with an event at Lions Park today, and it has come none too soon, according to organizers and supporters.

Laurel Vespi wants to show how mindfulness and meditation can help people in their daily lives. “If I could tell you that there is a simple – and I mean simple – way to reduce stress and increase your sense of well-being, make you more responsive, less reactive, and be more conscious about your choices, would you be interested in that?” she asked rhetorically.

For Christina O’Dell there is something about the romantic Broadway musical Guys and Dolls that puts it in a class of its own. “It’s become a perennial favourite.