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The fireworks are all organized and ready as the city takes over the big New Year’s Eve show from the fine folks at Victory Life Church, who offered that community event as their gift to us all for 13 great years.

There are few gifts better to give or receive than the gifts of life. That’s the message being offered by one Morinville family whose patriarch is celebrating his fifth anniversary with his donated lungs.

Paddy Lamb’s exhibit The More I Gather offers a multimedia look at the artist’s interpretations and explorations of the physical remnants of previous inhabitants of his piece of land outside of Edmonton. Until Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017.

If midnight is too far away to try and catch a glimpse of a certain jolly old elf then head over to the St. Albert Trail pedestrian bridge at the McKenney and Bellerose intersection. Santa Claus is coming to town once again.

In the past four decades, there are a great many musicians who owe a debt of gratitude to the Anne Burrows Music Foundation for its continued scholarship support – occasionally in the thousands of dollars.

When Marcia Tait travels to Peru, she does it for work and for work experience.

Ethnic pride fuels the roots of Clara’s Dream, Shumka’s celebratory concept folk dance. Since their early beginnings, the troupe’s mission was to share their national roots and culture with the wider community.

Twenty-seven years ago we rushed my four-month-old daughter to emergency on Christmas Day. She had developed a high fever during the night and had serious diarrhea. It was a nightmare.

The St. Albert Community Foundation handed out its annual grants to an ever-wider number and variety of community groups on Wednesday.

As an artist known for his rule-breaking tendencies with local collective the Goop of 7, Peter Gegolick certainly appreciated a novel opportunity that presented itself to him last weekend in downtown Edmonton.