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Fortune favours the prepared. If you don’t believe that, Manny Rodriguez will convince you. Only two months ago, four co-workers saved his life when he had a sudden heart attack at All Weather Windows.

Who says summer reading has to be light fluff? A trashy paperback, short stories or gossip magazines – these can have a place while sunning on the back deck or lying on a beach towel, sure.

It was with much anticipation that I went to see Ghostbusters, the contemporary reboot of the comedy classic with all of the male roles switched to star female leads, and vice versa.

Parallel Topographies is an exhibit featuring artworks by Etty Yaniv. On display until July 30. 19 Perron St. 780-460-4310. www.artgalleryofstalbert.ca 30 Shades of Round is in its last few days.

Space, the final frontier… On Sept. 8, it will have been precisely 50 years since those words were first beamed into family living rooms around North America.

As you drive past Bellerose High, you probably think to yourself: “That's an awful lot of people going to school in July.” The city became abuzz last week with the news that a movie was being filmed at the school and around town.

St. Albert is about to splash things up with a couple of youth-based events, the first of which is happening today at the top of Seven Hills all the dripping wet way to the bottom.

For a second year in a row, the Canadian Food Championships is drawing fierce but friendly competitors. There will be about 20 competitors in each of the six categories: bacon, burger, dessert, sandwich, seafood and steak, a new category.

Some service clubs really ask a lot. They rigorously get their members out to weekly meetings where they have sub-committees that put each person directly involved in some large project or other. The payoff is great but man, the commitment is huge.

Parallel Topographies is an exhibit featuring artworks by Etty Yaniv. On display until July 30. 19 Perron St. 780-460-4310. www.artgalleryofstalbert.ca 30 Shades of Round features a series of mixed media mosaics by Helen Rogers.