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When somebody tells you to go take a hike, it doesn’t sound like a very nice suggestion. When somebody tells the members of the St. Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club to go take a hike, they take that advice literally and gratefully.

Broadway’s Tony Award winning smash musical Newsies makes it way to Edmonton for a limited engagement from July 12 to 17 at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium.

Flow of Traffic Theory is an exhibit featuring artworks by Gerry Dotto. On display until Saturday. 19 Perron St. 780-460-4310. www.artgalleryofstalbert.ca 30 Shades of Round features a series of mixed media mosaics by Helen Rogers.

The country seems to be doing okay for itself, even at a cool 149 years of age. I guess it’s time we threw a party that would make everyone say that they’re proud to be Canadian. Canada Day is Friday and St. Albert is going to celebrate.

Birthdays deserve big celebrations. And nobody celebrates Canada Day quite like St. Albert, one of the oldest settlements in Alberta. Canada's 149th birthday bash is just two days away with activities, a free evening concert and dazzling fireworks.

It’s been exactly 100 years since a shark first terrorized beach swimmers on the coast of New Jersey. That story inspired Peter Benchley to write Jaws and Steven Spielberg to direct the 1975 blockbuster movie.

The photo of Romeo and Juliet’s Hunter Cardinal and Cayley Thomas lost in each other’s embrace next to a stone arch is highly suggestive of the intractable world the star-crossed lovers live in.

Maybe it was the heavy rain pelting down at Hawrelak Park, but I trudged up to the outdoor Heritage Amphitheatre with a deep sense of melancholy.

Prominent local lawyer Kent Davidson received a prestigious award from local Rotary clubs during a special banquet event held in Nisku recently.

A reinvented Alice The absolutely madcap world of Lewis Carroll opened at the Citadel Theatre on Thursday night.