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Are you curious about story slams? Do you want to learn how to put a compelling story together and deliver a winning performance? If so, St. Albert writer-in-residence Margaret Macpherson is at your service.

How can anyone preview an upcoming exhibit by a late artist who was so beloved and so important to the community without letting emotions get the better of you? When I realized that I would not be including my usual phrase “the artist will be i

Isabella Miranda greets each person who stops at her Bear Springs Farm booth with a shy smile. The 13-year-old entrepreneur is a weekly fixture at the St. Albert Farmers’ Market selling organically grown chickens, turkeys and eggs.

The figure has a long tradition in the visual arts and four local artists have compiled some of their recent works for a new exhibit. It Figures is the aptly named show that opened at the Visual Arts Studio Association Gallery yesterday.

Lace up those track shoes. The start gun is about to fire as the inaugural Morinville Family Race gets underway on Saturday, Sept. 13. “It had been in our thoughts for quite a while. We wanted to create a family based activity that would get people active and this is a multi-generational event,” said community services race organizer Melonie Dziwenka. Organizers felt the Amazing Race television series presented a positive message and modeled the town activity after it.

Alberta has produced more than its share of Canadian country artists, singer-songwriters that work together, tour together and write tunes for each other. No one genre of music is closer than country artists. On Sept.

Miles of twisting catacombs lie beneath the streets of Paris, the eternal home to countless souls. When a team of explorers ventures into the uncharted maze of bones, they uncover the secret of what this city of the dead was meant to contain.

Is your dog a water baby – a pooch born to swim? If the answer is yes, check out the Labour Day weekend dog swim and make a splash with other dog lovers. On Monday, Sept. 1, Grosvenor Park Outdoor Pool hosts the third annual Dog Swim.

Fort Edmonton Park’s Capitol Theatre is the new hotbed for Klondike melodramas. Die-Nasty returns for a continuation of last year’s improvised hit, The Full Mountie from Sept. 4 to 6.

At first glance, music teacher Lara Hyrak, 18, is an average young woman.