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Printer’s ink may run in the Jamison family members’ veins but it’s blood that’s kept them living, loving and working together at the St. Albert Gazette. “It’s not a job.

This year students at 130 Edmonton schools will watch a video called Mission UV as their teachers and perhaps a volunteer medical student from the University of Alberta teach them about the dangers of exposure to ultraviolet rays.

Don’t be alarmed people, all those RCMP officers, St. Albert firefighters and bomb squad personnel who will be rushing about the parking lot of Grandin Park Plaza Thursday morning are just practicing. St.

Over its 50-year history, the St. Albert Gazette has had a plethora of names grace the bylines of its pages.

Community newspaper celebrates golden anniversary . . . . . . . . inside

Dave Reidie is shaking his head these days, wondering why it is the St. Albert Community Foundation has money to give away, but no one is asking for it. “It’s amazing.

Ian Hill said his father bought him in Iran for two cases of scotch. It was the start of a rough childhood, he said, one that saw him eating out of trashcans and getting arrested.

In an effort to target the pet overpopulation crisis, a local pet store will partner with the Edmonton Humane Society and only carry cats and dogs for adoption through rescue groups.

Sandy Jamison still remembers her first colour scanner. It was the size of a room, cost thousands of dollars and took an hour to produce one picture — if it worked. Operating it required a three-week course.

Quick! Start digging through that old box of memorabilia. Get into your attic and rummage through that stash of collectibles that you scrounged together when you were a kid.