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The art of hanging art

The art of hanging art

There’s more to hanging pictures than hammering a nail in the wall. Creating a pleasing display of your favourite photos takes an artful eye and some thoughtful planning.
City nabs magazine award for healthy communities

City nabs magazine award for healthy communities

Reader’s Digest has named St. Albert Canada’s healthiest community, thanks to one local resident who nominated the city for two awards. Sharon McNally, a 28-year resident of St. Albert and mother of two, submitted a description of St.
Bike park anger boils over

Bike park anger boils over

Residents of Lacombe Park are emphatic in their support for a city-built mountain bike skills park, but they oppose building it on an existing green space like Liberton Park.
A life in education

A life in education

Marie Poburan, who taught school for 35 years in St. Albert, has died. Funeral services were held Monday. Poburan, who was 80 and had been ill for some time, passed away March 2 of congestive heart failure. Poburan was an elementary school teacher.
The little club with a big vision

The little club with a big vision

There's not much to see yet at Rotary Park. There are no picnic tables, no swings and of course there’s a half metre of snow covering the firepits and trails.
Glenrose program lets patients practise volunteering

Glenrose program lets patients practise volunteering

As the largest facility of its kind in Western Canada, the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital has a wide assortment of ways to help people recover from injuries and illness. Some of its methods even take therapy out of its doors and into the world.
City honours two former mayors

City honours two former mayors

They were mayors, they were friends and both have schools named for them. Now Richard S. Fowler and Neil M. Ross will share one more connection – a road.
Sex crime means jail for coach

Sex crime means jail for coach

A former St. Albert Minor Hockey Association coach will spend the next 45 days in jail for making a sexual advance on a 16-year-old hockey player.
Campbell guilty of assault, robbery

Campbell guilty of assault, robbery

A St. Albert man is looking at a possible 10 years in prison after he was convicted of attacking an Edmonton pawn shop owner.
Big grant for church fix

Big grant for church fix

Morinville residents are praising the Lord this week after a local MP dropped by with $250,000 to help fix the town’s most prominent church. Westlock-St. Paul MP Brian Storseth came to Morinville’s St.
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