Heritage Roundtable on Cultural Landscapes & Trees – from my Inbox

May 20, 2009

The next meeting of the Heritage Roundtable is on Cultural Landscapes &
Trees. Details inside.

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May Long, 1972

May 15, 2009

Before blue boxes, before plastic bag bans, and before re-usable grocery bags, there was the Recycling Festival, virtually all the details of which have been lost to time. Or else I just didn’t look in the right places.

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May Long Weekend Happenings

May 14, 2009

The unofficial beginning of summer is just around the corner.  With the arrival of Victoria Day, Calgarians take to campgrounds, the backcountry, festivals, and all manner of outdoor activity.  Glad, we are, to shrug off our parkas (though you may not want to put them in storage just yet) and enjoy that part of the [...]

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yycBlogs.com

May 14, 2009

yycBlogs lives! It lives!

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Holy Sweet Mother Of All That Is Good And Wet

May 14, 2009

That’s right. Bacon flavoured Vodka!!

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QR77 Online Mall just about open for business again

May 12, 2009

Cheap deals at QR77 Online Mall

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Why Memorial?

May 11, 2009

I have asked this before, both on a former post and directly with proponents who I know personally. I have never received an answer that, to me, seems sufficient. The answer I most often hear is, “why not Memorial.” Which, of course, is not an answer at all.

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Cheap stuff at the QR77 Online Mall

May 5, 2009

It’s Tuesday, and it’s almost 10 a.m.  That means that the QR77 online mall is about to open for business again.  This week, they’ve got $50 GCs to Red Door Bistro for $25, a two-night stay at one of several two-bedroom mountain homes for half price ($290 vs the usual $580), and for those who [...]

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Thursday Retrospective – Influenza Panic Edition

April 30, 2009

[Dundee accent] ‘Ats not a flu. THIS is a flu! [/accent]

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Burying Crooks Drugstore

April 26, 2009

The last memory of Crook’s Drugs, and the businesses that followed it, has been erased. The hole in the ground that resulted from removal of the rubble has been backfilled. I perceive this much like a final burial.

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