STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART "take two"

New Castle Pub
6108-90 Ave 780 490-1999
Friday, June 28, 2013

Why : Cuz we all love Fred and family
Who : Lionel Rault Band with Gord Matthews, Crystal Plamondon, Hot Cottage, Rusty Reed Band and Bobby Cameron.
How much: $30.00 per person.
What Else: Silent Auction. Tickets available Friday. 220 seats available

Just a suggestion, but if you can't make the fundraiser, please send what you would have spent for a ticket and some drinks to Fred at fredlarose@shaw.ca or mail it snail mail at Fred Larose
8836-135a Ave
Edmonton Alberta T5E1S1

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Who killed the friendly neighbourhood mall?

Capilano area blades remain dull because no one at the local mall sharpens knives anymore. The coffee shop is long gone, so is the hobby store, plus the shoe store. The funky little curio shoppe run by the guy with the messed up face is a distant memory.

Capilano Mall is the saddest mall in Edmonton.

Yet in its last days before major renovations starting in June, the old-timers still gather in the food court for chit chat, rubbing elbows with high school students during peak hours, and there’s a cool little farmer’s market every Saturday. Not too crowded. The mall Santa over the last Christmas holidays was so convincing he may actually be the real Santa. No line up.

All of this is going away. Plans are set to tear down the heart of the community mall that has stood since 1967, a gathering place of the sort that had previously replaced the village square. A sparkling new $11 million Power Centre will emerge in the summer of 2014, filled with new-fangled outward-facing stores like Petland, Reitmans, Ardene, Dollarama, Extreme Pita, Sally Beauty, Oodle Noodle, Mucho Burrito and Five Guys Burgers & Fries (that’s the full list of new tenants). The abutting shops will be like modern human neighbours, keeping to their own business, barely knowing one another, and the whole place will look like every other strip mall sprawl around Edmonton.

Walmart isn’t going anywhere, needless to say.

Say goodbye to the friendly neighbourhood mall and the friendly independent businesses therein. Say goodbye to the farmer’s market. And say goodbye to another public community space.

Read the complete March 19th article, by Mike Ross, from Gigcity.ca

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Esks will make history in Fort McMurray

Northern Kickoff to be most Northern game in CFL history

The Edmonton Eskimo Football Club in partnership with MacDonald Island Park and the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo announce the Northern Kickoff, to be held at the new Shell Place in Fort McMurray, Alberta on Saturday, June 13, 2015.

The CFL pre-season game, scheduled as a ‘home’ game for the Eskimos, will feature the Edmonton Eskimos against the visiting Saskatchewan Roughriders and will be broadcast live on TSN from the new and currently under construction SMS Stadium at Shell Place. 

Shell Place is a $127 million community development project scheduled to open in 2015 at MacDonald Island Park in downtown Fort McMurray.

The Northern Kickoff game and associated community and fan events will be presented by Shell Albian Sands.

Read the complete article from the Edmonton Eskimo's website.

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Protect You Home & Office Window Glass With Ace Clear!

Ace Clear Inc. sells and installs a variety of window films for safety, security and decorative purposes. 

For more information and your local contact for Ace Clear click here.

FREE Composting 101 Workshop

King Edward Park Community League

8008 81 St. June 12th, 2013

Composting is recognized as one of the top ten GREEN actions people can take in their daily lives.
 
Michael Kalmanovitch has been composting since 1971. In 1991 he facilitated workshops at the Muttart Conservatory, Canadian Tire, through the Environmental Resource Centre, and the Edmonton Public Library. In 1992 he graduated from the City of Edmonton Master Composter & Recycler program. He continues to add to his knowledge about composting (bin, worm/vermicomposting, sheet, and trench).
 
Michael has put together a comprehensive PowerPoint presentation and would like to share this with as wide an audience as possible - ergo this free composting workshop.
 
So if you are interested in learning composting from an expert and attend a free workshop please consider attending. You will be asked to fill in a short workshop evaluation at the end of the workshop so that it can evolve and improve.
 
Cost: Free but please, if you are going to register to have a seat at this workshop please show up or cancel a week in advance so that the space can be used by someone else.

Pre-register through this EventBrite page.

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Free Conference For Parents - Literacy & Learning Day

Saturday, October 26, 2013
Shaw Conference Centre

Literacy and Learning Society of Edmonton will offer a free public conference providing the community with information and educational tools to enhance and support the literacy and learning of the children in their lives.

Literacy and Learning Day Society of Edmonton is a non-profit organization whose focus is to plan and provide a One-Day professional development day for parents - FREE of charge, in order to remove most of the barriers to attending the conference.

For more information visit the Literacy & Learning Day website and/or Facebook Group

 

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Taste Alberta: Chefs help feed eat-local movement with Taste Alberta Tuesdays

EDMONTON - Mark your calendars for the four Tuesdays in June. That’s when Edmonton and Calgary chefs will present a specially crafted, made-in-Alberta menu for their dining guests.

Taste Alberta, in conjunction with four chefs in Edmonton and four chefs in Calgary, will help support the eat-local movement when they create and serve up some inventive farm-to-table dishes. (See list below for participating restaurants and dates.)

But this all-Alberta menu celebration is not just a one-time event. These chefs’ menus regularly feature meats, seasonal produce, cheeses, oils and honey from around the province.

The chefs are passionate about the quality and even rare hand-crafted and home-grown goods from Alberta, including such unique offerings as the yellow-and-purple cauliflower, a favourite of Eric Hanson, chef at Edmonton’s Niche Restaurant, and the Berkshire pork raised in Alberta. In the food world, this pork has as much cachet as Kobe beef from Japan.

Read the entire article for the Edmonton Journal

Taste Alberta Tuesdays sites (from the same article)

Edmonton:
June 4: Moriarty’s Bistro & Wine Bar, 10154 100th St.; Chef Corey Welsch
June 11: Niche Restaurant & Cocktail Bar, 11011 Jasper Ave.; Chef Eric Hanson
June 18: Culina Mill Creek, 9914 89th Ave.; Chef Brad Lazarenko
June 25: Café de Ville, 25 Sioux Rd., Sherwood Park; Chef Paul Campbell

Calgary:
June 4: Rouge Restaurant; Chef Paul Rogalski
June 11: Cucina Market Bistro; Chef de Cuisine Alison Beiber
June 18: Muse Restaurant; Chef JP Pedhirney
June 25: Market; Chef Dave Bohati
 

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