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Written by Dale Woodard for the Sun Times
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Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:23 |
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The west is alive and well at Fort Whoop-Up.
Now, as history buffs come through the gates of the fort established in 1869 as a base for trade with the Indians, the visit is as much of a tracing of the family tree as it is a history lesson for some visitors.
“We’re starting to learn more and more about families that were here and it’s really interesting because we’re getting more and more visitors through the site that say ‘My great-grandfather was here (or) my great-great-grandfather was here,’” said Fort Whoop-Up executive director Doran Degenstein. “We’re starting to see all kinds of connections. We had a visitor earlier this month and their great-great-grandmother was a Sioux woman and one of her first mixed-blood children were born here in Fort Whoop-Up. There’s more and more of that stuff starting to come out and now it’s common knowledge that most of the traders here not only had a white wife at home, but they also had a prairie wife or a Blackfoot wife.”
In the old days, that subject was frowned upon, said Degenstein.
Nowadays, it’s essential.
“Those were significant contributions to the family,” said Degenstein. “Now all of a sudden there are descendents of those half-brothers and sisters that are interested in knowing who their relatives are. That’s one of the tasks that we’re looking at possibly having to address.”
In the meantime, Fort Whoop-Up continues to serve up a history lesson about southern Alberta back in the late 1800s, bloodlines or not.
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Read more... [Fort Whoop-Up was the Costco and Walmart of its time]
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Written by Richard Amery for the Sun Times
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Wednesday, 10 August 2011 14:47 |
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A special event at the Owl Acoustic Lounge on Aug. 12 is a tip of the hat and a curtsy of the grass hula skirt to the beauty of the unsung ukulele. Even Eddie Vedder, an American musician and singer-songwriter who currently serves as the lead vocalist and one of four guitarists for the American alternative rock band Pearl Jam, released a CD of ukulele music.
But the humble ukulele is more than just a humorous, cute prop for a luau full of roast pig and grass skirts.
In the hands of a master such as “Manitoba Hal” Brolund, it can play beautiful blues.
And in the hands of even a novice, it can raise money for a good cause such as the Alberta Children’s Hospital. |
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Read more... [In appreciation of the ukulele]
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Written by Richard Amery for the Sun Times
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Wednesday, 03 August 2011 15:00 |
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The biggest dreams take baby steps to get started.
So a group of local people who like the idea of living together in a community in an eco-friendly manner have started meeting regularly to discuss the future.
“We’re a group of people who are interested in creating a planned, affordable and environmentally friendly housing community,” said Veronika Muendel, co-founder of Lethbridge Eco Co-Op Housing.
She and co-founder Gilles Leclair have been busy recruiting a dedicated core group of interested people interested in making this dream come true.
“It’s co-operative housing which would be based on environmentally sound principles,” Leclair said. |
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Written by Richard Amery for the Sun Times
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011 15:12 |
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While a lot of residents look at the Heritage Day long weekend as a chance to get out of the city, Lethbridge’s ethnic community looks at it as an opportunity to celebrate just being here.
For the past 35 years, the Southern Alberta Ethnic Association has hosted the Lethbridge Heritage Day Festival, bringing together the arts, culture and, yes, the food, from all the nations of the world. The celebration runs from 11 a.m.-4:30 p.m. on Aug. 1 in the South Pavilion of Exhibition Park.
“The Southern Alberta Ethnic Association has just over 25 members, so this is the time when we celebrate all of our heritages and celebrate our diversity,” said Teresa Ternes, program co-ordinator for the Southern Alberta Ethnic Association. She looks forward to the event that attracts approximately 2,000 people.
“If you ask 30 different people what they enjoy the most about it, you will probably get 30 different answers,” she said.
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Read more... [New groups join Heritage Day Festival]
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Written by Richard Amery for the Sun Times
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:15 |
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The countdown is on for the Alberta International Air Show 20th performance anniversary celebration at the Lethbridge County Airport July 23-24. But it is only one of many big anniversaries this year.
“It will be a celebration of aviation,” said Stacy Green, the show’s public relations and publicity director. “It’s going to be a loud show, with lots of jets and lots of speed. There will be more pyro than we’ve ever had before other than with Tora Tora Tora.”
While the air show has been around for a long time, it has taken a few breaks due to circumstances beyond organizers’ control.
This year will be the 20th performance. This year also marks the 100 anniversary of flight in Alberta, the 45th anniversary of the now-defunct Time Air and the 40th anniversary of the Skyhawks.
So Green noted organizers have an excellent couple days of “soul-pounding excitement” planned for the 20,000 some people expected to attend. |
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