The constant thirst for knowledge
Posted by Chris Salomons - Red Deer Advocate • February, 08 2010 8:20 AM • Red Deer Advocate
Man has a constant thirst for knowledge.
We want to know everything, from where do we come from, to how does a bird know the way to fly 3000 miles on a path never before traveled. There are more books written than there are people, or so it seems.
Happy to hear more talk on large-scale attractions
Posted by Leo Paré - Red Deer Advocate • February, 05 2010 2:00 AM • Red Deer Advocate
Since the canals project dried up in late 2008, there hasn’t been much talk around Red Deer’s future as a tourism destination.
The Advocate recently posted an online poll which revealed readers’ dismal evaluation of our tourism appeal. Online commenters fiercely debated Red Deers ups and downs. Some touted amenities like camp sites, rec facilities, and natural landscape — all of which are tremendous community assets to be sure — but let’s be realistic. Nobody is packing up the family and traveling 500 kilometres to visit the Red Deer Museum or the Lion’s Campground.
I thought the canals idea has serious potential for our community, but with a nation-wide recession looming, people weren’t keen on millions of tax dollars being invested into such a frivolous project.
The crushing of the canals idea left us with the impression there was little appetite for grandiose tourism schemes in Red Deer, so I was a bit surprised to see this story on the front page of Thursday’s Advocate: • World-class attraction proposed for Riverlands
Sutter setting Flames up for crash
Posted by Josh Aldrich - Red Deer Advocate • February, 04 2010 9:37 AM • Red Deer Advocate
I wonder if Calgary Flames general manager Darryl Sutter is starting to feel the heat?
It’s the only reason I can come up with for the two blockbuster trades he pulled off earlier this week — sending Dion Phaneuf to Toronto for Niklas Hagman, Matt Stajan, Jamal Myers and Ian White; and then trading Olli Jokinen to the New York Rangers for Chris Higgins and Ales Kotalik.
The deal smacks of desperation.
It wasn’t merely reorganizing deck chairs on the Titanic. No, they sold off their two biggest life boats for more deck chairs — and not particularly good ones either, they got the kind that are liable to snap under pressure.
Together
Posted by Lani Ledingham - Red Deer Advocate • February, 03 2010 2:40 AM • Red Deer Advocate
What do deficits, the earthquake in Haiti and High School Musical have in common?
It has affected much more than just one person.
While neither can sufficiently be included in the same sentence and gather precisely the emotion that goes with each, specifically Haiti, all have had great impact.
I won’t claim to be an economist, but I have seen and heard of cut backs, budget trimming and lay-offs. Worldwide, billions of dollars have either been lost in the recession that people predicted, but didn’t necessarily prepare for.
The fake plastic girl
Posted by Becky Murray - Red Deer Advocate • February, 02 2010 3:00 AM • Red Deer Advocate
Recently People magazine featured the MTV reality show The Hills star, Heidi Montag on the cover. The wannabe pop star was sharing the story of her recent and shocking operation in which she underwent 10 different plastic surgery procedures.
At 23 years old, Montag has received a mini brow lift, botox in various places, a nose job revision (following a surgery in 2007), facial fat injections, chin reduction, liposuction on the neck, waist, hips, inner and outer thighs, had her ears pinned back, a buttock augmentation and a breast augmentation revision which enhanced her previously enlarged chest to a DDD.
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