Pushing his baby girl’s stroller on a parched, overgrown path in Prince’s Island Park circa 1970, George Brookman recalls taking in the relaxed, small gathering at one of Calgary’s first Folk Festivals. “We’d sit there, in the dust, on a blanket, eating hotdogs,” laughs Brookman, a longtime Calgarian and Stampede volunteer.
CALGARY — The Alberta Securities Commission has issued a management cease trade order against the directors and certain officers of Penn West Petroleum Ltd. as the company requested upon revealing accounting irregularities last week. The ASC has ordered that chief executive David Roberts, chief financial officer David Dyck, senior vice-president Gregg Gegunde, general counsel Keith Luft, chairman Rick George and directors James Allard, George Brookman, John Brydson, Gillian Denham, James Smith and Jay Thornton cease trading in and cease purchasing securities of Penn West until two full business days after the disclosure issues are rectified.
A development site on the corner of Royal Avenue and 8th Street S.W. was deserving of a rather splendid design, and that's what Chris Harker of Casa De Ville sought.
Watching Olympic gold medal hockey on television; catching the sunrise at the top of Maui’s Haleakala volcano; being the first in line to drop a tarp on the grass at the Calgary Folk Music Festival. Those are some of the very few things that would rouse the average person out of bed at 4 a.m., a fact of life that made General (ret.) Rick Hillier chuckle on Saturday morning. “In my business we call that sleeping in,” said the former chief of Canada’s defence staff and commander of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.
Your faithful social scribe is not one to brag. Well, not usually. Unless it comes to singing the praises of our beloved city.
Celebration was the order of the day recently as friends and supporters of the Calgary Stampede Foundation’s We’re Greatest Together campaign gathered in the Lazy S Saloon to toast the largest individual donation in its history — a staggering $15 million from local philanthropist and entrepreneur Don Taylor.
It’s a bit of a head-scratcher that in a city as wealthy and vibrant as Calgary that homelessness exists. But exist it does. Thanks to the invaluable work of the Calgary Homeless Foundation (CHF), the problem will be solved by 2018. Its annual House Warming Party, launched in 1999, sheds light on homelessness and raises much-needed funds for same.
When graphic designer Rick Thomas designed a black, red and white T-shirt to mark this weekend’s Peace Bridge opening, he planned an order of around 20, for friends, Druh Farrell supporters and maybe a few architecture buffs. Today, he’s at the silkscreening shop to view some of the 310 shirts ordered.
It’s time to start thinking about next year.
On Project Calgary's 100th day, we asked some notable Calgarians to predict neighbourhood life in 30 years. Here are their ideas.