Got a million dollar idea but don’t know the next step?
    Community Futures' Ideas to Opportunities Seminar this Saturday might help you make it a reality.
    The seminar has the goal of helping individuals start turning their ideas into businesses explains Brock Harrington, general manager of Community Futures.
    “That’s part of what we do here - we take ideas and turn them into opportunities,” he explains. “It is a good way to brainstorm. Lots of people have good ideas and sometimes they need others to help flush them out, or confirm it is a bad idea.”
    He says right now he is not seeing too many interested in starting new businesses, and Community Future’s role is to try to encourage people to explore their ideas with an end goal of creating a viable business.
    “We are developmental lenders, number one,” he said. “Number two we are here to support people, businesses, and ideas, and help mentor them.”
    The Ideas to Opportunities Seminar will be held this Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Community Futures Big Country.

Over 180 Alberta PC party faithful up last Thursday, January 19, at the Canalta Jurassic Inn, to elect voting delegates for the March leadership election in Calgary.
Many Conservative members travelled from a long way to participate in the delegate selection process for the Drumheller-Stettler constituency.
Fifteen voting delegates will attend the leadership convention, and eleven were selected at the meeting. The other four are automatically named delegates, being constituency executive members.
A number of the candidates seeking to be delegates announced they would be supporting unite the right leadership candidate Jason Kenney, while many said they would be open-minded in their choice, in March.
"Jason Kenney is the one and only candidate that said Albertans have to unite and Albertans have a lot of work to do and that's where we are going," said Drumheller businessman John Satink, who has put his name in to be a delegate.
Diana Rowe is also in the running to be a delegate and says it appears the membership wants change.
“There is really a loud voice for uniting the PCs,”she said. “And we have to have a strong look at that and listen to what the membership is telling us.”