Throughout the summer of 2011, Rosebud Theatre is holding a Prairie Stories Contest in honour of W. O. Mitchell, the beloved Canadian author behind its summer production of Jake and the Kid: Prairie Seasons. Storytellers of all ages are invited to put pen to paper and submit their original, true stories about growing up on the Canadian Prairies.
Anyone can enter. Weekly prizes are available. Grand Prize winner will be announced August 27, 2011.
A Drumheller couple has returned from charity work in a remote village in the mountains of Peru and say it was the experience of a life time.
Joanne Dumaine and her husband Ray were in Pamparomas, a hilltop village in the Andes at 9,000 feet altitude with a population of 500 people. They were working with the St. James Church there, touching up furniture in school houses and preparing a small museum for the locals.
The Richard Cosgrave Memorial Badlands Dinosaur Derby scheduled for this weekend has been officially postponed and so far, no future date has been set.
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