Night Out as a Taber Single Guy on Valentine’s Day
A Taber columnist chronicles a single man’s Feb 14 night from a garage sale run to a bar scene, detailing prep rituals, budgeted cash for drinks, pool games, and an unexpected ride home with a college friend and her roommate. The piece ends with the question of whether being single is enjoyable despite public bachelor vibes.
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Taber
Safeway
Kurt Russell
Brooks Town water deemed safe despite trace drug found
Health authorities say Brooks drinking water remains safe to use after an independent study by CTV and the Globe and Mail detected a trace pharmaceutical in the supply. The test covered 10 Canadian cities and prompted no public health risk warnings.
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Brooks
CTV
The
Globe and Mail
Canada
Mind's Eye Captured: Trapped Prisons We Create
Photo and text by David Bly explore the human urge to seek confinement in self constructed prisons. The piece reflects on desire for control and the paradox of freedom and restriction.
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David Bly
Ancient quilt history traced from 5000 B C to Canada
The Taber and District Irrigation Impact Museum acquires a circa 1930 friendship quilt. The article surveys quilting origins across Egypt Mesopotamia Indus Valley China and Europe, tracing use from ancient wrap to royal and peasant textiles and Canada’s late 1800s emergence of geometric patchwork quilts.
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Taber and District
No On
Egypt
Nile River
Middle East
Tigris
Euphrates
Indus Valley
India
China
Hwang Ho
British Museum
Menes
Christ
Theresa
Austria
Marie Antoinette
Spain
Europe
British Isles
Flanders
New World
America
Canada
U.S
Don’t Mess With Mom turns the tables on a teen
A parent narrates a tale where a Civics class teaches a teenager about the Children’s Bill of Rights. The story follows a mother who, after a defiant lecture, enforces parental authority by shopping at Goodwill, cutting TV, canceling a driving test, and altering allowances. The tale ends with the teen’s plea to higher help as the mother asserts control.
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Children’s Services Division
C.5.d
Goodwill
C.S.D
Hot Shot
Writing a Persuasive Letter to Readers
A compact guide on crafting readable letters to newspapers. It advises 150 to 250 words, urges focused topical content, and notes that editors will edit for readability while preserving core points.
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