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Webcam offers an unforgettable glimpse inside the world of beavers
Move over Kardashians.
Ellis Bird Farm has its own reality TV celebrities and they’re cuter and cuddlier. READ
Orangutans use iPads to communicate at zoo
The eight-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. The teenagers like the computer tablets too, but the clan’s elders show no interest. The orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. READ
Mall security is nothing like the movies
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction but when it comes to security personnel at two of Red Deer’s malls, they are nothing like the Segway-riding, disastrous, suburban dad portrayed in Hollywood’s Mall Cop. READ
How a camera’s coincidence became an Internet phenomenon
The instructions are simple: Hold up an old photo in front of the place where it was originally shot, take a picture of the picture, then write a dedication about what the photo means to you. READ
Time for Tea
My family and I were invited to the castle for some tea. Okay it wasn’t the Buckingham Palace but a castle just as majestic and just as stately. It was a castle nestled in our snow covered Rockies — the Fairmont Banff Springs. READ
Central Albertan's have a growing appetitie for local food
Thursdays are busy days for Susan Crump, Sheryl Rae and Colleen Woods. READ
Museum display chronicles history of Chinese immigration to Canada
At age five, Frank Wong was forced to part from his parents in China. His relatives decided he should move with his grandmother to Hong Kong in preparation for his eventual emigration to Canada. READ
Demise of the penny seen as not necessarily a bad thing
Flash forward to later this year, after the Royal Canadian Mint has stopped distributing pennies to banks. READ
Red Deer's Lee family knows a thing or two about racing
When car engines across Alberta start revving for 100-foot shootouts and other drag races this summer, watch out for the ever ambitious Lee family. READ
Don’t mess with this grandma
Elnora’s Anita MacDonald is one tough great grandma. MacDonald, at the spry age of 72, recently earned her black belt in Shotokan karate. Her goal wasn’t to test for a black belt in 2004 when she moved from the sidelines into the dojo, or studio. READ
Safeway renews commitment to 4-H
New shirts and show decorations are among the items that local 4-H members will be able to buy with a gift from Canada Safeway announced on Thursday. READ
Who's watching?
Ask a teenager how openly they would discus last night’s drunken party, or the quality of their sex lives in front of their parents, and you’d most likely get a firm “no comment.” READ
