HighRiver

The Canadian Premier League named two more finalists for their year-end awards.

Cavalry FC Head Coach and GM Tommy Wheeldon Jr. have been nominated for Coach of the Year and Tobias Warschewski has been named as a finalist for the CPL Player of the Year honours.

Wheeldon Jr. won the Coach of the Year last season and has been nominated for the award four times for his effective coaching style. Cavalry had the best road record with 25 points acquired while posting a 7-4-3 record. 

Harvest is pretty much complete in the prairie provinces and we are entering the time of year when plans are starting for 2025. Over the next several months, many big events will be held from conferences to trade shows and more. Some of these events focus on woman and all they bring to the industry.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is condemning violence that erupted Sunday when Indian consular officials visited a Hindu temple in Brampton, Ont., as police announced three people have been charged in the clash.

Visits by Indian officials to the temple in Brampton and another in Surrey, B.C., were met with protests from demonstrators seeking a separate Sikh nation called Khalistan.

Water 2.0 is set for Tuesday, November 5th in Nanton at the Community Hall.

The group is meeting to oppose the threat of open-pit coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.

Bill Trafford, a 2021 coal policy committee member, is one of the five distinguished guest speakers who will be attending.

Musician and outspoken 6th generation Albertan, Corb Lund will be there along with former assistant deputy minister of energy David Luff, third generation rancher John Smith and biologist, principal and senior toxicologist/risk assessor Mandy Olsgard.

The Highwood Mustangs Senior Girls Volleyball team came out on top of their first playoff game against Holy Cross Collegiate Hawks (HCC) on Wednesday (Oct. 30) with a 3-2 set win in their best-of-five set series.

The Mustangs and Hawks were evenly matched as Highwood finished fourth in the season and Holy Cross finished fifth. With the win, the Mustangs will advance to the next round.

Mule deer in Southern Alberta are going to be wearing a new collar, and it isn’t for fashion reasons.

The Alberta Professional Outfitters Society (APOS) announced last week that they are beginning their Alberta Mule Deer Collaring Project this winter.

As part of this multi-year project, they will capture, collar, and release 100 mule deer in southeast and southwest Alberta to help gather information on how to support mule deer management in the province.

This project is based off a similar project that occurred in Utah in 2014.

We have had some seriously stunning weather, and all the Fall fashion is being able to be shown off!

Savannah Jade is not only a rising Canadian country star, but she's a fall fashion icon. 

With no need for bulky winter outerwear and layers upon layers of warmth hiding our cute attire (just yet, let's be honest!) the, "He's The One," singer joined me to talk about how you can spice up your style for this season, own your fashion and have fun doing it!

HEAR THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE:

This past summer, I had the absolute pleasure of being one of the MCs for several Summer Series and Bandstand Sunday shows at The Venue and in George Lane Park. I have volunteered with them in the past for a few events, but this year I truly got to see how this wonderful group of people and their volunteers are so passionate about the town of High River.

Murray Sinclair, who was born when Indigenous people did not yet have the right to vote, grew up to become one of the most decorated and influential people to work in Indigenous justice and advocacy.

A former judge and senator, one of Sinclair's biggest roles was chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools. 

He died Monday morning in a Winnipeg hospital, said his son Niigaan Sinclair. He was 73.

Sinclair was a father of five and a grandfather.

Darrell Janz, a longtime and well-respected Newscaster passed away at the age of 83 over the weekend.

Janz was fondly remembered by many as the face and voice of News on CTV Calgary and many in the industry were taught by him.

The news juggernaut also never officially retired as he was most recently seen on YES TV.

He taught journalism for over 25 years between SAIT and Mount Royal College, now University.

Janz got his start at our founding radio station 950 CFAM in Altona, Manitoba.