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OCTOBER 2018 DELIVERED MONTHLY TO 4,100 HOUSEHOLDS your NOLANSAGE HILL HILL BRINGING NOLAN HILL AND SAGE HILL RESIDENTS TOGETHER YOUR NEIGHBOURS: THE MORIN FAMILY PAGE 10 Photo by Remember When Photography Photo by Remember CONTENTS Photo by Remember When Photography 4 GUIDES: NITANISAK DISTRICT GUIDES 5 PHOTO CORNER 7 ABOUT WINE 9 CALGARY WILDLIFE: THE BOBCAT 10 YOUR NEIGHBOURS: THE MORIN FAMILY 14 YOUR CITY OF CALGARY: HOW MUCH DO WATER LEAKS REALLY COST? 16 REAL ESTATE COUNCIL OF ALBERTA: ASK CHARLES 18 COUNCILLOR JOE MAGLIOCCA’S REPORT 18 MLA PRASAD PANDA’S REPORT Your partner in wellness At Alberta Blue Cross, we’re committed to not only helping 5 9 maintain your health but to promoting your wellness through every age and stage of life. We’re reinventing benefits to focus on wellness. Empowering your potential. 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Many units are doing ‘getting to know most people use automatically, while others train them- wrong way to speak, creating habits and speech sounds Nolan Hill Community Association you’ activities so that the girls and leaders become fa- selves out of because they want to simplify language, that are difficult to change. https://www.facebook.com/ thinking that’s what babies need. Turns out, it ISN’T. In- miliar with each other, and start learning how to work NolanHillCommunityAssociation/ The good news is, you can feel confident in your use of well together. fants have an amazing ability to learn languages, and ev- Delivered monthly to 4,100 households and businesses erything they need to do it is hardwired right into them! Parentese. People use it all over the world and in every Brownies get to choose their circles (‘Fairies’, ‘Elves’, language! 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It is a great way for Coalitions, please email us at: [email protected]. young girls to learn how to care for others. sing-songy and stretches out vowel sounds, so that an Deadline “apple” becomes an “aaaaaapple” and objects aren’t just Guides also choose smaller groups called ‘Patrols’ (‘Blue- All advertisements and editorial content must be birds’, ‘Violets’, etc.). Some of our Guide and Pathfinder submitted by the 1st of the previous month, for the following month’s publication. (e.g. January 1st for units will also be taking advantage of the warm au- February’s newsletters.) tumn weather to go camping. Many camps have been booked for months already – September and October Published by Great News Publishing are busy times at area Girl Guide camps. Serving Calgary Communities for 29 years. 84 newsletters reaching over 379,000 households in One last major event for all of our units in September Calgary and surrounding areas. and October would be selling our famous Girl Guide cookies. You may have already seen girls selling cookies #34-4550 112 Ave SE PHOTO at Edgemont Superstore, or Sage Hill Walmart, or pretty Calgary, AB much anywhere in Calgary starting mid-September. T2C 2K2 Thank you for all of your support. Check out our website: If you’d like to register your daughter, please visit www. www.great-news.ca CORNER girlguides.ca and use the unit finder to find an open unit in your area. If you cannot find a unit in your neigh- Nolan Hill Ravine in the Fall by bourhood, it might be because the unit is full (you can Keith Mauthe, Nolan Hill Resident modify the search – try searching “all” units; the default The opinions expressed within any published article, report or submission is to show only units with space available). You might reflect those of the author and should not be considered to reflect those of want to consider becoming a leader – with more lead- Great News Publishing. ers, we can take in more girls. 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