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INNISFAIL – Opening the doors for dialogue and connecting cultures. That’s what Inuit filmmaker and musician Dennis Allen aspired to do by producing documentaries about Canada’s Indigenous people of the North. “There’s talk now of reconciliation.

Olds contestants placed highly but unfortunately not high enough to score the big prizes in the annual Olds Idol competition.

INNISFAIL – Duane Daines doesn’t back down from a challenge.The 59-year-old former pro-rodeo cowboy is participating in the 2018 Sheraton Celebrity Dance Off in Red Deer April 14. "I haven’t danced in 22 years.

DIDSBURY – A local artist will be travelling to Berlin at the invitation of the Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada for a special ceremony on March 8.

Locally raised country-folk singer Blake Reid is coming to Olds this Thursday, Feb. 22, to show his band's award-winning film, No Roads In. After the showing, which takes place at the TransCanada Theatre at 7 p.m., the band will perform.

INNISFAIL – Get ready for some family fun. Families in Innisfail and Penhold can join in the annual Family Day activities Feb. 18 in Penhold and Feb. 19 in Innisfail.

INNISFAIL – It was a show-stopping performance for family and friends at the 2018 Disney Gala in Innisfail this month. Dancers with Joy’s School of Dance presented a variety of routines at the Innisfail Royal Canadian Legion on Feb.

PENHOLD – It may be the middle of winter but if there is an old-fashioned carnival in play there will always be cotton candy. And that’s also the case if the carnival is indoors. The doors were open on Jan.

Members of Peak Theatre Players recently performed several productions of Ken Ludwig's Lend Me a Tenor at the Sundre Arts Centre, which was packed for just about all of the shows. The actors are pictured here on Saturday, Dec. 9 during the final performance. Visit www.sundreartscentre.com for information on upcoming events.

If you weren't a teenage girl and sitting next to your father, the first Laugh Tracks show at Tracks Pub last Saturday evening ñ with some distinctly adult material ñ was by all accounts a successful bid to bring a regular comedy show to the area.