ACE Announcements

Featured Columnist

In this week’s Calgary Herald and Edmonton Journal, CLICK HERE for Carolyn Mead’s column called Growing up Rural.

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ACE Seeking Partner Communities - Apply!

Interested in learning about potential support that is available to improve the quality of life in rural Alberta by developing community leadership and community development in your community?

The Active, Creative, Engaged Communities (ACE) initiative, spearheaded by Alberta Recreation and Parks...

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KidSport Alberta Alberta Elite Performance Grant

KidSport Alberta is a children’s charity designed to assist children of families with significant financial obstacles or disadvantages to participate in sport programs. It identifies the needs of the community and supports programs which create new opportunities for young people to participate in...

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PRO - Parks and Recreation Ontario Presentation

ACE Director, Brenda Herchmer, presented at the Niagara Falls Parks and Recreation conference March 30 and 31st. For the presentation CLICK HERE.

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FREE Webcast with Ian Hill March 27th

To access the Ian Hill webcast on Friday, March 27th at 10:00 am MT point your browser i.e. Explorer, Firefox to:

http://208.96.4.228/15834-33564

ARPA’s ACE Communities is pleased to announce our third FREE webcast with IAN HILL, an award winning philanthropist, social entrepreneur and...

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Featured Columnist

This week’s ACE featured columnist in the Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal, and Country Asides is ACE Youth Coordinator, Cameron Sault. You can read his column about the importance of sports HERE and more from his regular blogs HERE.

Cameron Sault has recently moved to Edmonton, Alberta from...

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LGAA Conference in Red Deer

Brenda Herchmer, ACE Project Director, presented two sessions in Red Deer on Thursday, March 19th at the Local Government Administrators of Alberta’s (LGAA) conference. A number of communities expressed interest in becoming an ACE partner and, given the level of leadership in the room, the future...

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Resources for Older Adults

This resource update focuses on OLDER ADULTS.

In this update:

1.  Age-Friendly Rural and Remote Communities: A Guide
2.  New Horizons for Seniors
3.  Directory of Seniors’ Organizations in Alberta
4.  Rural Route to Active Aging

1.  AGE-FRIENDLY RURAL AND REMOTE COMMUNITIES: A GUIDE

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LIN and ARPA Partnership Announced

LIN and the Alberta Recreation and Parks Association, though its ACE
Communities Initiative (Active Creative Engaged) are pleased to
announce a partnership project to test a Google-Mini Search Appliance.

This means we will have our own Google search engine to find documents
according to...

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Featured Columnist

Read Carol Petersen’s column about the key role leisure choices can play in our lives…CLICK HERE.

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