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FEATURES

8 Cover StoryAuthor and illustrator Karon Argue

12 Wood Turning ArtJones Woodworks

20 Tech FeatureCES Las Vegas Show

26 Q&A with Boarder/PhotographerKelly Schovanek

6 HistoryClaresholm Union Bank

D E PA RT M E N T S

16 Arts & EntertainmentSpotlight on Talent18 Book: Discovering Mavor Moore19 Music: Ruminants

22 FoodJohn GilchristFeasting in the Foothills

24 Highwood Crossing Farms

30 DetoursFish Tales – A Writing Contest

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On a recent flight for a week-end getaway, I chose to read The Dude and the Zen Master, (remember “The Dude”

from the movie The Big Lebowski?). The book was a light pleasant read, remind-ing me to relax into each moment as it is, all the while recognizing that I can’t do it all and that’s ok.

Routes readers and even my staff often ask why we go to the effort of cre-ating unique contributors’ photos every issue. I explain that when we gather as a team to do anything outside of work, it’s an opportunity for team building. These moments should always be fun! There are many reasons to take certain aspects of our lives very seriously, but let’s remem-ber not to take life so seriously.

Most of our staff and writers work from their home offices and we don’t often get a chance to get together outside of work. These photos are an opportu-nity to step away from our serious tasks and show our readers (and remind our-selves) that we are real people having fun and loving what we do.

In many ways this is what Routes is all about – a platform for introducing you to the passionate people in your neighbour-hood and a vehicle for recognizing the artists, professionals, leaders, characters, thinkers, dreamers and doers who live in our communities. We can all be inspired by them.

I am very proud to bring the amazing story of Karon Argue to this issue. She really sums up “The Dude” - the accep-tance of what is, with a drive to survive all wrapped up in an artist’s heart that she is now finding the courage to set free.

So this month, try some organic baking treats, get outdoors and look for signs of spring, find a new gadget, or simply be “The Dude” who likes lying in the bathtub drinking White Russians with whale music on. This guy knows how to take it easy… and we should too.

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Village RootsIn 1891 the Calgary and Edmonton Railway Line was extended to Claresholm. The town was located within a topographical low point to ensure railway cars could not roll away. The next year the Canadian Pacific Railway left a boxcar as a marker for a water-ing hole that was to serve the steam-powered locomotives of the day. A railway superintendent named the spot Clara, after his wife. When a frame building replaced the boxcar in 1895, the place was called Claresholm and in 1903 it was established as a village. (www.albertacentennial.ca)

Old NewsThe Union bank is letting the contract for a new building to be erected on Fourth avenue on lots bought of Mr. Soby. It is proposed to put up a handsome solid brick and cement building costing, it is understood, $10,000. The building will be a credit to the town and will be used exclusively for banking purposes with rooms on the second storey fitted up for the staff. The bank had to buy the land at the rear of Mr. Soby’s, which has been an unsettled problem for some time and the town will now have to deal with the Union bank instead of Mr. Soby. -Excerpt from Claresholm Review, September 29,

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BLIND-SightedBLIND-SightedBLIND-SightedStricken with severe Type 1 Diabetes that robbed her of her eyesight, this graphic artist says things are looking up. Not because she can see, but because her kids are launched, she can walk again, and she has never lost sight of her greatest passion – art.

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Karon Argue beams as she points to her newest paint-ing on display next to her kitchen table. She is exuber-ant as she unveils page after page of brilliantly detailed sketches – illustrations for two children’s books she has

nearly completed. Her talent is extraordinary, just ask acclaimed children’s author Robert Munch, who saw samples of her illustra-tions a few years ago and gave her an urgent thumbs-up message – You’re good, get going!

The question is: How on earth is she going at all, with minimal vision and decades of failing health? “The alternative to pushing through challenges is to sit back and feel sorry for yourself,” she says, smiling brightly. “I’m not that kind of person.”

Obviously. At age 40 Karon looks remarkably healthy and robust – hardly the picture of a blind person who has battled back from near death. She moves around her house astonishingly well, proudly pointing to pictures of her three adult kids, a family that has flourished against staggering odds. “They’re incredible – my kids. They've been through so much but I think they’re okay; maybe even better for it.”

The story of how this incredibly talented High River graphic artist arrived at this point in her life is astounding, if not downright unbelievable.

It began with gestational diabetes when she was pregnant with her first son at the young age of 18. “Diabetes runs in my family, my grandmother and all her siblings had it,” she informs. By her mid-20s Karon’s diabetes turned Type 1 and with a husband (Darren), three kids and two businesses in full swing in Medicine Hat (Ruckers and Fabutan), the family was in for a tumultuous ride.

The sicker Karon got the more people rallied around the family to help. “When we were still living in Medicine Hat, Darren got a call to come to the kids’ school, and we were worried that maybe they were having some difficulties,” she said, choking up. “When he got there he found tables full of food – teachers and parents had made all of it for our family.”

Illustrations for childrens’ book by Karon Argue.

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By her late 20s Karon was on insulin injections daily when even more tragedy stuck; she developed neuropathy in her feet and lost her ability to walk. “I would go around the house on my knees,” she said. “I couldn’t stand anything touching my feet.”

Her health further deteriorated when she contracted a bacterial infection in her stomach. Undiagnosed for months, the infection caused internal ulcers that pre-vented her system from absorbing food and reduced her to a fragile 90 pounds.

“My oldest son was 10 years old at the time and he would pick me up and carry me around the house,” she said. “We were a strong family unit.”

In September of 2001 Karon visited an endocrinologist in Calgary who told her that if she didn’t get the treatment she needed she would be dead by Christmas. “By that time the muscles in my hands and feet had atrophied so badly my feet were floppy and my fingers curled over.”

Determined to live, Karon moved in with her parents in High River and began intensive treatment at the Foothills Hospital. Back in Medicine Hat her hus-band tended to their businesses and took

care of their three kids.“When I wasn’t at the hospital or in

the pool doing physiotherapy I just slept all the time; it seemed to be what my body needed to heal,” said Karon. “Darren and the kids would come up every week-end and the kids would just climb into bed and stay there with me.”

After about six months the treatment began working and Karon got stronger. Her husband sold their businesses and moved the family to High River. Karon got an electric wheelchair and gradually began to regain her mobility. “I would pick the kids up at Spitzee (Elementary School) in my wheelchair. One would ride on my lap, one on the arm and one on the battery pack,” she said.

Anxious to return to her training as a graphic artist, Karon was thrilled when her extended family bought her a laptop. “I wore plastic formed casts on my hands to straighten my fingers, and I started plucking away, doing small jobs for family and friends,” she said.

Within a year and a half she got her driver’s licence back, returned to her normal weight and, miraculously, started walking again. Her neurologist, who had

Karon has completed storylines and illustrations for two books. One is set in Scotland and details the adventures of a young girl and her family on the hunt for a plot to build their castle. Uniquely infused with Karon’s Scottish roots and flavoured with authentic Scottish history, the tale marks the beginning of a series starring a colourful cast of characters including a fairy, a dragon, a donkey, a pack of trolls, an owl and a lightening bug. Her second book is a new twist on the Princess and the Frog – the untold version of the frog’s relentless pursuit of the princess with the enthusiastic help of friends including an otter, a turtle, a caterpillar and a raccoon.

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prepared her for life in a wheelchair, was stupefied. “He told me there was nothing medically to explain how I was walking; I told him I have a lot of people praying for me.”

In 2004, Karon purchased a sign shop, changed the name to Gecko Graphics and began operating out of her home. When business took off she moved the company to a downtown High River location and divided her time between work and family. By this time the diabetes was affecting her sight – she had limited vision in one eye due to a blocked optic nerve, but she was still able to do her job; she wasn’t letting it get her down.

Then two years ago Karon woke up with a retinal hemorrhage in her good eye. She lost sight completely in that eye rendering her legally blind. Once again she was forced to forfeit her business ambitions and summon the courage to rebuild her life.

“You can’t give up when everyone is so good to you. My parents have been there every step of the way – they help us all the time. My husband is amazing; he really is a rock. My kids are my biggest fans,” she explains.

Karon’s daughter and a good friend ran the shop until she man-aged to sell it. Highwood Printing bought the sign shop and offered

to keep Karon on for a year, to offer her expertise as they took over her sign business. “I’m still there part-time doing

graphic design for them. I love my job and I’m so grateful to (owner) Catherine – there is nowhere else I could go and get the kind of compassion and flexibility she gives me.”

A referral to Canadian National Insti-tute for the Blind (CNIB) was the next leg up for Karon. The agency supplied her with a mobility cane and some sight aids in her home, such as magnifiers and indi-cators on her appliances. “CNIB changed my world completely. Except for work, I had been totally homebound but now I can go grocery shopping and take walks around my neighbourhood.”

The greatest life changer came in the form of a computer magnification device called an Acrobat LCD enhanced vision machine. This endowment from CNIB gave Karon back her dream of becom-ing an illustrator of children’s books. “Art is my passion; I’ve been carrying around a sketch book and drawing since I was a child,” she says. “For years I’ve been working on these children’s books but I was always too busy and too afraid to put my work out there.”

Recently inspired by the encourage-ment of an art teacher, and gratefully rewarded with improved health and effective vision aids, Karon has thrown herself into her illustrations and set her sights on publishing her works.

“I feel renewed and ready to achieve my purpose,” she declares. “I hope this will be my year to shine.”

Karon Argue says she wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for the kindness, help and support she has received from family, friends and the community. She is most grateful to her parents, High River residents, Hamish and Jessie Mackenzie, her husband Darren, and her three children, Cody, Dakota and Marissa.

Karon, back at the drawing board with the help of Acrobat LCD enhanced vision machine from CNIB.

The alternative to pushing through challenges is to sit back and feel sorry for yourself… I’m not that kind of person.”

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For Jim and Eileen Jones, wood-working is an act of transforming materials and creating art. Their partnership, Jones’ Woodworks,

combines their talents in woodwork-ing, refinishing, restoration and creating custom furniture and art.

They both consider nature to be their greatest influence and use their art to pay tribute to the Alberta landscape and the living creatures that make their home there.

While Jim focuses on woodturning and forming the pieces Eileen finishes the end products and paints the designs, often inspired by Alberta’s flora and fauna.

Eileen insists that creation is as much for enjoyment as employment. “It’s so

fun, it’s so creative. It connects to our life right now,” she explains.

The Joneses live on a farm south of Claresholm, where they have a 1,500 square foot woodshop and a home that also functions as a gallery for their woodwork.

“Our business is very much a col-laborative effort and has been since the beginning,” says Jim. As Eileen applies the finishing to a piece, Jim completes estimates, draws plans and picks up mate-rials for the next project. In the refinish-ing and restoration of antiques, Jim only gets involved if there are pieces that need to be replaced or repaired.

“The finishing is where a poorly con-structed piece can be made beautiful, or a beautiful piece ruined,” says Jim, indi-cating that he places infinite trust in his finishing partner.

Hand-sanding, polishing and apply-ing just the right images and finishes to

Accolades

• Commissioned by Canadian Woodworking to write two articles on their unique wood turned art.

• Featured in the June 2011 Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society bi-annual exhibition and publication.

• Published in 25 Years – A Celebration, from the American Association of Woodturners National Symposium in 2011.

The finishing is where a poorly constructed piece can be made beautiful, or a beautiful piece ruined.” -Jim

Above, Jim creates a delicate Light Dancer, a process where he uses a lathe to turn two pieces of wood to a wall thickness of roughly 6/1000" then glues them together. Each individual Light Dancer is designed with a combination of piercings and stippling with a den-tist's drill, air-brushing, burning and/or hand-painted images.


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Jim’s work is an important challenge for Eileen, like choosing the perfect frame to accentuate a painting. “I learn new things every day. The whole process is a joy,” she says.

Both Jim and Eileen are self-taught. Jim started more than 30 years ago, building cabinets while living in Prid-dis. In 1984 he felt confident enough to challenge for his Journeyman Certificate in cabinetmaking offered through the Apprenticeship Board. With that success under his belt, he developed and taught the shop classes at Foothills Composite High School in Okotoks.

Now as the couple collaborates to

complete commissioned pieces and take on plenty of refinishing and resto-ration jobs, Jim also keeps busy provid-ing workshops and accepting speaking engagements. He has presented six, week-long workshops in schools through the Alberta Foundation For the Arts pro-gram called Artists In Education.

“I have also presented workshops at

over 20 teachers' conventions since 2006 and I am booked to teach eight more days this spring,” says Jim.

Although woodworking, custom fur-niture and restoration are an important part of the Jones’ work, they hope to focus increasingly on their art, as they enter into semi-retirement.

In fact, Jim says he’d be content to earn his living solely making art, explain-ing how the creative process of wood-turning comes naturally to him. “There is a basic plan, but essentially, I listen to the wood talk to me and let it shape itself,” he says. “For example, it might

tell stories from its life as a 100-year-old caragana bush, an unexpected wood source that lends itself to colourful turned pieces

Clearly, Jim and Eileen are deeply inspired by the inherent beauty of wood. “As far as our art is concerned, we want to produce pieces that connect with our lives and hearts in some way and that will hopefully connect with others also,” says Eileen.

I learn new things every day. The whole process is a joy.” -Eileen

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A cultural giant, Mavor Moore had a hand in some of the greatest achievements in building Canada’s theatrical identity, and yet he is relatively unknown to the Canadian cultural community.

He was an actor, musician, director, producer, composer, librettist, artis-tic director, administrator and professor. But one thing links these diverse vocations together: Mavor Moore was, above all else, a writer.

In this collection, editor Allan Boss provides an in-depth examina-tion of Mavor Moore’s produced works and presents eight plays in their entirety. Ranging from Moore’s first play to his most celebrated opera, Boss unearths the texts that helped define a national theatre, and relocates Moore’s place in the Canadian theatrical canon.

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Boss’s first book in this series, Identifying Mavor Moore (2011), revealed Moore as a primary figure behind many of the most important moments in the building of Canada’s theatrical and cultural landscape.

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Discovering Mavor MOOREAn Exploration of Eight Works for the Stage. Edited By Allan Boss

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Apr 6 - May 2 Dana RomanBluerock Gallerywww.bluerockgallery.ca [DV]

Apr 5

Meld: Steampunk StyleEvanescence Gallery and Art StudioFirst Friday Artist's Reception April 5, 7 - 9 pm, free. www.evanescencegallery.com [HR]

Apr 5Joelle AprilGitter’s Pubwww.gitterspub.com [HR]

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MUSIC

The Ruminants, a mainstay of Calgary's alt-country rock community, play regularly in

southern Alberta offering their blend of roots, country, and rock.

What began in 2008 with singer/songwriters Todd Maduke on man-dolin or guitar and Mike Cremona on bass, now includes David Martin, singer/songwriter/guitarist and drum-mer Sean McIntyre.

“We switch instruments as much as possible - everyone takes a turn on the bass and David plays mandolin, too. Sometimes we play completely acous-tic, sometimes completely electric. We like to mash up genres - our favs being old country, blues, rockabilly, folk and rock,” says Todd.

In 2012 the Ruminants went to a ranch near Rockyford to play a barn dance. The hayloft, where they per-formed (built in the 1920s from a kit ordered from Sears), had such good sound they decided to go back and record there. The result is this first full album (April 19 release date), self-titled with 13 original songs.

Upcoming Gigs:

March 23: Ship and Anchor, Calgary

April 19: Mikey's Juke Joint, Calgary (CD release party)

May 16: Wine-Ohs, Calgary

May 31: Gitter’s Pub, High River

Spotlight onTalent

The Ruminants

Photo by Astoria Photography

Apr 27 - June 2

Juried Members Art ShowLeighton Art CentreThink Big! Think Abstract! Think Landscape! www.leightoncentre.org [MV]

May 4Jill BarberBragg Creek CentreWith the 2013 release of her latest album "Chansons," Jill brings her own interpreta-tions of classic French songs. $38, 7 pm.www.braggcreekperformingarts.com [BC]

Apr 27Paul Reddick Weber Bros Band Flare n Derrick Community Hallwww.beneaththearch.ca [DV]

Apr 26

Exhibit Opening: Children of Icarus and The Crooked Trees of AlticaneOkotoks Art Gallery7 pm, free. www.okotoksculture.ca [OK]

Apr 28

Okotoks Kite FestivalRiverside Park A free day of family fun with kite flyng and face painting and enter your home-made kite in the competition. www.okotoks.ca [OK]

Apr 26Locomotive GhostGitter’s Pubwww.gitterspub.com [HR]

Apr 26 - 27, May 2 - 4, 9 - 11

Present LaughterRotary Performing Arts CentreA comedy by Noel Coward. $20, seniors and students $15, 7 pm. www.dewdneyplayers.com [OK]

Apr 21 Foothills Folk Club: John Wort Hannam & Band High River Centennial Library Theatre$15 advance / $20 at the doorFind us on FaceBook 403.469.1324 [HR]

Apr 25

Foothills Film: The Sapphires Wales TheatreFilm selections from Toronto International Film Festival. 7:30 pm, $10. www.walestheatre.com [HR]

Special Features One Evening OnlyMarch 28: Midnight’s Children

April 25: The Sapphires

7:30 pm $10 at the DoorWales Theatre, High River

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High River Centennial Library

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“We meet again Mr. Bond.”The nondescript man in the impec-

cable khaki London Fog trench coat spun around and stared menacingly into my eyes.

“Zac, my good friend, you know better than to sneak up on me,” he replied. He then relaxed and a smile crept across his worn face.

I was surprised to see an undercover operative wandering the halls of the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show* (CES).

But why was Bond at CES? Undoubt-edly he cared little about the latest in home theatre technology such as Sam-sung’s bendable OLED HD Screen or the new Blackberry Z10 smartphone.

“James, what brings you to CES 2013? Surely Q provides you with the latest gadgetry,” I inquired.

Bond grinned and replied, “You wouldn’t believe what the consumer has access to these days, old friend. Watch me put together a kit for my next assignment.”

Emphasizing the point, a small quad-ricopter drone buzzed overhead and we followed it, jostling our way through the crowds to the Parrot AR booth in the South Hall. There we saw the latest in WiFi and HD video-equipped aerial drones. The Parrot AR quadricopter can be piloted with any iOS or Android smartphone while streaming and record-ing live 720p HD video. The Parrot AR retails for about $329 and is currently available from most big box electronics retailers.

“Perfect for reconnaissance and short range flyovers,” James remarked.

Surprisingly our next acquisition was the SpareOne Plus – an inexpensive GSM emergency mobile phone that can get up to 10 hours of talk time from a single AA battery. The phone can keep its charge for up to 15 years and operates in extreme temperature ranges. The Spare-

One Plus also incorporates an LED torchlight that can burn for 24 hours and a one-touch emergency services button for 911 calls, no SIM required. Tar-geting kids, the SpareOne Plus has built-in GPS tracking and will broadcast the phone’s location to a parent’s smartphone or website.

“All I have to do is activate the phone, plant it on my target and voila – instant tail with real-time tracking!” said James, winking.

Next we visited the KJB Security Products booth, a veritable supermar-ket of surveillance and espionage gad-gets. The first product we viewed was the iTrail, a small passive GPS logger about the size of a matchbox. The user simply conceals the iTrail in a child’s backpack, or magnetically attaches it to a teenager’s car to track and record location, speed and time, which can later be displayed in Google Maps. While designed for fami-lies, at about $190 the iTrail is a cost-effective addition to any secret agent’s toolbox.

KJB also specializes in concealed and wearable cameras with many featuring 720p HD recording capabilities hidden in eyeglasses, pens, light switches, wall outlets and alarm clocks – all surprisingly inexpensive.

However, James was here for some-thing else… RecoverIt 2.0. Plug this unas-suming USB dongle into any Windows computer to recover forensic quality data from your target's attached smartphone – even if the phone is locked or the data has been deleted! Once connected you can recover text messages and/or see deleted emails, videos, pictures and chat logs on any iPhone, Android or Black-berry without entering a password.

“And they won’t even know I’ve accessed their files!” James smirked.

At our next stop we examined a pricey long-range r i f l e designed for extreme distance game hunting. I turned to ask Mr. Bond what he thought of the rifle, but he had dis-appeared – just another Brit melding namelessly into the throngs of tech afi-cionados at CES 2013.

Standing alone, I contemplated how consumer technology has evolved beyond pixels, Apps and iPads. Inquisitive con-sumers can now choose from a staggering array of personally invasive technologies including aerial drones, tracking devices, concealed cameras and data readers.

Suddenly feeling exposed, I glanced nervously over my left shoulder.

Was somebody watching me?

CONSUMER C L O A K AND DAGGER AT CES

*CES is globally regarded as a key showcase for new and emerging consumer technologies. This year’s show in Las Vegas broke all records with more than 1.92 million square feet of exhibit space, over 150,000 attendees and 3,250 exhibitors unleashing some 20,000 new products.

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To start, the bustling burg of Okotoks provides a wealth of restaurants such as Bistro Provence, located in the 1882-

built Sheep Creek post office. Chef Nico-las Desinai creates classic bistro dishes ranging from delicate quiches to silky duck magret, the flavours unmistakably lush and French.

Nearby, Heartland offers a lively menu of home-baked, handcrafted fare in an historic church setting – complete with stained glass. Further up the road, award-winning Yokozuna Sushi & Grill showcases a taste of the Orient. After lunch, an espresso from Blue Rock Coffee Company or Home Ground Coffee will keep you from napping the afternoon away. And if you’re in a hurry, Gourmet on the Go can meet your needs with glob-ally inspired – and gluten-free – foods.

Rolling south to High River, Evelyn’s Memory Lane Cafe is a must for classic

diner dishes, coffee, pie and a chat with Evelyn.

Train buffs will love the old railway car called The Whistle Stop Cafe, per-fect for a soup-and-salad lunch before or after a visit to the neighbouring Museum of the Highwood. And for an elegant evening of Italian delights, you can live la dolce vita at Alta Vita in the heart of downtown.

Pushing deeper into the foothills, Longview has a pair of remarkable res-taurants. Lunch at the log-lined Little New York Bistro is a delight while dinner at the Longview Steakhouse offers inter-national treats. Driss Belmoufid and his family combine the best of French bistro cuisine, Moroccan classics and Alberta beef into memorable meals at the Steak-house. (Note: Look for a newly built Steakhouse to open sometime in 2013.

Then it’s on to Black Diamond and Turner Valley for more great food. Grad-

Hiking, biking, motorcycling or simply driving through the foothills south and west of Calgary is a fine way to enjoy the beauty of the area… and generate an appetite. For-tunately, there are plenty of places in the MD of Foothills to satisfy those cravings.

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John Gilchrist has reviewed restaurants for CBC Radio in Calgary since 1980 and is the author of ten national best-sellers on dining in southern Alberta. He has also released three restaurant apps including Eat Canada, a nation-wide res-taurant guide for the business traveller.

His weekly Off the Menu column appears in the Calgary Herald, he is a contributing editor for Avenue and Where Calgary magazines, and he also writes regularly for Swerve and Harry. John is a member of San Pellegrino’s World’s Top Restaurants judging panel and the Calgary judge for the Cana-dian Culinary Championships. Gilchrist teaches Food and Cul-ture programs for the University of Calgary and leads travel pro-grams to culinary destinations such as Santa Fe, New York, Rome and Paris.

uate Foods in Black Diamond offers a brief but pungently spiced array of Paki-stani dishes. Sooth those spices with a malt at Marv’s Classic Soda Shop – and maybe have Marv croon a tune – or drop into the Black Diamond Bakery for a cinnamon bun. And for the ultimate eggs benedict, check out Terry Myhre’s Chuckwagon Cafe in Turner Valley. Look for the red barn building west of the four-way stop and ask for your Benny on a flatiron steak. Good eating!

Up Highway 22 by the Millarville turnoff there’s the tiny High Country Cafe, a necessary pit stop for pie (more pie!) and fine home cooking. And up in Bragg Creek the Bavarian Inn has recently been taken over by chef Joseph Viewer. It’s a little bit of Bavaria and a little bit of the foothills rolled into a robust rouladen of food cultures.

Many other fine food options flourish in the foothills. For the golf fan – or those who just like good clubhouse food – there’s The Foxes Den at the High River Golf & Country Club and Siraia at Sirocco Golf Club south of Spruce Meadows. And folks who like to pick a few berries before lunch can visit the Saskatoon Farm Cafe and JoJo’s Cafe (open seasonally) at Kayben Farms, both near Okotoks.

Any direction you look, and any which way you get there, there’s mighty fine food in the foothills.

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Recipes by Penny and Tony MarshallPhotos by Neville Palmer

When Penny and Tony Mar-shall, owners of Highwood Crossing, switched to organic

farming in 1989 they were returning to agricultural practices that were similar to those used by Tony's great-grandfather nearly 100 years earlier on the same land.

Located on the Highwood River near Aldersyde, the name “Highwood Crossing” refers to a shallow portion of the river on the farm where early travel-ers crossed before there were bridges or roads.

Today the Marshalls grow only 100 per cent certified organic crops that include wheat, rye, flax, oats, barley, hay and sweet clover. They also own and operate Highwood Crossing Foods, an

organic processing facility in High River, where they make, package and distrib-ute food products from the crops they grow as well as from other organic farm-ers. Their line of organic items includes cold pressed flax and canola oil, granola and cereals, baking mixes, stone-ground flours, whole grains and gluten-free mixes.

Highwood Crossing was presented with an Innovation in Agriculture Award that recognized the Marshall’s efforts in developing value-added food prod-ucts and for marketing these items on a national level.

Highwood Crossing products can be found in fine stores and restaurants across Canada.

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Lemon Raspberry MuffinsMakes 12 large muffins

Ingredients1 lemon (juice and grated rind) 1 ½ cups raspberries or blueberries (fresh or frozen)½ cup sugar 2 cups Highwood Crossing Flaxseed Muffin and Pancake Mix 1 cup milk, soymilk or yogurt ⅓ cup Highwood Crossing Canola Oil 1 egg 1 tsp vanilla

Method• Grate the lemon rind and set aside

in a medium bowl. Squeeze the juice from the lemon into the measuring cup. Add sugar to rind along with Highwood Crossing Muffin and Pan-cake Mix.

• Combine milk, canola oil, egg, lemon juice and vanilla, then mix well.

• Toss raspberries with the dry mixture and slowly add the liquid mixture.

• Mix gently and spoon into greased or papered muffin tins, filling two thirds full.

Sandy Topping

• Mix together 3 tbsp sugar, 1 tbsp flour and 2 tsp oil. Sprinkle on muffins be-fore baking.

Bake at 400°F for about 20 minutes.

CRUNCHY Fruit CrispIngredients5 - 6 cups fruit cut into pieces: fresh or frozen berries or sliced apples, peaches, pears ⅔ cup Highwood Crossing Oat Flakes

⅓ cup Highwood Crossing Flaxseed Muffin and Pancake Mix or whole wheat flour

½ - ¾ cup brown sugar, depending on desired sweetness

1 tsp cinnamon

¼ cup Highwood Crossing Canola Oil or butter

Method• Place fruit in an 8” square baking dish, pie plate or cast iron pan.• Mix together remaining ingredients until crumbly.• Sprinkle over fruit.• Bake at 375ºF for 40 - 45 minutes.• Serve warm, with ice cream or yogurt.


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Canada Flag Hand PlantBoarder Dwayne Wiebe, NorquaySome of the boys built this dandy little wall ride right next to a jump. Dwayne with matching coat and board Rastafari-style, and the cool looking mountain in the background made for picture perfect photography!

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Q&A with Boarder / Photographer

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View more of Kelly’s work at schovanekphotography.com

Where’s home?I’m from Canmore but over the last year I have lived in Victoria, Sundre, Slave Lake and in my car!

Tell us a little about you?I get too many speeding tickets and have a dog named Da Puppers and I am hoping to move to Australia by the end of this year.

Where did you learn photography?I went to SAIT for Film Studies and Western Academy of Photography in Victoria.

What does photography mean to you?Photography for me is somewhat of a remedy for my lack of attention span and my disorganized life. I don’t look at my camera as a tool to create or treat my photography as an art.

It’s simply an extension of my body, like some futuristic go-go gadget extension of my arm, documenting all the weird madness that surrounds me. I have always used it as a way to remind myself where I’ve been and what I’ve seen and done, the friends I’ve made and the adventures we’ve had.

In this way it’s never possible to be bored of photography, it’s not a job, it’s something that happens naturally.

What’s on your playlist?Right now I am listening to a lot of The Mars Volta, Cog, Carina Round, Pink Floyd and Janes Addiction.

Heli PowBoarder Luke Suderman, Blue River, BCTo get this shot at the end of a week-long record powder snowboard trip, we cat boarded in the morning, then got to hijack a heli for one run from the top. The majority of the trip was overcast and snowy, but this particular day at the end was complete bluebird. Powder shots are timeless and they make everyone look like a pro.


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The BarnBoarder Mark Goldsmith, Sunshine VillageIt gets pretty windy around this area for most of the winter creating a massive cornice on one side of the barn. The run into it is a long sloped hill, usually littered with knee bashing moguls.

For the boys to get to the end with speed, they basically had to shoot like a rocket-straight downward, get 10 to 15 feet of air off the wedge-shaped jump, ride the top, then cut in razor close at the end so we could get the photo.


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The battle took at least an hour. At many points during the fight, I was scared the 10-pound test line

would stretch to breaking point. Then the beast surfaced on the flat water, lilting in the air, twisting and turning before plung-ing back into the cold water nose first. But they don’t jump, do they?

My muscles strained and just as I con-sidered giving up and cutting the line, the creature succumbed, wilting to the surface near the boat. Green and gold, it was three, no… it had to weigh four

pounds – they can’t grow that big, can they? It’s not possible. That fish was like two maybe three feet long. No kidding. Imagine. The scales shimmered in the

sun, black eyes glistening like molten coal.Then I saw its mouth, hook firmly

planted. Its gills were moving - the poor thing was trying to breathe and I knew a life rested there in my outstretched arms. Catch and release. Catch and release.

I snapped a couple of pictures with my digital camera and held the fish in water until it revived. Suddenly it thrashed, flipped upward towards freedom and with a splash, knocked my hands away as if I were a babe and it was a Great White.

The camera came loose from my grip and flew into the air. I made a grab for it, touched it briefly a few times, frantically juggling the Nikon with slippery fingers.

But to no avail. Splash. Gurgle. The fish was gone, likely resting in the weeds. In its wake the camera sunk, depositing the evidence somewhere on the muddy

bottom of a pea soup lake.But honest to God, you should have

seen that four-foot, five pound Yellow Perch!

Allan Boss, Team Leader for Okotoks Cultural & Historical Services, grew up fishing and he loves telling fish stories. Before coming to work in Okotoks, he spent eight years as National Drama Producer for CBC Radio in Calgary. There he wrote, produced and broadcast countless columns, documentaries and dramas. He also ran the writing contest Alberta Anthology CBC, for which he edited two anthologies of short literature. His CBC Ideas program updrafts was nominated for many prestigious, international awards including the Peabody and Prix Italias. His book Identifying Mavor Moore was published in 2011 by Playwrights Canada Press, and a second in that series Discovering Mavor Moore is due out in 2013. Allan lives in Calgary with his family.

P E RC H I NG N E A R T R U T H By Allan Boss

Painting by Paul Rasporich

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