Edmonton News

Dan Brister's job is many people's worst nightmare: he's the only one naked in a room of strangers. Being nude is easy, says the 55-year-old who can slip off his clothes in 20 seconds. The hard part is staying still.

You might think Alex Archbold may be too young to be featured in a publication like this. People over 50 couldn’t possibly want to read about those yet a decade away from reaching the half century mark.

Yolande MacLean, 94, recently went for a leisurely bike ride through her home town of Marcelin, Sask., a small town where she and her 17 siblings were born and raised.

In 1950, Tony Cashman was a 27-year-old radio reporter at CJCA. While putting together the evening news broadcast one day, he told a story about some troublesome local beavers that had been relocated out-of-town to the Athabasca River.

This well known story is found in the Bible in 2 Samuel Chapter 11. The general understanding of the occurrence is that David got into real trouble by watching a young lady taking a bath.

If famed Hollywood director Michael Curtiz, who helmed such cinematic classics as Casablanca and White Christmas, had married her grandmother, Ilona Ryder's life would probably have been very different.

When you own absolutely everything there is to own, you may have every right to be annoyed when someone demands taxes from you and your staff.

It hardly seems possible that 1969 is now almost ancient history. The events of that tumultuous year are so vivid, that it's hard to believe that they occurred a half-century ago.

The red-haired border collie jumps up, twists to the left and grabs the blue Frisbee in her mouth. Della, a therapy dog on one of her weekly sessions at the Garneau Hall seniors' complex, is surrounded by smiles.

To live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is to enjoy and rapture over, three distinct seasons: construction, poor sledding and snow. Those who cannot stand these fantastic seasons move off to the south: Florida or Cuba or Mexico.