From a teen immigrant in a Saskatchewan coal mine to cutting props on Crowsnest Mountain and building early logging roads, the Juhlin family story traces how Magnus and Grace carved out a self sufficient life in the backcountry above Coleman.

From the historic Pepsi mural to the rebuilt neon sign and front canopy, the Roxy Revival is all about process. Don Budgen explains how careful research, skilled trades and community fundraising are bringing Coleman’s landmark theatre back to life.

The Crowsnest Pass Public Art Gallery is showing David Harrison’s solo exhibit, Works on Paper: A Retrospective, through Dec. 7. The art educator and conceptual painter reprocesses urban graffiti into geometric matrices that explore decay and abstraction.

CNP Allied Arts Association will host a community visioning workshop on Nov. 9 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. as it plans a new community art hub after Alberta Transportation purchased the gallery building for Highway 3 widening. The gallery remains open in Frank with a Nov. 8 exhibit launch.

Kinnear challenges removal of a healthy, century old Blairmore cottonwood, saying the park path could have curved to save it. Calls for a heritage tree inventory and council review process after more utility tree cuts, including a 19th Street cottonwood and firs felled in 2022.

This story started with an invitation by my brother to go to the Middle Kootenay Pass to my father’s favourite huckleberry patch and where he had buried dad’s ashes some years ago.