Calgary Communauté Nouvelles

The Canadian Football League (CFL) has announced a significant new partnership with World Vision Canada, a global relief, development, and advocacy organization. This alliance aims to reach out to CFL's expansive fan base to create meaningful changes in the lives of children living in high-risk regions around the globe.

More than 500 members of the University of Calgary campus community pledged to take energy saving actions on campus and at home as part of the eighth annual PowerOFF Challenge. From turning off lights to taking shorter showers, participants collectively committed to save an estimated 225,000 kilowatt hours of energy between March 1 and 24; enough to power 375 Alberta homes for a month or save $13,500 in electricity costs.

On Wednesday, April 12, the University of Calgary will host the third annual UCalgaryStrong Festival to celebrate resilience, leadership and well-being of our campus community. Volunteer help is critical to the success of this event. The organizing committee is looking for volunteers to work two-hour shifts between 10:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Pacific Assistance Dog Society (PADS) regularly brings puppies to Bow Valley College as part of their training to become assistance dogs. It’s a lot of fun for Summit, Tonka and the rest of the puppies, who get to play and socialize with the students, and they don’t even know that it’s a test of sorts.

Take heart, University of Calgary students, staff and faculty, past and present — Leon the Frog will live to ribbit and regale again. The tale of Leon the Frog, a pun-filled story/poem that was written on the stairs of the Social Sciences tower in the 1970s, going up all 13 floors, was mistakenly painted over last week, as part of an effort to remove graffiti from campus.

CreekWatch, a project of the RiverWatch Institute of Alberta, used 68 volunteers to regularly test water quality in 10 creeks last summer. Mill Creek ranked last for water quality, with high levels of salt, phosphorus and other pollutants. It’s E. coli bacteria count, measured weekly, was double the level found in Calgary’s troubled Nose Creek and more than four times the acceptable level for swimming.