Left to Right:  Saskia Knight ( Director of Development, Marketing & Communications, McMan), Karin Matthiessen (Director of Services, McMan), Soraya Saliba (Executive Director, McMan), Fran Porter (Foothills Retired Teachers Association),…

Left to Right: Joyce Loucks (FRTA President), Sylvia Moore (FRTA Vice-President), Mr. Stern (Highwood High School Band Teacher), and Mr. Weist (Highwood High School Band Teacher)   The École Secondaire…

On September 7, FRTA members and guests gathered at Highwood Golf and Country Club for our annual NO BELLS Brunch. In spite of the pandemic, we had about 60 people…

This is the presentation of $500 to the High River Community Cancer Centre by the Foothills Retired Teachers’ Association (FRTA). Pictured left to right: Wendy Kennelly, Executive Director of the…

Jim Brandon has recently earned the title of Professor at the University of Calgary. There is an enormous amount of work required to achieve this status. Another Foothills person has…

I heartily recommend a book given to me at Christmas. The Lost City of Z by David Grann. Very well written and meticulously researched. Very much an eye-opener of the…

The Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) pulled out of negotiations with the Alberta Teachers’ Retirement Fund (ATRF) in the weeks before the finance minister signed a ministerial order giving AIMCo…

Teachers and pensioners received a late, unwelcome Christmas gift from Finance Minister Travis Toews in the form of an imposed agreement on pension investment management. On December 23, 2020, Toews…

This book is a historical novel written by the Cuban author Armando Lucas Correa. The story switches between Anna Rosen who is a twelve-year-old girl living in New York and…

Merry Christmas friends and colleagues. FRTA executive met on Friday and developed a contest for our members.  There are prizes and we will be supporting small businesses in Okotoks, High…