Fasten your seatbelts and hang on tight High River and area! This week to come brings excitement in the skies overhead and the road ways beneath! Some of th.0e World’s best balloon pilots will be landing in High River to take part in the Heritage Inn International Balloon Festival. On Friday September 27th, you can …
Talk Like a Pirate Day Ahoy Matey-Today be talk like a pirate day. Want to be surprisin’ your coworkers? Want to be annoyin’ your spouse? Throw a few “Arrrrr’s or Aye’s” in your language today and blunder your family and friends! Created by two friends in 1995 as a joke, Talk Like a Pirate Day, …
National Cheeseburger Day Well, burger lovers, today is National Cheeseburger Day! Rejoice! We have Lionel Sternberger to thank for his invention of gastronomic genius. Lionel was 16 years old in 1926, flipping burgers inside his dad’s sandwich shop, the “Rite Spot,” in Pasadena, California. Consistent with most how-it-got-started stories, there are two versions. In one, …
Sheena’s 19th anniversary Inclusive employers take note! Today marks the 19th anniversary of a High River treasure. Sheena Small started her business 19 years ago and has become a local entrepreneur in her own right. A few floods, moves and changes later, Ms. Small’s business is located in the heart of downtown High River and …
National Play Doh Day Play-Doh is a modeling compound for young children to make arts and crafts projects. The product was first manufactured in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, as a wallpaper cleaner in the 1933. With the change in wallpaper adhesives and then the cleaners, Play-Doh was then reworked and marketed to Cincinnati schools in the mid-1950s. Play-Doh was demonstrated at an educational convention in 1956. …
World Peace Day International Day of Peace or World Peace Day is a United Nations-sanctioned holiday observed annually on 21 September. It is dedicated to world peace, and specifically the absence of war and violence, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone for humanitarian aid access. The day was first established in 1981 and first observed in September 1982 and is kept …
