Long-awaited snow fulfils many wishes

Calgary Herald
Early Edition, Page B1
After wishing for a white Christmas that never came, winter-loving Calgarians are treating last night’s snowfall as a belated present. While the winter-haters broke out their shovels and began clearing driveways and sidewalks, others slipped out of their houses to the parks, the shops and the ski hills. In the city’s [...]

Portable ultrasound is stethoscope’s companion

Calgary Herald
Page C5
The first thing that pops into most people’s minds when they hear the word, “ultrasound,” is seeing their unborn child on a monochrome screen. But ultrasound is now much more.Thanks to companies like SonoSite Inc, General Electric, Philips and others, doctors can use a hand-held, portable, ultrasound device to take a quick look [...]

Companies aim to bring ‘dead’ cellphone to life

The Calgary Herald
Page B9
Riley Haugan hasn’t had much luck with cellphones. After his first one fell into a sink at a Calgary bar, the second plummeted to its demise in a toilet bowl. “They’re sitting in my room in my drawer,” the 19-year-old says with a smile. “They’re useless.”Haugan’s friend, Kent Finkbiner, 19, has gone [...]

Crohn’s disease sufferer a picture of perseverance: Poster child keeps chin up despite illness

Calgary Herald
Page B3
It only takes 30 seconds for 11-year-old Danielle Taylor to shove a feeding tube up her nose, down her throat and into her stomach before crawling into bed at night. That tube will pump food into her body for 10 hours.
“The feeding tube isn’t a regular regimen I have to do every single [...]

Painting to cope with 9/11 emotions

Calgary Herald
Saturday, August 10, 2002 Page B4
When two planes destroyed the World Trade Center Sept. 11, artist Andie Wicherts coped with her emotions by going into her studio and picking up her paintbrush. But her mind was not concentrated only on thoughts of terror and violent death. She pondered where all those lost souls would [...]

African famine near crisis: aid worker

Calgary Herald
A major food shortage in southern Africa will hit a crisis point within several months and is already putting 13 million people in five countries at risk of starvation, warns the Red Cross. “It became quite clear that things have deteriorated dramatically since around April (or) May,” said Iain Logan, International Red Cross operations [...]

Blue light helps babies heal: Donation buys therapy cribs, pumps, scales

Calgary Herald
Page B8
Zachary Lott rests comfortably in his father’s arms as his first pair of sunglasses cover his tiny eyes. Granted, his “glasses” are only a drawing on top of a piece of white felt, but that eye mask protects the six-day-old infant’s eyes from the three blue lights over his hospital crib.
These special cribs, [...]

Pakistani and Indian students leave national grudges at home: Friendships flourish despite Kashmir tensions

Calgary Herald
Page B3
As soldiers eye each other in the disputed region of Kashmir, between India and Pakistan, four recent immigrants shoot pool at the Campus Cove in MacEwan Hall at the University of Calgary. The students laugh and make jokes like any group of friends would. It doesn’t matter that three are Indian and one [...]

U of C study of eating disorders seeking volunteer subjects

Calgary Herald
Page B6
A new study at the University of Calgary requires volunteers to help explore the link between personality and binge eating disorders.”We’re basically trying to understand whether there are common personality traits that seem to underlie binge eating that might help explain why some people binge eat and others don’t,” said clinical psychologist Dr. [...]

Feds fund $67 million in low-cost housing: Calgary’s share about $30M

Calgary Herald
Page A7
There’s hope on the horizon for Calgarians on year-long waiting lists for low-income housing. The federal and provincial government signed a deal Monday that will see 5,000 rental homes built across the province in the next five years.
“The affordable housing agreement that we are signing today will provide $134 million over the next [...]