Valerie's Variety Podcast

episode 25 season 1

a group of podcasters brought this story back to life

Welcome back to Valerie's Variety Podcast with your host me, Valerie Moss...todays show I wanted to share with you the making of the Shelever case a behind the scenes episode of Calgary History: William Shelever from the previous episode. If you haven't listened to this episode please do so before you listen to the makings of...

Screenshot of the editing that went into the Shelever Episode

I recently did an episode investigating in Calgary, i spent some, well many hours at the Calgary public Library looking for something interesting to podcast about that is Calgary driven and from the 1970's in the past, not a currently discussed topic . I first came upon the Local History room at the library and got comfortable....upon further inspection I came across many articles that have been clipped out of the newspaper and categorized into envelopes one marked crime and criminals. I opened these envelopes up and came upon several clippings about this one case in 1977.

Rookie Cop Shot,

for my first Calgary History episode about two girls found dead under the happy valley overpass, I found it interesting to combine the stores and actually write a column on this story...moving into the William Bill Shelver case I wanted to push myself and step this up another notch. I find it very interesting listing to the podcast serial with Sara Kanik as she a) is a great story teller and b) includes actual clips from the people she's talking about. I asked Jeff my hubby if he'd be up for helping me out as he has in the past but he waste' into it for the quantity of lines I required...when I thought about who I could get, I had a great idea to reach out to my fellow podcasters and ask if anyone would be interested in contributing to this story as a voice over. I'm not quote at the investigative journalism point where I can spend more hours of personal time finding, sourcing and interviewing these people from my stories....YET! so I first went through all of  the articles and research I came upon and created my list of "quotes" that people within these stories said then I reached out to my Facebook communities for podcasters and asked who might be interested in reading some lines male and females...well that was easier than I thought - thank you! (p.s. if you're interesting in doing voice work for me in an upcoming episode, please touch base with me as I'd be so gracious) I immediately had so many people offering to assist with my 14 lines that I had extra entries.

Due to the graphic and sensitive nature of the story and wanting to pay tribute and highly respect the Calgary Police Service I made sure that I was true to what these people said and in the context that they said it within.

I placed these characters in Alphabetical order for ease of layout and organizing but they were within the episode in possibly more than one appearance as well. Some even had two different people to quote.

The criteria was simple, here's the line in "quotes" please say the line 2-3 times I would provide descriptive words and possibly a setting. In exchange for this unpaid position I requested a snippet of their podcast or a promo clip to insert.

Said with purpose and directiveness

, "from what I've seen he has the makings of a good police officer" This was a line from Zone Sergeant Shaw

Starting with

Andy Ace as Deputy Howard Leary here's his entry and his promotion clip.

for Pardon my Fork ironically this was the first entry I received, I listened to his lines and the promo wihile texting live with Andy, and I was so distracted by how good his promo was - really good, take a listen, that I didn't listen to his entry lol

Austin Kirk as Police chief Brian Sawyer

I didn't receive a promo clip for Austin but thank you for helping me with my show.

bridget frank quoting amazing grace

I received several entries for this line but I could only choose one, thank you Bridge for helping me out, I sure appreciate it and I think you did a great job!

chirag desi as inspector don nelson

for Tales of the Trade  Features our region’s pioneers & the stories behind the ideas they brought to life. Each episode highlights the challenges & triumps of the enterpreneurial journey & a legacy in the making. New episode every second Tuesday.

dan stephenson as dr. Jack Barlass and Sergeant Run Gutteride

for Fireside Chat Hockey chat for hardcore Flames fans, this is a site where our NFL Calgary Flames Hockey team has a show dedicated to their community of hockey, fans and hardcore discussions, been around since 2013

 Dean Giles as constable peterson

for Podscure  a podcast about obscure podcasts and the people behind them

Dustin danzer as an officer at the funeral

for Dustin Danzer Podcast and You Tube Site he has a you tube and podcast page. he answers questions with comic relief addressing tough questions and discuss life and popular issues on planet earth.

Karin heindahl as Mrs. Shelever

this was kind  of neat as she was interested in contributing and when I went to her facebook page she lives in Germany, I ask if she can speak English like a Canadian, she sent me a voice note through messenger and voila she not only speaks english but does sound like a Canadian...until she says her promo, she's Swedish and runs a Swedish podcast.  She's likely the most important voice within this story as she was the wife left behind with a baby bump and now a ...window. I thought Karin did a great job.

 her's is in Swedish...thanks Karin how neat is this?

Kyle Marshall at Constable Bill Martin

 for Assumptions Podcast  A podcast in which two friends, a Christian and an Athiest, try to understand the other’s worldview. Created by Kyle Marshall and Daniel Melvill Jones. I had the advantage to meet Kyle on a couple of occasions now, he's very well spoken, an English major and Owner of MediaLab a bridge-co working space in downtown Calgary check him out!

Lucia Julio singing Amazing Grace

for Repodcasting  Join hosts Janet and Lucia as they recast your favourite (and not so favourite) movies!

phil better as Crown PROSECUTOR Chumka

for Phil Better Show The award winning* talent filled* podcast of this generation! That's right The Phil Better Show is the show that you want to listen to as its so full of movie and TV reviews, comments, and overall WTF that you won't be able to get enough!!! Subscribe NOW!!!! *All claims are those of the creator and may not be true... well only in his own head.

sean perrin as zone sergeant shaw

for Clarineat  a show about clarinets from Calgary Alberta Canada, one of the top 10 classical  music podcasts.

Thanks for taking the time to hang out with us in this behinds the podcast show in the Shelever case. my goal was to represent the characters in the right context and true to the scene of the stories and articles I came upon. Were you around during this time, do you remember the William Shelever case one of our city's finest lost his life doing what he loved best, by being a police officer. Here's to Mrs. Shelever and her daughter Billie and all the CPS members sworn and unsworn, we value your service to our community, Thank you!

Thanks for listening to the podcast today which as produced and written by me, Valerie Moss, intro and outro for this podcast recorded by London Moss and again thank you to all that contributed their time and their voices to this episode, I could not have done this without you. I truly value the time podcasters take in editing and producing their own work. If you liked this episode or any of my episodes and want to provide me some feedback I'd love to hear from you by leaving me a comment, rating on your favourite podcast portal or send me a note at [email protected]

Thanks for listening

episode 24 season 1

   William (Bill) Shelever "we will do everything to see his death was not in vain"

Having friends in the police force in Calgary raining from Detectives to K-9 and surveillance makes me reflect on their jobs and skills - their sheer determination to make our streets better - safer. Having been on a "ride-a-long" (check our my blog for these stories - maybe a future podcast) and seeing what they go through first hand also makes me contemplate the sheer magnitude and intimate nature of the job. Going into peoples homes, searching people and speaking directly about the concerns at hand. Very intimate and personal. So when I came across this article well many articles about this fallen policeman I wanted to pay tribute to this story from the 1970's.

The CPS (Calgary Police Service) with 2200 sworn members, 1000 unsworn members and 8 stations. Having the first female police Chief in Canada, Christine Silverberg. Since inception in 1885 the CPS has lost 11 officers in the line of duty:

1917 – Constable Arthur Duncan (gunfire)1933 – Inspector Joe Carruthers (gunfire)1941 – Constable Wilf Cox (motorcycle collision)1957 – Constable Ken Delmage (motorcycle collision)1974 – Detective Boyd Davidson (gunfire)1976 – Staff Sgt. Keith Harrison (gunfire)

1977 – Constable Bill Shelever (gunfire)

1992 – Constable Rob Vanderwiel (gunfire)1993 – Constable Rick Sonnenberg (hit while attempting to stop stolen vehicle)

Rick Sonnenburg Memorial off Deerfoot Trail SE

In 1993, as a direct result of the hit and run death of Constable Rick Sonnenberg, the Helicopter Air Watch for Community Safety (HAWCS unit) was created, and the Calgary Police Service became the first law enforcement agency in Canada to incorporate the use of air support into its routine operations. In 2006, the unit was expanded when a second helicopter was purchased.

2000 – Constable John Petropoulos (injuries sustained in fall)2001 – Constable Darren Beatty (injuries sustained during training exercise)

I will be featuring William Bill Shelever who lost his life to gunfire in 1977 as one of these 11. 

May 24, 1977

The scene shows two police cruisers under the light of the street lamps, with a neon plant sign overhead, one police officer running toward the camera another ring is lit up and sales Pro Shop, caption reads "police at shooting scene in downtown calgary....after two officers were shot near restaurant. They were shot in their mobile office they were shot in their squad car on 8 avenue SW. Them as well as another assailment - a known robber was also shot on Friday. One of these officers William (Bill) Shelever, just 31 years old and only 6 weeks on the job was shot in the head. The other officer was 26 years old and he was shot in the groin. The suspect, Roy Glaremin only 22 years old was shot in the chest and buttocks...and was satisfactory after surgery saved his life once a few bullets were removed and he was sewn up.

The story goes something like this: There was a holdup Friday afternoon at the jean Joint, downtown Calgary a separate incident. The two policemen men Shelever and Pedersen were patrolling downtown around 1am when they saw a man that fit this description (Roy Glaremin) the culprit from earlier. When they approached him they asked him to come back to the Police car, while there, Shelver made an unsuccessful attempt to take the gun away -Glaremin demanded that the two officers turned over their guns and Pedersen stalled trying to get handcuffs and flashlight.They checked him (not like a full search) and put him in the back of the car...The fact that he was a suspect didn't produce the official signal of a true/ thorough search then he/the suspect pulled a revolver immediately and shot Shelever once in the back of the head, the second officer went to flee the vehicle and was shot two times. Once in the leg and another time in the buttocks however another news article says one of these slugs hit his Petersen's foot. Peterson, the second officer shot the gunman two times as he fled he as scene limping and excited as he continued to search for the suspect.  Shooting the suspect two times also called into question the type of guns that policeman have - why shooting a suspect twice, could this suspect get up and continue to run?Two other officers captured the suspect shortly thereafter. The night Manager at the Holiday Inn heard over half a dozen gun shots and saw a police officer lying wounded in front of the Pink Panther nightclub located at 725 - 8 avenue SW (Currently this is the Queenswood House Apartments.  and the other one was running and holding himself across this body and was believed to be Pederson.

When the two officers captured the suspect at 7 street and 7 avenue sw which currently resides the Nexen Tower, Sprague Drugs, Scotia Bank Tower and of course the c-train track on 7th avenue.

William (Bill) Shelever was in all account a rookie cop, he has a square jaw, short dark hair and tinted glasses, clean shaven, all of 31 years old, 6 weeks on the job, he was married with no kids. Being born in Belgrade known as the "white city" in Serbia, Shelever and his parents moved to Calgary, to the Forest Lawn district around 1943 and he graduated from Forest lawn High School in 1945.  In 1969 he earned his welding papers and as he worked at Barber Industries - he was looking for more and to make a difference and changed his focus to becoming a police officer. Such a selfless honourable decision.

Pederson, Shelever's partner was only 26 years old, with 2 years of training and street experience in the downtown area of Calgary. Peterson is slim faced, moustache, small eyes and serious looking. Such a young sole in a heavy, responsible work life.

Police Shot by a 9mm revolver/semi automatic

What is this style of gun? It has a chamber that holds the ammunition in a 6 chamber round, each round could potentially hold 15-17. It's a revolver, meaning the chamber revolves exposing a new bullet to dislodge and fire. It can shoot up to 1800meters, 5400 feet to a man sized target. The bullet size is 9mm or almost 1/2 inch in diameter, weight approx 150 grams and the bullet shooting at approx 1200 feet/second, this is a small, lightweight, fast, effective gun. Glaremin had a direct shot at close range, deliberate.

Suspect Shot by a .38 Calibre Smith and Wesson Revolver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson_Model_10

The Smith & Wesson Model 10, previously known as the Smith & Wesson .38 Hand Ejector Model of 1899, the Smith & Wesson Military & Police or the Smith & Wesson Victory Model, is a revolver of worldwide popularity. It was the successor to the Smith & Wesson .32 Hand Ejector Model of 1896 and was the first Smith & Wesson revolver to feature a cylinder release latch on the left side of the frame like the Colt M1889. In production since 1899, it is a six-shot double-action revolver with fixed sights. Over its long production run it has been available with barrel lengths of 2 in (51 mm), 3 in (76 mm), 4 in (100 mm), 5 in (130 mm), and 6 in (150 mm). Barrels of 2.5 inches (64 mm) are also known to have been made for special contracts.[1] Some 6,000,000 of the type have been produced over the years, making it the most popular handgun of the 20th century.[2]

Both officers were wearing bullet proof vests which only came out 7 years prior to this incident. Unfortunately due to to the aim of the gun shot, missed the bullet proof vest and hit Shelver in the back of the head behind his left ear. Also, at this time, in the 1970s the "silent" officer, the bullet proof glass cage was not invented yet nor was being administered and discussed as a usable, safety precaution however was revisited with more officers describing it as an obstruction - little did they know then how valuable this would be in a very short time. Police Chief Brian Sawyer was also being questioned about this new 'silent police officer' and not ruling this out as an added benefit and defence for safety.

Cst. Shelever was survived by his wife Janet and a daughter, Billie, who was born a few months after his death. His wife gave him this amazing news just days before he lost his life to Glaremin. He also left behind his parents Andriy and Olena (Helen), extended family and many friends, he was an only child. That's Constable Bill Martin, can't you just hear how he felt about Constable Shelever making the decision to become a Police Officer, likely a reflection of his own purpose. That's Zone Sergeant Shaw again talking about Shelever's character and future.

at 10am More than 1000 people paid their respects to the fallen officer, the 3rd officer down in as many as 30 months and one week after the shooting, This was held in the remarkable Jubilee auditorium with honour guards, pipe band, and representative from other forces. where the police force gave an incredible reflection on changing policy and how they conduct searches, and have put the promise out there to protect their officers during their very difficult positions on the job. 6 police motorcycles led the funeral procession from the auditorium doors, 200 red-coated mounties from across the country followed and a solo snare drum saluted each step down 14 street NW. this was an officer speaking about Shelever around the time of the funeral, can't you just hear the impact something like this has on one of their own?

Roy Glaremin, who is this man, at 22 years old, where did he come from, what was his life like, how did he become a killer...as he sat quietly taking notes during the court case being charged with killing Shelver, FIRST degree murder. Caught nearby the shooting, extremely pale and blood on his shirt, he looked guilty. Two men described by Calgary police as associates to Glaremin have been arrested in Edmonton (just 3 hours north of Calgary) and charged with a gun shop break-in as well as armed robberies there.

episode 23 season 1

Calgary Pay Attention

Todays Two Minute Tuesday we are looking at Calgary Languages. Welcome back to Valerie's Variety Podcast, with your host me, Valerie Moss todays show is short and sweet. I'm calling these Two Minute Tuesdays or TMT's. As I've been doing more and more research for my episodes and working full time, it doesn't leave enough in the kitty to record and produced timely, so instead of releasing less often I've decided to do these short spurts in between the full episode segments. Let me know what you think. My focus as always will be Calgary, this great city, and all that's captured within it. Enjoy the episode.

Since we do live in a predonimantly english speaking Country, Calgary mother tongue language is English, however in the 2011 census we learned that 70% speak English, 1% speak French and 25% speak a foreign language with the top 3 being. First: Punjabi which is a Indo-Aryan language with more than 100 million native speakers worldwide, The Punjab extends from northwest India through eastern Pakistan. Second/Er: Chinese Dialects, which is separated into 5 main groups. Mandarin, Yue (which includes Cantonese), Min, Wu and Hakka make up the other four. Cantonese lay claim to approx 55 million speakers in China alone. Third/Thres: Spanish which makes up approx 2% of our Calgary population and approximately 2% of our Canadian population consists of Latin Americans.

We also have many other ethnic backgrounds flourishing in our amazing city for work and to take care of their families in a safe and clean environment. I know many people who employ Philipino Nanny's to take care of their families. These women love to nurture and support the good care of kids ultimately sending money back home to their families in the Philippines.

Welcome to all our languages within Calgary and thank you for bringing your amazing Thai, Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Mexica foods into our city, what a fantastic exposure we have and our children get to explore your culture through food.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Canada

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_American_Canadians

http://www.calgaryherald.com/life/Rise+immigrant+tongues+makes+Calgary+global+city/7442733/story.html

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Hindus

episode 22 season 1

Calgary’s Lodgepole Pine, PinusContorta

The Lodgepole Pine, Welcome back to Valerie's Variety Podcast, with your host me, Valerie Moss todays show is short and sweet. I'm calling these Two

Minute Tuesdays or TMT's. As I've been doing more and more research for my episodes and working full time, it doesn't leave enough in the kitty to record and produced timely, so instead of releasing less often I've decided to do these short spurts in between the full episode segments. Let me know what you think. My focus as always will be Calgary, this great city, and all that's captured within it. Enjoy the episode.

Two Minute Tuesdays Cover Art...

Calgary's Lodgepole Pine: Pinus Contorta

Calgary is known for the Lodgepole Pine Trees. Pinus contorta, with the common names lodgepole pine and shore pine, and also known as twisted pine, and contorta pine, is a common tree in western North America. It is common near the ocean shore and in dry montane forests  Like all pines (member species of the genus Pinus), it is an evergreen conifer. Pinus contorta is a fire-dependent species, requiring wildfires to maintain healthy populations of diverse ages.  They have serotinous cones. This means that the cones are closed and must be exposed to high temperatures, such as from forest fires, in order to open and release their seeds.  There is also a species of bark beetle  known likely to local Albertans as the Mountain Pine Beetle native to the forests of western North America from Mexico to central British Columbia. It has a hard black exoskeleton, and measures approximately 5 mm, about the size of a grain of rice.  In western North America, the current outbreak of the mountain pine beetle and its microbial associates has destroyed wide areas of lodgepole pine forest, including more than 16 million of the 55 million hectares of forest in British Columbia.

Please visit Valerie Moss.ca for all show notes and research details.

episode 21 season 1

Calgary Summer Camps for a 6 yo

Welcome to a fun podcast about Calgary Summer Camps for a 6 year old kid. Being a mom of a 7 year old, and a working professional it's hard to juggle camps, interests and driving around the city figuring out the best spots to put your kids, convenience, safety and costs are all a factors I look at. For this episode I'm going to review all of the camps we signed up for this year and my daughters perspective and of course mine on these gems.

Swimming - Crafting - Biking

ONE, WinSport Summer Camp

Winsport:

Camp: Downhill Mountain Bike for girls

Cost: $400

Facility review: this place is what you’d picture at a ski resort. It’s industrial, lites of windows, tables benches. The coaches that volunteer and work are shredded out with long hair and talk like surfing guys lol. It’s god a great vibe and everyone is pumped. 

choosing the class: it gives you some benchmark of skills to choose from plus the option of co-ed class or just girls. I chose co-ed as lives more fun when you have good dynamics  Bike pre-requisites we’re front and back brakes plus padding for knees/elbows etc plus riding gloves. Why do we let our kids influence our purchasing decisions...Day one: she was in a group with all boys...so they tried to find another group for her which ended up being all boys also. There maybe have been a ratio issue also but I’m not exactly sure. So she stood her ground and said she would have preferred to stay in this first group as she’s already getting to know the boys names then move to a new all boys group. Good point kid! waivers

Why is everything today initiated with a waiver? You will have the best time but only if you sign this waiver first

nestled in at our Canada Olympic park site where we held the 1988 Olympic Games here in Calgary Alberta. I wasn’t living here at the time  of this global stamp on our amazing city but my husband was and he has very fond memories of City Pride and sense of community and euphoria rooting for our Canadian olympians. Camp name: mountain biking camp

Signed her up for this thinking this would be good experience for her to learn control of her bike, hills, more aggressive biking and of course make friends and have a good time. 

turns out she needed a better bike with many gears and front and back breaks- who knew? they lent her a bike for the week

She had a good time very challenged and satisfying. We ended up upgrading her bike to the next level. They biked 10 plus Kim’s each day. 

TWO: City of Calgary Summer Camp

Village Square Leisure Centre

Camp: Red Adventure 

Cost: $225

Facility review. This place is so busy located off 52 street NE it’s always a buzz being a full service leisure centre with swimming-gym parenting rooms all kinds of fitness classes and more.

This is through the City of Calgary is a combination camp with crafts activities and swimming. This is her all time favourite camp. The volunteers want to be there. They love the kids and always a good time. London comes home exhausted and happy. Always a good option for camp

THREE: Storybook Theatre Summer Camp

Storybook theatre 

Beddington art centre

Camp: Drama camp

Cost: $200

Great camp they use a combination of public speaking memorizing lines and acting. This is a fun camp for her she likes it and has taken away a few lines and scripts that have impacted her like Shakespear and Sally field to name a few. Fun group of staff and organized.

FOUR: Peddleheads Bike Camp

Peddleheads

Camp: Bike Rules

Cost: $350

Location: Rosemount community centre 

This was such a great camp, the kids learned hand signals for turning and learned proper road riding. They do a parade at the end showing off what they learnt. They know and announce all the kids by name. 

These bike camps when you are car people can be a challenge. Hauling the bike to and from the locations. But it proves fruitful on what the kids learn. 

FIVE: Calgary Zoo Summer Camp

Calgary Zoo

Camp: Grade 1 rangers 

Cost: $375

Obviously this setting is amazing outdoors and surrounded by animals. Nature wakes. Red hats are given to each kid lol London was not a fan of these hats. She came home good and tired.

SIX: University of Calgary Summer Camp

U of C mini university

Camp:  Mini Black Belts

Cost:  $200

Location red gym through Olympic Plaza

Boxing undercard Ring black room with kicking and punching bags  you have to be 8 and over to go into the boxing ring.

SEVEN: City of Calgary Summer Camp

Sir Winston Churchill Pool

Camp: Swim and Fun

Cost: $200

Through City of Calgary this camp was fun they swam twice a day one being a technical swim and the other being freestyleSir

EIGHT: Mount Royal University Summer Camp

MRU

Camp: Magical Adventures

through Mount Royal university

Cost: $300

this camp was full of making potions, slime, dragon eggs, wands, and craft. There is also swimming as part of the daily activities.

NINE: Summit Kids Summer Camp

Summit Kids

Camp: West Hillhurst

Cost: $200

Through Summit Kids website

located at 19street and 6 avenue NW I need the Westhillhurst community centre.  The community centre is a bit older  you need to walk through the whole to get Tom the summit kids room  there’s lots of parking tho and the take the kids as early as 8 am with before care costs and pickup by 5 without added costs so this is a bonus  London says this camp this camp is babyish. They played at a fun park they was a couple minutes walk. There was an outdoor heated pool but it was too cold to go into. Plus you had to be 8 and older to go into. The camp volunteers were okay boys and girl were just boring according to my daughter. This camp isn't structured mostly just arts and crafts.

Well that sums up our camp listings for this year, thank goodness for this summer full of camps and for school starting up again finally...sheesh, 9 weeks of camp and I need a summer vacation.

Welcome to a fun podcast about Calgary Summer Camps for a 6 year old kid. Being a mom of a 7 year old, and a working professional it’s hard to juggle camps, interests and driving around the city figuring out the best spots to put your kids, convenience, safety and costs are all a factors I look at. For this episode I’m going to review all of the camps we signed up for this year and my daughters perspective and of course mine on these gems.

ONE, WinSport Summer Camp

Winsport:

Camp: Downhill Mountain Bike for girls

Cost: $400

Facility review: this place is what you’d picture at a ski resort. It’s industrial, lites of windows, tables benches. The coaches that volunteer and work are shredded out with long hair and talk like surfing guys lol. It’s god a great vibe and everyone is pumped. 

* choosing the class: it gives you some benchmark of skills to choose from plus the option of co-ed class or just girls. I chose co-ed as lives more fun when you have good dynamics  

* Bike pre-requisites we’re front and back brakes plus padding for knees/elbows etc plus riding gloves. Why do we let our kids influence our purchasing decisions…

* Day one: she was in a group with all boys…so they tried to find another group for her which ended up being all boys also. There maybe have been a ratio issue also but I’m not exactly sure. So she stood her ground and said she would have preferred to stay in this first group as she’s already getting to know the boys names then move to a new all boys group. Good point kid! 

* waivers

Why is everything today initiated with a waiver? You will have the best time but only if you sign this waiver first

* nestled in at our Canada Olympic park site where we held the 1988 Olympic Games here in Calgary Alberta. I wasn’t living here at the time  of this global stamp on our amazing city but my husband was and he has very fond memories of City Pride and sense of community and euphoria rooting for our Canadian olympians. 

* Camp name: mountain biking camp

Signed her up for this thinking this would be good experience for her to learn control of her bike, hills, more aggressive biking and of course make friends and have a good time. 

* turns out she needed a better bike with many gears and front and back breaks- who knew? they lent her a bike for the week

She had a good time very challenged and satisfying. We ended up upgrading her bike to the next level. They biked 10 plus Kim’s each day. 

TWO: City of Calgary Summer Camp

Village Square Leisure Centre

Camp: Red Adventure 

Cost: $225

Facility review. This place is so busy located off 52 street NE it’s always a buzz being a full service leisure centre with swimming-gym parenting rooms all kinds of fitness classes and more.

This is through the City of Calgary is a combination camp with crafts activities and swimming. This is her all time favourite camp. The volunteers want to be there. They love the kids and always a good time. London comes home exhausted and happy. Always a good option for camp

THREE: Storybook Theatre Summer Camp

Storybook theatre 

Beddington art centre

Camp: Drama camp

Cost: $200

Great camp they use a combination of public speaking memorizing lines and acting. This is a fun camp for her she likes it and has taken away a few lines and scripts that have impacted her like Shakespear and Sally field to name a few. Fun group of staff and organized.

FOUR: Peddleheads Bike Camp

Peddleheads

Camp: Bike Rules

Cost: $350

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Curious about who makes up this great city?

Two minute Tuesday (TmTs)

Welcome back to Valerie's Variety Podcast, with your host me, Valerie Moss todays show is short and sweet. I'm calling these Two Minute Tuesdays or TMT's thanks to Jeff for this suggestion. As I've been doing more and more research for my episodes and working full time, it doesn't leave enough in the kitty to record and produced timely, so instead of releasing less often I've decided to do these short spurts in between the full episode segments. Let me know what you think. My focus will be Calgary, this great city, and all that's captured within it. Let me know what you think!

Two Minute Tuesdays Cover Art...

Did you know the average or median age in Calgary is 36.4 and average or median age in Alberta is 36.5 with a total population of 1.37million, 3rd largest municipality and the 5th largest city in Canada.  The total population in Alberta is 4.146 million. I've lived in Alberta for most of my life minus a few years I spent in Saskatchewan going to College. It's a stunning wealthy province with mountains, rivers and lakes.

Calgary Population 2018 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)

Alberta - Wikipedia

Two minute Tuesday (TmTs)

Welcome back to Valerie’s Variety Podcast, with your host me, Valerie Moss todays show is short and sweet. I’m calling these Two Minute Tuesdays or TMT’s thanks to Jeff for this suggestion. As I’ve been doing more and more research for my episodes and working full time, it doesn’t leave enough in the kitty to record and produced timely, so instead of releasing less often I’ve decided to do these short spurts in between the full episode segments. Let me know what you think. My focus will be Calgary, this great city, and all that’s captured within it. Let me know what you think!

Did you know the average or median age in Calgary is 36.4 and average or median age in Alberta is 36.5 with a total population of 1.37million, 3rd largest municipality and the 5th largest city in Canada.  The total population in Alberta is 4.146 million. I’ve lived in Alberta for most of my life minus a few years I spent in Saskatchewan going to College. It’s a stunning wealthy province with mountains, rivers and lakes.

Calgary Population 2018 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)

Alberta – Wikipedia

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Significance of Anniversaries, gemstones and numbers

My 17th wedding anniversary...anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event. Plural Anniversaries...

1: the annual recurrence of a date marking a notable event

a wedding anniversary; broadly : a date that follows such an event by a specified period of time measured in units other than years, 6-month anniversary of the accident - and of course to celebrate and anniversary.

All things 17 years of marriage signify

Anniversary Gifts for Each Year

For each anniversary, there are certain types of gifts to give. Everybody knows that the Silver anniversary is the 25th and the gold anniversary the 50th. But how about all the ones in between because each one matters...

The historic origins of wedding anniversaries date back to the Holy Roman Empire, when husbands crowned their wives with a silver wreath on their twenty-fifth anniversary, and a gold wreath on the fiftieth. Later, principally in the twentieth century, commercialism led to the addition of more anniversaries being represented by a named gift.

In Canada, one can also receive a message from the Governor-General for the 50th anniversary, and every fifth anniversary after that. Let's do the math on this, if I'm 41 years old, and I've been married for 17 years, to be married for 50 years I'd need to be...okay let's not complete this equation.

The names of some anniversaries provide guidance for appropriate or traditional gifts for the spouses to give each other; if there is a party these can be brought by the guests or influence the theme or decoration. These gifts vary in different countries, but some years have well-established connections now common to most nations: 5th Wood, 10th Tin, 15th Crystal, 20th China, 25th Silver, 30th Pearl, 35th Jade, 40th Ruby, 45th Sapphire, 50th Gold, 60th Diamond, and 70th Platinum. In English speaking countries the first, wooden, gift was cut on the day of celebration and then presented to the wife as a finished article before the next two quarter days had passed. This means the 4 significant dates throughout the year things like school starting, rent being due etc. The modern tradition may have originated in medieval Germany where, if a married couple lived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their wedding, the wife was presented by her friends and neighbours with a silver wreath to congratulate them for the good fortune that had prolonged the lives of the couple for so many years.

Gemstones and Meanings around the 17th 

Carnelian -  Carnelian (also spelled and referred to as cornelian) is a brownish-red mineral which is commonly used as a semi-precious gemstone.

It is said that this stone is an energy booster, can protect one from bad vibrations, helps a person that's insecure to find strength within them, can guard against poverty, also help give a sense of humor, increase ones appetite and calms temper.This gemstone was widely used during Roman times to make engraved gems for signet or seal rings.

Anniversary Colours

since we are focussing on my favourite number 17 and my 17th anniversary the colour that best represents this special year is yellow..Yellow identifies with acquired learning. It is the colour which reverberates with the left or rational side of the brain. This colour animates our intellectual capacities and making mental deftness and recognition. It is the the lightest shade in the spectrum. From a physiological standpoint yellow is elevating and enlightening. This colour also offers trust, joy, happiness and fun. In the significance of colours, yellow motivates unique thought and curiosity. Yellow is innovative from a mental perspective. The colour of new thoughts which helps us to discover better approaches for getting things done. It is the useful mastermind, not the visionary.  Some other years that caught my eye based on colour alone are 4th year is lime green, 14th year is opal (who uses this word anymore), 20th is emerald green and white (why not peach), 24 is lavender (can't you just smell this when the word is mentioned) and 35 is coral...that pinkish - salmon shade.

The number 17 means:

Insight, responsibility, self-discipline, strength, compassion, spiritual consciousness, wisdom, a desire for peace and love for all of humanity. The number 17 is a highly spiritual number and has been expressed by the Ancient Chaldeans as the 8 Pointed Star of Venus. Have you ever wondered what connection you might have with a number? Can numbers really have a mystical and spiritual meaning? I believe so, there are many numbers that govern our life for example the number 17 has meanings that may have certain connection and characteristics with our life path. Sometimes numbers like number 17 show up in our life and we may not know the meaning of it. The number 17 is responsible for, Insight, responsibility, self-discipline, strength, compassion, spiritual consciousness, and wisdom, a desire for peace and love for all of humanity. the 17 person is very capable and hardworking and efficient. They have great leadership qualities and very much compassionate. They treat everyone equally whether they are rich or poor.

one of my family members is celebrating her 17th year...she's a feline, tabby with the name...evolved overtime, from Lil Tig, to Tiggy to just plain Tig, it's my furry household friend. She has to be heard and not seen, leaves tuffs of fur in little gift piles along the house, greets me when i come home at the end of the day and sleeps with me each night...yes Tig you too are 17 this year.  the age of my domestic house cat...we've had her this entire time also, we consider her our first family member did you know this equates to 84 human years.

 

17 Fun Facts:

is a Fermat prime.

The teenage Gauss proved that the regular 17-gon is constructible by compass and straightedge (which is related to the previous bullet).

There are 17 wallpaper groups.

A haiku has 17 syllabes.

A Sudoku needs at least 17 clues to have a unique solution.

is the first one that Theodorus was unable to show was irrational.)

According to hacker lore, 17 is the “least (or most) random number.”

To the nearest order of magnitude, the universe is seconds old (approximately seconds).

It is the smallest number that is the sum of two distinct positive integers raised to the fourth power:

It is the smallest number that can be written as the sum of a square and a cube in two different ways

Some cicadas have a 17-year life cycle. these are little insects that live 99% of their life underground for 17 years to emerge on one single night in the billions, propoulate for a few weeks, then fall back into earth

There are 17 ways to write 17 as the sum of primes.

The Italians think 17 is unlucky (apparently because XVII can be rearranged to be VIXI, which means “my life is over”).

Plutarch wrote “The Pythagoreans also have a horror for the number 17, for 17 lies exactly halfway between 16, which is a square, and the number 18, which is the double of a square, these two, 16 and 18, being the only two numbers representing areas for which the perimeter equals the area.”

heptadecagon is a 17-sided figure

17 is the smallest whole number whose reciprocal contains all ten digits:

You need 17 muscles to make a smile

17 reasons I'm still married today:

Jeff still gets me

I proposed

camping in our trailer

our daughter

food: eat, make, buy, explore

laughs about the smallest things in life

I call him Turk

writting love letters on mirrors

I love that he's a serious car guy

I'm passionate on a big scale

nostalgic: reflection, having a kinship with many memories

love the beauty in things, clouds, songs, driving

I'm smart

iniside jokes, family sayings like we call Apple Fritter donuts, Knarles Barkley and we have a jingle that goes with it

the 3 of us make all the difference - our UNIT

how important hearts truly are in the body, you are only your heart and your mind

I wish for 17 more years with Jeff

Thanks for listening to the podcast and todays reflection of my 17th wedding anniversary, the history behind the number 17 my personal favourite number and the meaning and gem that goes with this and a glimpse into my story. Also there's only 17 weeks until Christmas.

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research for this show came from these articles

http://holidayinsights.com/anniversary/year.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_anniversary

http://numerology-thenumbersandtheirmeanings.blogspot.com/2011/05/number-17.html

17 fun facts https://divisbyzero.com/2017/04/14/seventeen-facts-about-17/

The intro and outro for this podcast is recorded by London Moss. The music for this show is written and produced by Jason Schnell, title Tascam 40. Thanks to Jeff Moss for being the voice of the Judge.

The podcast is written and produced by me Valerie Moss, through Garage Band and WordPress.

My 17th wedding anniversary…anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event. Plural Anniversaries…

1: the annual recurrence of a date marking a notable event

* a wedding anniversary; broadly : a date that follows such an event by a specified period of time measured in units other than years, 6-month anniversary of the accident – and of course to celebrate and anniversary.

Anniversary Gifts for Each Year

For each anniversary, there are certain types of gifts to give. Everybody knows that the Silver anniversary is the 25th and the gold anniversary the 50th. But how about all the ones in between because each one matters…

The historic origins of wedding anniversaries date back to the Holy Roman Empire, when husbands crowned their wives with a silver wreath on their twenty-fifth anniversary, and a gold wreath on the fiftieth. Later, principally in the twentieth century, commercialism led to the addition of more anniversaries being represented by a named gift.

In Canada, one can also receive a message from the Governor-General for the 50th anniversary, and every fifth anniversary after that. Let’s do the math on this, if I’m 41 years old, and I’ve been married for 17 years, to be married for 50 years I’d need to be…okay let’s not complete this equation.

The names of some anniversaries provide guidance for appropriate or traditional gifts for the spouses to give each other; if there is a party these can be brought by the guests or influence the theme or decoration. These gifts vary in different countries, but some years have well-established connections now common to most nations: 5th Wood, 10th Tin, 15th Crystal, 20th China, 25th Silver, 30th Pearl, 35th Jade, 40th Ruby, 45th Sapphire, 50th Gold, 60th Diamond, and 70th Platinum. In English speaking countries the first, wooden, gift was cut on the day of celebration and then presented to the wife as a finished article before the next two quarter days had passed. This means the 4 significant dates throughout the year things like school starting, rent being due etc. The modern tradition may have originated in medieval Germany where, if a married couple lived to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their wedding, the wife was presented by her friends and neighbours with a silver wreath to congratulate them for the good fortune that had prolonged the lives of the couple for so many years.

Gemstones and Meanings around the 17th