Closing the 2011 season in Edmonton

By Zdenko Kahlina

Is there a better time to ride a bike than at the end of September?
It’s perhaps the best time to get out and just ride for the pure pleasure of it. This year September had actually been better than all the previous months in the summer.

Edmonton’s Countryside

By Zdenko Kahlina

Whether you are an outdoor enthusiast, an indoor adventurer, or just want a weekend to relax, renew and reconnect, autumn’s crisp air and vibrant colors provide the perfect backdrop in Strathcona County. Strathcona Wilderness Center provides an unparalleled outdoor opportunity for all the “leaf peepers” to escape into the autumn splendors.

West Edmonton Mall

From Canadian Encyclopedia

West Edmonton Mall celebrates 30th birthday
The West Edmonton Mall (WEM), once promoted as the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” is a leading tourist attraction in central Alberta.

Edmonton Life

By: Kathleen Bell

An Edmonton native offers cultural hints for out-of-province students.
The quest for knowledge begins anew this autumn as students from all over the province, country, and world are stuffed into Edmonton’s institutions of higher learning — forced, therefore, to become responsible, intelligent young adults … or keg stand champs.

Summer in Edmonton, Alberta

By: Zdenko Kahlina
Cariwest Carnival Caribbean parade on Jasper Avenue

Parade started at noon on Jasper Avenue & 108 Street and headed towards Sir Winston Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton. Cariwest masqueraders danced under sunny skies through downtown Edmonton Saturday afternoon in brilliantly colored costumes to the pulsating sounds of the Caribbean.

Fringe festival

Text: Marcus Fernando
Pictures: Zdenko Kahlina

FRINGEOPOLIS…
Take a historic neighborhood, add dozens of different venues, stir in performers from around the world, throw in a few hundred thousand audience members and let it grow over 11 days. The result: one Fringe Festival.

Discovering Edmonton

Source: C2E Portal
Edmonton statues
Today I visited Edmonton’s outdoor statues and photographed them. I present them here in the order that I photographed them. The scary thing is that I knew only three of those people.

World Travel

By: The Over 35 Crowd

If you are 35, or older, you might think this is hilarious!

When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were. When they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning…. Uphill… Barefoot… BOTH ways… yadda, yadda, yadda.

Edmonton heritage

By Zdenko Kahlina

Fond memories of Edmonton’s past
Edmonton has been my home base or home city for a several decades now. I moved here from Croatia with my family in 1989. So, I do remember some of the old things mentioned here.

Edmonton heritage

Source: C2E Portal
Rail travel in Edmonton
The CN office tower in Edmonton presides over an abandoned rail yard that’s now being converted into yet another one of the many condo developments that are cropping up around the city in its most recent boom.

Edmonton heritage

Source: C2E Portal
 Edmonton Historic Building Tour 
The majority of surviving heritage structures were born at about the same time as Edmonton itself. This means that most have just reached, or are about to reach their centenary soon.

Edmonton cycling scene

By: Zdenko Kahlina
New location!
One of the oldest bicycle shops in Edmonton moved this year to its new location. After more than 30 years residing on 101 Avenue, at the east end of the city, current shop’s owner Calvin Berube moved the shop further south at Argyll Road, as part of the growing process when they needed more show room space. 

Edmonton heritage

Source: C2E Forum
As promised long time ago, here’s round 3 of Edmonton’s downtown core and area.

Computer history

By: George Jones, Published on MaximumPC portal

Feb. 14 was the 65th anniversary of the first real supercomputer. Is there any better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a dozen ENIAC factoids?

Edmonton heritage

By: Emil Tiedemann

Edmonton’s Independent Cinema showcases alternative films seven days a week…
I know what you’re thinking, that what could the Princess Theatre possibly bring to the table that’s any different from all those multi-plex movie theatres sprawled throughout the city?

Edmonton heritage

By: Zdenko Kahlina
 At this time of a year it might be a good thing to remind yourself on nice and warm weather we have had here during the summer and forget for a moment on showeling the snow. Last summer my wife and I were enjoying some great weather during the Fringe festival and were walking along the Whyte Avenue.

Edmonton heritage

By: Zdenko Kahlina
Ride into history.
Do you know that Edmonton has its own street car? Last summer during the Fringe festival, because of the parking problem in Old Strathcona, my wife and I decided to ride the streetcar.

Advances in Technology since I was a kid

By: Zdenko Kahlina

This is all about having fun. So let’s have some fun by reminding ourselves of not very old technology devices, that are obsolete these days.

Cycling Edmonton

By: Zdenko Kahlina
To close the 2010 season – Harvest ride
Is there a better time to ride a bike than at the end of September?

Cycling Edmonton

From Velocity Cycle

Harvest Ride – Sept. 26, 2010, 10:00 AM, Ardrossan Hall 

The Harvest Ride was conceived of by Roger Tetrault in 2001 while he and Laura were out riding on an autumn day in Strathcona County. All the leaves were turning and the farmers were out in the fields cutting.

Edmonton, July 31 – August 2, 2010

By: Zdenko Kahlina
I am always excited in the summer, when Heritage Days festival begins!  It’s part of Edmonton and it’s a lot of fun.

Edmonton heritage

From C2E forum
Edmonton is a newborn in terms of most European or Asian Cities. As you may notice from the following photos, the building material of choice in those days was plain red brick.

Message from Zdenko

First anniversary of the “Zdenko’s Corner” website existence is quickly approaching (January 3rd, 2010). During the past year I have created more than 180 blogs, evenly spread between two languages: English and Croatian.

Edmonton Life

New Arrivals, Choose Your Corners

By: Trent Wilkie

Cycling in Edmonton

By: Gordon Kent

New-velodrome boosters urge fast council decision
EDMONTON — The city should decide soon whether to again recommend putting an indoor velodrome in Argyll Park, because the current facility needs millions of dollars worth of renovations, says the co-chair of the group behind the project.