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What Is a Land Use Bylaw and Why Does It Matter? Part 1 Shaping Our Community: Understanding Diamond Valley’s New Land Use Bylaw This Series: Understanding Diamond Valley’s Land Use Bylaw This multi-part series explores how planning decisions shape growth, infrastructure, and long-term community sustainability in Diamond Valley: Part 1: What the Land Use Bylaw […]
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Water Season 2026 Series- Part 4 As Water Season 2026 continues, it becomes useful to look closer to home. Water is often discussed at the scale of rivers, snow-pack, and seasonal forecasts. But its final destination is much closer and more familiar. Every day, water moves quietly through Diamond Valley — from the Sheep River,
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Our next Repair Café is coming up and everyone is welcome! 📅 Saturday, March 14, 2026⏰ 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM📍 Griffith’s Centre – 122 Government Rd Bring along your broken household items, small appliances, tools, or anything that might deserve a second chance. Our volunteer fixers will do their best to help diagnose and
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March 4, 2026 | Asset Planning, Policy Updates & Community Identity The March 4 Council meeting was a relatively short session, focused primarily on policy updates and administrative housekeeping. While the agenda was light, a few discussions touched on longer-term planning for how the Town manages its assets and guides future development. Below are the
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Part 3: What This Means for Diamond Valley Water Season 2026 Series- Part 3 As Water Season 2026 unfolds, understanding Alberta’s water licensing framework and irrigation governance helps clarify something important: Our local water story does not operate in isolation. The Sheep River is part of a larger basin. Licensing priority, seasonal variability, and runoff
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Water, Work, and Momentum This newsletter resumes regular monthly updates from Sustainable Life. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been encouraged to see growing interest in water stewardship and practical sustainability within our community. The Water Season 2026 series has reached readers far beyond the existing Sustainable Life audience, with most views now coming from
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Water Season 2026 Series- Part 2 This five-part series explores how Alberta’s water system works and what it means locally: As Water Season 2026 continues, it’s important to look more closely at how irrigation districts operate within Alberta’s licensing framework — and how water transfers and property rights intersect with that structure. This is an
Who Controls Water in Alberta? Understanding Irrigation Districts and Licensing Read More »
A clear summary of Diamond Valley Council’s February 18, 2026 meeting, including financial review, committee recruitment policy adoption, and road naming decisions affecting the community.
Diamond Valley Council Meeting Feb 18 2026: Summary and Context Read More »
Connecting the Dots Between Policy, Physics, and Community This five-part series explores how Alberta’s water system works and what it means locally: Each of these pieces builds on the last, helping us better understand the full water cycle — from watershed to household, and back again. As we move into Water Season 2026, it’s worth
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Sustainability doesn’t always announce itself. It doesn’t arrive with a ribbon-cutting or a headline. More often, it shows up quietly — when someone stays a little longer than planned, when a broken object is opened instead of thrown away, or when a skill learned long ago is shared across a table. These moments don’t look
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