The local Ukrainian ladies cooked up hundreds of cabbage rolls for Premier Jim Prentice’s unprecedented leadership dinner in the tiny northern Alberta mill town of Manning on Thursday night. After 10 years of lobbying the Tories to hold a leadership dinner in “the land of the mighty moose,” local constituency organizer Kim Arsenault says the 350 tickets sold out in days and townsfolk are going all out with a fundraising auction featuring a snowmobile, a handmade quilt ensemble, and a playhouse built by Mennonite craftspeople from La Crete. …read more
Source: Calgary Herald
