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Getting an inside view of the 2013 floods flooding before, sandbagging shifts were announced and the kids were dropped off at school. No one knew at that point what lay ahead. By 9.20, the This is the book that tells the story town was being evacuated as the situaof the floods of last summer, with both tion quickly deteriorated. text and photos. The forIn Calgary on June 20 at ward by Mayor Naheed Nen10:16 a.m., the city declared shi celebrates the people of an emergency and began Calgary and the wonderful sand bagging. It was quickspirit that moves people to ly evident that the flooding rise to the occasion. would be worse than that of Most of these are pho2005. Before the water went tos taken by Calgary Herald down, five people would photographers, but citizens lose their lives. who had phones or cameras This book covers the with them during the crisis whole crisis, the flooding also share images of the deof the zoo, the possibility of struction. escaping hippos, the loss or It would be easy to beinjury to caged and penned lieve that “the book is out, animals; the Saddledome the flood is over,” but nothwith water to the eighth tier PEGGY ing could be further from of seating; the hospitals, the FREEMAN the truth. From the first library and business big and page, the battered houses at small. Cougar Creek, set off by the In any big city, the varirampaging river full of deous kinds of loss stack up bris such as trampolines and decks, pretty quickly. People all over Calgary tell you this will not go away anytime pulled on their rubber boots and went soon. to work. Then there is giant, bite-sized piecNenshi seemed to be everywhere es of road, gouged out of the Trans- at once, as the premier declared the Canada Hwy at Canmore. It only took flood, “the largest in Alberta’s histoa week before the road was opened ry.” The province “pledged support for in both directions. A relatively small all who needed it.” miracle in a book of wows! The photos tell so much. One picOn June 20 at 7 a.m., officials report- ture is of a condo at Silvertip Resort, at ed the Highwood River at High Riv- Canmore, showing a living room with er was rising. People there had faced its own gravel pit; large boulders and
debris at the height of the top doorframes. The rivers ran with thick brown mud, the yards were slippery with greasy mud, mud was the order of the day, for many days. The pictures of the cleanup include the mountains of wet debris at the curbs, the sandwich makers, the pet rescuers, the haulers, the laundry people, the bread makers, the firefighters,
the army, the community spirit and the gratitude. The Calgary Folk Music Festival was held, the Stampede went ahead. Celebrities came and worked and sang at fundraising concerts. The proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Calgary Foundation Flood Rebuilding Fund. Peggy Freeman is a local freelance books reviewer.
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TORONTO — Lisa Moore, Lynn Coady and Colin McAdam are among the finalists for this year’s $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Moore, an esteemed St. John’s writer and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize winner who’s been up for several major literary awards in recent years, made the Writers’ Trust short list announced Monday with Caught (House of Anansi Press). The story of a potsmuggling jailbird is also on the long list for this year’s $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Meanwhile, Coady — a 2011 Giller finalist from Cape Breton, N.S. — is a Writers’ Trust contender with Hellgoing (House of Anansi Press). The short story collection is also up for this year’s Giller. And McAdam, also a former Giller finalist who has lived around the world and is now based in Toronto, is up for the Writers’ Trust fiction prize for A Beautiful Truth (Hamish Hamilton Canada). The story follows a couple and their chimpanzee. The short list is rounded out by Toronto native Cary Fagan for A Bird’s Eye (House of Anansi Press), a coming-of-age story set on his hometown in the 1930s. It also includes Krista Bridge of Toronto for The Eliot Girls (Douglas & McIntyre), about a teen adapting to life in a girls’ private school. Jury members Caroline Adderson, Alison Pick, and Miguel Syjuco read 115 books from 50 publishers to choose the five finalists, who will each receive $2,500. Pick said the jury saw a bumper crop of strong works and asked organizers if they could include more than the limit of five finalists, but alas they had to stick with the set number. “I feel like it was just a banner year for Canadian literature,” she said.
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