Holiday Hours on Canada Day

On Wednesday, July 1st (Canada Day), Talisman Centre will be open from 7:00AM to 10:00PM, and there will be no registered classes that day. Happy Canada Day!

Group Power Launch - Short and Tight

Group Power Summer 09 Launch – Short and tight

With summer just starting let us make sure that we are ready for the short shorts, tight shirts and fun swim suits. The new music and new programming will push past the plateaus (both physical and mental), you will be lifting more than you ever have in the past. Have a great time getting stronger and healthier. You will look great after all is said and done in Your Hour of POWER.

Launch week is starting July 6, 2009 at 6:30pm. The Theme of this launch is Short and Tight.  So be sure you are sporting short shorts or tight clothes or both!

Kylan - A Survivor's Story

Like many people, Kylan works out a few times a week at Talisman Centre. But Kylan is unique in several ways, as this video will make clear. After he sustained a serious brain injury in October of 1995 things looked very bleak for Kylan, but with the help of ARBI (Association for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured), Kylan's story became one of a true survivor.



If you happen to see Kylan next time you're at Talisman Centre, be sure to say "Hi", and consider making a donation to ARBI's "Sponsor A Survivor" Program. Learn more at www.arbi.ca.

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a bird.

Despite arriving with a valid pass, Talisman Centre's strict "no birds" policy kept this little hawk from entering the facility on Friday.

Our feathered friend visited our accounting team, where Kyle Tully (Accounts Receivable) was able to snap this picture before the bird flew away, leaving the pass behind.

Change of childcare hours for the summer

The following changes will be in effect for Talisman Centre Childcare as of July 1st 2009:

Mon/Wed evenings and Sundays will not be available for the months of July and August. All other hours of operation will be observed as per the rest of the calendar year. All of these three time slots will be resumed again starting the week of Sept 1st, 2009.

Thank you for choosing the Talisman Centre for the care of your child(ren)!

Talisman Centre launches new website!

Welcome to Talisman Centre's new website! We hope you will enjoy our new look and come back often. We have a new blog (which you are currently reading), and you may wish to subscribe to the RSS feed for an easy way to keep up to date on the latest news. (See this post for more info on RSS).

You can also subscribe to our eZine, and get a monthly email with links to that month's best articles and stories from Talisman Centre. There's a lot to see on the site, and it will grow all the time, so stay tuned!

Take a look around, and let us know what you think. This website is still very new, so please bear with us as we iron out the kinks! If something doesn't seem to work properly, let us know, and our web wizards will try to fix it.

RSS is your friend!

A really neat thing you can do with the new Talisman Centre blog is subscribe to specific RSS feeds* that you're interested in. The main RSS feed will get you all the latest news, updates and information about Talisman Centre - everytime our blog is updated, you'll hear about it! If you prefer, you can subscribe just to those blog posts that contain customer alerts, and/or subscribe to receive a notice whenever there is new information about drop-in classes.

Hint: You can build your own RSS feeds using any of the labels (or "tags") that appear with each post. The format for our RSS feeds looks like this:

http://www.talismancentre.com/blog/index.php?categories=*****

All you need to do is replace "*****" with the label you're interested in, like ("alert", "drop-in" etc.) and then copy and paste it into your RSS reader.

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*Do you know what an RSS feed is? (It stands for "Really Simple Syndication".) It's also a great way to keep up with the latest news and information from Talisman Centre. With RSS, instead of periodically visiting this blog to see if there's a new post, this blog can come to you, automatically, whenever it is updated! First you need an RSS reader, like Google Reader or Bloglines. Once you have that, all you need to do is "subscribe" to our RSS feed, which is as simple as copy and paste!

For an overview of what RSS is, and how it works, check out this video:

Stanley Park Pool this Summer

In the past, Talisman Centre has operated Stanley Park Pool during the summer months. Stanley Park Pool will be open this year, but Talisman Centre will not be managing it. Instead, it is being operated by the Calgary Outdoor Swimming Pool Association (COSPA). Stanley Park Pool is one of Calgary's great outdoor pools, and you should check it out this summer!