Big Impact

Meet our AMAZING 41 nominees for the Amazing Airdrie Women Awards and place your votes.

It was the early ’90s and Mike Pirie was hooked on informational docudrama Rescue 911. There was something about the way host William Shatner described how police, firefighters and ordinary people responded to real-life 911 calls. Pirie knew that was what he wanted to do.

There’s an old proverb that says, “As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” This is the premise Airdrie’s Arts & Culture Council Assessment Committee (ACAC) is building on as it creates a new, dedicated pathway to nurturing arts and culture.