Killarney, Saturday, April 14/2018

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33rd St and 17th Ave SW Facing North.




Spiro's Pizza


 Home of the Future Westbrook Station Development...or a Soccer Dome and 400 Stall Parking Lot.....


Rosscarrock

If you've lived here long enough, you know that by now there are signs on street corners across the city announcing the arrival of Street Cleaning Season.  It was always a welcome sign of spring in Calgary. Not this year. 

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