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Sixth annual Kids N’ Kops a great success Popular program brings together various community organizations

BY BRIAN VOSSEN Lacombe Express

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ast week, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lacombe & District wrapped up their sixth annual Kids N’ Kops camp.

Kids N’ Kops is a program that partners young campers with members of local law enforcement agencies. Campers learn about policing by patrolling with these members and even participating in mock scenarios that are not unlike situations police and bylaw officers face every day.

Crystal Zens, executive director for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lacombe & District, said that she knows of other Kids N’ Kops program, but none as successful or in-depth as Lacombe’s.

“The kids live with police,” said Zens, who started the Kids N’ Kops program with her husband Bryan, a constable with the Lacombe Police Service.

Crystal said the camp has grown more popular and more successful with each year and this summer was no exception.

She added that, because of the camp’s popularity, Big Brothers Big Sisters does not take repeat campers for the program. However, that doesn’t stop people from trying.

“The kids beg to come back every year,” said Crystal. “Even though we tell them they graduate and they don’t come back I always get 24 phone calls.”

Many of the kids who are involved with Big Brothers Big Sisters come from difficult backgrounds.

“For them to be mentored by police and befriended by them is a huge, huge experience,” said Crystal.

Bryan, who views the camp from the perspective of the officers involved, said the program also has great benefits from their side.

“I think for me, it’s to put a human face on policing,” said Bryan. He went on to say that policing, out of necessity, sometimes becomes robotic.

Officers are stuck in a car going from one call to the next without being able to connect with their communities.

Bryan said that the Kids N’

PROUD PARTNERS – Mayor Steve Christie, Const. Bryan Zens, Crystal Zens, Staff Sgt. Ken Morrison and Police Chief Steve Murray are all proud supporters of the Big Brothers Big Sisters Kids N’ Kops program.

Kops camp works to correct that image. “Police members are not machines, they are human beings,” said Bryan.

He added that it gives children an opportunity to see some situations from a different perspective, the way police do.

“They are in our boots.”

Chief Steve Murray of the Lacombe Police Service said he sees the Kids N’ Kops camp as a great example of the Lacombe Police Service motto, ‘Community Partnership.’

He added that partnerships like these build a promising future for the community’s young people.

“How do you get a better example of community partnership than this?” said Murray. “I think this is us at our core. This is the cornerstone of what we do.”

Staff Sgt. Ken Morrison, detachment commander for Blackfalds RCMP, agreed that the camp builds young people up.

He said the program promotes respect between police officers and young people and may even spark interest in a career path sometime later in life.

“Ideally we would like to see them come into the police force down the road,” said Morrison.

Murray, Morrison and Bryan added that the camp has promoted partnerships between the different agencies and helps develop relationships between members, making it easier to work together when they are actually responding to incidents.

“It’s been fantastic for us to have that collaboration to work together,” said Bryan.

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Mayor of Lacombe Steve Christie also commented on the benefits of such partnerships, saying it is a good thing for the community to see and helps make stronger, safer communities.

“That does nothing but make the community safer.”

Christie also stressed how important it is for the community to know that the officers who participate in Kids N’ Kops are volunteering their own time.

“They are coming in because they want to, because they want to be a part of their community,” said Christie.

He added this shows that police officers, sheriffs and bylaw officers really do care about the communities they serve.

This year’s camp was, as usual, full with 24 campers who were

partnered with members of local bylaw enforcement, the sheriffs department, Lacombe Police Service and Blackfalds RCMP. Bryan said that officer involvement varies throughout the week of the camp depending on how many bodies each of the agencies involved can spare on a given day, but those agencies have always been greatly supportive of the program.

Crystal commended all the volunteers who stepped up to help make the event a memorable one for all involved.

Bryan also thanked the public, who largely funds the Kids N’ Kops program through donations collected at a Christmas checkstop, and corporate sponsors for their support as well. news@lacombeexpress.com

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City is offering help with storm cleanup On July 20, Central Alberta was hit with a significant storm event that brought damaging winds and hail through the region.

Many residents have been working hard to clean up their neighborhoods and repair damage caused by the storm.

City crews have also been working to collect and dispose of felled trees and branches from public spaces such as roadways,

boulevards and parks.

Many residents, however, may not have the ability to haul brush and branches to the Prentiss landfill or Wolf Creek Recycle Depot themselves, so the City of Lacombe is hosting a Community Storm Event Cleanup beginning Aug. 6.

Residents affected by the recent storm are asked to gather brush and logs into separate piles either at the front of their property or at

the rear of their property with alley access ensuring pedestrian and vehicle traffic is unobstructed.

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TOWN OF BLACKFALDS NEW TAXI BYLAW The Town of Blackfalds Council wishes to advise the Public that it has given First Reading to Bylaw 1158/13 which will establish a New Taxi Bylaw. This bylaw will establish: a) the safety and protection of people; b) transportation and transportation systems; c) business and business activities; d) licensing; e) fees, rates, and fares that may be charged for the hire of taxis; It is the intention of Council to review Bylaw 1158/13 on August 13, 2013 at 7pm. Comments or concerns may be submitted to the Planning Department by August 2, 2013 or you may attend the Public Hearing and express your concerns. Bylaw 1158/13 may be reviewed on the Town website www.blackfalds.com.

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pick up by 7 a.m. on Aug. 6.

City crews will be working from the north end of the City to the south end picking up only tree debris.

Residents wanting to take advantage of this special Community Clean Up are asked to ensure that felled trees and branches are separated into these two piles as the landfill will only accept brush. Logs collected by City crews during this Community Clean-up will be added to

the City’s log stockpile.

The City of Lacombe would like to assist residents in their clean-up efforts as soon as possible; therefore the focus will be on picking up brush and logs only – not unmanageable or unsorted piles, treated or painted wooded, leaves, sod, garden waste, or any other non-tree related waste and/or debris.

The City offers a service in September where appliances,

metals, furniture, and other such waste can be collected.

Any items placed on the property after the scheduled pick up will remain the responsibility of the resident. Such items can be taken to the Prentiss Transfer Station.

For more information, contact City Hall at 403-7826666 or the Infrastructure Services Department at 403-782-1261.

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Man is charged after recent collision in Lacombe

BY BRIAN VOSSEN Lacombe Express A man has been charged after a threecar collision that took place in Lacombe last weekend.

On the afternoon of July 26, emergency crews responded to a collision at the intersection of 46 Ave. and Hwy. 2A. Police Chief Steve Murray said that he did not know exactly what had happened, but police had ascertained that one of the vehicles had entered the intersection when it was not safe, causing the collision.

All the occupants of the three vehicles could remove themselves from the vehicles and had little to no injuries, said Fire Chief

Ed Van Delden.

He added that one individual had a cut on his arm but refused medical treatment for the injury.

As no extrications were necessary, Van Delden said the fire department assisted by searching vehicles and cleaning up some fluids that had spilled from the vehicles.

“It kind of sounded worse (than it was),” said Van Delden. “That’s the nature of those calls sometimes, that its way different than you had imagined.”

Murray said that because of the collision, an 87-year-old male driver had been charged with failing to properly stop before entering a roadway. news@lacombeexpress.com

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Memories of local sheep production At one time sheep were an important part of agricultural production in Central Alberta with Hiram Flewwelling and Bill Puffer prominent among the sheep producers.

The latter bought one section of land from the CPR in 1901 and stocked it with sheep to provide mutton and lamb for his meat market in Lacombe. He sold this property in 1907 to the Seventh Day Adventists and today we know part of that former farm as the site of the Canadian Union College and Rosedale.

Sheep also had a prominent place in the livestock work at the Lacombe Experiment Station. Four hundred range ewes and several breeds of ram were purchased in 1913 for crossbreeding studies to identify superior breed combinations for wool production.

Flock size peaked in 1920 with over 800 ewe-lamb pairs trailed out to summer range at the north end of Gull Lake. Investigations involving sheep were terminated before 1930.

My first job following graduation from the University of Saskatchewan was as assistant farm foreman. My boss was Grant MacEwan, head of the Animal Science Department and boss of the University’s farming operation That was also my first experience with sheep for

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FREDEEN the University had a flock of 1,500 ewes, a flock that swelled each spring when lambing produced 1,500 to 2,000 lambs.

Tom Brydon, the farm foreman assigned his two Border Collies to me and they took me with them as they patrolled the flock, running across the backs of the sheep to gather some distant strays. Tom had instructed me on the whistle, word and arm commands.

This was followed by castration of the male lambs, shearing the ewes, and trailing the flock to summer pasture some 25 miles down river from Saskatoon.

Shearing was done by a crew of four. My role in the shearing process was that of ‘packer’, packing the fleeces in burlap bags that hung 8 ft. long from a sturdy frame. After the first fleeces were deposited therein I climbed the frame and dropped in after them. I pranced around in the sack while more fleeces -- keds, ticks and all -- were dropped on top of my head, hoping that the volume

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Not a job for the claustrophobic; but there was supposed to be a plus side.

That midsummer, one of the teamsters reported seeing a fox in the field he had been cultivating. That evening, on the chance that this might be the silver fox reported lost from a fox farm west of the City, Grant invited several of us to accompany him and the teamster back to the site.

A burrow was located, the

scent was declared ‘fox’ by the experts, digging commenced, and three feet down, at burrow’s end, stood a defiant skunk.

Here was a chance to test the theory that the skunk could not eject scent when the tail was horizontal.

I lifted the animal out by the tail, and proved the theory.

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Letters to the editor

Music society thanks the community

Reader responds to previous letter on Harper Garfield Marks’s letter asks “When was the pivotal point reached and people felt Harper should retire?”

Faced with the leaders of the other two parties, why would we want him to retire?

Tom Mulcair’s statement following the derailed train in Quebec was it’s all Harper’s fault. Parking brakes are applied by heavy equipment operators and lowering their blades on graders, cats, buggies, etc.

This is done with common sense not government decree. Truckers apply brakes to the tractor and trailers and their trains are not 72 cars long.

Mulcair’s concerns regarding reversing the flow of oil in line number nine from Montreal makes one wonder about his mental stability. To say it would be unsafe to flow oil west to east instead of east to west when it previously flowed west to east requires some funky imagination.

Third choice for Harper’s job has shown his fairness for all Canadians when he has said how Quebec deserves more senators than Alberta or B.C., or when he said Quebecers are more special than other Canadians. If one wants neighbourhood safety, what is comforting about Mr. Trudeau describing the Boston Marathon bombers as “poor ostracized youth”?

If Garfield is blaming everything on Harper because the former mention said so or because the ‘press’ said so, please check for accuracy. Two weeks ago, the ‘press’ was reporting a traffic tie up on the QEII and #72 near Didsbury. Check a map!

Government is just a concept. People run government good or bad.

In Ontario, we have a professor from U of T and a deputy minister of education who wrote the curriculum that requires Grade 3 students to be educated on sexual discourse – yes, the same Mr. Levin that has been charged with six counts of child porn.

In B.C. the premier objects to pipelines crossing their soil because of possible leaks but if Alberta pays them more it would be then okay.

In Alberta, we have a premier that has had amnesia when it comes to pre-election promises. We institutionalize seniors when they reach this much amnesia.

Ontario pays wind power companies to not produce power.

How did these people get into these positions? Did we have anything to do with it?

Ed Powell Red Deer

On behalf of the Central Music Festival Music Society, I’m happy to inform you that we raised $2,510 for the Canadian Red Cross Alberta Flood Relief 2013 account at our Wake Of The Flood benefit concert at the Memorial Centre Theatre on July 14.

This would not have been possible without the donation of theatre use and volunteer staff from Central Alberta Theatre and a commitment of time and talent by

over 40 area musicians and 25 volunteers from our organization to stage this event.

We thank everyone for their participation in this fundraising initiative.

Together, we made a difference for people in need of a helping hand in southern Alberta.

Mike Bradford, president Central Music Festival Society

WE WANT READER INPUT Letters to the editor are welcomed by the Lacombe Express. We attempt to publish a cross section of opinion and letters criticizing or praising our writers or content. However we reserve the right to edit every letter if necessary for length, taste, clarity and to eliminate inaccurate or libelous statements.

We prefer short concise letters, but will run letters to a maximum of 250 words.

Anything over this is subject to cutting. To be considered for publication letters must contain the name, address and phone number of the writer.

We publish the letter writer’s name and home town at the end of the letter.

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Dangers of texting and driving In an attempt to curb the dangerously high trend of drivers texting while behind the wheel, doctors are being asked to question patients about their cell phone use while driving during physical exams.

Presumably, doctors will add “Do you use your cell phone while driving?” To the list of standard medical exam questions that already includes, “Do you drink? Do you smoke? How much sleep to get each week?”

It’s an interesting approach to an even more interesting problem.

What remains to be seen is if it will work. In any case, it’s clear that something needs to be done about this growing problem.

Driving and texting, it should go without saying, is a dangerous activity.

Taking your eyes even for a second can result in deadly consequences.

Who among us hasn’t heard from someone, if we haven’t been in the situation ourselves, where a driver hit some form of wildlife on the highway?

“It was suddenly right in front of

me, I had no time to react,” is something commonly heard from these drivers.

And these are drivers who are paying attention. Just imagine what can happen when people aren’t.

Despite enacting distracted driving laws, extensive public safety campaigns, and advocating from police and other protective services, people continue to text and drive. Texting and driving is becoming almost as problematic as drinking and driving, yet another problem that we have yet to find a solution for.

While drinking and driving has been around since the invention of the motor-vehicle, texting is a fairly new driving problem.

What the two issues share in common is that no one has found a solution for either of them yet.

It seems that no matter how much publicity we give these issues, they continue to exist. No matter how many public safety advertisement campaigns are run on TV depicting the bloody consequences of drinking and driving or

texting and driving, the issues still exist.

What will it take to get people to finally stop doing these things?

As yet, this question continues to have no answer. However, it seems some progress is being made.

Not long ago, Alberta introduced the new distracted driving laws which prohibit, among other things, the use of handheld electronics like cell phones while driving.

Even more recently, the province introduced stiffer penalties for driving between a blood alcohol level of 0.05 and the legal limit.

While these laws haven’t existed in Alberta long enough to produce any numbers so we can tell if they are working, research in other parts of the country suggest it does.

That is to say, stiffer penalties do reduce the number of drunk and distracted drivers on the road, but we still aren’t at a point where we have obliterated the problem entirely.

While it seems what we are doing is working, it is clear that more needs to be done to solve these problems.

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Would you ever consider getting sick to cure yourself of something else?

It might sound crazy, but it’s being done.

Cancer is a scary word. Those who hear it often think immediately of the worst case scenario. And those who are diagnosed with it often feel like they have been given a death sentence.

Sadly, many of them are. So many forms of cancer are treatable, but not necessarily curable. Instead, those treatments are really just buying time and delaying the inevitable.

However, science is getting closer to ending that trend with new breakthrough technologies. Some of these new treatments are actually using modified versions of diseases or other viruses to treat cancer.

In April of 2012, a little girl named Emma Whitehead was injected with a modified version of the HIV virus to treat her leukemia. While the virus was engineered so that it would no longer cause disease, it did make her very sick. In fact, for a time it looked as though Emma would die.

When Emma’s parents, Kari and Tom, enrolled her in the clinical trial for the treatment, Emma’s leukemia had already returned twice.

They had tried everything and nothing had worked.

In short, Emma’s family was looking for a miracle.

Luckily, that’s what they got.

After a few days of near-death sickness, Emma’s fever suddenly disappeared. She woke up, and her leukemia was gone.

For his work on developing this cure, which has been used on other patients with similar

BRIAN

VOSSEN dramatic effects, Dr. Carl June was presented with the Philadelphia Award this year. In a short film entitled Fire With Fire, which can be found almost anywhere online and tells the story of Emma and her dramatic recovery, June explains how the cure works.

Patients are injected with an engineered version of a virus, in Emma’s case, HIV, in order to train the immune system to recognize, attack and destroy cancer cells.

These infused cells have been dubbed “serial killer cells” by June and his team and each one is capable of killing 1,000 different tumour cells.

When Emma recovered after becoming seriously ill from the injection, what had happened is her cells had started attacking the cancer. In the end, it worked and today Emma lives a normal, healthy life.

Infecting someone with one disease to cure another is not new either.

For a brief time before the discovery of penicillin, the cure for syphilis was to give the patient malaria. The ‘method to the madness’ behind this peculiar treatment is that the pathogens that cause syphilis literally cannot survive the heat of a body with a malaria-induced fever.

In fact, this treatment won its discoverer, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, a Nobel Prize in 1927.

Other cancer treatments are being developed that use viruses as well.

Oncolytics Technology has developed a drug called REOLYSIN from a variant of the reovirus, a virus commonly found in small bodies of water that most humans have been exposed to by adulthood.

The virus is largely harmless, but can carry mild flu-like symptoms. Combined with treatments like chemo or radiation therapy, which make solid tumours “leaky,” REOLYSIN can enter and kill cancer cells without harming healthy cells.

While most modern treatments using viruses are engineered so as not to cause the diseases they usually do, it doesn’t mean patients can’t get sick from them. Responses of diseases, particularly cancer, to new treatments are unusual, unpredictable and often unprecedented.

Doctors have to make it clear to patients and patient families that they have no idea what will happen once these treatments are administered.

In the case of Emma, her parents were told that anything could happen once Emma was injected with the engineered virus. As it happened, she got very sick, but in the end it was worth it.

Emma’s story tells three things.

First, science is continuing to push forward and get closer to eliminating disease. Secondly, risking sickness, even death, is worth it to save a life.

And thirdly, it is never too early to start believing in miracles. news@lacombeexpress.com

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fyi EVENTS 38th Annual Tees Rodeo on Aug. 5 sanctioned by Central Alberta Rodeo Association. Rodeo performances at noon on Saturday and Sunday; slack at 5 p.m. on Friday. There is free camping, live bands, beer gardens, concessions, vendors, evening entertainment/performance.

Blood Donor Clinic on Aug. 5 you can call 1-888-2DONATE (1-888-236-6283) to book an appointment or go online to blood.ca. Walk-ins are welcome at the Lacombe Memorial Centre. Donors must be 17 years of age or older and in good health. Please bring picture ID. It runs from 3:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Ellis Bird Farm evening event - Ellis Bird Farm is having a evening event Aug. 9 with proceeds going to build a new visitor centre. Tickets $20. Wine will be available for purchase. (Call or email for tickets or further information). It starts at 7 p.m.

Youth Unlimited Drop-in Activites every Tuesday and Thursday, for ages 12 and up. Movies, crafts, games, and more! It costs $2/ night or $50/season (June-September). Last Thursday of the month is girls only. Hours are 6 to 9 p.m. and activities run at the YU-Turn Youth Centre.

Daily historic walking tours run at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. The tours, which explore downtown Lacombe, last about 45 minutes each. They start at the Michener House Museum and ending at the Flatiron building. Adults $10, children 16 and under are free. Daily tours are available seven days a week, all summer. To book a private tour, group/school/ camp tour, or for more information call us at either 403-7556935 or 403-782-3933.

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confidential and informal setting.

They meet Monday evenings at the Youth Unlimited building located in downtown Lacombe.

Love to sing? Hearts of Harmony, a chapter of Sweet Adelines International, is an a cappella chorus for Central Alberta women of all ages who love to sing and harmonize. Rehearsals are Monday nights from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at Davenport Church of Christ (68 Donlevy Ave.) in Red Deer. Join us any Monday night, you will be welcomed. Experience the joyful sound of four-part harmony with a group of wonderful women. For more information, call Nancy at 403-357-8240, or

Lacombe Writers Group meet every two weeks, on Mondays.

Gentle and encouraging group with writers of all different genres. Call 403-885-4251 for more information.

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This event is hosted by Blackfalds United Church. Scheduled performances start on Friday night at 5 p.m. and a Church service goes on Sunday at 9 a.m.

Performances are in a heated tent (bring your lawn chairs) and food is available on site.

Performers include Visions Country Gospel, Ben Kellert, Freedom Seekers, The Lamontagnes, The Tapleys, Re Newed, R&J, Three and Company, Potters Clay, New Song Band, CJ Berube, Generations, Ron Fengstad, Gospel 792, Casual Country, Davina & Friends, Stewart Family Band, Gospel Trubadors, Victoria Street . $30 for a weekend pass. Day passes are also available. For

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Lacombe Farmers Market will be held every Friday morning from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Michener Park across from the golf course on Hwy 12. Every Friday morning there will be vegetables, fruit, homemade baking and bread, crafts, jewelery, birdhouses, bedding plants, meats and more. Call 403-782-4772 for more information.

Pause Musicale - student concerts will be held the fourth Friday of each month from noon to 12:30 p.m. at St. Andrews United Church (5226 51 Ave.) Band of Brothers - Band of Brothers challenges men to an adventure: Reclaiming their hearts to God. It is a chance for men to be real about life and faith in a

our director, Sheryl @403-7424218 or check out our web site at www.heartsofharmony.ca.

Coffee Time at the Lacombe Legion runs every Wednesday morning. Come join us for coffee. $2.

Gatherings run from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Lacombe Legion.

Old-time dances run at the Red Deer Legion every Wednesday evening. Smorg at 5 p.m. with dance at 7:30 p.m. Cover charge $6. Country music runs Friday and Saturday evenings 7 to 11 p.m. 403-342-0035.

C. J. Berube’s ELVIS Tribute Show, on Aug. 9 at the Crossroads Ag Park, Pine Lake. Cocktails at 5 p.m. Dinner at 6 p.m. and show at 8 p.m. Cost: $35. Contact: Gwen at 403-773-2270 or Judy at 403-773-2334. Hosted by the Crossroads Ag Society.

‘Country Gospel in the Park’ Music Weekend is planned for Sept.

6-8 at Blackfalds All Star Park.

more information contact John 885-4857, Moe 357-6678 or Jim 391-1397 or on-line at www.

Blackfaldsunitedchurch.com or www.gospelinthepark.net.

Seminars

MEETINGS

Lacombe Art Guild - the guild meets regularly on the second and third Tuesday of each month.

A variety of workshops are provided for developing artists.

Membership is $15 per year.

Contact Betty Peers at 403782-9968 or blog lacombeartclubwordpress.com. Meetings runs in LMC Credit Union Room at 5214 50 Ave. in Lacombe.

Red Deer Celiac Support Group our meetings are held the third Tuesday of the month at Sobeys South, 5111-22 St. in the Coffee Lounge at 7 p.m. Information on Celiac disease, symptoms, diagnosing, gluten free diet, gluten free products, recipes, coffee and samples. Meetings for 2013 – Sept. 17, Oct. 15 and Nov.

19. They would like to announce the formation of Stettler Celiac Support Group, meeting in the Board room of the Stettler Hospital, the first Tuesday of the month. For information call Diane @ 403-742-0903 or Val @ 742-5217. For more information, in Red Deer, call Fay at 430-347-3248, Clarice 403-3414351 or email Red DeerCeliacs@ yahoo.ca for information.

Air Force Association of Canada.

The aims and objectives of the Association are to preserve and perpetuate the traditions of the Royal Canadian Air Force and to advocate a proficient and wellequipped Air Force in Canada.

703 Wing in Red Deer provides a forum for serving and former participants in military and civil aviation to meet and enjoy the company of like-minded people.

703 Wing members meet at noon every second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant, 2085 50th Ave. in Red Deer for a luncheon and business meeting. Contact President Al Low at 403-3413253 or amlow@shaw.ca.

Writers’ Ink, The Red Deer & District Writers Club has weekly meetings (every Tuesday) in the old farmhouse at Sunnybrook Farm (4701 30 St.) from 7 to 9 p.m. We meet, share our writing, and offer constructive criticism to one another. We also do our utmost to improve our craft

by Skyping professionals in the field of writing, by inviting guest speakers to our Spring Workshop and to the occasional meeting. Our professional library is increasing as is our knowledge gained from members who are constantly seeking new challenges and sharing successes and failures with the group. Guests are welcome!

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous is a 12-step support group offering a solution for all forms of food addiction. No dues, fees or weigh-in. Central Alberta groups meet in Red Deer, Lacombe and Rimbey.

For locations and dates, call Joanne at 403-314-1972.

The Parkinson’s Society Education and Support Group runs the third Wednesday of each month at 1:30 p.m. in the Davenport Church of Christ in Red Deer. 403-346-4463.

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Horoscope ARIES

TAURUS

GEMINI

CANCER

LEO

VIRGO

Mar 21/Apr 20

Apr 21/May 21

May 22/Jun 21

Jun 22/Jul 22

Jul 23/Aug 23

Aug 24/Sept 22

Aries, try not to pick

Many positive things

Challenge yourself

Cancer, trust those

Leo, a travel

Virgo, once you think

sides when asked

are on the horizon,

this week, Gemini.

around you as they

opportunity is just over

you have everything

for your opinion on a

Taurus. You just have

Now is a great time to

can be a valuable

the horizon, so have

figured out, a few

dispute between close

to get through a few

take on a new hobby

source of support and

your bags packed and

variables get thrown

friends. Giving the

rough spots before

or task and test your

encourgagment. Work

ready to depart at a

into the mix. You will

impression of picking

it is clearer sailing

mettle. You will be

to be there for them

moment’s notice. You

show your ability to

sides may strain a

this week. Pisces is a

glad you did when you

friendship.

pivotal player.

accomplish your goals.

as much as they have can certainly use some been there for you.

time away.

solve problems if you can handle the task.

LIBRA

SCORPIO

SAGITTARIUS

CAPRICORN

AQUARIUS

PISCES

Sept 23/Oct 23

Oct 24/Nov 22

Nov 23/Dec 21

Dec 22/Jan 20

Jan 21/Feb 18

Feb 19/Mar 20

Capricorn, tight deadlines at work will have the pressure on you and your coworkers. But stick to the task at hand, and you will reap the rewards in the near future.

Libra, someone close

Scorpio, others are

Sagittarius, it could be

to you puts their faith

quick to look to you for

in your best interest

in your ability to get a

help because of your

to remain out of the

job done. Devote all

work ethic, experience

spotlight at the next

of your attention to

and attention to

social gathering. You

completing this task,

detail. Embrace these

might have a more

and it will only enhance

opportunities as they

enjoyable time as a fly

your resume.

can help your career.

on the wall.

Hard work will get

Pisces, you may find

you ahead, Aquarius.

yourself in a leadership

Don’t shy away from an opportunity that comes your way, even if it seems less

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be called on to make a lot of decisions.

Take advantage of this

glance.

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FALL START • Petrofield Industries is accepting resumes for: Assembly Department: Industrial Painters, Electrical Technicians; and Labourers. Our Company has an enthusiastic, fast paced working environment with advancement for motivated individuals, and an excellent benefit package. Please forward resume to hr@ petrofield.com or Fax 403 742-5544

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Minimum 5 yrs. exp, work 7 days a week at least 12 hrs. a day, overtime and subsided pay. Please Fax: resume to 403-309-1944 or email to: info@tblconstruction.ca EQUIPMENT MECHANIC Yr. Round 8-5 Shop Work •

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Successful candidate will have shown dedication & precision in their work.

Must have over 5 years heavy duty exp.

Some fabrication/ welding exp. preferred.

Priority will be given to licensed journeyman.

Scheduled time off.

Competitive compensation in a low pressure environment working with a great team. pumpingcompany@ gmail.com or fax: 403-342-0226 Attn: Charlie Re: Mechanic Position EXPERIENCED sheet metal installer req’d.

Residential new housing and/or replacement expertise req’d. Call Brad 403-588-8399 or email brad@ ComfortecHeating.com

EXPERIENCED VALVE PERSONNEL & ASSISTANTS WANTED Advantage Valve in Sylvan Lake is moving into a new facility and expanding. We are looking for experienced valve personnel and assistants. Knowledge in API, ANSI and Actuated Valves with ability to deal with customers in service would be an asset. We offer competitive wages & benefit package.

EMAIL: cliff@ advantagevalve.com or FAX: 403-887-1463 MECHANICAL Business in Central Alberta is Now hiring Journeyman HVAC Technicians. Experience in A/C, Residential and Commercial. Service background a must. Estimating an asset. Applicant must have valid drivers license and be willing to work on call rotation. Competitive Salary. Please submit resume to wcmltd@telus. net or fax 403 783-3531

Shipper / Receiver AES INDUSTRIAL SUPPLIES LTD. looking for an energetic/ enthusiastic individual for our receiving department.

Fax resume to 403-342-0233

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Busy road construction company looking for

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Community Support Worker Women in Trades Math and Science in the Trades GED classes days/ evening Gov’t of Alberta Funding may be available.

403-340-1930 www.academicexpress.ca

CRYSTAL GLASS is seeking MOBILE REPAIR OPERATOR. Must have vehicle, pay is hourly and commission. Will train.

Drop off resume at: 4706-51 Avenue or fax 346-5390 or email: branch208@crystalglass.ca DISPATCHER req’d.

Knowledge of Red Deer and area is essential.

Verbal and written communication skills are req’d. Send resume by fax to 403-346-0295 GRAYSON EXCAVATING LTD. requires experienced foremen, pipelayers, equipment operators, Class 1 drivers, topmen and general labourers for installation of deep utilities (water and sewer). Fax resume to (403)782-6846 or e-mail to: info@ graysonexcavating.com

NEWSPAPER CARRIERS REQUIRED To deliver the SYLVAN LAKE NEWS & CENTRAL AB LIFE 1 day a week.

Please call Debbie at 403-314-4307

Contractors

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BLACK CAT CONCRETE Garage/patios/rv pads sidewalks/driveways Dean 403-505-2542

CONCRETE???

We’ll do it all...

Call E.J. Construction Jim 403-358-8197 or Ron 403-318-3804 MAMMA MIA !!

Soffit, Fascia & Eaves.

403-391-2169 RICK’S 30 yrs., ref’s: taping paint, texture 403-392-6450 RMD RENOVATIONS Bsmt’s, flooring, decks, etc.

Call Roger 403-348-1060

Eavestroughing

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CLEANING SERVICES Specializing in eaves trough cleaning, window cleaning & gentle washing of vinyl siding.

Pricing packages available.

Free quotes, senior discounts.

403-506-4822

Building Supplies

1550

SOLID wood Cedar clad door 24”w, with hardware/frame $100 403-227-2976

Clothing

1590

Cats

1830

1650

THE JUNGLE FARM Strawberries Now Avail.

Monday-Saturday 8-6.

Also available, pickling cucumbers.

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Firewood

1660

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Homestead Firewood Spruce, Pine, Spilt, Dry. 7 days/wk. 403-304-6472 FIREWOOD. Pine, Spruce, Poplar. Can deliver 1-4 cords. 403-844-0227

LOGS Semi loads of pine, spruce, tamarack, poplar.

Price depends on location.

Lil Mule Logging 403-318-4346

Sporting Goods

1860

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1986 CASE IH 1660 Combine with internal chopper. 700 hrs. on many new parts, always shedded. For more info 403-729-2548

Financial #4400 - #4430

LEGAL SUITE Deer Park bungalow in mint cond. 2 bdrm. on main floor, tiled laundry/bath, new kitchen cupboards, 950 sq. ft.

Legal suite downstairs, private entrance, insulated between floors, laundry seperate, washer/dryer, fridge/stove all newer, large back yard, deck, gas BBQ hookups, new 2 car det. garage. $345,000 403-340-3370

Acreages

4050

Investments ......................4410 Money Wanted ................4420 Money to Loan ................4430

Money To Loan

4430

LOW INTEREST FINANCING Borrow up to 20K and pay $387./mo. at 8%. Personal & small business loans.

Bad credit OK. Call Toll Free 855-331-5322

Cars

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FOR SALE: NH 489 HAY BINE & John Deer 6601 PTO Combine. 403-845-6462 TO RENT HAWKUS Quik pick custom bale hauling, custom haul, 16 bale mover 403-588-1146

Farm Custom Work

2080

Now Offering Hotter, Cleaner BC Birch. All Types. P.U. / del. Lyle 403-783-2275

CUSTOM CORRAL CLEANING

1690

Buit custom services 3 trucks, Bunning vertical beaters. JD 544 loader 403-588-1146

Lawn Tractors

4020

MOTHER CAT & KITTENS TO GIVE AWAY. Black, and Black & Grey.

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SOUTH African ladies Chamois suit, XS, 23” AS NEW 4 seater golf cart waist, lined skirt, mint $5000 403-347-1526 cond., $200 403-227-2976

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Houses For Sale

6.99 +/- Acreage located 1 hour from Red Deer.

Private location on D.U. quarter (with access).

2 lakes near-by. One of the most abundant areas in AB for duck, goose, & white tail hunting. Property incl. power, well, stock waterer, cabin, bunk house, pasture, 5 wire barbless fence, mature shelter belt, Spruce, Poplar. Park like landscaped incl. apple trees, cherry, flowering crab, etc. & beautiful garden. $365,000. 403-340-3370

2010 CAMARO 1LT,3.6L, Synergy Green option package, sunroof, 29,638 kms., $24,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import 1994 FORD T-Bird, 2 dr., loaded. clean. 352-6995

1993 BMW 323 iS, 196,000 USED: DEINES zero turn km. Like new. Lots of extras. front mount mowers w/60” $9900. 403-357-4848 GUTTERS CLEANED & flip up decks, Kohler engines, CUSTOM HEAVY DISCING Cottages/Resort Hay & Pasture Land REPAIRED. 403-391-2169 1 - 2007, 1 - 2002, both in Property 1988 TRANS AM GTA Subsoiling & Scraper Work good cond. See video @ VELOX EAVESTROUGH 75,000 miles. $4000 firm.

Equipment Rentals lairdmowers.ca to see what Cleaning & Repairs.

403-588-0362 Call Field 403-506-0592 CLASS 1drivers req’d for DEINES can do for you.

LOOKING for laborers and Reasonable rates. 340-9368 road construction. Truck For more info & prices, flaggers for road construcand pup exp. Living allowcall Dean at 403-347-2797 tion. Fax 403-309-0489 ance incld. Fax MANURE SPREADERS 403-309-0489 SUV's Flooring Tired of Standing?

FOR RENT, Household Find something to sit on 3 Bunning manure spreaders, 3 different sizes, vertical LAMINATE and hardwood Furnishings in Classifieds LAKEFRONT HOUSE beaters, custom corral installers, com/res, MATTRESS - Double, - BUFFALO LAKE cleaning with bunning professional, reliable, 30 Country Rest Platinum.

ROCHON SANDS spreaders on truck, Phone yrs. experience 403-358-0091 $75. 403-346-7825 Built in 2010, 2560 sq ft of 403-588-4787 Contact DRIVER req’d. for city & Lawrence Buit 403-588-1146 living, 6 bdrms, 3 bath, a/c, inLooking for reliable Handyman rural deliveries, must be fl oor heat, custom sound system, Stereos newspaper carrier Services able to work alone and oversized dbl. det. garage for 1 day per week with others. Duties incl.

TV's, VCRs & landscaping w/large fire 2007 TOYOTA FJ Cruiser, driving, shipping/receiving pit, play structure & gazebo C Package, auto., loaded delivery of the GREYSTONE Handyman and customer service.

SONY STEREO, holds 3 Livestock MLS CA0012577, 75,000 kms. Very nice, Central Alberta Life Services. Reasonable Class 3 with air ticket and CD’s, $50. Hardly used; PRICE $784,000 trades considered. rates. Ron, 403-396-6089 in the town of abstract is req’d. Drop SONY Radio, Cassette & Brian Lynn Cell: $19,900. 403-598-0682 resume off at Weldco #11, CD player, $15.

403.741.5060 Massage 7491 49th Ave. or fax to ANGUS BULLS, 403-340-0675 INNISFAIL 403-346-1065. No phone large selection of quality Therapy calls please. Only appli2 yr. olds & yearlings, Packages come Misc. for cants selected for an performance info avail, Executive Touch ready for delivery. interview will be contacted. fully guaranteed.

Sale LLB Angus Massage (newly reno’d) No collecting.

DRIVERS for furniture 1-403-742-4226 (FOR MEN)STUDIO 2 BDRM. LAMPS, $15. moving company, class 5 5003A-50 st. Downtown JUICER, $25. required (5 tons), local & Contact Quitcy at 9 am - 6 pm. Mon. - Fri. 403-340-0675 long distance. Competitive 2007 LAND Rover Range 403-314-4316 403-348-5650 wages. Apply in person.

MAMEO BEACH, Rover, 4X4, supercharged 3 PIECE white wicker 6630 71 St. Bay 7 HOT STONE, Body Sandy lake front, 33’x122’, V-8, loaded, $33,888. outdoor patio set.

Horses Red Deer. 403-347-8841 Balancing. 403-352-8269 fenced. Older, cozy, 7652-50 Ave. Sport & Import Loveseat, & 2 chairs. $75. furnished, 3 bdrm., 403-346-7825 TCM Massage Therapy F/T TRUCK drivers req’d. fireplace. $450,000.

Insurance avail. 8 am-9 pm BEAUTIFULLY designed, Minimum Class 5 with air 16 YR. old QH Sorrel 1-780-489-1520, 975-1812 NEWSPAPER www.mygimex.org and clean abstract. Exp. gelding, 15.2HH, very well ladies motorcycle helmet, 4606 48 Ave. 403-986-1691 preferred. In person to Key broke, neck reins, backs CARRIERS size small, $50.

PINE LAKE Towing 4083-78 St. Cres. up, spins, rode down 403-340-0675 REQUIRED Red Deer. roads, ready to go to good new home in gated community Misc. on golf course overlooking NEW LOG HOME home, more info MEGA CRANES is looking Services Pine Lake. Open floor plan, For afternoon Professionally built, 825 403-783-4943 for a ticketed crane and vaulted ceilings chef kitchen sq. ft.

Pretty 2 bdrm. home, delivery boom truck operator. Must fully developed basement, 2006 CHEVY Trailblazer SS or 1300 sq. ft. with loft.

5* JUNK REMOVAL once per week have Class 1. Good master suite has fireplace 12x20 & 16x24 guest 1 owner, exc. shape.

Property clean up 340-8666 WANTED: all types of wages, benefits, 10% and beautiful ensuite, golf cabins also avail. $16,999. 403-357-4848 horses. Processing locally course and clubhouse and holiday pay, RRSP’s, and In the towns of: 403-843-6366 in Lacombe weekly. most evenings and weekpool just outside your door.

403-651-5912 ends off. Fax resume to Vendor may take trades and Blackfalds 885-4269 or email carry financing Glen or Bill cathy@megacranes.com Lacombe Cats 780-482-5273 Classifieds...costs so little Ironman Scrap Metal Regroup.6@outlook.com Ponoka Saves you so much! covery picking up scrap 4 KITTENS Stettler Misc. again! Farm machinery, TO GIVE AWAY. Lacombe vehicles & industrial. ServHelp (587) 876-7847 Lots For ing central AB. 403-318-4346 Call Rick 403-597-9243 Horse/Stock 2003 Ford Excursion 4X4, Sale $14.50 base/appt, FT/PT for more info 7.3 L diesel, $16,888.

BEAUTIFUL 2 Calico kit- Trailers summer openings, customPainters/ 348-8788 Sport & Import 403-314-4303 tens, 1 gorgeous rose Pinnacle Estates er sales/svc, conditions Decorators colored male, desperately (Blackfalds) RESTORED WOOD apply 17+, training given.

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Trucks

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1999 DODGE Dakota Truck, V6, Power, Air, 125,000 km, Good cond.

403-343-0075 or dlnovak@shaw.ca

2010 CHEV Silverado LT 4X4, Z-71, dual exhaust, cold air intake, iron cross bumpers, 24,888.

348-8788 Sport & Import

2006 GMC Sierra 2500 HD Exc. cond. Loaded, $10,900. 403-340-3562

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Motorhomes

ONE OF A KIND 1985 Vanguard 24’, completely re-built inside & out. Better than new! All work done by Gord Schmitt RV Services in Lacombe. Can be seen at 25 Fulmar Cl, Sylvan.

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Fifth Wheels

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Auto Wreckers

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RED’S AUTO. Free Scrap Vehicle & Metal Removal.

AMVIC APPROVED. We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. 403-396-7519

Vehicles Wanted To Buy

5200

RED’S AUTO. Free scrap vehicle & metal removal.

We travel. May pay cash for vehicle. AMVIC APPROVED. 403-396-7519

MANUAL TRANSMISSION FOR 1998 SUNFIRE. $100 OBO. 403-343-0823 4 - M&S tires, 215/60R15 Radial LL600. $200 firm.

403-309-7387 or 403-392-6138 (cell)

TURN KEY OPERATION • 7105 acres total • 1500 acres irrigated • 200 dairy cows with quota • Feed lot plus 450 cow/calf pairs • Complete line of equipment

OWNER IS RETIRING

Contact Albert Dallaire Royal Lepage Casey Realty Peace River, AB | 780-625-6767

Careers is hiring a

SALES PERSON Northridge 4x4 Canada is accepting resumes for a motivated, energetic individual to join our fast paced team serving our Canadian aftermarket Jeep customers in Sales.

The successful applicant will have mechanical background, excellent communication skills, vision for growth in the industry, and a superior work ethic.

Knowledge of off road parts and Jeep is preferred.

Resumes and all inquiries will be accepted via email, no phone calls on this position please.

Emails can be directed to krista@northridge4x4.ca.

Deadline for applications will be Friday, August 9, 2013 Position is located in Ponoka, Alberta

LANGAN SITE SERVICES requires a

DRIVER/OPERATOR

INNISFAIL TRUCK RANCH

for septic containment and disposal for drilling rigs in Alberta - Clean driver’s abstract & license - Oilfield tickets - Must be able to work flexible hours - Drug testing

Sales experience required.

Email resumes with work references & current driver’s abstract to dan@langansiteservices.com fax: 403-704-1127

Successful Careers Start Here

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M & M SERVICES Complete Janitorial Services, Construction Clean Ups, Floor Stripping and Wax, Carpet Cleaning, Low Rates

Contact: Selvin and Guadalupe Morales Phone: 403-392-2801 Email: msercleaning@gmail.com

•Skidsteer Services •Gravel Hauling •Excavating

403.304.3887 www.drakeex.ca Your Quality Excavating Solution

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100 YEARS – This vintage photo of beach shows that Gull Lake has indeed been a place for people to enjoy throughout the last century.

Lacombe & District Historical Society photo

Gull Lake celebrates centennial this weekend

BY BRIAN VOSSEN Lacombe Express A 100th birthday is no small achievement.

This weekend, from Aug. 2-5, the Summer Village of Gull Lake will be holding its centennial celebration.

Sharon Williamson, vice-chair of the Gull Lake Centennial Committee, said that the centennial is a good reason to celebrate.

“It’s an important milestone for the village,” said Williamson. “It’s a good excuse to get old-time Gull Lakers back together again.”

Williamson said that the Summer Village of Gull Lake is the oldest summer village in the province.

She added that the village also boasts some of the original cottages, over 100 years old, which are still standing.

Also as part of the centennial, a history book has been put together that features 110 stories about the cottages in the village and the people who have lived in them, said Williamson.

She added that copies of the book will be sold throughout the weekend.

Highlighting the number of activities and events to celebrate this milestone will be the dedication of Gull Lake’s new Centennial Park on Sunday.

Williamson said that the Centennial Park was chosen to become the centennial landmark because residents wanted something that everyone in the village could enjoy.

“We wanted a long-lasting remembrance of the one hundredth birthday,” said Williamson.

Gull Lake’s Centennial will continue to be an ongoing project

after the weekend as well, said Williamson. So far, landscaping has been done in the park with tennis and pickleball courts being installed.

Williamson said they are currently in the process of adding picnic areas and new flowerbeds to the park.

She added that the park has already seen a lot of use with its current features.

The decision to install pickleball courts in the new park was an interesting one, as the sport is not very well known in Canada.

Williamson said the decision was made because the Summer Village of Gull Lake is home to many snowbirds who visit Mexico and California in the winter, play pickleball the whole time and want to play at home too.

“Pickleball is all the rage in the south.”

Pickleball is a racquet game similar to tennis. It is played on a smaller court (the same dimensions of a badminton court) with a lower net, hard paddles and a ball that looks like a similar version of a wiffle ball.

“The wonderful thing about pickleball is that all ages can play it,” said Williamson. She added that there is not as strong of a learning curve in the sport as other racquet sports like tennis and it doesn’t take a great deal of skill to play the game well.

For those inexperienced in pickleball but who would like to give it a try during the centennial celebrations, lessons will be offered from a talented couple who will be visiting Gull lake from Kelowna on the weekend, said Williamson.

Other highlights on the weekend include social events like

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the Art Show Wine & Cheese on Friday night at the Gull Lake Community Hall, the barbeque, street dance and beer gardens on Saturday night and a pancake breakfast.

Gull Lake Summer Village resident John Acorn (The Nature Nut) will also be making a presentation Saturday afternoon.

A variety of fun games and activities like horseshoes, slo-pitch, sail boat races, beach volleyball, sandcastle building, wiener roasts and more will be taking place throughout the weekend as well.

“It’s going to be a really busy, fun weekend,” said Williamson.

For more information about the Summer Village of Gull Lake Centennial Celebration, including a list of events, visit www. gulllakecentennial.com. news@lacombeexpress.com

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The Jessica Stuart Few present ‘indie/folk jazz’

BY MARK WEBER Lacombe Express Toronto-based band The Jessica Stuart Few are heading west on a tour that includes a couple of local stints to promote their latest CD Two Sides to Every Story.

The band performs Aug. 9-10 at the One Eleven Grill in Red Deer. The band also performs at the annual Jazz at the Lake Festival at Sylvan Lake on Aug. 18.

The live band leaves audiences mesmerized with their remarkable sound; folk, rock and jazz dressed to the nines with Stuart’s proficiency on the koto, a traditional Japanese floor harp, as well as the guitar.

Drummer Tony NesbittLarking and double bassist Charles James bring an charisma, killer chops and three-part vocal harmonies to every performance.

After several tours promoting 2010’s Kid Dream, The Jessica Stuart Few have emerged as one of Toronto’s hottest bands on

the indie-folk scene.

Two Sides to Every Story features their signature indie-folk/jazz style while tapping into a plethora of fresh sounds fueled by the irresistibly catchy Don’t Ya. There are lots of other gems including their wonderful take on Here Comes the Rain, the sparkling title track and the reflective, softer tones of Heart Map. It’s important for Stuart to retain that energetic ‘live’ feeling on a CD, so much of the project was recording ‘live off the floor’ as well.

Stuart was born into a musical family, so it was pretty much a given that it would be a huge part of her life. Both her parents have been and are very involved with the arts.

She also started violin lessons at age three, piano at five and it wasn’t long before her vocal talents began to surface as well.

“My older sister and I would do song and dance routines from musicals in

old folks homes from the time I was two or three years old,” she recalls.

“And when family or friends would come over, there would always be some kind of performance with my mother on the piano, and my sister and I doing our little song, dance and harmonies from the time we were very, very young.

“We very much enjoyed it. And even in our spare time, my sister and I would make up songs and dances and little musicals with our friends and perform them.”

In her high school years in Vancouver, she also discovered a love for writing music. Her parents, while of course supportive of her musical interests, had encouraged her to have a career to fall back on – just in case. But a growing love for rock music, combined with learning the guitar further cemented her passion for eventually getting into music on a full-time basis.

In 2007 she relocated to Toronto to delve into the

BBQ and Family Event - Solid Waste You’re invited to a FREE BBQ and street party hosted by the City of Lacombe’s Infrastructure Services Department. Bring your comments and concerns on the City’s waste management and recycling practices while enjoying a burger or two!

Be sure to bring your kids for FREE facepainting, glitter stickers and balloon animals!

When: Saturday, August 10, 2013 11:00am to 1:30pm Where: Lacombe City Hall Parking Lot For Information Contact: Kim Sharyk Phone: 403.782.6666 EXT 211 Email: garbage@lacombe.ca Garbage Hotline: 403-782-6666

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SLEEK SOUNDS – The Jessica Stuart Few include Red Deer on a western Canadian tour to promote their latest disc, Two Sides To Every Story. The band performs at the One Eleven Grill in Red Deer on Aug. 9-10. The band also performs at the annual Jazz at the Lake Festival at Sylvan photo submitted Lake on Aug. 18.

city’s vibrant music scene.

She formed a band that same year with bassist Dan Fortin and the aforementioned Nesbitt-Larking.

Their first CD, Kid Dream, The Jessica Stuart Few, was released in 2010.

Taking her music to a broader audience was a natural path to take.

Adding to the international, exotic sensibilities of her music is that she is also adept on the Koto.

“I’ve never had goals of fame and fortune, I’ve just wanted to support myself with music and I wanted to be able to have a name for myself in the music world.”

Meanwhile, Stuart is enjoying every aspect of her career. Taking her music on the road raises that level of excitement to newer heights.

And the future is bright.

The band is heading to Japan this October for a tour,

and Stuart is eyeing Europe and the U.S. as future performing possibilities for sure. The next CD is almost fully written. But for now, Stuart is relishing life on the road and connecting with her fanbase. And reaching new listeners.

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SPORTS Upward Soccer Camp heads into sixth year

BY BRIAN VOSSEN Lacombe Express Soccer season is here! Er, soccer camp season that is.

This week, Lacombe Pentecostal Church is holding it’s sixth annual Upward Soccer Camp. Camp Director Cheryl Tracy said that Upward works to use sport to instill personal characteristics like confidence and integrity in players.

“Upward is about doing well at whatever you do.” She added it also emphasizes that competition should be healthy and sports should be fun.

“It’s not just about winning, it’s about doing the best at what you do,” said Tracy.

The camp works to improve player skills by working on skills through four ‘stations’. Tracy added developing footwork is a focus for the camp. She also said that players learn about soccer by actually playing the game during the season.

However, that instruction is usually focused on playing the game and how it works as a whole. Camps on the other hand can focus on building individual skills.

Coaches and other volunteers for the program are found everywhere, said Tracy.

Most of the coaches have been with the program for a number of years. Some got involved with the program through the church, others through the school, and some through the minor soccer program in Lacombe.

Tracy said that the effort the coaches put into the program is incredible.

“These coaches are phenomenal, they love on these children. They are just so positive and upbeat.”

While Upward is focused on teaching, there is more to sport than winning – that doesn’t mean coaches and players can’t take skill-building seriously. Tracy said the level of coaching is acceptable for the level of skills for each age group and as the children get older the coaching tends to get more intense.

As the soccer camp is a church-based camp, there is a spiritual element to the camp as well. However, Tracy said that element is not specific to the Pentecostal faith.

Instead, the camp simply focuses on what scripture reading throughout the week.

When Tracy came to Lacombe and became a pastor with the Lacombe Pentescostal Church, she started looking for a way she could work with the community outside of her capacity with the church as a pastor. Her senior pastor had received some information about sport camps run by church groups out of Texas and shared the information with Tracy.

That group, Upward, was doing training sessions in Calgary at the time. Knowing Tracy had expressed interest in doing some kind of community work, her senior pastor encourage her to go.

At that time there were few community outreach programs in Lacombe, so Tracy was eager to bring something of that nature to the community. She said she decided on soccer because between soccer and hockey, the two camps offered by the Upward program, she knew more about the sport.

The first year, Lacombe’s Upward Soccer Camp attract-

FIELD DRILLS – Matthew Salsbury, 13, works to improve his skills at Upward Soccer Camp.

ed between 60 and 70 kids, Tracy said. The next year, that number nearly doubled to 120. This year, the camp is down in numbers from usual, with about 90 kids.

Organizing the camp is largely done by Tracy herself.

It’s a process that takes some time. Tracy said she starts planning, ordering, and booking fields in January for the camp.

Lacombe’s Upward Soccer Camp also offers sponsorship for interested players that need it, said Tracy. As such, a number of small fundraisers are held throughout

the year. About a third of the players in this year’s camp are fundraised and Tracy said that the camp has never turned anyone away because of cost issues.

“Anyone who asks to come can come. If anyone were to say, ‘I can’t afford it,’ that’s not true.”

The soccer camps are available to any players who have not yet entered Grade 7 down to Pre-Kindergarten aged players. For more information about Upward Camps, visit www.upward.org.

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Field lacrosse introduced to Lacoka

BY BRIAN VOSSEN Lacombe Express This summer marks Lacoka Lacrosse’s inaugural field lacrosse season.

Mike Wood, coach coordinator for Lacoka Lacrosse, was instrumental in bringing field lacrosse to Lacoka.

Wood said that his interest was sparked by a winter program in Red Deer his children participated in

through which they got to play in Las Vegas.

He said that he was somewhat shocked that Lacoka’s program has seen so much support running during the summer, when there are so many other things going on as well.

“The turnout has been phenomenal,” said Wood.

“I’m a little surprised at the turnout.”

Wood said that playing field lacrosse as well as in-

door lacrosse, more commonly known as box lacrosse, gives players more time to work on their skills.

He added that in his experience coaches and box lacrosse players have their skills refined by playing field lacrosse, even though the games are slightly different.

“It’s more open space, so they have more room to make moves,” said Wood.

“It helps so much.”

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Between the novice, peewee and midget teams, there are 40 players registered for field lacrosse.

Many of the new Gators field lacrosse players have played box lacrosse as well, but Wood said there are a few who are only playing field and loving it.

For a time while he was getting the ball rolling on the new field lacrosse season, Wood was worried that financial problems would prevent the program off the ground, he said.

Luckily, Gator Energy stepped up to sponsor the team. Hence the team name, the Lacoka Gators.

Time is the difference between field lacrosse and box lacrosse, said Wood.

In box lacrosse, the game is played with a 30-second shot clock. In field lacrosse, there is no shot clock and players can take as long as they want to make their plays.

For now, Lacoka’s field lacrosse program is limited to the summer months.

In the future, Wood would like to see the program expand so that it too could have a winter program, he said.

He added that the club would rent space in gymnasiums and possibly the

Abbey Master Builder Centre in Blackfalds once it is completed to continue playing once the weather turns cold.

There is no league in Alberta for field lacrosse, said Wood. Instead, teams participate in a variety of field days where they play two or three games in a day.

Lacoka has already participated in two field days, one in Red Deer and another in Okotoks.

Wood said the club is also trying to host an event for Aug. 10, but he isn’t sure if it will actually happen at this point in time. news@lacombeexpress.com

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TRAVEL Classic Nashville: enjoy that singin’ town

By Kathy Carter Drok Maybe it’s because I am a musician, maybe it’s because I love to travel, maybe it’s because my husband went there to run in a marathon partnered with a children’s hospital, but whatever it is, Nashville captivates me like no place on earth ever has before: it started when we stepped off the plane and live music was playing.

No matter where you go, Nashville is an adventure.

While exploring en route to The BlueBird Café we ended up in a well-appointed neighbourhood that boasts the likes of Kelly Clarkson, Al Gore and Taylor Swift.

The architecture and estates are imposing and magnificent.

The BlueBird Café is a wellknown mecca for musicians. It is a dumpy little place where careers are launched and history made.

The night was sold-out but they made room for us Canadians. Onstage that night was Fred Eaglesmith and The Traveling Steam Show. There we were in the BlueBird in Nashville, awestruck, wedged around a cramped table, watching a band that included four Canadians.

There are live bands playing in every restaurant, bar and grill and room up and down the strip in Nashville. The music starts in the morning and goes all day into the night. Monday is like Friday and Wednesday afternoon is like Saturday night.

The bands have big pickle jars for tips and sell CDs, swag and anything to make a buck and keep dreams afloat. If you aren’t playing in these rooms you can busk. Buskers are everywhere and are eclectic.

One band had a bass guitar made from a washtub, twine and a broom handle while someone played the spoons, another a banjo, plus a guy playing acous-

tic guitar while keeping the beat with a kick pedal lashed to a suitcase. Speakers are everywhere so no matter where you are outside you can hear the music playing inside.

The level of talent is overwhelming.

In Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge where everyone from Willie and Waylon and Patsy Cline to our own Terri Clark have sang, we stumbled into the VIP Section and the booking agent let us stay there. In Robert’s Western World we watched a guy play lead guitar until my mouth hung open.

Then he sat down behind a pedal steel and played a lead on it, switching back and forth between the two instruments.

The female lead singer belted out classic country and the bass player slapped the upright like he was born doing it. The drummer has backed up Loretta Lynn for years.

We woke up in Nashville one morning to hear the sad news George Jones had died. That night we had tickets to the Grand Ole Opry.

What a show: everything from the classic country performers to the hottest newcomers, all there paying tribute to “The Possum.”

The night ended with a surprise appearance by Brad Paisley.

He performed a medley of Jones’ tunes plus a song he must have penned, interwoven with phrases from Jones songs. Jon Conlee and The GOO Band closed with a spellbinding version of Amazing Grace. If George hadn’t yet passed through the pearly gates, he certainly did that night.

The St. Jude Country Music Marathon and Half Marathon was amazing. We stayed on Music Row, an area that is home to hundreds of businesses all connected to the music industry.

I watched my husband run accompanied by all manner of spectacles - a guy running with a

HISTORIC SOUNDS – Nashville’s famed Ryman Auditorium has seen many legends of country music perform over the years.

guitar, another with an American flag, ‘Elvis’ running with an intact black pompadour in the pouring rain, troops of American soldiers in uniform and the kids, all the kids; little sick kids in wheelchairs, babies in strollers being pushed by parents, little spastic arms flapping as they rolled by.

The untold heart-tugging stories of why they all partake in this amazing event.

No visit to Nashville is complete without a trip to the Ryman Auditorium, the ‘Mother Church of Country Music.’ The Ryman was home of The Grand Old Opry from 1943 – 1974.

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I walked out with my own two CDs feeling gobsmacked! We heard the hot band Little Big Town play for their hometown crowd in The Ryman and they raised the roof.

The Country Music Hall of Fame is another must-do. You could go every day for weeks just to watch, listen and learn the history of country music and its players. The memorabilia, photos, early instruments, videos and collections of everything connected to the artists is magical.

But the reason why I fell head-

over-heels-crazy-in-love with Nashville can be summarized in this. We were leaving the strip the last night and half a block from our car I heard singing, harmonies and gospel music so sweet I stopped in my tracks.

There in an empty parking garage was a group of teens and adults singing their hearts out just because they could, soaking up the acoustics in that garage and sending those pure tones out into the night.

Not self-conscious, not crazy, not out of place at all, just Nashville, just the music, always the music.

Kathy Carter Drok is a registered nurse and local musician.

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