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The first of nine public meetings was held last night in regards to a supervised drug consumption site in Red Deer. That meeting was not over by press time. See our web site at www.reddeerexpress.com for coverage on that meeting. Hosted by Turning Point Society of Central Alberta in conjunction with the Red Deer Coalition on the Opioid Crisis, there will be a series of nine community engagement sessions held throughout Red Deer to give people an opportunity to come out and address any concerns they may have. Turning Point Society was designated as the project lead and a Red Deer Coalition on the Opioid Crisis was formed to undertake a needs assessment for a supervised consumption service in the City. “The purpose of the community engagement sessions is both for us to be able to inform the public or anybody who is interested about the process of the Needs Assessment and what the Red Deer data is showing so far in regards to the survey that the clients have been doing,” said Sarah Fleck, interim operations manager of Turning Point.
She said it’s also to have the community members have a forum where they’re able to have a dialogue with them and ask questions, hopefully dispelling some myths they may have about the possibility of supervised consumption servicing. “We really wanted to give everybody an opportunity to come, and we’re keeping them (the sessions) really small, so we’re maxing each session out at 15 people, and the reason for that is just to ensure that we have a lot of time for one-on-one questions and answers for people,” she said. Fleck said what the event is mostly doing is increasing Turning Point’s transparency. “We don’t want something being done in the community that people are unaware of or find out after the fact, so it’s partly just about inclusion of the community because we know, and all the research indicates that a supervised consumption service actually improves community safety through the decrease of crime rates in the surrounding areas.” She said they want to go over that with the community and let them know that the service will help save lives for people who are using drugs along with having substantial benefits to the community as well.
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Police Briefs CHARGES LAID AFTER STABBING At 5:20 a.m. Aug. 7th, Red Deer RCMP responded to a complaint of serious assault at Orient Green in Red Deer. Shortly after the first complaint, a second call for service was received at the Red Deer hospital for a man suffering from stab wounds. Investigators learned that the two incidents were related and that the injured male was the victim of the earlier assault call. Red Deer RCMP arrested a 27-year-old man at the Orient Green location. He remains in police custody at this time. The investigation in ongoing and charges are anticipated. The victim remains in hospital with serious injuries. The victim and the suspect are known to one-another and Red Deer RCMP do not believe that this incident was random. No further suspects are being sought at this time. Anyone with information about this occurrence is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or at www. tipsubmit.com.
ONE KILLED AFTER COLLISION ON HWY. 11A On Aug. 5th at 11:15 p.m. the Blackfalds
RCMP along with Red Deer County and City of Red Deer emergency services were dispatched to a multi-vehicle collision on Hwy. 11A west of Red Deer. A west bound vehicle collided with an east bound vehicle nearly head-on. A third vehicle travelling west bound was involved in the collision with less severe damage. The occupants of all the vehicles were being treated for extensive injuries and rushed to Red Deer Regional Hospital. A passenger in the east bound vehicle passed away from injuries sustained in the collision. Next of kin has been notified and identify of the deceased will not be released. The cause of the collision is still under investigation by the Blackfalds RCMP. Blackfalds RCMP are requesting anyone with information regarding this collision to contact them at 403-885-3300. Those wanting to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or at www.tipsubmit.com.
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Shannon contacted family on July 17th and advised he was now in Red Deer. He is described as 5’10” tall, 180 lbs with brown hair and blue eyes. He has a tear drop tattoo under left eye, a praying hands tattoo on his neck and was last seen wearing camouflage pants and dark coloured t-shirt. While Shannon is believed to be in Red Deer, it is possible that he could be in Rocky Mountain House or elsewhere. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Shannon is asked to contact the Red Deer RCMP at 403-343-5575. Those wishing to remain anonymous can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or at www.tipsubmit.com.
RCMP SEARCH FOR MISSING MAN Red Deer RCMP are asking for public assistance to locate 57-year-old Gordon Kilpatrick. He was last seen in Red Deer on Aug. 1st and RCMP wish to verify his well-being. RCMP believe Kilpatrick may be driving his blue Dodge Ram 1500, Alberta license plate
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Council hopeful looks to provide opportunities for Red Deerians BY TODD COLIN VAUGHAN todd.vaughan@reddeerexpress.com
Social studies teacher Matt Slubik’s focus is squarely on building community and he is hoping he will be elected to City council in the municipal election this fall. “I have always been passionate about politics through my time in university and also as a social studies teacher,” he said. “Policy has always been a passion of mine and I have always wanted to give back to the community. I want to work with people locally and I have always had a soft spot for Red Deer.” Slubik feels municipal government will allow him to craft legislation without the burden of party politics, which affects provincial and federal policy. “As a social studies teacher, we have a working knowledge of government and how politics work,” he said. “One of the reasons that municipal government is attractive is because I can disregard the party politics side of things. I don’t have to worry about Liberals, Conservatives, NDP — I can just worry about the people of Red Deer and what they want, what their needs are and what their government can provide for them. “I have invested time into studying political science, social studies and history. I look to bring that knowledge forward to bring a new insight to City council.” Slubik added he wants to give back to community where he grew up. “I feel like I have good roots in Red Deer,” he said. “I grew up here and live
Slubik hopes to ensure if he were elected to council. “We have hopefully seen the light after the dark economic times provincially,” he said. “As far as city politics go, it is about providing opportunities as best as we can for people in Red Deer and creating a safe, caring community. No matter who you are, people essentially want to have happy families and happy lives. Whatever we can do as a council and City government, I would like to try to provide that for people.” Slubik noted, however, that provid-
MATT SLUBIK here now. I really love this City and it would be nice to give back.” Giving back for Slubik means focusing on the one thing he believes makes Red Deer unique. “I have one focus and that is community,” he said. “Everything stems from that, whether it is safety or different opportunities that Red Deer can provide for people. Engaging yourself in your community; showing appreciation for your community; and giving back to your community is my biggest focus.” Building community is something on full display in the revitalized portions of the downtown core, according to Slubik. “I really like how downtown has developed itself into a place for local shops, local restaurants,” he said. “It has become a really nice place to go and it is developing a nice identity as a small town feel within a city. I want to see that through and continue to develop that identity within the community.” Ensuring that Red Deerians continuously have opportunities is something
ing opportunities cannot continuously be about raising taxation. “Economically I am more conservative and socially I am more centre-left, so a little bit more liberal,” he said. “Taxes are a double edged sword. No one wants to pay taxes, but everyone needs services provided for them. I obviously would like to charge people the least and give them the most. There is a fine balance when it comes to navigating through that. I want to provide people with opportunities, but I don’t want to have to increase taxes every
year to provide those opportunities.” Slubik said he hopes to bring his new perspective to council that has been successful in recent years. “I think they are doing a great job,” he said. “I know there is a lot of long sitting council members. If I were elected I would like to provide a new perspective - not that they are doing a bad job, I would just like to bring my gifts and talents to council. I hope to learn something and they can learn from me as well as we go through the process together.”
Crime stats for Red Deer released Red Deer’s 2017 crime statistics halfway through the year show a slight decrease in persons crimes, and a slowing in the growth seen over the past few years regarding property crimes; traffic collisions resulting in injury continue to decrease every year, while collisions involving property damage increased slightly when compared to this time last year. “RCMP are pleased to say that in the first quarter of 2017, persons crimes were the lowest they’ve been in five years, and those numbers remained lower in the second quarter than during the same time period last year,” said Supt. Ken Foster, officer in charge at the Red Deer RCMP detachment. “We saw more good news in that the total Criminal Code numbers in the first and second quarters of 2017 were lower than the same time frames last year.” While property crimes have continued to show a slight increase in 2017, theft of motor vehicles dipped in the first quarter to be slightly lower than the same time frame in 2016, before rising slightly again in the second quarter two. Criminal charges for possession of stolen property also rose in the first six months of the year, as RCMP continue to target those career criminals responsible for
much of the property crime in the community. Between April 12th and July 11th, Red Deer RCMP conducted 593 checks on targeted people, places and criminal patterns, including 24 identified people on parole and/or probation and 25 more career criminals with an active history of property crime. Preliminary analysis shows at least 37 charges have been laid specific to Project Pinpoint targets during this time period, with more pending; 57 warrants have been executed. “Community safety and crime reduction have been identified as the top priority by our public. In response to community concern, City council has been actively working with City staff, the RCMP and community agencies to elevate our local enforcement and crime prevention efforts,” said Mayor Tara Veer. “It’s encouraging to see that our efforts are paying off with reductions in persons crimes; however we know we still have work to do with respect to specific areas, such as property crime, which has been identified as a priority in our local Annual Policing Plan.” Red Deer crime statistics are released on a quarterly basis. - Fawcett
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You could say that Red Deer and Central Alberta in general have come a long ways in terms of support for the LGBTQ community. Next week marks the fifth annual Central Alberta Pride Week, and things are set to kick off at Bower Ponds on Sunday. Throughout the week 13 events will take place to mark the occasion as well. One such event includes the City of Red Deer painting two rainbows at the intersection of Ross Street and Little Gaetz Avenue to show support for the LGBTQ community ahead of this year’s
Pride events. That event takes place Aug. 10th at the intersection of Ross Street and Little Gaetz Ave. The community is invited to come out and show their support. Things officials get kicked off with a worship service at Gaetz United Church on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. followed by Pride in the Park at Bower Ponds from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. There will be a Pride flag raising ceremony at Red Deer College on Monday, a Painting for Pride event in Lacombe on Tuesday, as well as a LGBTQ and Aging Community Conversation at the Golden Circle
that afternoon. Other events include a Rainbow Block Party, a burlesque show, a barbecue, RainBowling, ice skate and ‘fruit float’ to round out the week on Aug. 20th. Another big Pride event is the Drag Show and Dance at the Sheraton Hotel Aug. 19th. Doors open at 7 p.m. Officials with the Central Alberta Pride Society said over the years Pride Week has continued to grow in the City. “Last year we knocked it out of the park with an extremely successful, well-branded, well-advertised event and we grew on last year to make this year
even bigger and better than what we’ve done in the past,” said Joel Graham, a board member on Central Alberta Pride Society and events planner for Pride Week. For years one through four, the mayor’s proclamation took place at City Hall Park, with crowds growing from 50 to 100 to last year’s over 300 count. This goes to show the support Pride Week receives in our community. For more information on Central Alberta Pride Week events, visit www. centralalbertapride.ca or www.facebook.com/RedDeerPrideDays.
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Pricing carbon is about much more than getting people to drive less. It’s also about generating the money we need to accelerate the process of getting our economy off fossil fuels and onto renewables. If a nationwide price on carbon is going to be successful, getting this part right is crucial. Our whole economic system creates dependence on fossil fuels. This is bigger than tax and royalty structures, but these structures matter. A lot. Fossil fuels are still subsidized. The natural gas boom has left prices low. This has stunted large-scale uptake in renewable energy technologies. And overreliance on hydroelectricity isn’t helping. As an institution working towards zero emissions by 2035, the University of Winnipeg knows this first hand. In 1990, university buildings and owned vehicles emitted 3,132 tonnes of CO2 equivalent. In 2015, occupying 38% more space than we did in 1990, we emitted 2,129 tonnes. That’s a 32% reduc-
tion in absolute emissions despite a period of rapid campus expansion. The University of Winnipeg has already mirrored Canada’s emission reduction commitments under the Paris climate accord. And it’s done so in a way that will pay for itself in about eight years. The next target is to achieve a 50% reduction in emissions comparing 1990 to 2020, with or without a carbon price, which we think is achievable. However, our university is also pretty sure we can’t get to zero unless revenues from the price help tip the scales away from the artificially low cost of fossil fuels. The university has conducted feasibility studies for geothermal, solar, wind and biomass systems for our campus. These are all forms of energy that provide lots of promise for replacing fossil fuels and expensive hydroelectricity as
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Councillor Buck Buchanan looks to contour to create dialogue BY TODD COLIN VAUGHAN todd.vaughan@reddeerexpress.com
Former RCMP Officer Buck Buchanan is seeking another term on Red Deer council and sees this term as an opportunity to continue and finish much of the work the current council has done. “I think the reason I have decided to run again is there is always things that are undone and things that are coming that you want to see to fruition,” Buchanan said. “We have the Winter Games coming, so that is one of the major things on the horizon. We are always working on the crime situation and that is why I originally ran in 2004. I didn’t get elected that year but I ran in ‘07. I’m trying to make that better and it is always a hot issue for folks.” Buchanan, who initially ran in 2004 looking to reduce crime rates, said it remains a big issue for the City to address. “We have looked at a lot of things over the years,” he said. “We are running on a contract (with the RCMP) and contracts are interesting animals. You hand something over to your contracted service and say ‘provide X’. Municipalities are getting better with providing input to the RCMP. The RCMP has an annual APP - Annual Police Performance Plan. It has had the tendency to be a bit more national rather then bringing it down to the local level. We are getting better at that. “The new APP comes out in early
BUCK BUCHANAN August and you will see it is more municipality focused. That is based on being a service and providing the best service for people. Property offences are up but they are up all over. They are up all over the province and how do you deal with it?” Buchanan believes part of this problem will be dealt with the recent provincial announcement of a new Red Deer courthouse, however he said more work needs to be done on the preventative and education aspects of policing. “We had the announcement a couple months ago regarding the courthouse, so we are getting more capacity that way,” he said. “The provinces announced they are bringing in more prosecutors and judges. It is not only about incarceration because there are costs associated with that. It is about education in a lot of instances.” Buchanan said much of municipality costs can be alleviated by working
with what they have rather then hiring more staff. “We get into a system of, ‘This is the way we do it’,” he explained. “We can have a hard time of looking inwards and saying, ‘How could we do it?’ People get into saying we need capacity - so more and more people,” he said. Buchanan used the example of the municipal protective services division that has already seen success. “City managers said we need more administration and council said no,” he said. “You have the horses from within, make it happen and that has
happened. The more people you get, it gets to point of how can you make a decision?” Ensuring that council is listening to Red Deerians is something that is also important to Buchanan. “We have done a lot when it comes to dialogue, however we still aren’t necessarily doing a great job on that,” he said. “You don’t have to fight City Hall, City Hall is on your team. We want to make things happen for people rather then make it difficult. We want to have open lines of communication. The role of governance is ensuring that everyone is getting value
for money. People want to be heard.” He added, “The biggest thing for me is being a conduit for people and organizations.” Buchanan hopes he will be able to finish the work he has started on council. “I like to bring some experience to the table; I like to feel like I’m helping folks; I like to think I am making things better for folks and moving the dial a bit. I’m hoping that is enough to get me over the top,” he said. “It sounds like there will be a lot of folks running and good quality folks - as there always is.”
Officials say Red Deer’s economy on more solid footing In line with recovering oil prices, economic growth in Medicine Hat and Red Deer is expected to return to positive territory this year. In fact, with real GDP growth of 2.7% in 2017, Medicine Hat is anticipated to post the strongest economic growth among the eight mid-sized cities included in The Conference Board of Canada’s latest Mid-Sized Cities Outlook. Meanwhile, Lethbridge—the other Alberta city included in this report—will continue to enjoy steady economic growth. The outlook is also generally positive for the cities located outside Alberta. Of the five remaining mid-sized cities included in this outlook—Brandon, Prince George, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, and Miramichi—all except Prince George will also see economic activity improve in 2017. And even though growth is poised to slow in Prince George, the economy is still projected to expand
at a decent 1.5% clip. On a negative note, all five of these cities are on track to see economic growth come in below 2% this year, with Miramichi and Sault Ste. Marie expected to see growth come in below 1%. “The economies of Red Deer and Medicine Hat, with their close ties to the oil and gas sector, were hard hit by the commodities price crash. Lethbridge’s broadbased economy, however, bucked the provincial trend and managed to emerge unscathed over the last two years,” said Alan Arcand, associate director, Centre for Municipal Studies, The Conference Board of Canada. “This year, these three Alberta mid-sized cities will see many of their key industries benefit from recovering oil prices, the low Canadian dollar, and a healthy U.S. economy.” - Fawcett
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Trans Canada Trail to be celebrated at Bower Ponds BY TODD COLIN VAUGHAN todd.vaughan@reddeerexpress.com
Red Deerians will soon have the opportunity to celebrate - with 200 other communities across Canada - the creation of the Trans Canada Trail system, which stretches 22,000 kms across the country. According to a release from the Central Alberta Regional Trails Society (CARTS), the idea for the Great Trail was original conceived by Albertan Bill Pratt and Ontarian Pierre Camu in 1992 and was realized by the Trans Canada Trail (TCT) not-for-profit society. CARTS will host a celebration on Aug. 26th at 2 p.m. at Bower Ponds to signify the achievement of the trail, which exists in every province and territory throughout Canada.
“The one in Red Deer is at the Trans Canada Trail Pavilion at Bower Ponds,” said Paul Pettypiece, president of the Central Alberta Regional Trails Society. “There will be a short program, with a presentation of Trail Hero Awards. Their will also be a brief history of trails in Central Alberta and there will be live music, cake, ice cream, other refreshments and generally a good time.” According to the CARTS release, the Great Trail offers outdoor experiences on both land and water routes. Eventually, the trail will extend to more and more communities. “It is because with this being Canada’s 150th year, the Trans Canada Trail Foundation wanted to make sure that the trail was connected coast to coast to coast,” Pettypiece explained. “That doesn’t mean it is completed — in fact
there are several sections in Central Alberta that are not completed yet. But, in the mean time the connections are by road. “Eventually there will be trails that are off-road connecting at the least the communities of Ponoka, Blackfalds, Red Deer, Springbrook, Penhold, Innisfail, Bowden and Olds.” Pettypiece noted trails allow for communities to connect to each other in a much different way then automobile travel. “It provides a safe way for people to travel from community to community without necessarily taking a car,” he said. “This is a means of active communication, healthy living, recreation, getting a sense of the environment — both urban and rural and it is family-friendly.” Much like its cousin, the Trans Canada Highway — the Great Trail is also a way for Canadians to
connect with one another both within and exterior to their home municipalities. “The idea of the Great Trail is that it not only connects people within urban centres, but also connects people between urban centres,” Pettypiece said. CARTS continues to help advocate for the creation of more trails within Central Alberta. “Once the Trans Canada Trail is completed in Central Alberta, CARTS will continue to promote trail development,” Pettypiece said. “One of the big hoped for trails is a connection between Red Deer and Sylvan Lake. There are other potential trail systems in Central Alberta as well.” He added, “We hope to see lots of people on the 26th. Both Lacombe and Blackfalds are also having celebrations as well.” Central Albertans can use the hashtag #thegreattrail to follow up on the celebrations.
City Briefs FALL ACTIVITY GUIDE DELIVERED TO HOMES Red Deerians can sign up for fall activities and programs with the release of the Activity Guide next week. The 2017 Fall Activity Guide will be delivered to homes in Red Deer County on Aug. 10th and to homes in Red Deer on Friday, August 11. Copies may also be picked up on or after August 11 at City Hall, Collicutt Centre, Culture Services Centre, G.H. Dawe Community Centre and the Recreation Centre.
The Activity Guide is available on the City’s website in advance of the printed version on Aug. 7th at 8 a.m. Registration for all City programs in the guide begins at 8 a.m. on Aug. 15th. Registration may be done in any of three ways - online at the LooknBook page: www.reddeer.ca/looknbook; by phone at 403-309-8411 and in person at Collicutt Centre, G.H. Dawe Community Centre or Recreation Centre. For more information about registration requirements go to www.reddeer.ca/
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s we are now into the second half of 2017, Red Deerians can give themselves a big pat on the back for their participation so far in the Canada 150 for 150 Volunteer Challenge. The Challenge is a national initiative encouraging Canadians to volunteer for 150 hours this year. Canada 150 for150 Volunteers have logged an impressive 124,284 hours nationwide, with those identifying themselves as part of the senior and youth demographics making up 45% and 40% respectively of Challenge participants. According to Volunteer Ottawa, the promotion and support of volunteerism, sports, and education are the top three organizational causes that have received the most significant amount of volunteer support over the past seven months.
Deerians stepped up to the plate and became part of a cohort of volunteers cleaning up neighbourhoods, as well as public parks and green spaces. It’s not too late to sign up for the Challenge and participate. Simply log on to the volunteercentral.ca website, click on the Celebrate By Taking Part banner, and register as a volunteer. You will automatically be linked to the Volunteer Central profile, which tracks how well Red Deer is doing compared to other centres in Canada. With over 140 opportunities currently listed on the Volunteer Central website, there’s something for everyone. Don’t forget to continue to promote the challenge on your social media networks using #Volunteer150for150.
In June, Red Deer led the pack in Alberta, followed by Edmonton and Calgary. Red Deer has been among the five most active communities twice in the overall national standings.
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WASKASOO CREEK CHANNEL IMPROVEMENTS STARTED Work to improve conditions in the Waskasoo Creek channel between Gaetz Avenue and 48th Ave. adjacent to 43rd St. and into Barrett Park are underway. The City is working to restore areas in Waskasoo Creek that have sustained extensive erosion, and to address concerns about flooding in adjacent areas. Repairs will use
natural bioengineering elements to assist in increasing fish habitat and to retain the natural appearance of the creek through the downtown area and in Barrett Park. Work will include creek bank repairs, which will use natural elements to help to stabilize the creek banks and reduce further erosion, as well as construction of a berm on the north bank of the creek to help reduce the risk of flooding for adjacent properties. There may be intermittent traffic disruptions on 49th Ave.
ANNOUNCING YOUR BARRIER BUSTER PROJECT GRANT For immediate release: The community of Red Deer announces Rick Hansen Foundation Access4All Barrier Buster project; Access For All Barrier-Free Playscape to contribute to a more inclusive and accessible Canada. 31 July 2017 Red Deer – The Access For All Barrier-Free Playscape announced today a $30,000.00 funding grant through the Rick Hansen Foundation’s Access4All Project, a Canada 150 Signature Project aimed at improving accessibility for people living with disabilities. With the participation of the Government of Canada, this grant will support the community of Red Deer’s “Barrier Buster” Project, The Access For All Barrier-Free Playscape. ”With support from the Government of Canada and the Rick Hansen Foundation, the Rotary clubs of Red Deer and Mattie McCullough Elementary School, we want to help ensure that every individual has the opportunity to realize their full potential, and it begins with creating inclusive and accessible communities all across our nation said Grant Burchnall, chair of the project. “We are proud to be part of the Rick Hansen Foundation Access4All Project, and the Access For All Barrier-Free Playscape will play an important role in building a world without barriers.” Please see Accessforallreddeer.ca for information on the project and upcoming events including Chocolate Chase, August 27 and Wingfest, September 9th. The Access For All Barrier-Free Playscape will feature a wide range of playground equipment design. This will encourage improvements in physical strength, balance, sensory stimulation, some group interaction, and communication between people. The equipment will be installed in ooring to make falls less impacting and allow for accessibility for many ability levels. This is in keeping with our goal, to install equipment that suits people with a wide range of abilities. Further, a wide variety of equipment means a wide variety of ways of having fun. This will include swings, merry-go-rounds, ramps, climbing apparatus, slides, a rocking device, sensory feedback devices (gizmos which make noise when you push the right buttons). We believe we will have something for everyone. Whether you are an eighty year old grandmother with ve year old with unlimited strength and energy, this playground will have something for you and will provide an opportunity for you to interact with others if you choose to. For more information on the Rick Hansen Foundation Access4All Canada 150 Signature Project, please visit: www.rickhansen.com/access4all For more information on the Canada 150 Signature initiative, please visit: http://canada.pch.gc.ca/eng/1468262573081
and along 43rd St. throughout the project. Construction is anticipated to continue until late October. More information on this project is available online at reddeer. ca/constructionseason.
DBA BOARD OF DIRECTORS The Red Deer Downtown Business Association is seeking three new members to join the board of directors. Interested candidates should be passionate about downtown Red Deer, interested in contributing to its future, and must be willing to make a commitment to serve a three-year term. Supported by staff, the board is responsible to set policy, review progress and provide direction for the association. Directors are expected to participate in monthly board meetings, an annual meeting, along with organization events and committee responsibilities as required. The time commitment is approximately two hours per month on the third Thursday. Candidates must be operators or employees of businesses located within the Business Improvement Area in the Downtown region and pay the associated levy. For more information, visit www. downtownreddeer.com/about/ board-of-directors. Download a copy of the Board Nomination Form here. Nominations must be received no later than 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 28th.
LOCAL PROFESSIONAL NAMED AMONG RISING STARS OF CANADA’S MORTGAGE INDUSTRY Red Deer-based Alim Charania of DLC Regional Mortgage Group has been recognized in the 2017 edition of Canadian Mortgage Professional’s Young Guns, which names the up-andcomers who have made their mark in the mortgage industry even with just a few years of being in the business. After receiving an overwhelming amount of nominations from across the country, CMP narrowed the list down to 55 young men and women who have made themselves relevant amidst a pool of immense talent despite today’s competitive environment. This year’s selection ranges from entrepreneurs who have branched out on their own and built successful businesses to million-dollar brokers who have set a benchmark in the industry that everyone aspires to be. “Despite being 35 or younger, these professionals prove that age really is just a number with the amount of success they have achieved in their respective businesses,” said Heather Turner, CMP journalist. “This year’s Young Guns are not only bringing a unique blend of 21st-century moxie and old-school work ethic to the mortgage industry but are also inspiring their peers with their commitment and expertise.”
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Mud Hero takes place in Red Deer this weekend BY CARLIE CONNOLLY carlie.connolly@reddeerexpress.com
Six or 10 kms, 18-plus obstacles, a 10,000 watt after-party and a whole lot of slimy mud is what Mud Hero is all about. In it’s fifth year now in Red Deer, Mud Hero will be held Aug. 12th and 13th at Canyon Ski Resort to suit the tastes of a wide variety of runners. “We have three different versions of the Mud Hero course. We’ve got the Mud Hero 6k, which is our most popular one, and then we’ve got what we call the Mud Hero Ultra 10k, which obviously is 10 kilometres, and those are for people who want a little bit of extra challenge,” said Ted McLeod, president and one
of the co-founders of Mud Hero, adding that the obstacles are more challenging for the Ultra. Their will also be a 500m kids course that kids ages four- to 12-years-old can do as many times as they like. It too will have different sized obstacles for them to transition up to. “Obviously the four-year-olds would have a little bit of trouble getting over a 4-foot wall whereas a 12-year-old can, but that’s a pretty good challenge for them,” said McLeod. The first Mud Hero event was held in July of 2012 in the Canmore area, and McLeod, along with fellow co-founder and CEO Adam Ruppel only expected a couple of thousand
people to show up, but much to their surprise they had over 5,000 for that week. Both with a history in running events, the two men thought they would make Mud Hero appeal to a wide audience with a broad range of obstacles and easy to hard sections of the race. “Let’s be honest, not everyone is in the gym 16 hours a week,” said McLeod. Their first number of events were six kilometres. “We always aim to have at least 16 obstacles and we change them up every year, and that way people who are returning don’t feel like they’re just doing the same course that they did three years ago, and then two years ago and then one year ago.”
Central Alberta Pride Week to kick off at Bower Ponds BY CARLIE CONNOLLY carlie.connolly@reddeerexpress.com
Central Alberta Pride Week kicks off Sunday, Aug. 13th followed by an action-packed week of over 13 events, celebrating diversity and encouraging inclusion. “We are kicking off Pride Week with Pride in the Park right here at Bower Ponds on Sunday, August 13th. We have seven hours of live entertainment on the Bower Ponds stage. We’ve got food trucks, bouncy castles for kids and adults as well as beer gardens, and we also will have a little merchandise village of just local community organizations that will be represented as well as some Pride merchandise,” said Joel Graham, a board member on Central Alberta Pride Society and events planner for Pride Week. Central Alberta Pride Week, presented by Central Alberta Pride Society (CAPS), is in its fifth year, starting out as a very grassroots event with just a barbecue in a public park. Graham said over the years it has slowly grown. “Last year we knocked it out of the park with an extremely successful, well-branded, well-advertised event and we grew on last year to make this year even bigger and better than what we’ve done in the past,” he said. For years one through four, the mayor’s proclamation took place at City Hall Park, with crowds growing from 50 to 100 to last year’s over 300 count. This year marks Graham’s second year of involvement with the Society, along with fellow participant Serge Gingras, the chair of the Society. “My reason for joining the Society was to help create community. There isn’t a lot of LGBTQ plus community happening in Red Deer, especially with the modern day social media and
some of the dating apps,” said Graham, adding that they have some dating apps that are exclusive to their community. He said he wanted to bring that community and networking back to what it needs to be. For Gingras, who’s been in Red Deer over 30 years, his involvement in Pride events mainly started off when he was teaching at Red Deer College. This, too, is his second year being involved. He said there were some attempts to create some kind of association, but the community was small at the time, making it difficult. He said there was a need and desire, particularly for students, to start getting together. “Some students would come to me and ask if there was a group that would get together, so that’s how Pride on Campus started,” said Gingras, adding that it was a student group. Because it was a student group, the only way for Gingras to get involved was as a faculty advisor, so he would help students in the group navigate through the college system, help them to find resources and support them in their various activities. “Pride Week came from that desire as a community to gather and be together, and this kind of activity also gives permission to people who want to come out but are not sure, so it becomes a safe place for them to initially make connections with the community and establish friendships and networks through that,” said Gingras. He said what he likes about where the Society is going now is that they’ve broadened their scope and have started having conversations with places like the Golden Circle, Alberta Health Services and schools. Graham said overall, Pride Week has been a really great experience and that the response is general-
ly positive towards the LGBTQ community. “Being a minority in the community, you expect that people are going to treat you like a minority, but we actually didn’t have a lot of the pretenses that we figured we’d be running into. The City has been quite receptive in allowing us to do what we want to do. The corporate community has also been very receptive,” he said. He said big sponsors like TD Canada Trust has kept coming back year after year, along with other organizations wanting to help offer their support. Gingras said the last couple of years have seen more positive than negative thoughts towards the LGBTQ community. “I have felt myself and Pride as an organization very welcome in different circles in the community. I’m thinking particularly the Welcoming Inclusive Communities Network,” he said. The Network gathers people who deal with racism, discrimination and more, and Gingras said he finds that often there is a desire to help and support, but people just don’t have the tools and knowledge or don’t know how to, which becomes part of the conversation. “We’re not going to change the world all at once, but it’s baby steps. It’s one conversation here and one connection there and that makes it all possible and even more positive,” said Gingras. Pride in the Park will take place at Bower Ponds Aug. 13th from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The other big Pride event is the Drag Show and Dance at the Sheraton Hotel Aug. 19th. Doors open at 7 p.m. Many other Pride events will be taking place throughout the City from Aug. 13th to Aug. 20th. For more information on events, visit centralalbertapride.ca.
McLeod said they will probably have 10,000 participants this year, about the same as last year’s event. “It’s brought a lot of people to Red Deer, and I’ve heard from Tourism Red Deer multiple times that thanks to the Mud Hero event, most of the hotel rooms are booked and you can always see muddy people walking around downtown at restaurants and shops and things like that.” With a wide variety of obstacles, sized accordingly, there’s something for everybody’s skill set. A few include the 15-ft. ‘Kong’. “You climb up one side of Kong and then we’ve got a cargo net suspended in between, which provides a lot of fun, and then you climb down the other side.” There is also something called Hamburger Hill, which consists of a muddy uphill run. “That’s the advantage of Canyon is that there are a lot of places where you can have a little bit of (incline).” There is also Mud Hero’s famous mud slide, an all-time favourite where people climb up one side and slide down the other. And McLeod said there wouldn’t be Mud Hero if they didn’t have as many mud pits as they possibly can.
MUD FUN - Mud Hero will take place Aug. 12th and 13th at Canyon Ski Resort with over 18 obstacles for runners of all Isaac Moscovich photo ages to complete. “We always make sure that everyone ends on a muddy note. Our final mud pits are always our largest so that way everyone comes across the line muddy as heck.” He said a lot of people use Mud Hero as a fitness goal, setting it up as part of their resolution come the New Year. “The other thing a lot of people do is they use it as a little bit of a fear conquering thing,” he said. McLeod said the Mud Hero in
Red Deer actually only sees 20% from the Red Deer region, as a lot of people come to the City from other parts of the province - and even as far away as B.C. Mud Hero also takes place in five other stops including Ottawa, Montreal, Halifax, Winnipeg and Toronto. Registration for Red Deer’s Mud Hero is open until Friday, Aug. 11th at 11:59 p.m. for the Saturday event, and closed Saturday, Aug. 12th at 11:59 pm for the Sunday event.
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Community Calendar The Central Alberta Mopar Association ( CAMA) is having their 23rd annual show/shine at Parkland Mall Aug. 12th from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the northeast parking lot. It is open to all Chrysler family vehicles. Breakfast and lunch are available on site. Spectators are welcome as well and a donation to the Red Deer Food Bank would be appreciated. There is also a meet/ greet at Village Mall A&W on Friday night for participants from 6:30 to 8 p.m. For more information call 403-302-0260.
The Red Deer Action Group Society is seeking volunteer board members. We need board members who are willing to commit two hours per month. If you are interested and think this would be an opportunity, contact our office at 403 343-1198 or email rdga@telus.net for further details.
Gladiolus, Indoor Plants, Outdoor Planters, Photography, Roses, Sweet Peas, Vegetables and we also have a Junior Section for the younger crowd of 14 years of age and under. Businesses and individuals from around the Red Deer community have donated prizes to make our Flower Show rewarding for the exhibitors that enter. Have we mentioned that it’s free to enter? The Show Committee is hoping to see many entries at the show including those from new adventurous folks who start with only one or two entries. For more information, the show book is posted on our web site at www.reddeergardenclub. ca or show books are available at 403-3414351. It’s fun to be an exhibitor – try it and see for yourself! The staging of exhibits is from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. Wednesday and 7 - 9:30 p.m. Thursday. It’s open for public viewing 2 – 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. There will be a garden tea party from 2 – 4 p.m. Thursday.
Sunrise Toastmasters meet every Tuesday (except following long weekends) from 7 - 8:15 a.m. These early risers learn public speaking and leadership skills in the lower level of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church at 40 Holmes Street - just behind Canadian Tire on the north hill. Everyone over 18 is welcome. Call Jock Mackenzie at 403-357-4895 for further information.
The United Churches of Red Deer Present ‘ZooTales’ United Kids Camp 2017 Aug. 14th – 18th from 9 a.m. to noon for kids ages five to 11. The event runs at the Sunnybrook United Church (12 Stanton St.) Join us from 9 a.m. to noon for games, arts & crafts, Bible stories and music as we celebrate living in God’s creation. For more information, contact Gaetz United at: 403-347-2244 or Sunnybrook United at 403 3476073. Registration forms will be available from Gaetz and Sunnybrook church offices as well as on their facebook pages. Cost: freewill offering.
The kitchen at the Senior Citizens Downtown House will be closed for July and August, and will reopen on Sept. 5th for lunches. All other activities will be opened during the summer. Summer hours are Monday and Wednesday from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Some coming events include a jam session on Aug. 12th at 1:30 p.m., a seniors dance on Sept. 16th from 2 to 4 p.m. with music by Spectrum and a craft and bake sale on Oct. 21st from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 403-346-4043.
The antique tractors are all fired up for Red Deer’s 22nd annual Pioneer Days Festival and antique tractor pull competition, including two days of fun-filled, family entertainment at the Sunnybrook Farm Museum. It runs Aug. 19th-20th. Featured activities include a pancake breakfast, a silent auction, a tractor parade, Canada: 150 Years of Farming Innovation exhibit, and an antique toy display. Also featured are our very own live farm animal exhibition, pioneer homesteading, threshing and field demonstrations, cowboy church service, home-made cookie walk, a food concession, live musical entertainment, face painting, a bouncy castle, barrel train rides and children’s activities. Admission is $5 per person or $15 per family. For more, call 403-340-3511.
Music students building their skills this summer at MusiCamp Alberta invite you to join them for a series of free concerts at Red Deer College. Enjoy great music while supporting exceptional youth and professional musicians as they participate in Alberta’s largest and longest running summer music program. There are Faculty & Guest Recitals Nightly Monday through Friday through to Aug. 11th on the Arts Centre mainstage at 8 p.m. Feature concerts run Aug. 5th at 2 p.m. on the mainstage as well. Others are set for Aug. 12th at 2 p.m. and Aug. 19th at 2 p.m. as well. No tickets required. All performances are free of charge. Call Red Deer College at 403-3423526 for further details about the concerts. For more information about MusiCamp Alberta, visit www.rdc.ab.ca/summercamps.
The Red Deer & District Garden Club would like to invite all interested parties to pick up a show book for the upcoming Flower and Garden Show held at Festival Hall on the 17th of August. We have over 200 classes to choose from. The categories are Cut Flowers, Dahlias, Decorative Floral Arranging, Fruit,
two celebrity riders participating in this year’s ride: Tyler Hamilton and Alex Stieda. The ride features four distances; the 10km and 25km rides will take place on the beautiful trails of Red Deer, while the 50km and 100km rides will take place on the highway from Red Deer to Delburne. The shorter ride is family friendly. To learn more about the ride and to register please visit: www.wellnessride.ca.
Community Wellness Ride will be held on Aug. 19th. The Wellness Ride began in 2009 and is a fundraiser for the Canadian Mental Health Association and the Central Alberta Brain Injury Society. We are excited to have
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Yoga YARD: Yoga Alliance of Red Deer. We are pleased to be hosting our 21st Annual Yoga Intensive! ‘Unveiling the Inner Guru’ Aug. 21st 27th. Come for the week, a day, or just a class or two. Special weekend guest instructor is Mugs McConnell (SOYA). All levels of practitioners are welcome. Please register early at the studio or online. Full details at: www.reddeeryoga.ca or call 403-550-9240. Email info@reddeeryoga.ca.
Alumni of the original Red Deer Composite and successor Lindsay Thurber Composite High School will join at a reunion celebrating the 70 year anniversary of the original class of 1947 and the 50-year anniversary of alumni of 1967. Alumni from classes between those celebration years are also invited to join in the fun at the Sheraton Hotel in Red Deer. This is a continuation of the Reunions Program which has operated every five years since the first reunion in 1987. Reunion application and program, and Alumni Association application can be obtained from: cshulz@telus.net, by calling 403-341-4351 or by writing: Red Deer High School Alumni at 40 Anders Close in Red Deer. The postal code is T4R 1C3.
Are you interested in learning the centuries old art of Taoist Tai Chi® Developed for the benefit of both mind and body, this practice can be of benefit to people of all levels of fitness or ability. Fung Loy Kok Taoist Tai Chi® offers Health Recovery Classes on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. We are a non-profit volunteer organization dedicated to sharing the health benefits of Taoist Tai Chi® arts training. We have been in Red Deer for over 30 years. (because it works!) We are located in the Port o’Call Shopping Centre behind Scotia Bank in downtown Red Deer. For more information go to www.Taoist.Org and follow the links.
are hosting a Ceilidh on Sept. 8th at the Golden Circle Senior’s Centre from 7 to 10 p.m. $7/ person at the door 12 and under are free. All are welcome to attend - no dance experience necessary. More information can be found at reddeerscottishcountrydancers.weebly.com and/or by calling Carolyn at 403-813-7505
Red Deer Scottish Country Dancers host dance classes with a certified teacher every Wednesday night beginning Sept. 13th at Knox Presbyterian Church Gymnasium (4718 Ross St.) at 7 p.m. All are welcome. More information can be found at reddeerscottishcountrydancers. weebly.com and/or Carolyn 403-813-7505.
Spring Cleaning? Why not donate your gently used items for a great cause? Shalom Counselling Centre is collecting items until Sept. 30th that we will sell to Value Village. Proceeds will be used for client subsidies. For more information, visit www. shalomcounselling.com or phone 403-342-0339.
The Employment Placement and Support Services is holding mental health first aid courses Aug. 24th-Aug. 25th and Oct. 25th-26th. Instructors will lead through modules over substance related disorders, mood disorders, deliberate self-injury, risk factors, signs and symptoms among other topics. For more information, email Barb Sutter at bsutter@epssworks.com.
Red Deer Ukulele Circle invites all skill levels to join in the fun. We meet the third Wednesday of each month upstairs at #6, 5579-47 St. in Red Deer. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and introduction starts at 6:45 p.m. Strumming starts at 7 p.m. Anyone under 16 must be accompanied with an adult. For the song book ask to join our closed facebook page. For more information, call Leann at 403-358-4855.
Royal Canadian Air Force Association Whisker Rescue is looking for Volunteers to help with our Annual Garage Sale that is being set up now, we have many other opportunities, for more information please call or text Diane at 403-318-9448 or email at dicat@live.ca.
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entertainment, The afternoon features a guided wagon ride showcasing the history of Sunnybrook Farm. Cost is $12. Drop ins are welcome, but larger groups are encouraged to reserve a seat by calling 403-340-3511.
presenting their annual Lunch at the Farm events between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. on alternating Wednesdays - Aug. 30th and Sept. 13th. Guests can relax in the 1889 Hanna Log House and enjoy a served lunch including home-made pie with ice cream and musical
- 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 well equipped 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. Wing members meet at noon on the second Saturday of the month at the ABC Country Restaurant, 2085 50th Ave in Red Deer for a luncheon and business meeting. Guests are welcome. Contact: President Al Low at 403-341-3253 or amlow@shaw.ca.
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Food bank opens new satellite location at the Mustard Seed BY TODD COLIN VAUGHAN todd.vaughan@reddeerexpress.com
The Red Deer Mustard Seed and the Red Deer Food Bank recently announced the opening of a new food bank satellite location at the Mustard Seed in Riverside Meadows. The collaboration will allow the clients of the Mustard Seed — many of whom use the service of the food bank — to also pick up their food hampers at the Mustard Seed. “What we have done is a joint venture to open a depot here in the Mustard Seed,” said Red Deer Food Bank Executive Director Fred Scaife. “It is a great opportunity for our clients. Already we have clients coming in today that live within walking distance.
If this was not available to them, they would have to find some way to get up to the north hill to our main location.” The Mustard Seed is located in a much more central location, which can provide added accessibility for clients. “We are really happy to extend our space to the Red Deer Food Bank and it was all made possible by a generous donor in the community,” said Mustard Seed Central Alberta Managing Director Byron Bradley. “We try to be hope and well-being for our most vulnerable citizens through Jesus’ love. That is for the whole person — caring for them and bringing them to a place of health and wellness.” According to Scaife, creating shorter transits to food access is
The challenge is on between first responders in Red Deer BY ERIN FAWCETT efawcett@reddeerexpress.com
Emergency service workers in Red Deer and Central Alberta are continuing to answer the call to help save more lives as part of this year’s Lifesaving Summer campaign, and Canadian Blood Services is asking local residents to also lend their arm by donating blood in support of their local emergency services teams. The campaign runs through to Aug. 31st. On Friday a number of RCMP members and Emergency Services members were on hand at the Canadian Blood Services clinic in Red Deer to kick off this month’s challenge. Emergency service workers often see the need for blood firsthand. Just one person who is seriously injured in a car crash could need as many as 50 blood donations to help save their life. The goal of the Lifesaving Summer campaign is to collect 1,308 units of blood in Red Deer and the Central Alberta area. In addition, officials hope to recruit 163 new donors for this campaign. “We do it because it’s a pretty easy way to do some public service,” said Insp. Heidi Wild, with the Red Deer RCMP. “It is an easy way to give back.” Wild said she encourages Red Deerians to donate blood. “It is an easy way to give back to the community. At one point in time you or someone you know is going to need blood,” she said. “We have to get blood from volunteers and donors, it’s not something that we can manufacture. There is no other place to get it.” Donna Sherban, a firefighter inspector with the City of Red Deer, was also on hand to donate blood. “I’m here for public awareness and to encourage people to come out and donate as well. In the summertime there is definitely more need for blood in the community,” she said. For more information, call 1-888-2-DONA TE or visit blood.ca. The Red Deer Canadian See our video at Blood Services clinic is located at 5, 5020 68th St. .com
important for vulnerable populations in Red Deer. “This is what it is all about,” he said. “Keeping people from having to waste or use valuable resources travelling when there is no need to. The Mustard Seed has been so welcoming and we have been looking forward to this project. It just made sense to do this.” Collaboration between groups like the food bank and the Mustard Seed is crucial, according to Scaife and Bradley. “It is really important for groups like us at the food bank and the Mustard Seed to get together simply because we are dealing
with the same basic population,” Scaife said. “We can better improve the service that is available to those people. When we work together and know what each other is doing, it makes it a whole lot easier to make sure the lives of our clients are made better.” Bradley added, “Our goal from day one was to open our door to other great agencies like the food bank and invite them in to collaborate and use our space here. It is crucial. We all offer different types of services to care for the whole person.” Feedback was already coming in during the announcement of the food bank depot.
“Already the feedback at the Mustard Seed from the clients here shows they are excited for the prospect of not having to go all the way up to the north hill in order to get a hamper,” Scaife said. “Especially for the people walking, on foot or using transit — putting it with four to five blocks of where they live is fantastic for them.” Bradley said the Red Deer Food Bank has been helpful even before this official collaboration. “We serve dinners three times per week and in the summer we are doing summer lunches as well,” Bradley said. “We need to come together, share resources
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and from day one the food bank has been very generous with us. They have given us a lot of product for our kitchen and we have been working really closely with them.” Bradley thanked an anonymous donor for allowing this depot to come to fruition. “We are pleased for the support from the community,” he said. “If it wasn’t for the generous donation from the anonymous family, we wouldn’t be able to do what we are doing today. It is because of the support from the community that we are able to extend this support to the community.”
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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE is hereby given that at a joint Council meeting to be held on TUESDAY, August 15, 2017, the Council of Red Deer County will consider the following bylaws:
Bylaw No. 2017/20 to adopt the Benalto Major Area Structure Plan (MASP), a Plan that provides general direction for future land use development in and around the Hamlet of Benalto.
Bylaw No. 2017/16 to amend Highway Commercial District (C-3) of the Land Use Bylaw No. 2006/6 to include “Office” as a Permitted Use to accommodate businesses that may want to be located within close proximity of a highway. Bylaw No. 2017/17 to amend the Business Service Airport District (BSA) of the Land Use Bylaw No. 2006/6 to include “Campground – Minor” as a Discretionary Use to allow for the development of planned campsites of under 20 defined camping sites for the seasonal short term use of recreational vehicles, campers and tents to accommodate local and other members of aeronautical group members of gliding, skydiving and flying clubs. Bylaw No. 2017/19 to adopt the Spruce View Major Area Structure Plan (MASP), a Plan that provides general direction for future land use development in and around the Hamlet of Spruce View. ^WZh s/ t D :KZ Z ^dZh dhZ W> E > E h^ KE Wd
Council will hear from any person claiming to be affected by the proposed bylaws at the Public Hearing on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 1:30 p.m., in Council Chambers, County Office, 38106 Rge Rd 275, Red Deer County, Alberta (west of Hwy 2 on 32 Street/C&E Trail Overpass). The hearings will be informal and persons wishing to speak will be requested to state their name and address for the record upon being recognized by the Chair. If you prefer to submit comments on the bylaws in writing, the information you provide may be made public, subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
GIVING BACK - Red Deer Fire Chief Brian Makey donates blood for the first time as part of the Lifesaving Summer campaign via Erin Fawcett/Red Deer Express Canadian Blood Services.
The public may inspect: - a copy of the proposed bylaws - a copy of LAND USE BYLAW No. 2006/6 - a copy of the proposed MASPs by visiting our website at www.rdcounty.ca or at the County office located at 38106 Rge Rd 275, Red Deer County, Alberta, during regular office hours 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MONDAY through FRIDAY.
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Red Deer’s Poshika Dhingra recognized for volunteer service BY CARLIE CONNOLLY carlie.connolly@reddeerexpress.com
Former Red Deer resident Poshika Dhingra was one of the eight Alberta recipients who received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Citizenship Medal in Edmonton last month for her volunteer efforts in the community. “It was awesome, I was so excited,” said Dhingra about finding out she was one of the recipients. The ceremony, hosted at Government House by Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell, celebrated the citizenship and volunteer service of youth leaders from across Alberta. “It was really nice being honoured and just meeting all of these famous people,” said the 18-year-old University of Alberta student, adding that the Minister of Culture and Tourism was there among others. One student from every high school across the province is nominated by the principal, and everyone who’s nominated from their own high school gets a plaque. From those nominees, eight students are chosen to receive the medal. Students who also received the medal that day were from Calgary, Sherwood Park and St. Albert.
Dhingra, originally from India, attended Lindsay Thurber High School when she moved to Red Deer two years ago with her family. “Being in Red Deer was amazing and it was probably one of the best times of my life,” she said. Dhingra’s volunteering efforts date back to Grade 8 when she was still in India. She said she used to always look up to social activists, wanting to follow in their footsteps. She said she wanted to create that big difference they were making in society. “I was put in charge of the seniors’ luncheon at my school,” she said. “At the end of it all, the seniors were so happy to just be with us, just because we were there with them, talking to them, and because we spent time with them. They felt so happy and they were so thankful, and I realized that you don’t have to always look at the bigger change, because if you keep taking smaller steps like this you would eventually contribute to the bigger change and that would make all the difference.” Ever since then, Dhingra said she has tried to put in as many hours as she can to volunteering, and now has around 5,000 hours, which includes not only her school initiatives, but those outside
of school too. When in Red Deer, she was part of Butt Ugly, an anti-tobacco organization. “There were about 12 students and we all prepared a play, and we performed it all across middle schools in Central Alberta, including Red Deer, and then after that we would have a one-on-one peer mentoring session with the youth and talk to them about the effects of using tobacco and what it can do to your body so that we could somehow prevent usage of tobacco in Alberta,” she said. Dhingra was also involved with the student leadership body at Lindsay Thurber, and was part of holding a school-wide clothing drive to provide winter clothing for the Syrian refugees when they came to Canada. And her volunteering efforts have continued, even with her move to Edmonton for university. While in Edmonton, she organized fundraisers to go on a trip to Guatemala with an organization called Vida. “There we visited rural communities in Guatemala and we set up mobile clinics, so the patients would come in and we would help diagnose what kind of diseases they had and prescribe free medicine to them, and then get all of our hypotheses validated by a professional
HONOURABLE AWARD - Poshika Dhingra stands with Lieutenant Governor Lois Mitchell. Dhingra was one of eight who received the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Citizenship Medal for her citizenship and volunteer service. photo submitted
doctor to make sure that we were doing the right thing,” she said. Dhingra will be entering her second year at the University of Alberta come September, and is working towards her Bachelor of Science with honours in physiology. What she loves most about volunteering, she said, is the feeling of giving back
to the community. “Most people think like, ‘Oh volunteering is giving back to the community,’ but I think it’s even more than that in the sense that it’s also giving back to yourself, because whenever I do something to help other people it honestly brings so much joy to me. I think that’s the reason I just keep going back to it.”
Remembering the Laurier visit to Red Deer The date of Aug. 10th, 1910 was a momentous day in Red Deer’s history. It was the day that Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Prime Minister of Canada, came to visit. This was not the first visit to Red Deer by a prime minister. Sir MacKenzie Bowell came to Red Deer on Sept. 1st, 1894 with the federal Minister of the Interior and the Commissioner of the North West Mounted Police. They stopped by the village in order to inspect the new NWMP barracks on Gaetz Avenue. The 1910 visit was not the first time that Laurier had come to Red Deer. He visited Red Deer on Sept.
30th, 1894, while he was still the federal Leader of the Opposition. He came again on Aug. 30th, 1905, stopping briefly on his way to Edmonton with Governor General Earl Grey to officially proclaim the creation of the Province of Alberta on Sept. 1st. The 1910 visit, however, was the first time that a sitting prime minister made a multi-day visit to the community. Moreover, the visit to Red Deer was billed as a major stop during a two-month long tour of western Canada. Laurier was keenly aware of the growing importance of Red Deer and western Canada to the growth
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and prosperity of the nation. He wanted to see the region for himself and to hear the issues and concerns of the residents in person. Of particular importance to Laurier was the fact that Red Deer was the home of James Bower, the powerful president of the United Farmers of Alberta and thereby a prominent leader in the Canadian farm movement. Red Deer was determined to make the most of Laurier’s visit. An enormous archway of welcome, with four large towers, was constructed at the intersection of Gaetz Avenue and Ross Street. The structure and adjacent street were fitted up with hundreds of incandescent lights to ensure an impressive appearance at night as well as during the day. Laurier arrived in mid-after-
noon on Wednesday, Aug. 10th. The official party and assembled dignitaries then made their way to the City Square (City Hall Park) for the welcoming ceremonies and speeches. Special time was given to James Bower for his presentation to the Prime Minister on the concerns and viewpoints of western farmers. The speech was so important to Bower that although he started to have a heart attack, he refused to be taken to the hospital until he had finished his remarks to Laurier. After the civic reception, everyone headed to a spot on the South Hill for the driving of the first spike for the Alberta Central Railway. The A.C.R. was a very ambitious local venture and was part of
a plan to make Red Deer a major rail hub in Western Canada. A large public meeting was held on Thursday in what is now Rotary Park (south of 43 St.) A huge crowd turned out to hear Laurier speak. A sudden thunderstorm cut short the outdoor event. Those who were able relocated to the Lyric Theatre on Ross Street for a continuation of the speeches. Unfortunately, the theatre owners had put heavy coats of new shellac on the wooden seats. Many of the attendees consequently left large portions of clothing behind when they got up to leave. The visit wrapped up on Thursday evening with an elaborate reception on the lawn at the H.H. Gaetz residence on Douglas (55) St. After spending a second night
at the mansion home of the Ellis family on the corner of Douglas Street and Poplar (46th) Ave. Laurier left Red Deer on Friday morning (Aug. 12th). Everyone agreed that despite the glitches, the visit had been a wonderful success. Red Deer had asserted itself as an emerging centre in the Canadian West. Moreover, Laurier took many of the policy ideas presented to him in Red Deer, and elsewhere in western Canada, and made them key planks in the party’s platform in the 1911 election. Although Laurier and his Liberal party swept all but one Alberta seat in that election (with a similar result in Saskatchewan), the Laurier government was defeated nationally by Sir Robert Borden’s Conservatives.
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Volunteer opportunities in Central Alberta To browse more than 125 volunteer opportunities in central Alberta, to learn more about volunteering, or if your organization would like help recruiting volunteers, connect with Volunteer Central today. Visit www.VolunteerCentral.ca, email info@volunteercentral.ca or call 403-346-3710. Volunteer Central - Are you the kind of person who hates it when other people complain about volunteers but do not step up themselves? When someone at a meeting says, “we should do something about this” do you understand that you are part of that “we”. Well, if this sounds like you and you want to combine your passion for volunteering with a desire to give back to the community, join our Board of Directors. Find more information on the Volunteer Opportunities page at www.volunteercentral. ca or call 403-346-3710. Lending Cupboard, Red Deer – Looking for Maintenance & Cleaning Team Volunteers. For more information, contact at volunteer@lendingcupboard.ca or 403-356-1678. Lending Cupboard, Red Deer – Looking for Delivery driver and Telecare Terminal Deliveries Volunteers. For more information, contact at volunteer@lendingcupboard.ca or 403-356-1678. Lending Cupboard, Red Deer – Looking for Customer Service - Store Front Support Volunteers. For more information, contact at volunteer@lendingcupboard.ca or 403-356-1678. Special Olympics, Red Deer – Looking for volunteer position at the Mud Heroes Event Saturday & Sunday Aug. 12-13. Times are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and/or 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. We need your help to make sure the Mud Heroes stay on course and stay safe. For more information, contact at jerry@specialolympicsreddeer. ca or 587-273-4672. Central Alberta FASD Network, Red Deer – Looking for four volunteers for FASD Day on Sept 9th. The volunteers would be setting up and managing the BBQ/cooking burgers, and clean up afterwards. For more information, contact at cpander@fasdca.ca. Central Alberta Crime Prevention Centre, Red Deer – Looking for volunteer’s families, teams, or groups who would like to volunteer 1 hour with downtown Graffiti Clean on Aug. 16th. For more information, contact at info@cacpc.ca or at 403-986-9904. Fort Normandeau/ Waskasoo Environmental Education Society, Red Deer - Ft. Normandeau Days are happening on Sat. Aug. 26th & Sun. Aug. 27th from 12:00pm to 5pm. each day at Historic Fort Normandeau. There are many jobs for volunteers to help with! Contact marg.harper@waskasoopark.ca or phone 403-346-2010 ext. 113. Diabetes Canada – Planning Council Team Members and volunteer members for the Strike Out Stigma Organizing Committee are needed. The impact of volunteers increases the capacity of
Diabetes Canada to deliver program, raise awareness, and raise funds for services. For more information about both these initiatives, contact Jackie Morrison at Jackie.morrison@diabetes.ca or at 403-346-4631.
Lending Cupboard, Red Deer – Looking for volunteers for Customer Service, Cleaning/Sanitizing & Quality Control, Repair & Maintenance – just to mention a few. Phone 403-356-1678 for details.
Central Alberta Sexual Assault Centre (CASAC), Red Deer – CASAC is looking for an Administration Volunteer to help with office tasks such as helping set up for therapy groups, helping clients fill out registration forms, filing, and light clean up. The individual must be over the age of 18, compassionate, empathetic, and have a positive work ethic. Contact mkercher@casac.ca or phone Michele Kercher at 403-318-0653.
Ronald McDonald House Central Alberta – Looking for house baker volunteer. Email lrechlo@rmhcsca.org or phone 403-3402007 for details.
Waskasoo Environmental Education Society, Red Deer – The Society is looking for someone with marketing expertise to come in and lend a hand with marketing needs. Contact marg.harper@ waskasoopark.ca or phone 403-346-2010 ext. 113 for more details. Waskasoo Environmental Education Society, Red Deer – The Friends of Kerry Wood Nature Centre are looking for volunteers to help with their upcoming Casino. It is schedule for August 31st and September 1st 2017. They still have a couple of late positions open on Thursday Aug. 31st and Friday, Sept. 1st. Email marg.harper@ waskasoopark.ca or phone 403-346-2010 ext. 113 for details. Canadian Mental Health Association, Red Deer – Looking for various volunteer roles - registration, route control, snack distribution, route support, refreshment station, finish/greeters, etc. Email tmayer@reddeer.cmha.ab.ca or phone 403-342-2266 for details. Canadian Mental Health Association, Red Deer – Looking for volunteers to support in cooking and serving a pancake breakfast. Email tmayer@reddeer.cmha.ab.ca or phone 403-342-2266 for details. Bethany College side, Red Deer – Art expression volunteers will be working along side of a resident on an art project. They will also be keeping notes on the stories the resident tells them about their artwork. This project will be starting as a trial in August and in full swing in September and will run every Wednesday morning from 10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. Email ann.vanhemmen@ bethanyseniors.com or phone 403-357-3702 for details. Central Alberta Film Festival Association, Red Deer – Looking for individual positions for social media marketer (mainly Facebook, Twitter and Instagram), website updater, graphic designer, film makers/videographers, photographers & office administration. Email info@cafilmfestival.ca or phone 403-347-2627 for details. Bethany College side, Red Deer – Looking for Piano player for pastoral services. Email ann.vanhemmen@bethanyseniors. com or phone 403-357-3702 for details.
Lifelong Learning Council of Red Deer – “The Board and staff of Lifelong Learning Council of Red Deer work passionately in our position as a grant maker, to remove barriers for adult learners and to help ensure the success of relevant community programs. Our board members commit approximately two hours a month to helping support our vision and mission. Email board@learningrd.ca for details. Central Alberta Refugee Effort, Red Deer – Looking for volunteers with sewing skills. Email ruby.adams@care2centre.ca or phone 403-346-8818 for details. Bethany Collegeside, Red Deer – Looking for mealtime companion. Email ann.vanhemmen@bethanyseniors.com or phone 403-357-3702 for details. Canadian Blood Services, Red Deer – Looking for Red Deer Youth Summer Team. Email Patryk.Siergiej@blood.ca or for details.
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Charlie Jacobson gearing up for Red Deer shows BY MARK WEBER mark.weber@reddeerexpress.com
Accomplished local musician Charlie Jacobson is prepping for a string of local shows plus some other exciting appearances slated for later this month. Jacobson, a very talented musician and songwriter, serves up tunes that span a number of genres from blues and funk to rock and R&B. Through a hectic touring schedule and a number of recording opportunities and collaborations with other artists, he’s continuing to make a name for himself nation-wide via his own unique interpretation of a range of genres. For one example, he tracked the guitar for the latest Kenny ‘Blues Boss’ Wayne album ‘live off the floor’ with the rest of the band. Jumpin’ and Boppin’ for Joy went to number one on American and Canadian Blues and Roots charts. Meanwhile, Jacobson, whose latest disc, Travelin’ was released earlier this year, will be performing in Red Deer at The Krossing on Aug. 23rd and at the Ross St. Patio. Aug. 18th-20th. Beyond the local shows, he is also heading to the Salmon Arm Roots and Blues Festival and on Aug. 26th, he hits the stage at the Edmonton International Blues Festival. It’s a first time performance for Jacobson at both of the aforementioned festivals; he has been featured at the Calgary Blues Festival a couple of times over the years. “I’m doing a lot of preparation and rehearsing, and trying to get the word out there as much as possible,” he said during a recent chat. “I’m really looking forward to it all.” At the Salmon Arm gig, Jacobson will also be hitting the stage with Wayne as well, and then also as a duo with Sherman Doucette. “We’ll also be doing a few workshops.” Now, by workshops Jacobson isn’t referring to any type of dry lecture - he’s talking about some pretty electric jamming sessions where musicians hit the stage with other artists they may have never performed with before. “We’ll be collaborating with other artists, performing and jamming on stage live in front of the audience, so that’s really exciting, too - it will be a lot of fun.” As for his latest project, this year’s Travelin’, Jacobson said it was recorded quite quickly - in the space of two nights. It proved the ideal means of capturing the mood, energy and overall tone that he wanted the project to simmer with. “It’s good to strike when the iron is hot,” he explains with a chuckle. “I had been traveling across Canada, and I was looking for an opportunity to get this record out. I had this collection of traveling songs that I had been putting together on the road, and I ended up on a train from Moncton to Halifax in one of the worst snow storms of the winter,” he recalls. “I ended up stuck in the train station in Halifax in the storm - there were no cabs or
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COMPELLING TUNES - Local artist Charlie Jacobson has several performances planned in Red Deer over the next while, then it’s off to the Salmon photo submitted Arm Roots and Blues Festival and the Edmonton International Blues Festival. buses, and none of my friends could get out of their driveways to help me. “I ended up sleeping in the train station there in Halifax. The next day was Valentine’s Day, and I went to go see Garrett Mason at Bearly’s House of Blues. But he ended up being sick, so I filled in for him that night and I ended up meeting Mike ‘Shrimp Daddy’ Reid who had just acquired a recording studio out near Halifax.” Jacobson produced the CD - he also played all the instruments, did all the engineering and mixed and mastered it himself as well. “The whole album was done in Nova Scotia,” he noted. “I don’t think it’s a bad idea to take your time with a record and make sure everything is perfect, but with a blues record it’s not about perfection
- it’s about feeling. I had a very strong feeling at this time, so we went hard on getting it done. This record - essentially each track was done in a full take, so there are no edited takes or re-done takes. I pretty much went ahead with one take on each instrument and went about it that way.” Jacobson was exposed early to diverse styles as a child, attending folk festivals, rock shows, musical theatre, community classical, jazz and bluegrass concerts and sleeping above rehearsals of his parents’ rhythm and blues and folk bands. With his guitar and suitcase drums always packed in the car, his nomadic lifestyle takes him to shows ranging from music festivals, house concerts, large blues clubs to community halls and theatres. Fans might see him fronting the Charlie
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Jacobson Band or recreating that full sound on his own, playing his suitcase drums with his heels, ripping on the guitar, singing and dancing. His success at such a young age isn’t surprising given the fact he comes from talented stock to be sure. His parents – Bruce Jacobson and Teresa Neuman – are both musicians as well. He’s been performing onstage since he was four or five years old. Over the years as a youth, he studied piano and guitar – largely self-taught and taught by his parents as well. He also started taking fiddle lessons at age seven. As to his ongoing love for blues in general, he said it largely boils down to the emotion that is intrinsic to the genre. “It’s the feeling of it - it really connects with people, and it’s the ‘people’s’ music.”
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A taste of India is coming to Red Deer’s film scene BY CARLIE CONNOLLY carlie.connolly@reddeerexpress.com
Red Deerians will get a taste of India as two Indian films, Take Off and Anatomy of Violence will be shown at the Welikoklad Event Centre Cinema as part of the India Film Festival of Alberta (IFFA). Anatomy of Violence, which will be screened Aug. 17th, is a Canadian film, directed by Deepa Mehta, who was nominated for an Academy Award for her film Water. “It premiered at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) last year, so it was all the rage in Toronto then, and it’s kind of like a documentary, but it’s actors coming to discuss violence against women and some of the things that are happening in India, but also that happen around the world right now,” said James Wilson, instructor with
the Motion Picture Arts Program at Red Deer College. Anatomy of Violence, according to the festival’s synopsis, uses improvisational techniques with the director and her group of actors trying to examine and analyze the causes leading up to a gang rape in Delhi in 2012, a case that made world-wide headlines. Factors of poverty, the caste system and social values are looked at as they imagine what might have led the rapists to do what they did. Take Off, also according to the festival’s synopsis, is inspired by a real-life rescue of Indian nurses who were stranded in Tikrit, Iraq, during the country’s civil war in 2014. It is directed by Mahesh Narayan and follows the life of protagonist Sameera, a strong-willed nurse, who along with her husband, travels to Iraq for work.
ISIS militants soon take control of their hospital, and the question is will they make it out alive from the crisis? The film will be screened on Aug. 18th. Wilson said at Red Deer College, which is the owner of the Welikoklad Centre, they try to bring in unique programming for Red Deer and the students. “The festival is run by a group called the Edmonton Movie Club and they bring in Indian Films, mostly to Edmonton, but they started expanding to Calgary and Fort McMurray, and so I said we should totally bring that to Red Deer. “So starting in September every month we are going to bring one of these Indian films in,” said Wilson. Those films will be shown the third Thursday of every month, and the Motion Picture Art students will be required to attend the screenings
with discussions to take place in class about how the films are done. Wilson said they did a test film back in May, and that there will be another one coming in January which he said is supposed to be a science fiction space film in India. “It will be something different for Red Deer, but I think the community is really going to respond well to it. We’ve already had some good inquiries and turnout for the test screen in May, and I think it will do well for Red Deer.” Tickets for Anatomy of Violence, taking place on Aug. 17th, are $12, while tickets for Take Off, screening on Aug. 18th are $15 (including a question and answer period with the director) or $30 for dinner and a movie, which also gets people a question and answer period with the director. For tickets to the event, visit edmontonmovielcub.eventbrite.com.
She Has A Name continues to receive accolades BY MARK WEBER mark.weber@reddeerexpress.com
The locally-produced and highly acclaimed film She Has A Name continues to garner awards and recognition several months after its initial release. She Has A Name has added five Top Indie Film Awards to its growing acclaim. The Alberta-made production was recognized in the global competition with awards in the following categories - Best Feature, Best Actress (Teresa Ting); Best Cinematography, Best Sound and Best Music.
It was also nominated for Best Directors, Best Writing, and Best Editing.
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The film, which is about a human trafficking incident in Thailand, also stars an international cast of actors including
Will Yun Lee (The Wolverine, Hawaii Five-O), Eugenia Yuan (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Sword of Destiny, Memoirs of A Geisha) and Gil Bellows (The Shawshank Redemption, Ally McBeal). Rounding out the cast in the lead roles are Vancouverbased actor Giovanni Mocibob, New York’s Teresa Ting and Singapore’s Vanessa Toh. The film focuses on an investigation into a shocking human trafficking incident in southeast Asia and explores the layers of corruption that enable the global commercial sex
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trade to thrive, at the expense of young girls’ and women’s futures. The story is also based on an incident in Thailand where a storage container transporting more than 100 people ran out of gas and was simply abandoned. Ultimately about 50 people lost their lives. That tragedy was a kind of a trigger for the plot. Jason poses as a john to build a case against a brothel trafficking girls into Bangkok. He must win the trust of a young girl forced to work as a prostitute who is known as ‘Number 18’ and convince her to risk her life to testify for the sake of justice. “It’s rewarding to see the film continue to garner attention,” says Matthew Kooman, who co-directed the film with brother Daniel Kooman from the screenplay by Andrew Kooman. “We’re excited that She Has A Name is being recognized for its performances, in the technical categories and as a story. As mentioned, She Has A Name was produced in Red Deer, filmed in Thailand and features an international cast and crew. “We are excited about the continued momentum and that there are audiences around the world that continue to connect with it - filmgoers and critics as well,” explained Andrew. “I’m always excited for the film to get exposure - it’s exciting to see that the story is resonating with people,” he said. “There were two reasons why I wrote (the screenplay) - to entertain people with a great film experience, and to bring people to come to terms with the fact that children are trafficked in our world and I wanted to do something about it. “An award is great, but any-
REACHING FURTHER - The locally-produced film She Has A Name continues to resonate with audiences and pick up photo submitted awards along the way. time that a story that I really believe matters gets exposure it’s a big win. I’m just really grateful to the creative team and all the people that helped make it happen and who believed in this - helped to make this film a reality.” She Has A Name was released in December 2016 in select theatres globally and is currently expanding to exclusive screening engagements across North America. Andrew also credits a hard-working team that continues to work on getting the film out there. “Part of it is the commitment of our team to continue to pound the pavement and put the film forward, because we are truly an independent film - we are made in Alberta, made in Canada and it’s also privately funded,” he said. “We don’t have a big studio behind us so we are really doing our best to put it in front of as many people as we can, and to have as many conversations as we can,” he said. “There’s that
effort to ‘unturn’ every stone so that people can know about it. And then it’s also a powerful film that people are responding to - it’s touching people’s hearts. “There’s also a staying power with the film because it is a story that really resonates with people.” As to the recognition the film continues to garner, it’s a reminder of how important the cause truly is as well. “It does re-energize us and it’s a reminder that it’s really a worthy story to continue to fight for,” he said. “We are passionate about it independent filmmaking isn’t for the faint of heart; you have to really believe in the project,” he added. “For any artist who really wants their work out there, you really have to believe in it. I’m constantly thankful as well for the people of Red Deer and Central Alberta who so embraced the story and championed it.” For more information, check out www.unveilstudios.com.
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The bathroom scale – is it a friend or foe? As trainers, we deal with this issue a lot! There are those out there that think the scale is a terrible invention, and should be smashed with a hammer or thrown away. There are those that come to us in tears because they have been working so hard, eating well and exercising, but the scale went up instead of down. Here’s the thing: the scale is just a tool. It’s not good, it’s not bad, it is just a simple tool for measuring one thing: how much you weigh. It is no more evil than money or a screwdriver, or a car. Money is not evil – it is a tool. You can use it to build orphanages, schools, hospitals, a church or a gym – all of those are awesome! So how is money ‘the root of all evil’? It isn’t. People do silly things with it, or because of it. That’s the evil part, and it has nothing to do with the money. Same with a bathroom scale, it simply does its job of letting you know your mass at a given moment. It is only when we start adding our thoughts to the number that we get into trouble. Most people are either happy or sad at the new number and the biggest challenge with the scale is that it is not a complete data set. It only tells us one thing: our weight. When people say they ‘lost 10 lbs’ my first thought
is, ‘Great! 10lbs of what?’ The scale doesn’t say, and it isn’t a complete picture. What is the time period for the loss? You may have dropped 10 lbs of water from one long training session (I have done that in one single summer run). If it was over a month, maybe it is water and fat and muscle. Maybe you dropped water and fat and gained muscle? Maybe you kept the water and fat and just lost muscle. You see? The data is incomplete. This is why we use a $5,000 body composition analysis device at the gym to get an accurate measure of your body fat in addition to the scale number. Add in measurements at the waist, hips, thigh, shoulders, etc. to get a more accurate set of data. It is EASY to lose weight if you do not care what that weight is made of. You can eat a 500 calorie per day diet for a month and drop a lot of weight, but it is water, fat and muscle. Then when you start eating normally again, you gain back the water and fat, but not the muscle. So in the end, you are actually more fat than when you started. Plus you mess up your hormones, energy levels and a host of other things, aside from being miserable while you starve for a month.
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The question is, how do you use the scale as a tool, to keep you on track and find real progress? Simple. We have to first remember that the scale is just a tool, and it only does one thing. It must be used in conjunction with many other tools, and this is where you need a long-term plan. Weigh yourself every day at the same time, in the morning after a bathroom visit. That will give you the most accurate measurement of your weight, in the most consistent way. Once the day starts, you add water, lose sweat, eat food, eliminate, etc. That all changes things. Each day that you weigh yourself, you record it on a chart and remember to not get excited about any one number, but rather, the weekly average and the monthly average. Keep in mind that if Friday night is your cheat meal, and you go out for a nice treat, you may gain three to seven lbs. Understand that it is due to the high sodium, water retention and other factors in that meal, and that in a day or so, things will return to normal as your body re-regulates. Meals like that once a week are fine. Relax. Ladies, you know that once a month the numbers are off. So chart that too, but don’t let it matter, it’s normal. What you are looking for is a trend that matches your goal. If your goal is fat loss, you are looking for a downward trend to some degree. Once a month, or perhaps every six weeks, you
need to see your trainer and get a professional body composition done including physical measurements, weight, and the scan data. If fat is dropping, and muscle is stable or increasing while water is stable, great! You are on track! If you are dropping muscle but not fat, you are clearly not eating enough and likely your starchy carb to protein/fat ratio is off. Make a simple adjustment and continue measuring. You may be thinking, ‘Do I seriously have to do all of this measuring and charting?’ The answer is, of course not. Nobody even needs a bathroom scale, unless you have a goal and you want to track your progress, stay on target, be accountable and see results. Then it is a useful tool, as part of a complete program. Using the scale in the morning can be a tool that you use to help with a decision in a critical moment. You are considering going totally off the rails and eating a big item, when it is not your ‘free day’ and you are about to have an emotional craving. If you stop and think about how you will feel when you step on the scale tomorrow, and see the evidence of your transgression, perhaps you will stop and walk away from that unsupportive cheat. Now the scale is your servant and helping you reach your goal. Now the scale is awesome. Scott McDermott is a personal trainer and owner of Best Body Fitness in Sylvan Lake.
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The Parkinson’s Association of Alberta is looking for Red Deerians to register for their annual Flexxaire Step ‘N Stride. On Sept. 10th at 11 a.m., dozens of teams will gather at Festival Hall and walk three km in order to raise funds for those living with Parkinson’s disease (PD), and the people who care for them. “We are a local charity, so all the funds raised stay in the area to help the clients,” said the Fund Development and Event Coordinator of the Parkinson’s Association of Alberta, Kelsey Van Grinsven. She added the funds are used to support programming and education. The Parkinson’s Association of Alberta web site said PD results in tremors, rigidity and slowness of movement. PD is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, and currently is affecting thousands of Albertans. However there is no known cause or cure. Without a cure, management of symptoms becomes the focus of PD, the web site stated, which involves a team of physicians. Therapy-based treatments used to control symptoms of PD can slow progression, and improve an individual’s quality of life.
“The event is bigger, and better than ever,” Van Grinsven said, adding that it also allows people to come together, even though there are many factors that previously prevent them from doing so everyday. She said, “The event shows the people who have Parkinson’s that the community is behind them, and supports them.” Following the three km walk will be a barbeque, entertainment and a child zone with a variety of activities; also local artists Mitch and Kate will be performing. The duo is from Sylvan Lake, and have recently performed at the Calgary Stampede. A wellness fair will also be on the grounds, with experts showcasing products to better people’s health and quality of life, officials added. “The event has been well-received by the community, people leave saying they had a great time,” Van Grinsven added. “The walk is a good opportunity to see each other in a different light.” However, the Flexxaire Step ‘N Stride is not only a great way for people who are living with Parkinson’s disease to come together, but also for their care partners to come together. “Care partners know what each other are going through,” Van Grinsven said. A majority of the time, those who are caring for someone with PD can perhaps only relate to others in similar situations, such as spouses,
family members and in some cases home care. “It’s a great opportunity for everyone to come together, and provide support for one another,” said Van Grinsven. “It’s the most amazing thing to watch the rewards this event has. People are taking this unfortunate thing, and coming together.” The Parkinson’s Association of Alberta also offers phone support to care partners who are
living out of the Red Deer area but who are requiring support, or who need to talk about the difficulties they are currently dealing with. Participates can go to the Parkinson’s Alberta web site for additional information, or to register for the fundraising walk. It’s free to register and pledge forms are online. The Parkinson’s Association of Alberta will also be selling limited T-shirts at the event as well.
PAINTING AWAY - Kendra Corney, 9, gets inspired by music at Cultural Tuesday’s Modern Multi-Cultural Musical Montage at the Red Deer Museum + Art Gallery. Carlie Connolly/Red Deer Express
Surgery more effective than Drano for stroke How would you feel if you suffered a stroke and were left paralyzed? Then later discovered that
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tragedy. Moreover, the good news is that surgery is superior to anti-clotting drugs for treatment
of this devastating event. help doctors improve the reA report in the New England sults even further? Journal of Medicine shows that First, we must get rid of surgery, rather than TPA, a clot the myth that strokes occur dissolving drug that works like only in the elderly. Professor household Drano, produces a Valery Feigin, Director of the National Institute for Stroke at better outcome. There are two kinds of stroke Auckland University in New - 80% of the time ‘blockage Zealand, reports in the journal strokes’ are caused The Lancet, that by a clot that preevery year over vents oxygenated Dr. Gifford 80,000 children blood from reaching and youths are the brain. affected by this The other type of sudden medical stroke happens when crisis. an artery ruptures Next, remember that the first three destroying brain tissue. hours following a The time honstroke are of vital oured treatment of importance to preblocked strokes has vent permanent been to inject TPA brain damage. So immediately in the hope that whether you’re treated by TPA this will dissolve the clot. But or surgery, timing is essential, studies show it works in only just as it is for treatment of heart attack. one-third of cases. In an attempt to improve reThe next important way sults, 500 Dutch patients were to prevent major stroke is to treated by surgery. understand that impending This seems like a good idea as stroke can sometimes be dimost of us know that inserting agnosed before it happens. The a flexible snake into a blocked warning signal that flashes is kitchen sink may sometimes called a transient ischemic work better than Drano. attack (TIA). It is set off by This wasn’t the first time sur- a decrease in blood supply to gery was used, but this large the brain. study showed better results Some patients complain of than the use of TPA. Ninety a sudden temporary loss of days after surgery 32.6% of vision or dizziness. Others may notice numbness patients were functionally independently compared to of the face, arms or leg. Normally, these symptoms 19.5% of those treated with TPA. This is due to the fact last from a few minutes to an that surgical clot extracting hour. This is the time to see the instruments have improved doctor so a test can be done to over the years. determine the cause. But can medical consumers How a major stroke affects
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Red Deer golfer eyes potential PGA career BY TODD COLIN VAUGHAN todd.vaughan@reddeerexpress.com
Carter Graf, 16, of the Red Deer Golf and Country Club is looking to close the gap on his ultimate goal of becoming a professional golfer. He took another giant leap towards that goal when he finished third at the Alberta Amateur Championship at the Ponoka Golf Club, finishing -9 under par overall. Graf played in the final group with Brett Hogan of the Glencoe Golf and Country Club, who finished first, and second place Max Sekulic out of the Grande Prairie Golf and Country Club - who both competed in a two-hole playoff to decide the tournament. “It was pretty good; it was a fun experience and it was a good learning experience,” Graf said. “I would have loved to come Top 10 going into that tournament. I was playing pretty well all year going into it, but I wasn’t expecting to come third.” Graf was generally unfamiliar with the course. “I played a one-day tournament there when I was really little but other then that I have only played it a few times,” he said. “I wasn’t that familiar with the golf course before the tournament.” Graf credits his game for keeping him in the tournament, despite incremental weather and the added stress of being in the final group. “It was a lot of good plays,” he said. “The greens were rolling really nicely. You were able to make putts quite easily. They were really sloped though, so I feel I put a lot of my iron shots in good position close to the hole. I was able to give my self good looks at birdies. I was really consistent all the way around. “I didn’t lose a golf ball the whole tournament, so that made sure that I didn’t put any large numbers on the score card.” Being in such a tight tournament was a good learning experience, according to Graf. “I knew where they were,” he said. “We were all in the same group on the last day and we had a walking score board with us. I knew where things
AMATEUR GOLF - Carter Graf from Red Deer plays the 10th hole of the Ponoka Golf Course. Graf finished third in the tournament and will represent Alberta at the Canadian Men’s Amateur Championship at the Toronto Golf Club and Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Heyden-Kaye/Ponoka News Islington Golf Club from Aug. 7th-10th. were the whole day. It is a lot of fun and it was my first experience in the final group of a tournament - especially that big of a tournament. “It gives me some confidence. It is
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golf camp for a week and I was hooked from there. When I was around 13, I really wanted to start competitive golf.” Golfing competitively means that Graf has upped his practice game. “I practice every single day. I am at the golf course everyday from around noon until 7:30 p.m,” he explained. Graf is going into Grade 11 this year and he hopes his hours of practice in Red Deer will pay off in the not so distant future. “I would like to go to a NCAA Division 1 golf school and then after that I would like to turn pro,” he said. “I just finished Grade 10 and the schools are not allowed to contact me. I am allowed to phone them, but they can’t give me any offers.” While under NCAA rules, schools can’t offer Graf a spot on their future golf teams, that hasn’t stopped him from dreaming about where he may end up. “Right now I am wide open for schools I would like to play at but i think the PAC 12 would be just awesome,” he said. “I would be able to stay on the west coast. I like the west coast a lot and the PAC 12 is such a prestigious athletic and academic conference. I would definitely consider going in that direction.” Being around other competitive Alberta golfers has helped Graf see the level of competition he needs to be at. “There is a tight-knit group of guys who are all very competitive guys,” he said. “We love to see each other play well and we also want to beat each other as well. “I will keep trying to make my own game better and try to sharpen up my weaknesses. I want to take the steps necessary, keep up my fitness and try to put myself in situations where I can win some golf tournaments.” Graf realizes Red Deer has afforded him many opportunities in his golf career. “Red Deer Golf and Country Club has been a huge help supporting me and the other juniors,” he said. “They have a really nice golf course they let us play every day and I can’t thank them enough. There are lots of people in Central Alberta who have helped out.”
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Innisfail Minor hockey receives new boost Larry Reid Memorial Coaching Development Fund unveiled BY TODD COLIN VAUGHAN todd.vaughan@reddeerexpress.com
Innisfail Minor Hockey coaches recently received a huge asset with the announcement of the Larry Reid Memorial Coaching Development Fund. Late last month, members of the 196263 Innisfail Pontiacs announced the initiative, which will provide funding for minor hockey coaches to improve their skills and enhance their credentials. The fund honours former Pontiacs Coach Larry Reid, who coached the ‘62-‘63 Innisfail Pontiacs team to the Central Alberta Midget Championship. Reid would go on to coach the China Junior National teams in 1984 and was honoured with Hockey Alberta for being one of the top 100 contributors in the last 100 years for his time as a pioneer and leader in coach education and athlete development. “Our launch today was to the start of the fund,” 1962-63 Innisfail Pontiac Al Scott said during the event. “We had a huge gathering of Innisfail Eagles
alumni and about six Innisfail Pontiacs alumni. We also had many members of the community as well as two sons of Larry Reid. We had seven speakers and we learned a lot about Larry that we didn’t know.” Scott believes the fund is a perfect way for the Pontiacs to honour their mentor. “Everyone seems to be thrilled this fund was created,” he said. “Everyone has the same feeling about the great Larry Reid and the contributions he made as a player, a coach and a coach educator in the Innisfail area and throughout Alberta.” After hearing about Reid passing away last December, Scott and other former Pontiacs heard about the contributions their former coach had made to coaching development in Alberta and beyond. “Larry was a great technical coach and taught so many values to us that were lifelong, life changing things in both our personal and professional lives,” Scott said. “We didn’t know about his 15 year involvement with coaching certification and coaching education. Once we
learned about that, the focus became pretty clear that we could give back to the Innisfail Minor Hockey Association with funds targeted to enhance a program for coach development. “We could create a legacy for Larry by doing that. We could also give back to the greater Innisfail community for all the great memories we had over 50 years ago.” Many of the former Pontiacs have now contributed to the fund, with the ‘62-‘63 players donating $15,600 between them. Promoting quality coaching is an easy financial call for Scott. “My experience in a lifetime of coaching are the positive experiences that are created by players, parents and coaches is almost always determined, not by club administration, but purely by quality of coaches that each player has,” he said. “It is our hope the money we are able to disperse on an annual basis to Innisfail Minor Hockey will enable them to do things they have INSPIRATION - A new coaching development fund was started by ‘62never done before. 63 Innisfail Pontiac players in honour of their coach Larry Reid. “The Pontiacs feel just ecstatic.” photo submitted
Red Deer Rage win U10 fastball provincials in St. Albert BY TODD COLIN VAUGHAN todd.vaughan@reddeerexpress.com
The U10-A Red Deer Rage girls fastball team recently won a gold medal at the provincial championships. The Rage won the U10 tournament after competing against older U12 girls all season. “We played above our age
group, so we didn’t have much success during the season — with the idea that we would be better prepared when it comes to provincials,” Head Coach Lee Booth said. The Rage immediately saw that success, going undefeated in the provincial round-robin. “We had a really good round-robin going 4-0,” he said.
“Going into it, we thought it would be us or Lloydminster being the top team. We beat them 6-5 in an awesome game. “After going 4-0, we played the other Red Deer team in the semi-finals — we beat them and then we went on to beat Sylvan Lake in the gold medal game.” While the playoffs were tough games, the Rage had pencilled
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“We had really strong pitching and at provincials, our hitting really took off,” he said. “That was huge for us. We were playing harder competition during the season, so it was hard for us to get our bats going against older girls but at provincials we straightened that out.” Booth said adjusting to U12 teams during the season was an early challenge for the Rage. “It was a big adjustment, not only because they are bigger and stronger, but also the distances for the pitchers and the base pads,” he said. “As coaches, we told the girls to keep play-
ing hard and let them know at provincials that we would be playing at our distances. It would seem a lot easier. They adjusted right away. “At the start of the season, we were a little worried because we weren’t sure exactly what we had. After the first weekend in Irma, they picked it up right away. We didn’t win games at that time but they were able to compete.” Booth added, “It was a perfect storm of good coaching, good parent group and a great group of girls. That was the biggest thing that led us to success.”
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I am back from vacation and have had a wonderful and restful week. Even a small getaway is enough sometimes to refresh your spirit and your mind. We put on many miles visiting friends and family and had the opportunity to bed down in everything from a stunning 120-year-old home to a million dollar property high in the hills to a 1970s log cabin inspired room. All places were charming and a welcome place to lay our heads at the end of adventurous days. A year ago, we invested in super lush bamboo/memory foam pillows so travelling with them was a stellar idea; no matter where we stayed we had some comforts of home with us. A fine pillow will make almost any sleep feel better, even if you are sleeping underneath the stars! We had the good fortune of staying with a former colleague of mine in her beautiful Kelowna home which had every possible luxury including a pool. The warm days were easily en-
joyed floating in the water and nights were sweet and full of slumber in her well-appointed guest room. Some of the best memories we have are of friends and family staying with us for a few days, being able to catch up on old times and to share in games and meals are the stuff of life and memories. Being at my friend’s house in Kelowna brought back memories of when people used to travel to see each other and to when hospitality was given freely. If you are going to have a guest room (or space) in your home, it is important that it contain a few important elements to help keep your people comfortable. Whether it is a permanent guest room or a temporarily made space, good linens and pillows are essential. Even if you are making up an air mattress on the floor, use your best! Comfy blankets and soft, fresh sheets will make anyone feel welcome and comfortable. If possible an end table or night stand with a lamp or light
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source is an excellent way to say welcome and gives people a place to put their possessions at night. Providing water bottles or a chilled jug of water (and glasses) is wonderful for your guests who may be uncomfortable stumbling around your home at night looking for hydration.
Do you have a set of ‘good’ towels or ‘guest’ towels? I have known this term all my life and I still have a set which is set aside for special travellers. I usually set them in the room for people to use as I find it can be awkward to go into someones closet or to not know which towels you should use
in someones bathroom. The water, towels, a new bar of soap (please!) and some snacks can be arranged in a basket and left for your visitors to find, it is a genuine welcome for anyone staying at your home. Whether you have a lovely guest room or are putting people up in your trailer or tent in
the yard, there is always a way to welcome people to your home. Put out the invitation and see who will end up on your doorstep and watch the memories being made. Hospitality is in all of us! Kim Wyse is a local freelance designer. Find her on facebook at ‘Ask a Realtor/Ask a Designer’.
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What does the future hold for mortgages? There have been a dizzying number of changes to the mortgage rules over the last six or seven years. The red hot markets in Toronto and Vancouver coupled with increased household debt and concerns over the risk to the Canadian tax payer through CMHC have caused the federal government to step in repeatedly. Here are a few of the changes we have seen. • Maximum amortization from 40 years to 25 years. • Mortgages must qualify on the stress test rate which is currently 4.84%. • Homes over $500,000 need 10% down on any amount over that threshold. • Homes over $1,000,000 are not eligible for mortgage insurance. • Refinances can no longer be guaranteed by mortgage default insurance.
• Foreign buyers faced additional restrictions. • Home equity lines of credit are maxed at 65% of the property’s value. • Refinances are maxed at 80%. • All outstanding credit cards and lines of credit have to be included at a 3% repayment. • Increased mortgage default insurance premiums. This list could go on but these are some of the major ones. Recently the powers that be have announced another round of proposed changes which, if history holds true, we would anticipate to come into existence in October of this year. 1. The overall indebtedness of Canadian households through home equity lines of credit is a concern which may signal a further set of limitations to this type of mortgage.
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2. There is consideration being given to a risk sharing model between the mortgage insurers and the banks. At the present time if you were to default on your mortgage the lender has the assurance that the default insurance will make them whole. Going forward this may not be the case. How could you be affected? There will likely be an increased level of scrutiny applied to mortgage applications. If your credit is blemished or less than perfect you could face higher rates or be shut out of buying a home. They will likely also want to see savings beyond just the down payment and closing costs. The fact of the matter is that if a bank has an increased risk overall they are going to certainly be more selective in who they lend their money to. The days of the best five year rate for everyone may be a thing of the past. 3. Currently there are lenders in Canada who charge slightly higher rates and make allowanc-
es for damaged credit, short self-employment tenure or other issues a borrower may be facing. Though these companies have nowhere near the lose lending guidelines in the US which led to the melt down, the government would like all lenders in Canada to abide by the same guidelines and looking at ways to bring this into reality. We will have to wait and see if these or other changes are actually implemented. It is fair to say that until the government is satisfied the housing sector no longer poses a threat to the economy, it will remain at risk of further changes. Long story short, if you are considering purchasing then you may want to proceed sooner rather than later. Rates have risen recently and there is uncertainty over the future of mortgages. Call a well-qualified mortgage professional today for assistance. Pam Pikkert is a mortgage broker with Dominion Lending Centres – Regional Mortgage Group in Red Deer.
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5. Tried out 6. Cooler cubes 7. Lobster’s relative 8. Gambling game 9. Fearful reverence 10. Feather adhesive? 11. 19th letter 17. Over hill and ____ 19. Refuge 22. Less rosy 24. Plus 25. Seven-card ____ 26. Farm worker 27. Commands to Trigger 28. Canyon sound 29. Coarse grass 31. Serious play 34. Exploded 37. Spiciness 43. Semicircles 44. Glitzy party 46. Chest noise 47. Curling device 48. Convey 49. Witches 50. Cook in fat 51. Shad ____ 52. Fare of TV breaks 53. Religious woman
1. Snooty one 5. ____ and tired 9. Had a steak 12. Additional 13. Realty unit 14. Had being 15. Egg-shaped 16. Wanders 18. Ride at full speed 20. Large snake 21. High mountain 23. Bind with rope 27. That lady 30. Briny expanse 31. River-mouth plain 32. Expert person 33. Layabout 35. Earth’s star 36. Arouses 38. Distinct period 39. Unmatched 40. Cola, e.g. 41. Molasses spirit 42. Complain constantly 45. Local church 50. Pleasant-smelling 54. Region 55. Author Serling 56. Detective’s hint 57. Yearn (for) 58. Word of permission 59. Desert floor 60. Finales
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Fill-in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9 only once. Each 3x3 box is outlined with a darker line. You already have a few numbers to get you started. Remember: You must not repeat the numbers 1 through 9 in the same line, column or 3x3 box.
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2010 Chevrolet Equinox LTZ
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46,900
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10,900
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