St. Albert Leader - April 11, 2013

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That’s the estimated value of goods seized from criminals by the Alberta government’s Civil Forfeiture Office (CFO) over the past four years since it was established. Most of that figure is comprised of cash, cars and homes. Over those same four years, the CFO has seized nearly 400 vehicles — including Hummers, BMWs, Escalades and even Lamborghinis — and as many as 100 real estate properties.

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After stepping down as executive director of the Arts and Heritage Foundation of St. Albert at the end of 2012, Paul Moulton has resurfaced in another high-profile position in the Capital Region’s arts community. Moulton was introduced Monday as the new executive director of the Edmonton Arts Council, the body that advises and supports the City of Edmonton in cultural planning and policy matters. Moulton said he was doing a good job of keeping his expectations in check until he got a call telling him he was the EAC’s first choice. “Then I got really, really excited,” he said with a laugh. “I wasn’t sure how excited I was until they offered me the job. Then I realized, what an extraordinary opportunity.” The EAC also allocates funding to artists, organizations and festivals in Edmonton — a total of $13.5 million in 2013 — and owns and operates TIX on the Square, which sells more than $1.5 million in tickets for local arts events each year. “We are looking forward to working

with Paul,” said Anne Ferguson-Switzer, a member of both the EAC board of directors and the EAC’s executive director hiring committee, in a press release. “He brings with him a diverse and rich background in the arts and a strong record as a leader. Paul knows this community and has demonstrated his commitment to arts and culture in Edmonton in both his professional and personal life.” Moulton officially takes over the executive director position in early May. Until then, he said, he’ll have plenty of opportunities to learn the ropes from outgoing executive director John Mahon. “It’s just a nice, steady transition to absorb as much information as possible,” he said. “The board already has a strategic plan in place with some strong initiatives. ... It’s a nice big challenge with lots of really engaging, interesting work.” Mahon is leaving the EAC after 15 years to pursue other interests, including his activities as a musician and a teacher. Moulton first heard about the opening when Mahon announced he was leaving last year. And not even a planned trip to the southern United States for almost three months couldn’t derail the interview process when the committee had whittled their choices down to two.

“I ended up sitting on a hill in my trailer in Las Cruces, N.M., for about an hour and a half on a cellphone — which is not an easy way to do an interview,” he laughed. But, in the end, the committee liked what Moulton had to say and offered him the job. “Somewhere between Las Cruces and Phoenix, I got the call, and I was just ecstatic,” he said. Moulton left his position with the AHF in December 2012, citing contentious negotiations with the City of St. Albert over a new partnership agreement. That agreement was announced in January and took effect on April 1. The new position is a bit of a homecoming for Moulton, as he served as the first chair of the EAC board when it was first established in 1996. “Even then, it was pretty intriguing what the Arts Council was up to, because it took over responsibility for all the fund allocations the City of Edmonton used to make, to festivals and arts organization and individual artists,” he said. “Over the years, the organization has grown that grant fund base pretty enormously. ... Keeping the existing piece going and looking where we might take this is really exciting.”

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The past year has just flown by for Insp. Kevin Murray. The commander of the St. Albert RCMP detachment took over his post about one year ago, and in that time, even though the community and the detachment are bigger than what he was used to, he said it has all gone by very quickly. “I just can’t believe where the year has gone,” Murray said. “With any transfer, any new position, there’s a period of time where everything’s new — new people, new processes, new policies. That’s not just with the RCMP, but also with the City [of St. Albert], how they operate and how they interact with the RCMP.” But, over that time, he has found St. Albert to be a great community and the local detachment to be one that was already running quite well. “It has a lot going for it. The staff here are tremendous,” Murray said. “You try to make small changes. It’s not like, when you arrive, anything’s broken ... I didn’t turn the place upside down.”

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to come to St. Albert from his previous post in Port Alberni, B.C., he noted that drug use, traffic and youth issues were the big areas to tackle. A year later, those three areas are still priorities. “Every community has youth

issues, and drugs aren’t going away,” he said. One thing that surprised him, however, was the number of domestic violence calls the St. Albert detachment received, but he chalked some of that up to the work of local agencies in breaking down stereotypes and getting people to report such crimes when they happen. Speaking of agencies, Murray said he’s impressed with the social agencies St. Albert has to support police — like the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society and the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village — as well as the auxiliary constable program, St. Albert Citizen’s Patrol and St. Albert Victim Services. “The one thing I was impressed with right off the bat, and continue to be impressed with, is the level of volunteerism in St. Albert,” he said. “I was indoctrinated with that very shortly after I got here. ... Just to see the commitment from [those] organizations, that tells me you’ve got a pretty healthy community.” Right now, the biggest challenge facing the detachment is moving

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some personnel and equipment into the old Management Information Group building at 50 Bellerose Dr., which he said is going to create some challenges around communications and processes. “We’ll have to figure out how we’re going to handle file flow and things like that,” he said, “but more importantly for me is the communication of the units and making sure everyone is still working together and knows what’s going on administratively and operationally.” Looking further down the road, though, Murray said he wants to focus on over the upcoming year is a targeted strategy for crime reduction, which is a goal police departments are always striving for. “It’s not new. It’s new in the sense of putting a really structured framework around it for St. Albert — what we want to do, how we want to approach that,” he said. “Crime reduction is all about targeting the 10 per cent that are doing 90 per cent of the crime. ... We’re going to be very much more intentional about how we do that,” Murray added.

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Other levels of government may be feeling the pinch, but the City of St. Albert isn’t getting squeezed. City manager Patrick Draper presented a report to city councillors Monday evening at a regular meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance, saying that, despite the Alberta government dealing with multibillion-dollar deficits and the federal government making changes to several programs, the City shouldn’t feel too many adverse GXki`Zb effects. ;iXg\i At the provincial level, Draper said :`kp dXeX^\i that the biggest impact would come through the Municipal Sustainability Initiative. That program is split into capital and operating portions, and it’s only the latter — through which the City gets about $900,000 a year, mostly going toward St. Albert Public Library operations — that will be affected. “We will need to work through, over the next three years, how to account for the loss of that $900,000,” Draper said, noting that the library is not at any risk of closing its doors because of the change. The operating portion of the MSI will be phased out over three years and replaced with a regional collaboration grant. “This is ... a grant you have to apply for, so we don’t automatically get it,” Draper said. “It is for projects where municipalities co-operate on projects of mutual interest.” The City gets about $11.6 million per year from the capital portion of the MSI. Meanwhile, on the federal level, the Municipal GST Rebate and the Gas Tax Fund were combined into the new Community Improvement Fund, with the Gas Tax Fund now being indexed at two per cent annually and its eligibility expanded to include culture, sport, tourism and recreation projects. Also, the Building Canada fund, which was set to expire in 2014, has been renewed for another 10 years, and the P3 Canada Fund was renewed and increased to $1.25 billion over the next five years.

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There were lots of peaks and a few valleys for the City of St. Albert in 2012, according to city manager Patrick Draper. Draper presented the City’s annual report to the regular meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance Monday afternoon, saying that the year was punctuated by mostly ups, but also a few downs. “It’s always amazing to look back over a previous year and realize how much was actually accomplished on behalf of the residents of St. Albert,” he said. Draper highlighted a number of continuous improvement projects that the City has undertaken in the past year, including ones centred around asset management, an analysis of overtime work, a review of information technology needs in the St. Albert Public Library, the

optimization of civic office space, and the review of records and information management. Draper also highlighted several of the City’s environmental initiatives, including the new solid waste program, which has helped cut the amount of garbage St. Albertans are sending to the landfill by almost half over the last five years and contributed to significant increases in recycling and organics collections. Water consumption per capita in the city is down to 257 litres per day, putting the city well on track to meet its goal of 200 litres per person per day by 2020. The City also saw an increase in total website visits — with transit, swimming schedules and employment being some of the most popular destinations — and a decrease in motor vehicle accidents involving City employees and days lost to injury. One of the few lowlights in the report,

though, was the City’s employee attrition rate, which increased again in 2012 and is something Draper will keep a close eye on this year. “This is a bit of a vexing number for the City. It is higher than some surrounding communities are experiencing,” Draper said. “I’d like to say it’s because of our high-quality employees being taken by other municipalities, but there are a myriad of reasons that lead to [a high] attrition rate.” The number of business licenses issued in the city stayed fairly steady between 2011 and 2012, as did the value of residential construction projects. But, while the report looked back on 2012, Draper was already looking forward to 2013, with several initiatives already on the go for the year, including reviews of corporate reporting and public engagement practices, website rationalization, and a review of advertising spending.

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The Alberta government is making good on its promise to reimburse the City of St. Albert for Ray Gibbon Drive. The provincial transportation ministry announced Monday that it is handing over the final installment of $17.2 million to pay back the City for the construction of Stage 3 of Ray Gibbon Drive, which is currently being built from Giroux Road to Villeneuve Road. Mayor Nolan Crouse said Monday afternoon that he is overjoyed with the news. “There was always this question of whether or not we were going to be paid back, and we’ve had it in dribs and drabs … There was this road to nowhere and this rhetoric around, ‘The road’s not needed,’ and, ‘It won’t get paid for,’” Crouse said. “But all along, I had to continue to provide the faith to council. The province was telling me all along, MLAs and ministers, that the money’s forthcoming and you will get paid, and it won’t be 10 or 20 years from now.” In February, St. Albert city council approved internal borrowing to front the $17.2 million needed for the road, which would have saved more than $1 million in

debt servicing and interest costs. Prior to that, councillors had planned to borrow $15.9 million from external sources, with the remainder coming from government grants. The total cost of construction and land acquisition for all three stages of Ray Gibbon Drive is $75,748,600, with the City on the hook for $38,969,000 of that. Prior to Monday, the provincial government had already paid back $19,554,600 of their portion, leaving $17,225,000 owing. “We made the commitment to the community that we would get Phase 3 built, and we’ve done it. And we’ve done it without going into debt,” Crouse said. “I’m proud. I’m proud of the provincial commitment. I’m proud of our staff for getting it done. And I’m proud of three councils I’ve been on that made it happen.” Making it happen was a timeconsuming venture, though, as Crouse said he has spent a good deal of his time making sure the wheels were still turning on the deal. “I can’t even tell you the number of letters I’ve sent and the meetings [I’ve had],” he said. “I’ve probably been in 20 to 30 meetings with the province on this, just lobbying and explaining it, going over

the math, making sure the numbers are right, making sure the ministers are OK.” Over the past couple of years, as the Alberta government has hit hard times and tabled deficit budgets, Crouse admitted that he was nervous that the Ray Gibbon Drive reimbursement was something that would get pushed to the back burner. But, he said, provincial officials reassured him this day would come. “The ministers — as well as [Spruce Grove-St. Albert MLA] Doug Horner — were saying, ‘Nolan, just trust us. We’ve made a commitment to you. The premier made a commitment to [former mayor Paul] Chalifoux, and we will meet our commitments,’” he said. “And they came clean today.” “Our focus over the next few years is expanding market access through work on our core transportation network and through maintaining our infrastructure investments,” said Alberta Transportation spokesperson Jeanna Friedley. “Ultimately, this is a key corridor in Alberta; it’s a core transportation corridor for the entire province. So it’s important to us that it be upgraded to the appropriate provincial standards.” The opening of Stage 3 of Ray Gibbon Drive is currently slated for early August.

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The Canadian Progress Club SILKS are going Greek for their upcoming annual fundraiser. The SILKS — which stands for Service In Love, Kindness and Strength — are the women’s arm of the local service club, and they are gearing up for their seventh annual Guilty Pleasures event, which takes place on Friday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at the Italian Cultural Centre (14230 133 Ave.) in Edmonton. SILKS member and event organizer Joan Guillemette said that this year’s event will have a distinctly Mediterranean flair this year with hors d’oeuvres from that part of the world and entertainment from tribal fusion belly dancers Bedouin Beat. “It’s more of a tribal dancing than the Egyptian,” Guillemette said. “The Egyptian is usually sinuous and done [solo], where this has more more jumping, and they wear feathers, shells and beads. It’s not quite as traditional.” Of course, as in past years, those hors d’oeuvres and decadent desserts will be served up by men in tuxedos, and Guillemette said there are plenty of male volunteers willing to get dressed to the nines for the event. “They all phone and want to be on the list,” she said. “Last year, our oldest guy was 78 or so. We were short one guy; someone got sick or got sent out of town, so this guy stepped in, and he was thrilled because, look at how much attention he’s getting.”

This year, the event will be emceed by CTV Morning Live host Rob Williams, who the organizers are excited to have even if they don’t watch him on TV that often. “I don’t get up that early in the morning to watch those shows!” Guillemette said with a laugh, adding that it’s a switch from Mayor Nolan Crouse, who has emceed the event for the past few years. The evening will also feature a fashion show from Edmonton designer Laura Dreger, raffle draws, a silent auction and a photo booth. Other Progress Club events have raised money for Camp Warwa, Uncles and Aunts at Large and Special Olympics, but the Guilty Pleasures event will also raise funds for the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society in St. Albert. Guillemette said that adding in SAIF as a beneficiary was partly due to attending the society’s Red Shoe Gala last year and hearing a speech from the mother of Jessica Martel, a woman who was murdered in Morinville in 2009 as she tried to get out of an abusive relationship. “To listen to her, there wasn’t a dry eye in the house,” she said. “We’d been talking to Doreen [Slessor] from SAIF for a couple of years, knowing that they’d like to build a shelter, but that’s huge money. But we thought we could put our money in and help with counselling.” Tickets for the Guilty Pleasures event are $85 each — which includes a $25 tax receipt from either SAIF or Uncles and Aunts at Large — and are available by calling Guillemette at 780-458-7499 or emailing cpcsilks@hotmail.ca.

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The moment Harrison Ford first pops up in 42, you can’t help but notice that you almost didn’t notice it was him. As Branch Rickey, the barrier-busting Brooklyn Dodgers GM who took a stand against racism with his 1947 signing of Jackie Robinson, Ford bears little resemblance to his usual leading man self — and that’s precisely the way he wanted it. “It would have been no service to the film (for the audience) to wake up in the Jackie Robinson movie and say, ‘What the (expletive) is Harrison Ford doing here?’” explains Ford. “I didn’t want anybody’s history with the kinds of characters I’ve played or the kinds of movies I’ve made to muddy the waters in this very clear stream.” To facilitate the intended disappearing act, Ford shaved his hairline back to accommodate a wig, covered up that trademark scar on his chin, donned a fat suit (his idea) to help define his walk and adopted the very distinctive manner and timbre of Branch’s speech.

Later, during a press conference with Robinson portrayer Chadwick Boseman and director Brian Helgeland, he’d joke that the main reason for taking on a real-life character for the first time in his career was the rare opportunity, at age 70, to play somebody younger — Branch was 65 when the movie begins. But now, amidst an impressively curated, private collection of baseball Americana housed in a non-descript building in an industrial section of downtown Los Angeles, Ford offers a more serious reason for signing on. “What was offered me was a rich and emotional environment to work in and amazing actors to work with,” shares Ford. “It’s very important for us as human beings and a nation to reflect on our behaviour, that there were some rough patches of road to go through and how many of the bumps were just temporarily patched potholes that still need to be attended to.” As a kid growing up in Chicago in the ’40s and ’50s, around the same time Robinson was making history, Ford admits to having little awareness of the racial divide that was running

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