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It’s only five more sleeps until that jolly old elf, Santa Claus, pays a visit to all the boys and girls in the world, loading presents under the tree for them to open when they wake up on Christmas morning. We here at the St. Albert Leader wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and all the best this holiday season!
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A national honour has left one local service organization almost speechless. On Friday, the Lo-Se-Ca Foundation, based out of St. Albert’s Campbell Business Park, was the recipient of one of the first-ever Prime Minister’s Volunteer Awards, with executive director Marie Renaud travelling to Ottawa to receive the award personally from Prime Minister Stephen Harper. It was an experience that left Renaud at a loss for words. “I’m kind of speechless, actually,” she said. “The only sad thing is that we all couldn’t go, because this is in no way a one-person deal. I mean, this was so many people working so hard for so many years that everyone’s a little bit giddy.” Lo-Se-Ca — which stands for “Love, Service, Care” — started in 1992, providing residential and day supports to adults with developmental disabilities in St. Albert and Edmonton. Today, they look after clients in more than 20 homes, as well as providing programs in their office on Carnegie Drive. There were 17 awards handed out in total Friday, including two national awards for Emerging Leader and Lifelong Achievement and three awards for each of five regions (Atlantic, Quebec, Ontario, the Prairies, and British Columbia and the North) across Canada: Business Leader, Community Leader and Social Innovator.
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Lo-Se-Ca won the Social Innovator award for the Prairie region. In addition to the awards, Renaud also had the chance to participate in a workshop with other winners to compare best practices. “The Lo-Se-Ca Foundation shows how a not-for-profit organization can help foster a thriving community,” Harper said in his remarks at Friday’s ceremony.
È@k aljk `ejg`i\[ lj kf nfib _Xi[\i%É DXi`\ I\eXl[ Cf$J\$:X =fle[Xk`fe Renaud said that the foundation has worked hard over the years on innovative ideas and programs to help their clients, which was ultimately what the award selection committees were looking for. “We worked hard to find other ways to fund our programming, and we wanted the programs to be outstanding — everything from transportation to subsidized affordable housing to bringing in music therapists and yoga teachers,” she said. “It’s about having unique opportunities for our staff and for the men and women we support.” The foundation also operates the I’m Unique thrift store, and has an employee planned giving program in place. In March 2013, a group of staff and clients will travel to Africa to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise funds for the Brothers of Charity,
a group that does similar work in Kigoma, Tanzania. They hope to raise $1 for every vertical foot of the mountain — a total of $19,340. The nomination process actually started a while ago and was initiated by Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber. Lo-Se-Ca’s nomination then went to regional and national selection committees, both of which took months to narrow down the finalists. When they actually found out they won, though, the reaction at the foundation offices was understandably emotional. “We cried. We cried a lot,” Renaud said. “It’s a group that, we work really hard, we love what we do, we love the men and women we work with. And I guess we always focused on the daily grind and what we need to get done. Sometimes it’s a little frustrating and difficult, so to get this was really amazing for us. It just inspired us to work harder.” “Until we got there, we didn’t realize the enormity of the recognition and the enormity of what we had done,” she added. The award also comes with a $5,000 cash prize, but Renaud didn’t have any plans for that money yet, although the foundation has one particular project it is trying to get off the ground. “We’re in the process of trying to launch an employer-sponsored daycare centre, to have subsidized spots for our staff, which would be another retention tool,” she said. “Some of the folks with disabilities who want to work in daycare and learn those skills, we want to be able
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to host them too.” But, more than the money, she hopes the award will help open doors in the community and build awareness of the foundation and their projects. “We’re so supported by this city, from the mayor to the councillors to our neighbours — even the neighbours of some of our group homes — the support that we feel is incredible,” Renaud said, “and it’s my hope we can get this information out there for people to know this little agency — which has become a fair amount bigger — that is supported by this community is doing things on a national level that are really innovative, and it’s because of the support we have received.” For more information on the foundation, visit www.loseca.ca.
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The tragic events in Newtown, Conn., have shaken the education community to its core, and the ripples are even being felt in St. Albert. On Friday morning, a gunman opened fire in Sandy Hook Elementary School in the Connecticut town, killing 20 students and six teachers before turning the gun on himself. Officials with both local school boards say that the tragedy’s effects have reached all the way to local teachers and administration. “Because it affects the education sector, it’s never good news, and it’s sobering news,” said David Keohane, superintendent of Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools. “It’s news that makes us reflect on doing the best we can to ensure safe environments within our schools.” “Our heartfelt condolences go out to all those affected by the event; it is really an unimaginable tragedy. There are no words to describe that,” added St. Albert Public Schools associate superintendent Michael Brenneis. However, in the wake of the shooting, both school boards are also reassuring parents and teachers that they have their own procedures in place in the event of a similar incident here, and took the opportunity this week to go over those procedures once again. Brenneis said that St. Albert Public Schools works with a private company that specializes in security in the education sector, and fire drills and lockdown drills are common in each school. “What they are able to bring to the table for us are some common practices and some research practices that try to deal with events like this,” he said, also acknowledging the support from local
firefighters and RCMP. “Granted, when you’re faced with unimaginable tragedies like this, it’s very difficult to plan for every eventuality. But what you try to take comfort in is that you do have plans in place, that are well-researched, and that are brought to bear in terms of a common approach by all schools in the district.” Meanwhile, Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools also sent a letter to parents on Monday to reassure them. Keohane said there’s a fine balance between creating community schools that are welcoming and accessible to all and ensuring student safety. “We are prioritizing, in the new year, further discussions on what we are doing with respect to security in our schools, and we can learn from each other’s best practices as we practically can,” Keohane said. “It’s been about reinforcing what we’re doing. Our schools do an excellent job of sustaining safe and caring environments; our data would indicate that.” As students returned to school in St. Albert on Monday for the last week of classes before their Christmas breaks, both school boards were ready to help teachers deal with any questions children may have had about the incident. “We maintain that the relationship between students and staff can be as strong as possible, and the relationship is such that student feel they can speak to someone,” Keohane said, pointing to the support system at St. Albert Catholic High School as a prime example. “There is an interconnection between all our counsellors that is co-ordinated centrally but recognizes the uniqueness of each school,” Brenneis said. “And in events like this, there is a protocol where we put additional resources into any one school should it be required for counselling or grief support, as well as reaching out to external agencies.”
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Forget red and green — Nolan Crouse’s holidays will be all about the red and white of Team Canada. St. Albert’s mayor is heading to Ufa, Russia, this Christmas to watch Canada’s national junior hockey team take part in the IIHF World Junior Championships, which start on Boxing Day. With the National Hockey League lockout dragging on, allowing some of Canada’s top young hockey talents — like Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Jonathan Huberdeau and Mark Scheifele — to take part, it looks like Crouse picked the right year to make the trek. “I ended up getting a little luck from that point of view,” said Crouse, who stressed that he is not making the trip in any sort of official capacity, nor is he doing it on the local taxpayer’s dime. “All the countries will have their best juniors available, so from a fan point of view, you’ve got all the thoroughbreds in one location.” The trip was organized through
an agency that has booked trips to Russia and to the world juniors in the past. “I had tried finding somebody local — I checked with Farlie Travel and Marlin and others, but nobody really had experience,” he said. “There was a group that was putting it together out of another part of Canada, so they were gathering individuals from across Canada who would be interested.” Meanwhile, Crouse noted, his wife Gwen wanted to go to New Zealand over the holidays, so she is heading there with her sister while he makes the trek to Russia alone. Ufa is a city of a little over one million people, located roughly 1,300 kilometres east of Moscow. Its economy is dependent on oil refining and other industrial enterprises. Its climate is fairly similar to St. Albert’s, and is home to Salavat Yulaev Ufa, a club in the Kontinental Hockey League that won the league title in 2010-2011 and whose current roster boasts familiar names from the NHL like Nikita Filatov and Oleg Saprykin. Between his career and his background coaching hockey,
Crouse has travelled extensively, but never to Russia before. “You go to a lot of countries, and it’s a social culture — the streets and the food. But this is a sports culture immersion, so I’ve got a good frame of reference,” he said. “It’ll be an interesting contrast. And they did set it up for Canada to play Russia on New Year’s Eve, and New Year’s Eve in Russia is the holiday of the year, their major celebration. So I think it’ll be a rockin’ night.” And with a strong Canadian squad, he likes his chances of seeing a rematch in the gold medal game. “Since the Russians are hosting it, they’re going to be as loaded as they’d ever be,” he said. “I’m predicting a Canada-Russia gold medal game — that’s what I’m hoping for also, since I’ve got tickets.” Crouse said there is Internet access in the arena and the hotel in Ufa, so he will be updating his Twitter (@stalbertmayor) and Facebook (facebook.com/nolan. crouse.9) accounts regularly from Russia, as well as his blog (stalbertmayor.wordpress.com).
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Intersections in St. Albert with red light cameras installed are still seeing a high number of collisions, according to a report given to city council last month. City of St. Albert staff slotted to councillors late last month a report on the most dangerous intersections in the city both in 2011 and over the past five years, ranking them by the number of injury related collisions that occurred at each. The report found that, from 2006 to 2011, the three intersections that saw the most injury related collisions are the three in the city that have traffic cameras installed. But Mayor Nolan Crouse said that what’s missing from the report, however, is a comparison of collision figures before and after the installation of the traffic cameras, which Crouse said would provide more of an apples-to-apples comparison. “If you didn’t have it, what would be the difference? I don’t know,” he said. “You have that accident rate with the camera, but what you would have without the camera, I don’t know.” For the period from 2006 to 2011, St. Albert Trail and Boudreau Road/Giroux Road topped the list with 61 collisions. St. Albert Trail and Gervais Road/Hebert Road was second with 58, while St. Albert Trail and Bellerose Drive and McKenney Avenue was third with 47. All three of those intersections have traffic cameras installed, which catch both drivers who run red lights and who speed through green lights, although the camera at St. Albert Trail and Boudreau Road/Giroux Road was just installed earlier this year. In 2011, the intersection at St. Albert Trail and Gervais Road/Hebert Road was the most dangerous, with 11 injury related collisions occurring there. Second was St. Albert Trail and Erin Ridge Road/ Villeneuve Road with seven collisions, and
there was a tie for third between Boudreau Road and Bellerose Drive and St. Albert Trail and Boudreau Road/Giroux Road with six each. Brian Hartman, manager of engineering for the City, said that there are no more cameras slated to be installed anytime soon. “We looked at the Giroux Road intersection, and it’s been problematic in terms of a few high-speed runs, people running red lights,” Hartman said. “At this time, there are no other intersections scheduled.” In the meantime, though, Hartman said the City has made several improvements to the highest priority intersections, including the installation of a prototype traction material placed on the wheel paths on the driving surface. “It’s a microfilm that basically has some aggregate in it, which allows traction to be increased between the road surface and the rubber of the tires,” Hartman said. “... We’re trying to use it and watch what it does for public visibility, in terms of people seeing it and asking questions, and also if it actually helps reduce collisions and severity of collisions.” As well, the installation of pedestrian countdown timers along the entire St. Albert Trail corridor has been lauded not only by those on foot, but those on four wheels. “While those are meant for pedestrians, the road users have given us feedback that it greatly helps in estimating their time and being able to navigate safer during the green phase,” Hartman said. “You know absolutely where you stand on red light-green light,” Crouse said. “That, to me, is has been one of the biggest changes to my personal behaviour. I know exactly where I stand 75 yards away.” Hartman added that the City also uses signal timing adjustments and cameras atop signal lights that both detect and count traffic to keep intersections safe.
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One of the last remaining hurdles for the City of St. Albert in adding more land for light industrial development was cleared last week. The Capital Region Board approved amendments to the City’s Municipal Development Plan at their meeting on Thursday, Dec. 13, clearing the way for city council to continue with a public hearing and possibly pass the amendments in late January. Coun. Cathy Heron, the City’s representative on the CRB, said she thought the issue would never have to go to the board for approval, but she is glad they eventually got the green light. “It was actually a little bit of a panic situation on council’s behalf, because we’ve spent pretty much my whole term talking about the employment lands — are the numbers right, where are they going to go,” Heron said. “If we couldn’t have had this approved by the CRB, all our planning would be out the window and we’d have to start fresh.” The proposed changes would amend maps in both the MDP and the Intermunicipal Development Plan between St. Albert and Sturgeon County — which the county pulled out of in 2010 but the City still maintains and uses — as well as removing
text clauses that refer to “Future Study Areas” and adding clauses that talk about the need for industrial and business park lands. The amendments were first referred to the CRB on Sept. 24. Council had hoped to have them approved by the board’s subcommittee of regional chief administrative officers and resume the public hearing on Nov. 26, but they were not unanimously approved and were thus referred to the whole board. Heron said that, when the debate on the amendments came up, the main objections came from Sturgeon County. “It really goes back to the fact that they’re not part of the IDP and we’re still honouring it,” she said. “They see any Municipal Development Plan amendment on our part that includes the IDP as opposition to what they’re doing.” With the CRB hurdle out of the way, Heron is looking forward to resuming the public hearing on the matter and finally getting it dealt with. “It’s been 40 days that this public hearing has been open,” she said on Friday, the day after the CRB meeting. “One mayor said, ‘What’s the rush?’ But I wanted to say, ‘Why are you slowing us down?’ ... We’ll have designated industrial land by the end of January, and you can quote me on that.” Council will resume the public hearing on the amendments to both the MDP and the IDP on Jan. 21.
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54 and provide the inspector with the right number of boots on the streets,” Jardine said. Council was fully on board with the plan, especially after recent meeting with RCMP K Division officials and hearing about the process of recruitment and assigning members to different communities. “It seems counterintuitive that you would ask for more than you really need in order to get what you really do need, but nonetheless that’s sort of the mechanism we’re going to use to receive the correct number of officers for St. Albert,” Coun. Wes Brodhead said. Coun. Malcolm Parker asked what would happen to the extra budgeted funds if the magic number of 54 officers is not reached. Jardine said that, in the past, those extra funds have gone toward the overall bottom line, but administration is looking at the possibility of creating a police stabilization for the “odd time when we may have one too many.”
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Despite widespread rumours, Quentin Tarantino never wrote the title role of his anti-slavery western, Django Unchained, for Will Smith. Nor did he formally offer it to the Hollywood superstar, despite meeting to discuss the project. “It’s funny,” Tarantino said recently during a Toronto visit. “It’s been a little bit blown out of proportion that I was offering Will Smith the part of Django on a silver platter — or that I was writing it for him. That really wasn’t the case. Django was Django when I was writing him the entire time. I didn’t really have an idea who would play him.” Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx ended up with the role, a character with the potential to become a cinematic icon. Now Tarantino is overjoyed, after reportedly considering others such as Chris Tucker, Idris Elba, Terrence Howard, Michael Kenneth Williams and Tyrese Gibson, once he had parted ways with Smith. “Yeah, now, I can’t imagine anybody but Jamie being Django!” Tarantino said. Tarantino blew into Canada
last week to present a public preview of his blockbuster, which opens Christmas Day. Foxx costars with Austrian Christoph Waltz (from Tarantino’s WWII thriller Inglourious Basterds), as well as Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington and a rogues gallery in cameos. They include Don Johnson, Jonah Hill and Italian legend Franco Nero, star of a 1966 spaghetti western called Django, which influenced Tarantino with its extreme operatic violence. Django Unchained tells the complex story of a GermanAmerican bounty hunter (Waltz) who frees and then partners with up an African-American slave (Foxx). Together, after chasing outlaws in the Old West, they go on an epic mission to the Old South. There, they face down the misery and degradation of slavery in the Antebellum era, just two years prior to the Civil War. Tarantino said that he approached the historical background of Django Unchained differently from that of Inglourious Basterds. “You know, in the case of Inglourious Basterds, you can’t really bristle much if (someone) says it’s an alternative history, because I kill Hitler at the end.
“But I don’t really think this (Django Unchained) is alternative history at all. Everything that happens in the movie has a really strong historical basis. I’m not following a true story. But the world that the movie takes place in, and the business of slavery and the Mississippi of that time, is very true to life!” Foxx understood what the film could evoke, Tarantino said. “Jamie got all that — and he was my cowboy. There’s a cowboy quality to him. He’s from Texas.” Smith did not fit the role in the same way, Tarantino said. “It’s got to fit like a glove, especially if you’re going to be the lead character, if I’m going to trust you with my lead character. And this didn’t fit like a glove.” When he found Foxx, however, the fit was perfect. “You know, you don’t have to be convinced, you don’t have to be talked into it. You’re just waiting to fall in love ... and Jamie walked in!”
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It’s one thing to write but to get 100 black folks, put ’em in chains and march them through the mud and putting an army of black folks dressed as slaves in the hot sun picking cotton... I started to question if I could do it and I don’t think I’ve ever thought that when it came to my work before. “I thought of maybe shooting those sequences in the West Indies where they have their own issues of slavery, but since this is an American story, there would be a once-removed quality. My problem was having Americans do those scenes. I was trying to get around it to escape the pain.” Tarantino consulted his pal Poitier, the first black actor to win an Academy Award, and the veteran star immediately told him he had to face up to his fears for the sake of his own movie — and the local economy: “I went out to dinner with Sidney Poitier, who
is like a father figure, and was explaining my scheme of escaping. He basically told me I had to man up, ‘For whatever reason, you were born to tell this story and you need to not be afraid of your own movie. You just need to do it. Everybody knows what time it is. Just treat the actors with love and respect, not atmosphere, and it’ll all be good. By the way, those people in the South need money, they need jobs. You gotta do it.’ “There were a lot of extras who were like, ‘I was a slave in (Steven Spielberg’s) Abraham Lincoln (movie) and I’m a slave in this. I’m good with that!’” Meanwhile, actress Kerry Washington insists she was drawn to play Jamie Foxx’s wife Broomhilda Von Shaft because the western was different from other slave movies she had ever seen. She says, “In the past, people might have
felt nervous playing a slave because so many narratives on television about slavery are about helplessness. This is about a black man who finds his freedom and rescues his wife. I was very moved by the love story, particularly in a time when slaves weren’t allowed to fall in love and get married. I told Quentin I want to do this movie for my father because he grew up in a world where there were no black superheroes and that’s what this movie is.” And Leonardo DiCaprio, who portrays ruthless plantation owner Calvin Candie, hopes the new film will prompt fresh discussions and examinations about America’s past as a slave nation: “It’s a sore subject matter that should be looked at more often and not shied away from. As daring as it is, I commend Quentin for making the movie entertaining for an audience.”
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If you just graduated, you might want to consider never leaving home. Instead, consider starting a home business. According to Industry Canada, more than 95 per cent of all new businesses start in the home. Randstad.ca reports that 31 per cent of working Canadians planned to work more from home this past year. But, before going all in on the concept, consider that while working from home could be your dream job, it can also be a nightmare. So get set for a major challenge, even more so if you’re coming at it with little experience or knowledge, says Marc Gordon, a small business expert and author of The Edge Factor:
Ten Proven Marketing Tools to Help Your Business Get It and Keep It. Going from “having someone assign you tasks with due dates, checking up on you, providing guidance and having regular communication to having nothing can be a traumatic experience,” Gordon says. But if you can drum up your own projects, then go for it. The added bonus of living at home can make it an easy and economical arrangement, adds Gordon. According to Wes Lenci, vice-president of Regus Canada, the world’s largest provider of flexible workplaces, “if you have a solid idea, the drive and commitment, anything is possible at any age or at any stage in your career. Some of the today’s best known brands like Apple and Ford were launched at home.” New graduates should take advantage of the
The consultation services will be required several days per month on average and the need for consultation may be higher earlier in the school year and less so later in the year as needs are addressed. The private practice Physical Therapist we are searching for will have a background in pediatrics. Experience with young children is an asset.A Bachelors Degree in Physical Therapy and current registration in ACPT is required. Therapists must have their own transportation as travel is required to division schools and Central Office. Mileage will be paid from the Division border to the schools within the Division. If you are interested, please call or forward your resume to Anita Ferri at: (780) 934-7937 aferri@sturgeon.ab.ca MPSSCS4516429MPSE
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Application Deadline: 4:30 PM on January 04, 2013 Job Details: Sturgeon School Division is currently recruiting a permanent full-time SIS Support Specialist to join the team at Sturgeon School Division. The successful candidate will work out of our Central Office which is located in Morinville just minutes north of the City of St. Albert. FTE: 1.0 FTE; Monday to Friday; 35 hrs/week; full-time permanent Salary: $44,434.51 - $54,646.35 annually as per the GEC Collective Agreement. Includes a comprehensive benefits package which includes a defined pension. Assignment: Technical Analyst 1 • Primary application support for PowerSchool operators (school office staff); Help-Desk work requiring technical expertise but not extensive independent decision making • Liaison with the SIS vendor and Alberta Education • Assist with providing training and written materials for PowerSchool users • Development and generation of PowerSchool reports Skills Required: • Knowledge, training and proficiency in technology and computer systems • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to enhance team-member and mentoring duties • Knowledge of PowerSchool; school level experience in SIS responsibilities is an asset Education requirements: • High School Diploma • Training in technology suitable to SIS needs • Five years experience in roles relevant to SIS needs Please note that new employees will be required to submit a clear, current (within 6 months) criminal record check including vulnerable sector prior to commencement. Applications for this position will be accepted online at www.sturgeon.ab.ca only. MPSSCS4516367MPSE
THE STURGEON SCHOOL DIVISION Sturgeon SD No. 24 Accounts Clerk 3 Application Deadline: 4:30 PM on December 28, 2012 OPEN COMPETITION [All qualified candidates are invited to apply] Sturgeon School Division is currently recruiting for a Part-Time Permanent Accounts Clerk 3 to join the team at Landing Trail School, located in Gibbons, AB just minutes north of Edmonton. Landing Trail School has a student population of approximately 400 students, with approximately 85 students accessing LOGOS Programming (curriculum is taught with a Christian Based focus). Hours: 21 hrs/week; Monday to Wednesday; Part-Time Permanent Responsibilities: Duties include but are not limited to: • To provide assistance with the financial fiscal operations of the school including budgeting, purchasing, inventory, accounting and reporting as required • Assisting with the planning and implementation of special events, field trips and fundraising as required Qualifications & Experience: • Finance or Accounting Diploma/Certificate is required • Previous financial administration experience is essential • Intermediate Excel and MS Office skills required Hourly Rate: $19.40 - $24.06 per hour, as per the CUPE Collective Agreement.
to load structural steel on trailers. Heated-cab telehandlers (zoom booms), great pay and full benefits. Located in Morinville, AB.
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Looking for a New Career? The St. Albert Investors Group Office is Growing Its Team of 29 Financial Advisors
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Salary Range: $1,709.40 to $2,175.00 bi-weekly Comp # 12-197 Closing Date: Open Until Filled The AGLC is responsible for regulating gaming and liquor activities across the province. Our work environment offers challenging opportunities, career growth, and supports work-life balance. For more information on this and other available positions please visit our website aglc.ca.
Career Information Evening 7 o’clock pm, January 15th, 2013 Suite 100, 7 St. Anne St., St. Albert To Register email: robert.maurier@investorsgroup.com or call Rob 780-459-3343 ext 230 or visit InvestorsGroupStAlbert.com This is a full-time opportunity to establish a varaible-income and self employed business in association with Investors Group.
50 Corriveau Avenue St. Albert, AB T8N 3T5 fax: 780.447.8918 email: hr@aglc.ca
All new employees to Sturgeon School Division are required to submit a recent (within six months), clear Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector included prior to commencement of employment. Supporting Documents: The following supporting documents are required In connection with this competition; Cover Letter & Résumé.
Applications for these positions will be accepted online ONLY. For further details or to apply please see our website at www.sturgeon.ab.ca
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and marketing experts. A business plan is a must, stresses Lenci, of regus.com. “This is your roadmap for success. Your comprehensive plan should include your mission statement, a market analysis financing, and marketing and business processes. “Learn from your mistakes. Everyone and every business will make mistakes. It’s how you pick yourself up and move forward that counts the most,” adds Lenci. Gordon predicts a boom in home-based businesses: “With the increase in consulting and service-based industries, there’s no need for an office — and working from home helps to reduce overhead costs. “Plus, with so many meeting-friendly coffee shops and restaurants around, meeting clients has become easy and socially acceptable.”
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STURGEON SCHOOL DIVISION is currently seeking a part-time private practice Physical Therapist to provide consultation services for a small group of students with physical disabilities in all Division schools. The Sturgeon School Division’s Central Office is located in Morinville just 15 minutes north of the City of Edmonton. The school division covers a small geographical region immediately north of the Edmonton/St. Albert/Sherwood Park area.
many free training and counselling services available aimed at helping start-ups succeed, says Lenci. Meanwhile, for those grads that lack practical experience or don’t have a clear idea of the kind of business they want, “getting a job may be the best opportunity to not only get hands on experience, but also see if this is something worth pursuing as a business owner,” adds Gordon. Knowledge and experience are terrific assets — so too are the cash reserves you can build while being employed that you can, in turn, use for starting a business, adds Gordon, of marcgordon.ca. But ultimately, “the true skills lie in being driven, motivated and knowing to surround yourself with others that can help you.” These can include mentors, suppliers, accountants
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ALL 2012 MODELS WILL BE SOLD REGARDLESS OF LOSS!! THAT’S RIGHT! FOR THE 36TH YEAR WE MAKE UNHEARD OF DEALS IN ORDER TO MOVE ALL OF OUR 2012 INVENTORY. HERE’S AN EXAMPLE: 2012 JEEP PATRIOT 2012 JEEP WRANGLER 2012 GRAND CARAVAN SPORT�NORTH $ MSRP ���,��� NOW 2012 DODGE CHARGER $ MSRP ���,��� NOW
16,942
STK#L45029
STK#Z9861
19,775
UNLIMITED SAHARA $ MSRP ���,��� NOW 2012 RAM ���� CREW CAB �X� DIESEL $ MSRP ���,��� NOW
STK#Z9882
STK#L42335
33,877
44,995
STOW N’ GO PACKAGE $ MSRP ���,��� NOW 2012 DODGE JOURNEY RT AWD $ MSRP ���,��� NOW
22,463
STK#Z9880
30,997
STK#L45214
OVER 100 DODGE CHRYSLER JEEP RAMS IN STOCK MUST GO!
DON’T MISS THIS EVENT We Deliver Anywhere! Serving Alberta for over 30 Years! Local & Long Distance
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See St. Albert Dodage for more details.
We make it simple
The New
St. Albert Dodge
Open Mon - Thurs 8:3 8:30-9:00, Fri & Sat 8:30-6:00, Sun 11:00-4:00
184 St.Alber 1 St.Albert Trail
2 Blocks Bloc locks North of Anthony Henday on St Albert Trail
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All rebates and incentives to dealer. Prices to not include taxes & applicable industry levies. Call or visit for more details. 1 Prize Per Purchase.