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They came, they sawed, they conquered? St. Albert city council started hacking away at a 5.14 per cent property tax increase on Tuesday evening. See story, page 3.

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St. Albert city councillors got down to brass tacks Tuesday afternoon, hacking more than 1.5 percentage points off the proposed residential property tax increase, with possibly more to come today (Thursday). Councillors were unable to get through all the postponed motions they had made throughout the last month of budget deliberations — meaning they’ll have to meet again to finish them off today — but as of the end of Tuesday’s meeting, the City of St. Albert’s “tax-o-meter” sat at 3.48 per cent, down from a projected 5.14 per cent increase at the start of the process. Possibly the lengthiest debate of the meeting centred around a motion by Coun. Len Bracko to fund a functional alignment study for light rail transit in St. Albert in 2013 at a cost of $500,000, which eventually passed by a 5-2 vote. “We’ve been debating this for two or three years now. It’s time

we got on with it,” Bracko said. “It’s time to do it so our residents will know what information is out there, where stations would go.” The $500,000 would be paid through the City’s LRT/BRT reserve. Another motion passed Tuesday increased the amount collected for that reserve from $1 to $1.50 per $100,000 of assessed value. “It’s the strength, the allure and the functionality of LRT that truly makes transit functional,” said Coun. Wes Brodhead. While Bracko and most of council favoured the study, Malcolm Parker and Cam MacKay voted against it. “Just because we have [the money] in reserves doesn’t mean we have to spend it,” Parker said. I think clearly we should wait until we get the south park-and-ride in place first, and that is probably 10 years away.” Savings that reduced the property tax rate Tuesday included: t SFEVDJOH UIF $JUZ T TQPSUT field refurbishment program by $25,000 in 2013;

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One of the co-chairs of the St. Albert Kinettes’ annual Christmas hamper campaign says she’s worried they won’t have enough of some items to meet this year’s demand — including toys for kids of all ages. Sharon Gregresh said Tuesday that, even after the Fill-A-Bus event Saturday, the campaign is woefully short on heartier items like peanut butter and canned meats. “We have an overabundance [of pasta], because the grocery stores do the $5 and $10 packages with all the pasta in it,” she said. “We’re quite short on canned meats, and I think I only have 25 jars of peanut butter.” Gregresh is also extremely worried about the amount of toys collected so far. “We usually get at least a busload and a bit of toys, but right now, we’ve got half a bus of toys,” she said. She chalked some of that shortage up to the fact that the Zellers store is closed in St. Albert Centre this winter as it is converted into a Target store. The Kinettes set up right outside the mall entrance to that store and rely on foot traffic going by for many donations. Donations can still be dropped off at local grocery stores, at St. Albert Centre, or even at the Enjoy Centre, where the Kinettes will soon be sorting and packing hampers.

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While St. Albert city council gave the green light to a number of design principles brought forward jointly by City of St. Albert staff and representatives of the land development industry, they put the brakes on others that could change the way St. Albert is constructed in the future. The design principles are part of a larger review of city-wide engineering standards that City staff is currently undertaking. Altogether, there were 12 principles presented to council, and nine of them were passed on Monday. However, City staff and industry officials could not agree on two others, and one calling for the introduction of service lanes — essentially back alleys — died on the table. “I feel that this would be a major, major change that council has not at all had a discussion about. … It changes the landscape of St. Albert,” Coun. Cathy Heron said of service lanes. Others on council wondered why some of the same ideas that came forward a couple of years ago during the debate over Smart Growth principles were coming back again as part of this process. “Why are we doing this? Why do we have to change the landscape, the personality of

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allow for architectural integration. St. Albert?” Coun. Roger Lemieux said. “For “It really provides a visual for residents years, we’ve talked about this. We have places, of where bus stops are going to be located,” we have cul de sacs, we have drives, and now we’re talking about grid and back lanes again. director of engineering Tracy Allen said. However, that would mean more upfront Why does this keep on creeping in?” costs for developers, and plans can change. City staff responded that these issues “In many instances, you go into an area continue to come up because they are things and design a plan with certain uses. If you the development industry wants to explore. put the shelters in at that time, before there’s “We have had, since the decision on an actual demand or need generated, you can Smart Growth, constant feedback from the go back and things can industry — both the change over the course housing industry and the of a development,” said development industry Greg Hembroff of Reid — that would like to be Worldwide Corporation able to utilize lanes,” and chair of the St. Albert said general manager of regional committee for planning and engineering If^\i C\d`\lo the Urban Development Curtis Cundy. “They feel it Jk% 8cY\ik Z`kp ZfleZ`ccfi Institute. gives them some flexibility Meanwhile, when around the form of the it came to utilities, City staff wanted to development and the types of development maintain the status quo and continue they are able to bring forward.” installing them under boulevards due to The two principles that City staff and traffic concerns should any of the utilities industry officials could not agree on were a malfunctions. requirement for developers to install transit “If there was a utility failure under [certain] shelters and a recommendation to install roadways, then you have one access point for utilities under roadways rather than under the entire neighbourhood until you get that boulevards. Decisions on both of those have fixed,” Allen said. been postponed to Jan. 7. But developers said that installing under With the bus shelters, City staff felt they the road is not as risky as it used to be due to could be installed immediately next to highdensity residential developments and possibly advanced materials.

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A young local boy suffering from a rare blood disorder had his wish come true recently. Eight-year-old Hunter Kuzik and his family were whisked away in November to Orlando, Fla., where Hunter — who was born with diamond blackfan anemia — got a chance to swim with a dolphin and train like a Jedi knight in Star Wars. “He was treated like a king everywhere we went,” said Hunter’s mom, Carrie. “Even the places that weren’t his Make-AWish [destinations] made sure he felt like a VIP all the way through.” Hunter, Carrie and her parents returned from the trip on Nov. 20, which included trips to Sea World, to Discovery Cove — where Hunter swam with a dolphin — to Disney World and to Universal Studios. They stayed in a villa in nearby Kissimmee donated by an Edmonton resident. “It was everything we could have imagined and more,” Carrie

said. As much as the experience was great for Hunter, it was just as uplifting for Carrie. “It feels like a dream,” she said. “Every day we had something planned, and it was so amazing, the kindness that was shown to us from people — I even got to swim with the dolphin!” The idea of swimming with a dolphin was something Carrie said Hunter had never really expressed an interest in before. “Originally his wish was just to go to Sea World. And then, while we were there at Make-AWish, he was like, ‘I really want to swim with dolphins,’” she said. “He loves animals and he loves dolphins, so I think being around dolphins was an experience he always wanted to do, but swimming with dolphins was a thought. But I know for a fact he doesn’t regret it.” In fact, she said, Hunter loved every minute of it, and was especially attached to the dolphin that he got to spend about half an hour with. “Hunter just loved her to pieces

and wanted to stay with her, because she was so sweet and gentle and beautiful and smart,” she said. “I feel very fortunate that Hunter was nominated, for one, and that Make-A-Wish allowed for this to happen for all of us.” Diamond blackfan anemia is a condition in which the bone marrow fails to produce red blood cells. Patients often exhibit deformities in the face and hands, including cleft palates. Hunter has had more than 140 blood transfusions as part of his therapy, and undergoes chelation treatments on a regular basis to remove excess iron from his system. As the Kuziks decompress from their trip, Carrie has plenty of other irons in the fire, including keeping tabs on some bidding wars last week. The foundation Carrie set up, Hunter’s Fight for a Cure, held an online auction on Facebook that ended Sunday night, which raised more than $1,500 through 24 items donated by local businesses. “This was the first time we’ve done it, so we were just testing

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leading the charge for Canadian Blood Services to get more blood donations over the holiday season, and will be hosting a blood donor clinic on Tuesday, Dec. 11, from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (10 Akins Dr.) in St. Albert.

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acing a residential property tax increase of 5.14 per cent before budget deliberations started in earnest last month, it would be easy for St. Albert residents to label the current city council and administration as “same old, same old.” However, there is Yp >c\ee :ffb one motion that was passed at Tuesday’s budget meeting that indicates that the winds of change, however faint, may be blowing at St. Albert Place. Beneath the motions about police officers and youth festivals and public transit and Canada Winter Games bids, there was a motion put forward by Coun. Roger Lemieux asking city manager Patrick Draper to come up with $340,000 in cost savings — not from new business cases or service reductions, but from “base business.” It would have been easy for Draper and his staff to throw up their hands and proclaim, “It can’t be done!” But, by all accounts, they put their noses to the grindstone and found areas where fat could be trimmed, like air travel, administrative overtime, professional services budgets and printing, as well as reclassifying some nonunion staff positions. When dealing with a budget of around $120 million, $340,000 doesn’t seem like a whole lot; in the end, it equates to about half a percentage point on the proposed property tax increase. But it’s the symbolism of the gesture that speaks volumes. Lemieux putting it forward shows the kind of leadership that St. Albert needs, especially when taxes are such a hot-button issue. The persistence of Draper and his staff shows there is a new, responsible, can-do attitude taking over at St. Albert Place. And the co-operation between Draper and Lemieux in working on this measure is exactly the kind of relationship that council should have with administration. Both parties deserve to be commended for working hard to save taxpayers money and to prove that it’s certainly not the “same old, same old” at city hall.

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s I was scrolling through Facebook the other day, I noticed an entry describing the fun a family had had while at the Snowflake Festival on Friday evening, and they said that St. Albert was “such a great place to live.” The staff and volunteers at the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village are certainly seeing that as we gear up for another Christmas season. We are so grateful for the residents of St. Albert who continue to give their time and other donations so generously in order to help their neighbours who need our assistance. As we ramp up for our second annual Community Christmas Banquet and

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The Arts and Heritage Foundation of St. Albert’s dedication to preserving our city’s historic sites landed it a shiny new award on Friday. The Alberta government honoured the AHF at a ceremony on Friday with a Heritage Conservation Award, one of three handed out on the night, from the Alberta Historical Resources Foundation Heritage Awards for its efforts in restoring and repairing the two grain elevators that sit next to Meadowview Drive. “St. Albert was very forward-thinking in the late ’80s when it purchased the St. Albert grain elevators, so the vision was always to have these elevators fully restored and open to the public,� said AHF director of heritage Ann Ramsden at the ceremony. “It took a long time for the vision to become reality, and that’s when we worked together with a large team of people to actually make these buildings accessible to the public. “For St. Albert, the award is huge, because it really does help the community understand the importance of heritage preservation.� Other award winners on the evening included: t 0VUTUBOEJOH "DIJFWFNFOU "XBSE ,FSNJUI Anderson (Scandia); t 0VUTUBOEJOH "DIJFWFNFOU "XBSE +VEJUI "OO Carleton (Blackfalds); t 0VUTUBOEJOH "DIJFWFNFOU "XBSE +BDL .BOTPO

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Despite a lengthy debate and plenty of procedural wrangling, the start time of St. Albert city council meetings will likely not change until after the next municipal election in October 2013. Mayor Nolan Crouse put forward a motion Monday afternoon to change the start time of regular meetings from 3 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., which was subsequently changed to 2 p.m. after an amendment was proposed by Coun. Len Bracko. Photo courtesy Alberta Government Some councillors wanted to go ;i% 8cXe Dli[fZb c\]k Xe[ 8ee IXdj[\e Z\eki\ f] k_\ even earlier, though, including 8?= XZZ\gk k_\ 8?I= XnXi[ fe =i`[Xp `e <[dfekfe% Coun. Wes Brodhead, who moved (Thorsby); another amendment to change the t )FSJUBHF "XBSFOFTT "XBSE $BUIFSJOF $PMF time to 9 a.m. (Edmonton); “When you move earlier in the t )FSJUBHF $POTFSWBUJPO "XBSE 5PXO PG )JHI day, you’re saying to anyone who River; runs [for office] is to be prepared t )FSJUBHF $POTFSWBUJPO "XBSE -BDPNCF BOE that, one day a week, you’re going District Historical Society; and to have to take a day off from your t .VOJDJQBM )FSJUBHF 1SFTFSWBUJPO "XBSE $JUZ PG [full-time] employment,� Brodhead Lacombe. said. The awards are handed out every two years, That change, however, was voted and since the program was re-introduced in 2005, down 4-3. 33 awards have been given out to individuals, Then Bracko, who voted against organizations and municipalities. the amendment, made a motion to

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reconsider the amendment, but that failed to get the two-thirds majority needed to reopen the question. In the end, the 2 p.m. start time was also voted down. “I can’t see any benefit to it. If it’s to start earlier so we can finish earlier, that’s a question. ‌ I don’t think starting earlier is going to make it easier for those with fulltime employment,â€? Coun. Malcolm Parker said.

I<M@<N >F<J 8?<8; Despite being on the job for less than a calendar year, city manager Patrick Draper’s performance review will go on as scheduled. St. Albert city council voted Monday afternoon to get the ball rolling on the annual performance review, which, by council policy, must be wrapped up by March 31 each year. Coun. Len Bracko, however, proposed pushing the timeline back to the middle of 2013. That motion, however, was voted down 4-3, with staff saying the timelines wouldn’t work out and councillors saying they’d rather not amend City policies.

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A local entrepreneur and advisor is hoping to continue passing on his business acumen to the next generation through his appointment to a national board of directors. Robert Fernandez received word on Friday that he had been elected to the national board of directors for Junior Achievement Canada, an organization which with he has been involved for more than a decade. “It is a great honour, but I’d like to be humble about it and carry on working for an organization I’ve been involved with for 10 years,” Fernandez said. “It’s kind of a logical step, because you learn more and more about the organizations and it’s a good fit to do maybe some of the work we’ve done locally here on a national level.” There are 15 regional Junior Achievement branches across Canada, each of which aims to “inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy,” as their mission statement reads, by helping them experience free enterprise, to understand business and economics and to develop entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Fernandez has served on the board for

Junior Achievement Northern Alberta, and he said it shouldn’t be a huge change. “It’s going to be, in some form, similar to board governance on a provincial level — just that we have more angles, more viewpoints on it, and different challenges in different provinces,” he said. “But the overall challenge of getting young people exposed to the opportunity to become their own business owners or entrepreneurs ... is a universal challenge.” Fernandez was born and raised in Germany, earning a bachelor’s degree in business administration from AKAD University in Dusseldorf and graduating from the advanced management program at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University in North Carolina. He moved to Canada in 2000 to join a start-up venture, and later became president of Pace Industrial Inc., a contractor active in municipal infrastructure and in oil and gas services. Since 2008, Fernandez has been working for the Alberta government, first as a senior advisor for the treasury board before moving to the health and wellness department, managing the implementation of the five-year Alberta Health Plan. He then returned to the treasury board as the acting assistant deputy minister for the oilsands

secretariat. He now sits as the executive director of the Alberta Economic Development Authority. Fernandez got involved in Junior Achievement when he moved from Europe. “When we moved to Edmonton, Junior Achievement was one of the first organizations that actually reached out through normal networking exercises,” he said. “I found interest in it — I had never heard of Junior Achievement before, aside from their global organization.” The most rewarding part of his involvement in Junior Achievement, though, has been seeing the promise of the enthusiastic young people who get involved. “Just to see some of these Grade 11, Grade 12 kids really come through with an idea” is very rewarding, he said. “We have these different programs and what we do in the high school program is they get to run their own company with real product and real money, but it’s a controlled environment; they can’t really go bankrupt and falter so big so they can never get back up on their feet. But they have a real company to run with real goals. And to see some of these kids really get the buck and pick this up, and take it seriously ... and get some reward out of it, that’s rewarding.”

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St. Albert RCMP are on the lookout for a pair of hockey fans who they’d like to send to the penalty box. On Thursday, Aug. 9, at about 4:50 p.m., two people — one male and one female — went into the St. Albert Source for Sports location at 580 St. Albert Tr. The woman then took an Edmonton Oilers jersey signed by rookie forward Ryan NugentHopkins and stuffed it in her bag. The pair then left the store. The jersey is valued at $500. The female suspect is described as caucasian, 30 to 40 years old with sandy blonde shoulder length hair, and was wearing a white top. The male suspect is also caucasian and between 30 and 40 years old, with a shaved head and wearing a blue T-shirt.

Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 780-458-7700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). :C<8E ><K8N8P6 Meanwhile, police are also on the lookout for a burglar who may have dome more than a quick smash-and-grab at a home in the Mission subdivision recently. RCMP say that a vacant home on Mission Avenue was broken into sometime between Friday and Sunday, making off with a 40-inch flat screen television and a mattress cover. Police also believe the suspect may have taken a shower in the home before leaving. Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 780-458-7700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

9LIE@E> HL<JK@FEJ St. Albert RCMP have a few burning questions they’d like to ask the suspect in a garage breakin about two weeks ago. Between 8:30 and 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 23, someone broke into the detached garage located at 55 Balmoral Dr. Once inside, the suspect set fire to the driver’s side headlight of one of the vehicles parked inside with a propane torch. The other vehicle was also damaged, although more extensively, as papers that were left in the cab of the truck were set ablaze. It appears that fire got out of control and spread throughout the truck cab, but was extinguished before the owner entered the garage. Damage is estimated at $5,000. The suspect also took a small amount of loose change from the vehicles. Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 780-458-7700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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’Tis the season to be serious about cinema. The holidays are coming and Hollywood is gearing up for a flurry of late-year prestige pictures. Of course, there are some titles that are pure entertainment. We need counterprogramming, after all. But the emphasis is still on what the studios hope are their Oscar-calibre titles. That remains to be seen. Meanwhile, here is our overview of what audiences can expect in the next month (with release dates subject to change by distributors): 8EE8 B8I<E@E8 Efm% *' `e b\p Z`k`\j After Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, Joe Wright collaborates again with his onscreen muse, Keira Knightley. They tackle Tolstoy, working with Tom Stoppard on a new adaptation of the legendary 1870s Russian novel. This is a classic romantic tragedy set against the roil of society, politics and militarism in late 19th-century Russia. Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Jude Law co-star. B@CC@E> K?<D JF=KCP Efm% *' Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford) re-teams with Brad Pitt, bringing out his best. Set in New Orleans, the story follows hapless thugs who raid a high-stakes poker game. A cool-handed hitman (Pitt) is obliged to clean up the mess for the mob. The cast includes Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Ray Liotta, Richard Jenkins and James Gandolfini. ;<8;=8CC ;\Z% - `e Kfifekf Xe[ Dfeki\Xc In Stefan Ruzowitzky’s crime thriller — which also emerges as a complicated romantic drama — Eric Bana and Olivia Wilde hit the road after a casino heist goes bad. When they find themselves in a blizzard on the way to the Canadian border, life gets even more complicated with others involved. Not everyone will survive the carnage. GC8P@E> =FI B<<GJ ;\Z% . Gabriele Muccino directs Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Dennis Quaid, Uma Thurman and Catherine Zeta-Jones in a romantic comedy about a former soccer star (Butler) returning home to put his sorry life back

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launching into his first adventure outside the Shire. Bilbo is aided on the quest by Gandalf and will eventually find a ring — the One Ring that binds them all — that will change the course of Middle-earth history. Familiar on-screen faces include Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, Elijah Wood, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm and, of course, Andy Serkis as Gollum. 8 IFP8C 8==8@I ;\Z% (+ `e Kfifekf Xe[ MXeZflm\i2 AXe% (/ `e Dfeki\Xc Mads Mikkelsen stars in this period drama set in 18th-century Denmark. Based on a true story, it chronicles the sexcapades of Queen Caroline Mathilda, who cuckolded the mad King Christian VII with the royal physician (Mikkelsen). Denmark’s Nikolaj Arcel directs this Danish-language drama. ?P;< G8IB FE ?L;JFE ;\Z% (+ `e Kfifekf# MXeZflm\i# Dfeki\Xc2 ;\Z% )( `e FkkXnX Comic Bill Murray taps into his dramatic side, playing U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in June 1939, when he hosts the King and Queen of England. The politics of impending war intersect with

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three grandchildren, their old-school ways conflict with those of their modern daughter (Marisa Tomei). The chaotic results are meant to provoke laughter while real-life grandparents nod their heads knowingly. C<J D@JyI89C<J ;\Z% ), Already touted as a sure-fire Oscar

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It’s not whether she wins or loses, it’s how Margaret Witschl plays the game. The painter’s newest exhibition, Game Pieces, opens tonight (Thursday) at the Art Gallery of St. Albert, consisting of collagelike images of objects that one might not see together in the real world being forced to share canvas space with one another. It’s a technique that was sparked when Witschl began studying surrealist arts. “Surrealists were big on collage and juxtaposing things that didn’t seem to have any real connection in life and forcing them together to live together and creating a sense that gave people something to think about,” she said. “In a way, that is what I have done.” Surrealist artists, she also discovered, had visual and literary games and, with a sense of geometric organization already present in her work — “For a long as I’ve been working, anything substantial I’ve done have had this element,” she said — Witschl decided to play along. “I had the players going, if you can equate these individually applied collage elements as the players, moving them around,” she said. “I devised my own simple game. It has a board, a geometrically organized surface ... then applied the images I chose, not with a preconceived total, not with a vision of how it would look complete.” That leads to the repetition of some elements throughout the paintings, like a

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anxiety a bit of the world we live in. I see it as common in my friends, my family, the people I talk to. They’re not all going around [all tensed up], but it is something in the nature of the times, where things are unsettled politically, economically and naturally. There are lots of things to be concerned about.” All the pieces in this exhibit were created in 2012, but Witschl said that’s more of a coincidence than any sort of pressure she put on herself to create under a tight deadline. “I had been working on a series in 2011 that was shown in two solo shows this year, one in Edmonton and one in Okotoks, and while they were away being shown, I started this

new series,” she explained. “They relate, they sort of follow on, but up to that point, I had been busy with that previous series.” Along with the exhibit, though, the AGSA has produced a publication to go along with the exhibit, featuring writing by Amy Fung and prints of the works Witschl has included in the show. “It’s definitely something people can take away from the exhibition and keep Margaret’s work in mind,” said AGSA exhibition curator Jenny Willson-McGrath. “As well, a lot of people have a habit of not really taking in artwork, especially at an opening, which is more of a social event. This gives them something to take home, contemplate and maybe even come back again.” For Witschl — who will be signing copies of the publication at the opening reception tonight (Thursday) — it’s not only a documentation of the exhibit, but also a great way to promote both the gallery and the artist. “It is a level of professionalism, both for the gallery and the artist, to do a joint project where we have both seen advantages from our own perspective,” she said. But she hopes the book isn’t the only thing gallery patrons take home with them. “As much as I bring to it as the painter, I envision the viewer taking away their own thing,” Witschl said. “The images, they can’t help but trigger responses to individual things ... the viewer’s response is one I could never predict, and is different from my own.” Game Pieces runs until Feb. 2, 2013, at the Art Gallery of St. Albert (19 Perron St.).

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Doug Schafer didn’t get to meet Paul McCartney when he landed in Edmonton for two concerts at Rexall Place last week, but he did give the former Beatle a big hand. Schafer has been tuning pianos for more than three decades, including the pianos at the Arden Theatre here in St. Albert and for the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and was tasked with making sure the piano in McCartney’s Edmonton hotel room sounded just right. “I considered it an honour to do the work for [McCartney],” Schafer said. “I didn’t meet him; I just worked on the piano in his hotel suite, prepped it and tuned it and got it ready for him. That was good enough for me; just a oncein-a-lifetime experience working for probably the most highly recognized musician on the planet.”

Schafer was also on call for tunings at Rexall Place, but unfortunately didn’t get the call for that job. The opportunity came about when McCartney’s hotel needed to rent a piano for his suite. “I knew of a piano that could be rented, and they wanted to deal with a small company, an individual, for security reasons. They didn’t want to call a big piano store and talk to a receptionist because it would have been blabbed all over the place,” Schafer said. Schafer runs a piano servicing and rebuilding company near Spruce Grove and has been tuning pianos — mostly grand pianos — for 36 years after teaching himself the craft. “I started when I was 21 years old, and when I was 26, I was offered the contract at the Jubilee Auditorium, and it went from there. I did all the concerts for the Jubilee and the ESO, and when the Winspear opened, I went over there. I also take care of the Dow

Centre [in Fort Saskatchewan] and the Horizon Stage [in Spruce Grove] and the Arden Theatre and Rexall Place,” he said. “It was just something I decided I wanted to do,” he added. “I got some reading materials, I enrolled in a correspondence course that had about 20 lessons, and I think I got to lesson nine or 10, and it became very mundane, so I never did graduate. I just absorbed whatever information I needed as to the procedures of starting on the keyboard and how to set up the first initial octave, which is the most important octave; you have to get it bang-on, because the rest of the piano is done in reference to that octave.” And while Schafer will continue tuning and rebuilding, he can’t imagine a career highlight much bigger than he had last week. “As I said to my wife, I’ve reached my pinnacle. Where do you go beyond Paul McCartney?” he said with a laugh.

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Something positive Labelling transgenic food would drive the price People have been breeding plants for tens of and good happening.” of produce up if consumers avoided the product. thousands of years, but it’s a long and imprecise Kalmanovitch said it takes 10 calories of energy process. Genetic engineering introduces a gene Farmers can produce food at a lower cost with to produce one calorie of food in energy-intensive that isn’t there, or suppresses a gene that is. genetic engineering, Folta said. conventional farming. “If you put a skull and cross bones on your Folta said organics versus genetically “Organics maybe are not the best, highest level label and say genetically modified, it’s totally in a engineered food is a false dichotomy. He said that we can do, but it sure is a lot better than the bogus argument. 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St. Albert is one of the best places in Alberta to invest, according to a national real estate think tank. The Canadian Real Estate Investment Network recently released a new report entitled Top Alberta Investment Towns-Based on Key Economic Fundamentals, which found that St. Albert is poised to outperform other municipalities in the province over the next three to five years. “If consistently low vacancies, high rents and strong property value increases located in a strategically situated city surrounded by a major job base is something you are looking for as an investor then St. Albert fits the bill,� reads the report’s executive summary. It goes on to say: “Once known solely as a bedroom community to Edmonton, the leadership in St. Albert has worked hard to shed this label by becoming an employment center.� The report also cites the construction of Ray Gibbon Drive and the northwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive as positive factors, along with the imminent designation of more industrial and commercial lands. St. Albert is fifth in the REIN ranking, trailing Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer and Airdrie, but out in front of Fort McMurray, Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, Okotoks, Leduc, Sylvan Lake and Lacombe. “The City of St. Albert has a renewed focus on economic development and we are working diligently to attract new business and investment opportunities to the city,� said City executive director of economic development Guy Boston in a press release. “The endorsement from the Network is a positive sign that our continued focus and efforts on some of the key indicators — such as political leadership, a progressive and helpful economic development office and major transportation improvement — position us well for economic growth.�

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