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Thursday, June 27, 2013

‘Black ace’ Lead Stanton INDEX hoists Cup the

News . . . . . . . . . 3 Opinion . . . . . . . . 8 Council Notes . . . . 10 Entertainment . . . . . 11 CANADA DAY . . . . . . 18 Fun & Games . . . . . 20 Business . . . . . . 22 stalbertjobs.com . . . 23

COVER

Rylin Curial (left), a 16-yearold Bellerose Composite High School student, and Cole Vankonkelenberg, 13, who goes to Vincent J. Maloney Junior High, have a board meeting as they get ready for the second annual Canada Day Longboard Competition coming up on Monday in St. Albert. The longboard competition is just one of many activities going on in the city to mark Canada’s 146th birthday. See story, page 19.

BY THE NUMBERS

$2,155 That’s how much businesses who were the targets of the St. Albert Cash Mob averaged in sales in one hour during the monthly mobs from September to June. Cash Mob organizer Heidi Fedoruk says sheis proud of the movement she has started on page 7.

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GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

He may not get his name on the Stanley Cup, but Ryan Stanton can call himself a champion. Stanton, a 23-year-old St. Albert native, took a trip around the TD Garden ice in Boston on Monday evening with hockey’s holy grail after his Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Game 6 of the 2013 Stanley Cup Final. The six-foot-two, 196-pound defenceman was one of the Blackhawks’ “black aces,” who took to the ice in practice throughout the playoffs to help the regular players prepare, but did not see any ice time himself during the postseason. However, his hard work was rewarded Monday night as he joined in the celebration with his teammates and was one of the last to hoist the Cup before the traditional team photo was taken. Stanton won’t be eligible to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup, though; that honour is bestowed only on players who have played in at least half the winning team’s regular season games — 24 in this lockout-

shortened season — or one game in the Stanley Cup Final. Stanton only dressed for the Blackhawks in one regular season game this year, on April 27 on the road against the St. Louis Blues. Chicago lost that game 3-1, but Stanton wound up with a plus-one rating, one shot and one hit, as well as two penalty minutes. Stanton spent the rest of the 2012-2013 with the Rockford IceHogs of the American Hockey League, racking up three goals and 22 assists in 73 games, to go along with 126 penalty minutes and a plus-16 rating. Stanton was signed by the Blackhawks as a free agent on March 12, 2010. Prior to that, he played major junior hockey with the Moose Jaw Warriors of the Western Hockey League, collecting 19 goals and 83 assists over four full seasons.

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

City hires new GM

the planning and engineering portfolio — notably, having built constructive and positive relationships with the land There’s a new captain at the helm of development industry, establishment of the City of St. Albert’s planning and a sustainability framework and sourcing engineering departments. external funding for major capital projects. The City announced on His accomplishments in these Thursday, June 20, that it had areas will benefit St. Albert as we hired David L. Hales as the new head down a similar path. He also general manager of planning and has a balance of experience with engineering, starting on July 15. both planning and engineering “I look forward to joining which serve the City well.” St. Albert as it starts a critical Hales comes to St. Albert from phase in its evolution as a city,” the City of Spruce Grove, where he Hales said in a press release. served as the general manager of “Opportunities to work with a planning and infrastructure for the David L. beautiful community like this and Hales past 12 years and as the manager of staff as skilled as those with the planning and development for two New GM City are why people get into my years prior to that. profession.” Before joining the City of Spruce Hales replaces Curtis Cundy, who left Grove, Hales was also the director of the City as of March 1 after 14 years to take planning engineering for the City of Fort over the position of director of land services Saskatchewan for four years, and an area (corporate) with the City of Edmonton. planner with the Battle River Regional City manager Patrick Draper said he was Planning Commission for four years. very pleased with the hiring. He holds a bachelor’s degree in “We are very pleased to have David economics and urban geography from join the City as we pursue growth and the University of Alberta, as well as a civil renewal,” Draper said in the same press engineering technology diploma from the release. “David brings significant executive Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science experience in municipal government to and Technology.

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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A First Nations dancer entertains the crowd at the National Aboriginal Day Festival on Sunday in Lions Park. The festival also celebrated Inuit and Métis culture.

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École Father Jan Grade 4 student Jacob Wing asks a question of Dave Maskell from Kindness In Action during the school’s Mini We Day on Tuesday morning in the school gymnasium.

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The event was inspired by the We Day event several Grade 6 students attended back in October, and they invited representatives from different service organizations and charities in to talk about what they do for people around the world. Maskell and Kindness in Action travel to developing countries like Nicaragua and Guatemala to provide dental work free of charge to those who can’t afford it.

C A N A D A

No flood danger for Sturgeon

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

As flood waters have ravaged southern Alberta this week and put the rest of the province on edge, officials with the City of St. Albert say there’s little chance of the same thing happening here — this year or any other. Torrential rainfalls have caused rising water levels and devastation in places like Canmore, Medicine Hat and Calgary, but Leah Kongsrude, manager of the City’s office of community sustainability, said Monday that the level of the Sturgeon River has been steadily declining over the past few weeks. “It has been decreasing nice and slowly, which is nice to see,” Kongsrude said. The measured depth of the Sturgeon River on May 24 was 1.6 metres and, aside from some rainfalls causing minor spikes, it has gone done steadily since then and had stabilized near one metre over the past week. Normally, the Sturgeon measures between half a metre and one metre deep, with peak levels occurring between April 15 and May 15 that depend mostly on the amount of snow that fell over the previous winter. Last year, though, after the water

level dropped to one metre in July, it rose to two metres in August due to significant rainfall throughout its watershed, but that still wasn’t close to flood levels. While rivers that have risen like the Bow and the North Saskatchewan originate and have their basins in the Rocky Mountains, the Sturgeon actually originates from Hoople Lake, near Entwistle, only about 100 kilometres west of St. Albert. It then meets up with the North Saskatchewan River just northwest of Fort Saskatchewan. “It flows through Isle Lake and Lac Ste Anne, then down to Onoway and through Big Lake to St. Albert,” Kongsrude said. “Then it goes up through Gibbons and heads north, then makes a righthand turn and connects with the North Saaskatchewan. It’s about 250 kilometres long.” She added, though, that there are a number of tributaries and lakes that drain into the Sturgeon along the way. Because the Sturgeon doesn’t start in the mountains and isn’t very long, the chances of it rising so rapidly as to cause the same sort of destruction seen in southern Alberta are “extremely limited.” “Once the snow has fallen and is melted; that’s our peak and it’s done,” Kongsrude said.

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BLESS Summer Nature Centre ready to go wild GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Kids in St. Albert will have a chance this summer to learn about the birds and the bees — and lots of other plants and animals too. For the 16th year, the Big Lake Environmental Support Society (BLESS) is running its Summer Nature Centre out of its log cabin near the Sturgeon River, giving young naturalists the chance to learn about everything from birds and insects to the weather and trees. “Basically, we teach kids about the environment and expose them to what lies just beyond their backyard,” said Bettina Breau, co-ordinator of the summer nature program for this year. The program runs for nine weeks starting on July 2, with a different theme each week taught through crafts, games and handson demonstrations. Children who participate in at least six

different themes can earn a Young Naturalist certificate. Breau hopes, whether they come for one week or all nine, the kids come away from the program with “a heightened curiosity toward the environment.” “Later on down the road, it can lead to something else — an appreciation, or they’re talking to their parents about it when they go for a walk,” she said. “It’s a peaked awareness and interest, even if they don’t understand all the nittygritty details.” Breau herself is no stranger to the Summer Nature Centre. A 23-year-old St. Albert native in the fourth year of the environmental studies program at The King’s University College in Edmonton, she put in 50 volunteer hours at the cabin last year, and she’s thrilled to be back. “I’ve always been passionate about the environment. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist,” she said. “As I

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

BLESS Summer Nature Centre co-ordinator Bettina Breau holds one of the feathered friends that kids can learn about at the centre during its nine weeks of programming, which starts up on Tuesday, July 2. got older, I decided that I wanted to be more involved in sustainability and children’s education. … This centre gives me the opportunity to basically combine all my loves.” Breau has been busy preparing for the summer programs for the past couple of weeks, putting her creativity to the test in coming up with games and activities for kids. “I have tons and tons of leeway. … I’m applying some of the same

games, some of the same crafts [as last year], but at the same time, switching some of the crafts and games out and developing some of my own,” she said. While Breau hopes to meet or exceed last year’s total of 1,500 participants over the course of the summer, she said she has bigger goals in mind. “The numbers are important, but at the same time, I feel it’s

the quality that matters, and not necessarily the quantity,” she said. The BLESS Summer Nature Centre is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (except statutory holidays) until Aug. 30. Programs are free of charge, although donations to BLESS are gratefully accepted. For more information on the program, call Breau at 780-9847949.

Committee looks to change up conversation on housing GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

A number of non-profit groups in St. Albert are coming together to change the conversation around affordable housing. The Temporary Residential Services (TRS) committee — which is made of representatives from 10 different local agencies and non-profits — has been running an awareness campaign for the past couple of months about the benefits of affordable housing to the entire community, using posters and newspaper advertisements to spread the word. “Affordable housing — those two words have been met with some angst. So what we’re trying to do is take affordable housing and make it a normal part of speaking here in St. Albert,” said Suzan Krecsy, executive director of the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village, one of the members of the TRS committee.

“The more you talk about it, the more normal it sounds, and the more OK it sounds,” she added. The TRS committee also includes: • the St. Albert Salvation Army; • the Society of St. Vincent de Paul; • the St. Albert Housing Society; • Habitat for Humanity; • the Sturgeon Foundation; • the St. Albert Ministerial Association; • the St. Albert Family Resource Centre; • Transitions; and • the City of St. Albert’s Family and Community Support Services department. “We want to demystify some of that fear about who needs affordable housing,” said Linda Knoblauch, community development co-ordinator with FCSS. “We really sometimes have a misconception when we start talking about affordable housing as to who that looks like. “They think it’s going to bring in people

who are going to cause some issues in their neighbourhoods, whether it be crime or drugs. And they do not.” One of the ads that ran in last week’s St. Albert Leader featured a photo of a graduate hitchhiking out of St. Albert with the caption: “Leaving the nest shouldn’t mean leaving St. Albert.” Other posters target affordable housing issues faced by seniors and employees in the service and child care industries. Each ad also has the tagline: “Affordable housing benefits everyone.” The posters first went up in the windows of local businesses in April, and they recently expanded the campaign to paid newspaper advertising. So far, Knoblauch said it’s hard to quantify the response to the campaign, but given the negative feedback to some affordable housing projects in St. Albert in the past, perhaps no news is good news. “Last time those two words were put together in a sentence, there was quite a backlash,” Krecsy said. “We’re not getting

anything back, so that could be good.” “We just want people to think about it,” Knoblauch added. Krecsy added that, although many on the current city council are big advocates of affordable housing, being so close to Edmonton can be “a blessing and a curse” in dealing with the situation. “If we have to send somebody into Edmonton, it’s not that far. But being this close, we don’t get anything [in terms of funding],” she said. The campaign is being paid for through grant money from higher levels of government, but when the TRS committee has to write their final report back to them on the campaign, they hope they can say that the conversation around affordable housing has at least been jumpstarted. “We’re giving people permission to talk about affordable housing, on whatever level that is,” Krecsy said. “Even if they’re dead set against it, come and sit down, and let’s talk about that.”

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Cash Mob wraps up successful first year

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Hundreds of mobbers and thousands of $20 bills later, Heidi Fedoruk has good reason to be proud of what she has done over the past 10 months. Fedoruk is the organizer of the St. Albert Cash Mob, which started last September. Over that time, she and her army of local shopping enthusiasts have “mobbed” nine businesses — while giving plenty of others exposure through door prizes or acting as meeting points — resulting in thousands of dollars being pumped into the local economy. “It was awesome. St. Albert came out in full force as usual to support something and get behind it. I was overwhelmed actually,” Fedoruk said, noting that the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce got on board, and there was one mobber with perfect attendance at all nine events. A cash mob involves customers finding out a location

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

Cash mobbers check out the selection at Sublime Swim and Sunwear during the ‘season finale’ of the event on Thursday, June 20. and time one week prior via social media and in the St. Albert Leader, and descending upon that business at the same time, each committed to spending $20 there. Fedoruk has involved more businesses by

having one serve as a meeting point before heading to another. Talking to the business owners after the mobs, Fedoruk knows how much it means to them. “One lady said she felt it was like winning the jackpot to be

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chosen,” she said, noting that some businesses have had people who couldn’t make the formal cash mob event come in a week or two later to check them out, and others have become recurring customers. Those are exactly the sorts of stories Fedoruk hoped to hear when she started organizing cash mobs. “Some people look at it as a fun night with friends, but many of them have put on Facebook or emailed me personally that they never really thought hard about it before, but when they can ... now they think about it,” she said. “For me, that’s the thing I’m really trying to achieve.” The St. Albert Cash Mob is taking the summer off, but it will be back in September, and Fedoruk said she’ll keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook to get some ideas on which businesses to hit next. “I’m sure there’s still lots in the area, lots to explore,” she said. “For me personally, I had never shopped at six out of the nine businesses [that were mobbed].”

Businesses mobbed:

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Highest number of mobbers (December):

118

Average sales per hour:

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

OPINION

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Heroes shine through flood

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ometimes, only when it is darkest do the brightest heroes emerge among us. Such is the case when it comes to the flooding that has ravaged southern Alberta, and Calgary in particular, over the past week. Things have admittedly seemed by Glenn Cook pretty bleak at times; we have all stared slack-jawed at our computer screens over the past seven days, looking at videos of a creek swelling to many times its normal volume in Canmore or at photos of the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary covered in muddy water up to the 10th row. We have shaken our heads, wondering how we would cope if such a tragedy were ever to befall us. Honestly, though, if it did, we would all do well to take a page from the playbook of our neighbours to the south. The outpouring of support for their neighbours and the way they have all pitched in — some doing the heavy lifting, others merely being there to support the lifters — has been truly inspiring. Should such a tragedy happen here, though, we should also hope the provincial government is ready to lend as big of a hand as they have in southern Alberta. The more than $1 billion in committed flood relief is a staggering figure that puts into perspective how widespread the damage was. Of course, such an extraordinary expense in extraordinary times means that the government won’t be able to balance its budget for a few more years. But no one seems to be complaining; this is a time to put the calculators away, a time to make sure everyone is back on their feet and worry about the costs later. You’ll notice that not even the Wildrose has said boo about the extra expenditures, surely due in part to the fact that one of the hardest-hit areas of the province is their own leader’s riding of High River-Okotoks. As bleak as the situation in southern Alberta may have seemed, we have reached the light at the end of the tunnel. And, in our resilience and resolve, Albertans will shine even brighter than we did before.

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Time to set the bar higher on school sites

he one real problem with politics is that the bar is set so low, you can’t help but achieve it. In any normal job, a success rate above 95 per cent is required to keep one’s job; in baseball, if you are batting .300, you are an all-star. In politics, if you’re batting 10 per cent, you’re doing a pretty good job. This has been the one source of frustration that I have had since being elected as, in my personal and professional life, I have always strived for 100 per cent success and have not been satisfied with anything less. I believe that this tolerance for poor performance is created as your boss (the public) only gets one chance to evaluate your performance every few years, and often many issues are long forgotten come time for a performance evaluation.

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MacKAY City councillor My City The other factor involved is that, in many cases the issues are complex and interconnected, and as a result, it becomes difficult to discern the solution — or, in many cases, even what the problem is. Making things even more difficult is the fact that many of the big issues are not interesting until they become a problem. Ten years ago, we signed a site allocation agreement with local school boards that pre-allocated land to each board rather than transferring the land at the time a school is announced. As a result, school boards chose school sites 20

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years before a school will be built. Then they are reticent to give the land up for other public uses when no school arrives. Also, the allocation decisions are not made by an elected body, but by an unelected committee. Six years ago, we cancelled our municipal planning commission, which tried to outline long-term planning needs for the future of our city. Three years ago, we took the highly unusual step of permitting a school board to sell a site in Akinsdale as, at the time, we must have thought we had a surplus of school sites. Today, we have to allocate schools — one site is OK and one site is small, poorly situated, and suffers from a perpetual lack of parking. It’s hardly a great location for a school; however, there are no obvious alternatives.

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This ends up being nobody’s fault specifically, but everyone can share the blame for a succession of poor land use planning decisions. Some people will be negatively affected; however, life will go on. They will forget and likely the same poor decisions will further planning problems. We need to modify the school site selection agreement so that residents are represented when school sites are allocated. We need to resurrect the planning commission so that residents have a say in all land use planning decisions. Most importantly, we need to hold politicians accountable for these big picture issues. When someone says a deal is done, but the deal is not a good one, it’s time to demand solutions and to set the bar higher for politicians. Owned and operated by

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IssUes

WHY IT MATTERS

THE VOTE

downtown design Review Update

The City of St. Albert has been working with an urban design consultant for new downtown redevelopments while also looking at the possibility of establishing a downtown design review panel. But, due to minimal new development downtown, administration recommended delaying establishing the panel.

CROUSE . . . . . . . . . ✔ PARKER . . . . . . . . . ✔ HERON . . . . . . . .absent BRODHEAD . . . . . . ✔ LEMIEUX . . . . . . . . ✔ BRACKO . . . . . . . . . ✔ MacKAY . . . . . . . . . . ✘

“Seeing as how, going through the work, it’s pretty nominal ... isn’t this something we could just take inhouse now?”

grey nuns White spruce park Management plan Update

Administration updated council Monday on the progress on drafting a new management plan for the Grey Nuns White Spruce Park, which is located south of Meadowview Drive and east of Ray Gibbon Drive.

CROUSE . . . . . . . . . ✔ PARKER . . . . . . . . . ✔ HERON . . . . . . . .absent BRODHEAD . . . . . . ✔ LEMIEUX . . . . . . . . ✔ BRACKO . . . . . . . . . ✔ MacKAY . . . . . . . . . ✔

“This isn’t just a bunch of kitchen talk. There is a lot of expertise behind this that we’re leveraging.”

naming Report

COUNCIL NOTES • MONDAY, JUNE 24, 2013

Mayor Nolan Crouse put forward a motion Monday to have administration prepare a report suggesting names for “un-named significant employment areas,” like the Walmart site, the Costco site and recently designated employment lands.

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“We should look to see what creative ways we handle this, and there might be something that really sticks out that would be appropriate.”

NOTABLE QUOTES “The requirement for a downtown review panel is not yet needed, so the recommendation is to continue on using the consultant.”

— Cam MacKay

— Wes Brodhead

“It’s great to see the expertise involved. I look forward to moving it forward more.” — Len Bracko

— Chris Jardine, GM of community and protective services

“We could have fun with this, and make a move in the right direction to involve the community at large.”

— Nolan Crouse

— Roger Lemieux

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Library games take readers around globe GLENN COOK

“We want to see kids who have never come before.”

St. Albert Leader

Young patrons of the St. Albert Public Library will have the chance this summer to see just how far reading can take them. The library is once again putting the finishing touches on its annual summer reading games, the most involved of which is entitled iSpy: Around the World and takes kids from Grades 1 to 6 on a journey across the globe to collect clues and thwart a villain’s plan. “We wanted to do a mystery, and we wanted to do something about travelling the world. And it sort of just starting evolving into a spy game,” said Drew Thomas, who works in the library’s children’s section. “We do a spring break mystery game every year, and this year it was about a spy agency called Bibliopol, and the more we thought about, the more we thought it would be cool to keep the story going.” In the game, kids work for the spy organization Bibliopol, working to foil the plans of the Society of Nasty and Rotten Lowlifes — or S.N.A.R.L., for short — to take over the world. Each stop of the game is a different location across the globe, and they’ll have to read two books to move on to the next stop: one of a specific genre, like fantasy or mystery, and one of their own choice. “The idea is that kids can discover their favourite book series over the summer, or discover a whole new genre of

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Marcie Marciglio (left) and Caralyn Ludwig take a break from building the St. Albert Public Library’s summer reading game in Forsyth Hall to hang out with some jellyfish in the Great Barrier Reef. books they’ve never tried, that they were reluctant to try,” Thomas said. “That’s always our goal, that they remember the library as a good place to come — not just for books.” The game has taken over Forsyth Hall in the library with an elaborate maze of cities, continents and even jellyfish.

Thomas said it’s a lot of work in a short amount of time to put it all together. “The entire first month is coming up with the story, coming up with all the adventures the kids are going to do,” he said. “... Once the Children’s Festival ends, we get that room back, and it’s

just build, build, build for four straight weeks.” But, he added, it’s all worth it in the end. “The kids have been in that room for lots of different programs, but when they come in for the summer game, it looks like nothing else,” he said. The library doesn’t have any

set goal as far as participation, instead focusing on bringing in new patrons. “We want to see kids who have never come before,” Thomas said. “We’re getting lots of families that are moving into St. Albert, parents asking, ‘What’s this reading game I’ve heard about?’ We’re hoping to get those kids started, and we hope the kids who played last year will come back.” Meanwhile, there are other geography-themed reading games for all ages at the library this summer. For preschoolers, there’s It’s a Big World, where participants have suddenly grown in size and have to travel the world to find a magic spell to return them to normal size. For teens, Book It Around the World gives them the chance to conquer technological challenges and race around the world for weekly prizes and even a grand prize of an iPod Nano. And adults can spin the globe to discover a new genre in their own game, and even win a Kobo Glo e-reader along the way. All the summer reading games at the library start today (Thursday) and run until Monday, Aug. 19.

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Boonstock forges ahead despite drama GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

This is an exciting time of year for Colin Kobza. Kobza is the CEO of Boonstock Productions, the company that is just putting the finishing touches on the ninth annual Boonstock Music and Arts Festival, taking place this weekend just outside Gibbons. And with artists and bands like Slash, Knife Party, Headstones, Sublime with Rome, Eric Prydz, Dropkick Murphys and Godsmack headlining this year’s bill, he has plenty of reason to be excited. “It’s excitement and nervousness, I guess,” Kobza said. “We’re growing every year. We have a great crew this year, and we’re just excited to get rockin’ and rollin’.” With all those big-name bands descending on the festival grounds, it’s understandable that Kobza is having a hard time figuring out which one he’s most excited about. “I don’t really have a favourite. Godsmack, Dropkick [Murphys], Knife Party, Eric Prydz — even some of the smaller acts I’m looking forward to,” he said.

The road to Boonstock wasn’t without a few bumps, though, this year. Rapmetal band Limp Bizkit was originally slated to headline Saturday night’s lineup, but they pulled out due to scheduling conflicts. However, organizers more than made up for that by bringing in both Slash — formerly of Guns N’ Roses — and Canadian rock legends Headstones, who recently got back together after an eightyear hiatus. “We definutely don’t want to lose artists,” Kobza said. “But picking up Slash and Headstones was, I think, a good fit for the bill. And the response to

it was really awesome.” While rain fell earlier in the week during the lead-up to Boonstock, Kobza wasn’t fazed by the storms. “We’re doing a lot of our production load-in, and it’s kind of sloppy,” he said on Tuesday, “but it’s got to get done. I’d rather have it on the days of load-in than on the festival days, that’s for sure.” And that should contribute to a great atmosphere, just like it has every year so far. “It’s a good vibe; I think that’s why we’re growing every year,” he said. “It’s the experience that people are enjoying; it’s not just the artists.”

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Slash (above) and the newly reunited Headstones (left) headline the Boonstock Music and Arts Festival this weekend just outside Gibbons.

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Pixar going strong with Monsters University JORDAN RIEFE Sun Media News Services

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Mascots of Mike and Sully attend the world premiere of Monsters University in Hollywood.

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WALL*E director Andrew Stanton, and in 2006, naming Lasseter head of Ratatouille director Brad Bird. animation. But in recent years, the studio has Since the transition, Pixar has undergone what you could call a brain delivered exemplary movies like drain with Lasseter spending Ratatouille, WALL*E, Up and more time in Burbank than at Toy Story 3, but in recent years Pixar’s home in Emeryville, has started to slip with the Calif.; Andrew Stanton stepping critically-trashed Cars 2 and disastrously into live action last year’s Brave which, despite with last year’s bomb, John winning the Oscar, received Carter; and Brad Bird’s more lukewarm reviews. auspicious live-action debut, In coming years, fans can Mission: Impossible — Ghost expect more sequels with Protocol. Finding Dory, (a follow-up to Dan “The brain trust is really Finding Nemo), and a Cars comprised of all the directors spin-off, Planes, (to be produced Scanlon Director at the studio cause we want the at Disney), as well as a fourth directors collaborating and we installment of Toy Story. want them looking at each other’s work “We had done so many films and had and giving feedback,” assures Rae. “It so many beloved characters that there also changes on the needs of each film were places to go to, places to go back and kind of what a film is struggling to, characters to revisit after we built with and who has an area of expertise up such a great library of film,” says producer Kori Rae. “We really wanted to that they might lend more to.” “I think that the culture here has go back and meet Mike and Sully again stayed as much the same as it can,” adds and find out something new about them director Scanlon. “I don’t know that it’s because they’re really great characters in any way Disney-related. I think the and it’s such a great world.” biggest change is just that we’ve gotten Pixar’s secret weapon has always been bigger over the years. We’re lucky that its brain trust, which mentors writers people like the movies and therefore we and directors on films in production. can grow.” Principles in the trust include Lasseter,

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HAPPY CANADA DAY!

Canada Day celebrates our great nation’s unity, diversity and shared culture, making us truly proud to be Canadians! As you celebrate with your loved ones, have a safe and happy Canada Day!

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GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Canada is turning 146 this year, and St. Albert is hosting the party. Monday marks Canada Day, and the City of St. Albert once again has a full slate of activities planned to mark our country’s birthday. The day will actually get off to an early start thanks to the Heritage Lakes Community Association, which will once again host its annual Canada Day Pancake Breakfast starting at 9 a.m. at École La Mission (46 Heritage Dr.). The cost for breakfast is $3 if you bring your own plate and cutlery; $4 if you don’t. At 11 a.m., the City takes over the festivities at Lions Park until 3 p.m. with a ton of activities going on, including bouncy castles, wagon rides, face painting, a flight simulator, displays, entertainment and even birthday cake. There will also be street hockey sponsored by the St. Albert Minor Hockey Association, a petting zoo sponsored by Realty Executives, and a roller derby demonstration from the St. Albert Heavenly Rollers. Food vendors will be set up in the park, and that can be washed down with ice cream

Fireworks explode over St. Albert Place to cap off Canada Day 2012. courtesy of Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber. Celebrations will also be going on at other venues throughout the city. Step back in time with tours, games and demonstrations at the St. Albert Grain Elevator Park, the Little White School House and Father Lacombe Chapel from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Or you can beat the heat at Grosvenor Pool from noon to 2 p.m. or at the Woodlands Water Play Park from 1 to 4 p.m. If you’re feeling the need for speed,

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you can sign up for the second annual Canada Day Longboard Competition, put on by the City’s BAM! (Building Assets and Memories) youth group. Competitors can sign up for both downhill and push races, which start at noon at the Kingswood Day Use Park (385 Sturgeon Rd.). If you’re looking for something at a slower pace, though, visit the St. Albert Botanic Park for their annual Canada Day strawberry tea from 1 to 4 p.m. Strawberries, cake and ice cream are

available for a donation to the park, and children’s activities will be scattered throughout the park while adults stroll through and appreciate its roses, flowers, shrubs and trees. Back downtown, what used to be the Battle of the Bands has morphed this year into the Youth Music Showcase, which starts at 3:30 p.m. in front of St. Albert Place. Local bands will take centre stage during this event, including Celery and Sidewalks, DRT, The Northmen, Negation and All Else Fails. Then, at 7 p.m., they’ll be dancing in the streets as the Family Street Dance takes over St. Anne Street. The band 5AM will provide the live music, while Life Church provides a kids’ carnival from 5 to 8 p.m. And, of course, the day will be capped off with fireworks put on by the St. Albert Kinsmen at Seven Hills just after 11 p.m. The City is also running a free parkand-ride service between St. Albert Centre and the downtown core from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Donations will also be collected all day for the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village. For more information, visit www.stalbert.ca/canada-day.

Happy Canada Day!

Hon. Doug Horner, MLA

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Stephen Khan, MLA Hon. Stephen Khan, MLA St. Albert Constituency 780-459-9113

Thursday, June 27, 2013

FUN & GAMES

DID YOU

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3 Practicing doctor? 4 Mended, as socks 5 Give the giggles 6 Golfer Trevino 7 Hardly worth mentioning 8 Visual illusion genre 9 Let off steam 10 "Nay" sayer 11 Like some reactions 12 Nonexistent 13 Argentina aunt 19 Chevy classic 21 Eagle's nest 23 Grazing ground 25 Klutz's cry 26 Parcel (out) 29 Walk like a show horse 30 Periscope part 31 Bar mixer 33 "The Sun ____ Rises" 34 In-of link 35 Not normal

36 Prayer book 37 Emulate Kandinsky 39 Legendary 42 Great desire 43 Provide with equipment 44 Bury 45 Pitter-_____

47 Hand-played drum 48 Bring to a halt 50 Frontier commodity 51 Flimsy, as an excuse 53 Vintner's vessel 54 Before, of yore 55 Swell, '60s style

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Elvis Presley begins taping his famous “Comeback Special,” which would later air on NBC. Boxer “Iron” Mike Tyson bites the ear of Evander Holyfield during their heavyweight title bout in Las Vegas, marking one of the most bizarre and gruesome chapters of his career.

JUNE 29, 2003

This week in history and celebrity birthdays

JUNE 28, 1997

Milestones JUNE 27, 1968

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On average, cats sleep about 15 hours a day. Cats can hear frequencies up to about 65 kHz, while humans can only hear up to about 20 kHz. A cat’s sense of smell is about 14 times better than a human’s. (didyouknow.org)

Actress Katharine Hepburn — who starred in movies like Morning Glory and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner — dies in Old Saybrook, Conn., at the age of 96.

JUNE 30, 1936

Gone With the Wind, author Margaret Mitchell’s tale of a Southern belle during the Civil War, is published.

JULY 1, 1997

After 99 years of British rule, Hong Kong reverts back to Chinese rule, contingent on a pledge to maintain Hong Kong’s capitalist system.

JULY 2, 1937

The Lockheed aircraft carrying pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator goes missing near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean as they attempted to fly around the world.

JULY 3, 1962

Thomas Cruise Mapother IV — better known to movie audiences as Tom Cruise — is born in Syracuse, N.Y.

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Canadians (L-R) Ellen Pennock, Amelie Kretz and Kirsten Sweetland sweep the podium at the ITU Edmonton Triathlon on Sunday.

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The Weekly Crossword

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Thursday, June 27, 2013

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Celebrate Canada’s birthday at St. Albert Botanic Park. Savour delights for all of your senses. The Park will be in full bloom - enjoy a guided tour, or wander at your own pace. Look on as talented local artists create stunning �� ice cream and tea or coffee (admission by donation) while you enjoy all the Park has to offer.

GIFT SHOP OPEN 10AM - 7PM DAILY Discover Garden Inspired Treasures