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Thursday, May 17, 2012

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Old Hole’s site Lead plans draw ire INDEX the

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Amanda Magyar holds up the replica medal she received for being a medal bearer for the Rick Hansen Relay in March. She’ll get a chance to hold the real thing again next week as the relay’s final medal bearer. See story, page 9.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY MAY 17, 1939

King George VI (1895-1952) and Queen Elizabeth disembark from the Canadian Pacific ship Empress of Australia at Wolfe’s Cove, Que., to begin a monthlong visit to Canada, the first by a reigning British monarch.

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

More than 60 people came out Tuesday evening to voice their concerns — some very passionately — over a commercial development proposed for the former Hole’s Greenhouses site in St. Albert. Vancouver-based Edgar Development Corporation held an open house at the Enjoy Centre to share plans for their Bellerose Village development., and heard emotional pleas to not ruin their “little piece of heaven,” as one nearby resident put it. Chris Dulaba, planning and development officer for Edgar Development, said that, given the history of the Hole family and the land in question, seeing such sentimentality was not a surprise. “It’s a high-profile site; we knew that from the day we got ourselves involved in it,” he said. “It’s been actually part of our thinking of what we want to do with the site. It’s not something we want to pass off as an easy development; we have been putting a lot of thought into it.” The land, located at the corner of Bellerose Drive and Boudreau Road, is still currently owned by the Hole family, but they have applied to the City of St. Albert to subdivide it into three lots to sell. Edgar Development’s proposed commercial centre would go on 4.79 acres on the northwest corner. Another parcel of land to the south is being eyed by another developer for residential use. The last bit, a triangular parcel on the east side, would be retained by the Holes. Residents who commented during the open house were generally discouraged by the development and what it might mean for their neighbourhoods. “I’m disappointed. I had always

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Cops hunt jewelry thief

St. Albert RCMP are on the lookout for a brazen jewelry thief after a daring midday robbery at a local shopping mall. Police say that, around 12:20 p.m. on Thursday, May 10, a male suspect entered the St. Albert Goldsmith store in St. Albert Centre and made off with six to eight yellow gold necklaces in front of staff working at the time. The suspect was seen running toward The Bay before ducking out of the mall through a side receiving

door. He then got into a older model taupe four-door sedan with a loud muffler and fled the parking lot. The suspect is described as fivefoot-11 to six feet tall, with short, spiky dirty blonde hair. He was wearing blue jeans, a white shirt and a grey and blue jacket. Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call St. Albert RCMP at 780-458-7700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). — GLENN COOK

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understood that it wasn’t going to be a development of this nature from as far back as we knew the Holes were going to move,” said Ray Corner, who lives on Enderby Crescent. Of particular concern to residents who came out were the retail outlets proposed for the area, including drug, convenience and liquor stores. “Liquor stores and fast-food outlets, that sort of thing, attract a lot of kids that can — not always, but can cause trouble,” Corner said, adding those kids may also be threatened by speeding cars on Bellerose Drive. Others cited such stores’ potential for creating litter and an abundance of existing liquor stores in the area. Concerns were also raised about the traffic going to and from the site. “There will be delivery trucks in there, and they’ll have to come out the north exit and turn around. If they don’t put lights in, it’ll cause a bottleneck,” Corner said. Dulaba said that Edgar Development intends to do a traffic assessment further into the process, and would do so assuming all three subdivided lots were developed. “We don’t want to spend too much money on consultants if we don’t know this has any chance of getting approved,” he said. Dulaba also indicated the site would have 245 parking stalls, well above the minimum of 127 that City of St. Albert formulas set out. Armed with residents’ feedback, Dulaba said the developers will go back and take another look at their proposal and see if any concerns can be addressed before they buy the land and apply to have it rezoned. “[We’ll] put our heads together and determine the next steps, and figure out where we go from there,” he said. “I think we’re quite confident we’ll move ahead, but I don’t know.”

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

COUNCIL TOWN HALL MEETING

YOUR COUNCIL NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING Tuesday, May 22, 3:00 p.m. Council Chambers St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

Agenda items:

The complete agenda package is posted to www.stalbert.ca • CSAB Recommendation ○ FCSS Spring Grants ○ Games Legacy Grants • SCF Recommendation: Approval of Budget Calendar • Nominating Committee Recommendations: Municipal Governance Review Committee • Affordable Housing Delivery Model Recommendations • Lot Mix Ratio Briefing • Notice of Motion – Capital Region Wastewater Commission You can address Council on these or any other issues. Public appointments are heard at the beginning and end of each Council meeting. Call 780-459-1500 to register. Council meetings are televised on SHAW TV Channel 10 from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., webcast live and archived: stalbert.ca

Wednesday, May 30, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Servus Credit Union Place, Morinville Room 400 Campbell Road Topics for discussion may include: • Welcome/Introductions • Open microphone session • Social Master Plan • Economic Development • 2012 – 2013 Priorities • Animal Bylaw • Light Rail Transit (LRT) • Physician Attraction • Open microphone session For information, contact City Hall, 780-459-1500.

GREEN BY NATURE RAIN BARREL PROGRAM Save water, save money. Catch water from your roof. Until May 31, buy up to four 45-gallon rain barrels for $50 each (while quantities last). For payment and pick-up information, visit www.stalbert.ca/rain-barrel-program or call 780-459-1500.

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COMMUNITY SERVICES ADVISORY BOARD

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ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Saturday, June 2, 2012 Servus Place north parking lot Drop off items between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. Pick up items between 8 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. All remaining items will be taken to the landfill at 1:45 p.m.

Tuesday, May 22, 6:30 p.m. East Boardroom, Third Floor St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

Thursday, May 24, 6:00 p.m. East Boardroom, Third Floor St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

The event is FREE, but food bank donations are greatly appreciated. Items not accepted: tires, toilets, building materials, propane tanks, BBQs, mattresses. All materials will be inspected and any material considered to be unusable will not be accepted. Visit: www.stalbert.ca/tioli

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SOCIAL MASTER PLAN Do you have an opinion on: • Bullying? Neighbourhood Safety? Race and Discrimination? Housing? Share your opinions on our community. Have your Say on the Social Master Plan: www.stalbert.ca/social-master-plan. Deadline: May 31, 2012

HANDIBUS REVIEW RECOMMENDATIONS

CULTIVATE LIFE MURAL UNVEILING

Join us as we reveal the work of over 180 artists in a mural celebrating life, botanic arts and culture in St. Albert. May 23, 2012, 22 Perron Street South Wall (parking lot) Greetings and Unveiling: 10 a.m.

St. Albert Transit is seeking your input on the recommendations provided in the Handibus Review Final Report. Read the report online at: www.stalbert.ca/ handibus-consultation.

Reception to follow: St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

Comments can be emailed to transit@ st-albert.net or mailed to St. Albert Transit, 235 Carnegie Drive, St. Albert, AB, T8N 5A7. Deadline: June 8, 2012.

PUBLIC WORKS OPEN HOUSE

For more information, contact Dawn at St. Albert Transit 780-418-6055, ext. 4120

ANIMAL CONTROL BYLAW SURVEY The City of St. Albert is seeking your input as part of the City’s review of its Animal Control Bylaw. We want to know:

Visit www.sta-culture.com or call 780-459-1692. Creating a Lasting Impression!

Bring the kids and enjoy woodworking, gator and tree picker rides, demonstrations and displays. There are seedling giveaways, balloons and colouring books. Free hotdogs and pop. May 26, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Jack Kraft Facility Public Works Yard 7 Chevigny Street

Please bring a donation to the St. Albert • Should dogs be permitted off-leash in all Food Bank. parks? www.stalbert.ca/pwday • Are you concerned about disruptive/ nuisance dogs and cats? • Would you support a bylaw that requires cats to be licensed? Have your Say in the online survey at www.stalbert.ca/animal-bylaw-information.

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Deadline: July 2, 2012. For information, call Aaron Giesbrecht, Manager of Policing Services, 780-458-4303.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

2012 TAX NOTICES w: www.stalbert.ca/property-taxes-andassessment Assessment: 780-459-1624 tAx: 780-459-1516

St. Albert City Council approved the property tax rates for 2012 at the May 7, 2012 Council Meeting. The assessed values for most residential properties decreased slightly from July 1, 2010 to July 1, 2011 by an average of -1.8%. Non-residential properties increased on average by 6.4%. Properties with an average assessment change will see an average 3.8% tax increase. This increase comprises the following components: •

2.6% municipal levy increase

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improvement program which helps to reduce the volume of rainwater entering Grosvenor Park Outdoor Pool the sanitary sewer system during heavy Opens May 26 rainfalls. City of St. Albert inspectors will Join us for a splashing good time with family perform a free home drainage assessment and friends, or for an early morning lane of the existing lot grading conditions and swim. There are a variety of swim times for suggest possible solutions for problem the public, family and groups of all ages. areas. Available on a first-come, first-serve Check out the schedule at www.stalbert. basis. (Time is limited, some restrictions ca/grosvenor-outdoor-pool may apply). p: 780-458-2002

To book an appointment or for more information, call Public Works at 780-459-1557 ext 4153.

Find your perfect plot right here in st. albert Traditional and ash burials, a Field of Honour, Columbarium and Memorial Wall available.

Properties that experienced a higher or lower assessment change than the average will see a corresponding higher or lower tax increase. Assessment & Tax notices will be mailed on May 31, 2012. Tax payment deadline is June 30. Assessment appeal deadline is July 30.

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The City of St. Albert Utilities Branch is performing water main flushing in the Sturgeon area. This process started on the week of May 14th and makes part of the City’s maintenance program to ensure good water quality is sustained throughout the system. This process may momentarily affect water pressure. Please contact the Public Works Utilities Branch at 780-459-1557 for any additional information.

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Water services to the City-operated trailer dump sites are now open for the season. This will affect the trailer dump facilities at 17 Riel Drive and 7 Chevigny Street. For questions, contact Public Works, 780-459-1557.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

AGSA expansion dominates capital budget talk

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

While the City of St. Albert’s entire 10-year capital plan was up for discussion on Monday afternoon, there was one item that seemed to be at the top of most city councillor’s minds. The City’s Standing Committee on Finance met Monday to go over the capital plan, but the proposed $4.6-million expansion to the Art Gallery of St. Albert dominated the discussion. Many councillors wanted to see options on just making the building wheelchairaccessible, rather than the full-blown expansion, before making a decision. “Is there an opportunity to have some choices on this project? Perhaps just the construction of the ramp, what would that

cost?” Coun. Cam MacKay asked, indicating that the St. Albert Community Hall next door might be interested in a joint project. “If council wishes to see different options for it, I think you need to direct administration to go back to the AHF and work with them to develop different level of options and see what you preference is,” general manager of community and protective services Chris Jardine said. The AGSA project is currently listed as unfunded in the 10-year capital plan, with an amount of $533,100 listed for the 2013 budget and $1.85 million listed for 2014. Some councillors were curious as to why the entire $4.6-million bill was not in the plan. Jardine said that the City’s senior leadership team had decided the whole cost should be

reflected, but there wasn’t enough time to update the documents for Monday. The Arts and Heritage Foundation is hoping to secure $1.2 million in federal and provincial grants for the project, as well as fundraise $516,900. Another project that raised eyebrows was the restoration of Juneau House, located on Madonna Avenue, the cost of which has jumped from $374,900 to $550,000. Jardine said that, with a foundation that is failing, the project won’t get any cheaper. “We’re at a point where we have to make a decision to deal with the foundation and some of the other challenges or ... letting it deteriorate beyond repair,” he said. Aside from those projects, chief financial officer Anita Ho indicated that the City may

be facing shortfalls in its capital budget for 2013. The current capital envelope sits at $12.4 million, which is about $400,000 less than the City has spent on average on capital reinvestment over the past 10 years. Also over the past decade, capital growth spending has averaged $29.9 million a year, while grant funding is only expected to total $18.6 million. Ho also said that almost three-quarters of the $15 million being set aside for 2013 would be going toward the renewal of existing capital assets, leaving little money for new road construction or community facility enhancement projects. Councillors have until May 28 to make motions on the plan before it is debated again at the next Standing Committee on Finance meeting on June 11.

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Dubstep artist Skrillex and the rest of the Full Flex Express Tour may have to wait a while to find out if they’ll be making a stop in St. Albert.

Go-ahead for concert may take some time GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

It could be some time before promoters of a major electronic music tour stop at the Kinsmen rodeo grounds in Riel Park know if they have the go-ahead from the City of St. Albert to raise the curtain. Promoters of the Full Flex Express Tour — which will feature electronica artists like Skrillex, Diplo and Grimes and is scheduled to hit St. Albert on July 20 — submitted their proposal to the City on Friday afternoon. But director of recreation Monique St. Louis said they need more information from organizers, and because the promoters have to apply for a development permit due to “the intensity of use,” it could take some time before the official approval is given. “We’ve given the list of information we require — the event management plan, the policing plan, things we require to look at, and we’re waiting for that information to come back from the promoter, and we’ll work it through the system,” she said Monday afternoon. “The legislation gives our planning department up to 40 days (to issue the permit), but meeting with the promoter, we understand time is of the essence, and we’ll do our best to move it through as quickly as possible.” St. Louis said that the promoters’ proposal will be looked at as a whole before a decision is made, including security and parking. “It’s those big ticket issues and worries for the City that we look at,” she said. Like any other development permit, St. Louis added, residents will also have 15 days to appeal the permit to the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board. Kinsmen president Patrick Dower said that one of the firms promoting the Full Flex Express Tour is the same one that has put on the concerts at the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition for the past several years, and he has the utmost confidence this concert will go smoothly.

“We’ve been together with Delux Entertainment for six years, and he’ll make sure all the requirements the City puts forth for the plan come through,” he said. “He puts on a quality event, and the St. Albert Kinsmen are lucky to have him.” He was surprised, however, when the concert announcement went public before the Kinsmen had signed off on renting their facility. “As soon as it went public — before I even heard it — our promoter called us and apologized profusely,” Dower said. “It was a misunderstanding between the Skrillex concert tour and Delux Entertainment. I think it caused a lot of reaction, and it would have been a lot better if we had presented it to the City before. But it was just a miscommunication.” Tickets went on sale to the general public on Saturday morning. Harvey Cohen, director of operations for promoters The Union Ltd., said that he is certain the show will go on. “We’re confident any concerns (the City) might have can be satisfactory addressed and allow for the permit to be issued,” he said. “Our partner is the promoter of the Rainmaker, so they’re quite familiar with the site and what the City’s looking for.” If the permit isn’t issued, though, Cohen has other venue options, but he is hoping to build solid relationships in St. Albert. “We’re not coming into St. Albert to do one event, tear up the town and run away,” he said. “We’re an Alberta-based company with offices in Edmonton and Calgary; we’ve been around 12 years. We take our partnerships very seriously and would never do anything to jeopardize that just to capitalize on a single event.” There have been concerns about security at the 18+ concert, but The Union has contracted Backstage Support Services for the show, which is the largest event security company in Alberta. He added that any RCMP officers used for security would be off-duty and paid by the promoters. WED. WE D. GAZ OCT 12, 19, 26/ 6/11 11 – 3x 3x18 182 18 2 {p {pro roce ro cess ce ss}} ss

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t’s often said that, sometimes, life imitates art. And lately, as some have pointed out on various social media plaforms, it seems like St. Albert has been imitating the movie Footloose. In the movie, Kevin Bacon’s character moves from a big city to a small town in the by Glenn Cook midwestern United States to find that dancing and rock ’n’ roll music have been outlawed by a reverend preaching morality from his pulpit. Here in St. Albert, Mayor Nolan Crouse hasn’t quite taken that hard of a stance, and he has been using Twitter instead of a pulpit, but there seems to be some similarity in the way he and other City of St. Albert officials have reacted to the news of an electronic music tour stop at the Kinsmen rodeo grounds on July 20. Of course, the City must have the security and well-being of its citizens as its first, foremost and primary concern. That’s why they are making sure they and the concert promoters take all the necessary steps to ensure this show — dubbed the Full Flex Express Tour — goes off safely and smoothly. That’s also why they should not feel rushed into making any kind of decision, and should not be afraid to say “No” if there are major concerns that cannot be ironed out. But, at the same time, the City must also take care not to treat this concert any different than others that take place in our community simply because of the genre. The concerts at the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition go fairly smoothly each year, and there is no reason to assume that, simply because the Full Flex Express is not rock or country music, that it would not as well. Unfortunately, electronic music has earned a reputation for drug use, but it’s not like the Rainmaker shows don’t see their fair share of alcohol-fueled revelry each year. The other matter that is hard to ignore is the economic impact the concert could have on St. Albert. With an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 people attending, it could stand to be one of the largest single-day events this city has ever seen. But, of course, that’s only if City staff are 100 per cent comfortable that precautions will be taken and everyone will be safe.

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t’s one of the surest signs that summer is upon us in St. Albert, although in recent years, it has been just as likely to bring snow as it has rain: the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition. For generations of St. Albertans, the weekend after the May long weekend — meaning they’re always first out of the gate to kick off the festival season in the Capital Region — has been a reminder of youth, a chance for young and old to feel like a kid again as they ride the ferris wheel or the bumper cars or even those really spinny rides that make that giant ball of cotton candy you just ate seem like a really bad idea all of a sudden. Strange how the stomach tends to get weaker as the body grows older. For others, it is a rite of

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COOK Leader Editor My City passage, a chance to have some fun and forget your cares to some of your favourite music, whether it’s rock ’n’ roll or country — or even the one year promoters brought Vanilla Ice in, and his act was somewhere in between rap and heavy metal. Either way, it was quite the deviation from their usual choice of headliner, like Kim Mitchell or Tom Cochrane. If people move away from St. Albert, they always have fond memories of the Rainmaker. And if they stay, they keep making new memories for themselves and their family when they come back each year.

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What often gets lost in all the corn dogs and bucking broncos and face painting, though, is the fact that the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition is a fundraiser. While the money that you blew on the ring toss game trying to win that giant stuffed animal might not go back into the community, you can rest assured that the price of admission does. In fact, over its history, the St. Albert Kinsmen have raised more than $4.6 million, which has been reinvested through initiatives local, regional and national, like the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society, St. Albert’s Canada Day fireworks, Crime Stoppers, St. John’s Ambulance and the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. But, while that total is impressive, what’s even more outstanding is the fact that

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there are currently fewer than 20 members in the St. Albert Kinsmen Club. The fact that such a small group is putting in so much hard work to put on a massive festival for the rest of the city is certainly worthy of praise. But that’s not all they do. As mentioned before, the Kinsmen are behind the annual Canada Day fireworks show, and they operate a banquet facility in Riel Park, plus an RV park each summer. All of this is done with one goal in mind: raising money to give back to the community. So, when you’re whooping it up at the Rainmaker this year, don’t forget to raise a glass in honour of the Kinsmen and all the work they do. Then cover up that glass — you know, in case it snows again. Owned and operated by

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Magyar final medal bearer GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Amanda Magyar is about to get one heck of a birthday present. The young St. Albert resident has been chosen out of thousands from across Canada to be the final medal bearer in the Rick Hansen Relay when it comes to a close on Tuesday — a week after her birthday — in Vancouver, handing the medal off to Hansen himself before he completes the final leg. “I don’t think the excitement is going to kick in until I’m actually at the airport, about to fly to Vancouver,” the Grant MacEwan University student said. “It doesn’t feel like it’s going to be real until I’m actually on the flight to Vancouver, on my way there. That’s when I know I’m going to start to be über-excited.” Magyar first found out about the honour about a month ago, but had to keep it a secret until the tour officially announced it. “It was like, ‘Oh (shoot), now I have to keep quiet for the next month,’” she laughed. “That was difficult.”

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Amanda Magyar will have the honour of being the final medal bearer in the Rick Hansen Relay when it wraps up in Vancouver Tuesday. The Rick Hansen Relay celebrates the 25th anniversary of Hansen’s Man in Motion world tour by recreating the Canadian leg of the around-the-world trek he made by wheelchair. A total of 7,000 participants in the relay were chosen based on their efforts to make a difference in their communities. Each participants carried the relay medal, which is made of sterling silver and is laser

engraved with the texture of the palm of an actual cycling glove Hansen wore during his tour. Magyar was selected to participate when the relay rolled through St. Albert on March 14 thanks to her involvement with the Girl Guides of Canada and the Birthday Bags for Kids N’ Need program at the St. Albert Food Bank, which she started. Magyar will be flown out to Vancouver to attend the relay’s closing rally, which will be held at B.C. Place and feature performances by Sarah McLachlan and Marianas Trench. Around the time she was a medal bearer in St. Albert, Magyar had a couple of brief chances to meet Hansen, but she hopes she’ll have another chance in Vancouver. “I know I’m going to be busy because I have some things they have planned for me, but they said I’ll be able to meet with him again and chat with him, so that will be really cool,” she said. The Rick Hansen Relay started in Cape Spear, N.L., on Aug. 24, and will have travelled through about 600 communities by the end.

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The Edmonton Oil Kings — featuring St. Albert Minor Hockey Association alums Travis Ewanyk and T.J. Foster — were all smiles Sunday night after winning the Ed Chynoweth Cup with a 4-1 win over the Portland Winterhawks in Game 7 of their Western Hockey League championship series at Rexall Place. The win booked their place in the 2012 Memorial Cup in Shawinigan, Que. They kick off the tournament against the host Cataractes tonight (Thursday), then face off against the Saint John Sea Dogs Monday and the London Knights Tuesday. All games can be seen on Sportsnet.

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Thursday, May 17, 2012

Big things on the horizon for Sports City GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

There are big things on the horizon for St. Albert Sports City, and officials are almost overflowing with anticipation. The development, slated for lands on the city’s west side, has been years in the making, but the vision of parent company SAS Sports and Entertainment Group is closer than ever to becoming a reality. “There are a lot of things coming together, and it shows us we’re on the right track,” owner Pat Cassidy said this week. “People are excited about the concept, as excited as we are, and we just want to get that market out there.” A large part of their excitement has to do with the City of St.

Albert getting started on Stage 3 of Ray Gibbon Drive, which will set in place the major piece of the transportation puzzle for the development. “There was a time a couple or three years ago where we weren’t sure it was ever going to happen, and it seemed to be a major stumbling block of any development over there. ... It’s good to see it started and it bodes well for development on the west side of town,” Cassidy said. With the necessary amendments to the City’s Municipal Development Plan being approved late last year, Cassidy and his team are focused on getting the area structure plan together this year, and hoping to get shovels in the ground on the main project in 2013.

“We’ve got shovels in the ground right now,” Cassidy said. “Part and parcel to the ASP was that we do a little work on the landfill pits. So we are quietly going about our business on that front and doing what needs to be done.” That ASP should be a very detailed and complex document, as the Sports City concept envisions a wide variety of land uses and densities, from commercial to medium-density residential. “Once that all gets done, then the building blocks fall into place,” said Don Henderson, a member of the SAS senior management team. While there are several provincial sports organizations who have expressed interest in being part of the Sports City development, there has been plenty of interest from other business partners, SAS officials say. One of the biggest areas, Cassidy said, is residential home builders who want to construct homes as part of the inclusive community village. “We’re getting fairly close to announcing a number of home builders we’re going to work with on the project,” he said. Commercial tenants are also lining up to be part of the community, said SAS business development director Terry Nistor, ranging from businesses that are specific to sports to ones that aren’t so much. “Take a florist, for example — it’s not related to sports, but they want to be in there because there’s community vibrancy, and people

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“The other end of the spectrum,” Nistor added, “is active seniors. They’re saying, ‘Wow, what a great opportunity for us to do some volunteering at some sporting events that are going to be happening,’ work like that.” In the meantime, though, SAS’s current footprint in Campbell Business Park — what they refer to as their incubation and testing centre, as most of the properties there will likely move to the Sports City once it opens — is set to expand to keep up with demand. “People can’t wait for the Sports City. They need more space to expand their businesses,” Cassidy said. For more information on St. Albert Sports City, visit www. stalbertsportscity.com.

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GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

It may have been a small step, but local Liberals hope it was a good first step on the road to revitalizing their party in the federal riding of Edmonton-St. Albert. About a dozen local Liberal Party of Canada members turned out Sunday afternoon at Leaf Garden Buffet on St. Albert Trail to have lunch with Vancouver-Centre MP Dr. Hedy Fry, who served as Secretary of State for Status of Women and Multiculturalism from 1996 to 2002 under then-prime minister Jean Chrétien. Fry has ties to the riding through members of the Métis National Council of Women who live in St. Albert and whom she met during her time in cabinet, and she said it’s a treat to swing through the city when she has the chance. “When I come here, it’s not like coming to Edmonton or Toronto or Vancouver; it’s very easy and friendly,” she said. “And you hear from people who tell you the truth.” Fry was born in Trinidad and Tobago and attended the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland before settling in Canada. She was first elected to the House of Commons in 1993, when she became the first rookie candidate to ever take down an incumbent prime minister when she defeated Kim Campbell in Vancouver-Centre. Fry chatted informally with the party members

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Former cabinet minister Hedy Fry chats with local Liberal Party of Canada members on Sunday afternoon at Leaf Garden Buffet. who came out on topics varying from the Northern Gateway pipeline — proposed to carry bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to the port of Kitimat, B.C. — to the federal budget to the tactics of other parties in the House of Commons. Edmonton-St. Albert riding association president Keegan Wynychuk said having Fry visit the riding and possibly give local members a kickstart was “quite exciting.” “She’s a remarkable woman, with a very large breadth of intellect,” he said. “We were talking about how Stephen Harper is trying to make Parliament less relevant. Well,

I have two words for him with a woman like that in there: Good luck.” On both the provincial and federal levels, the Liberal party has waned over the past couple of years. In the May 2011 federal election, Liberal candidate Kevin Taron finished in third place, well behind Conservative incumbent Brent Rathgeber. The results were much the same in both St. Albert ridings in the recent provincial election, with Liberal candidates trailing behind Progressive Conservative and Wildrose candidates, and just ahead of the New Democrats.

Federally, the Liberals dropped from 77 to 34 seats in the May 2011 vote, while in Alberta, the party went from eight seats to five in 2012. The party got to this point, Wynychuk said, because it became a bit of a victim of its own success with initiatives like bank regulation, mulitculturalism, the Canada Pension Plan and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. “These were all Liberal things, and they became Canadian things because we sold them so well and they were so successful,” he said. “All of a sudden, the things you stood for as a party, all the other parties could say, ‘We like these things too. We stand for them.’” But Fry said that some of the same steps the party is taking to rejuvenate itself nationally can also be applied locally, especially paying attention to grassroots issues. “Sometimes, when a party gets to be a big party and to be government so often, they kind of live in a little bubble, and they don’t pay a lot of attention to the grassroots,” she said. “Sometimes the lesson you learn from getting kicked is that you weren’t paying attention,” she added. Wynychuk agreed that more attention needs to be paid to the party’s grassroots base. “We need to get people who are already Liberals excited about being Liberals,” he said. “They’re proud Liberals; they just don’t have an outlet for it.”

on handibuses

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The City of St. Albert wants to hear from residents about the future of its handibus transit service. On Monday, May 7, city council received the final report from consultants the IBI Group on the current state of handibus service in the city and what needs to be done over the next five years to improve the service. The report was also made public to gather input from residents until June 8. IBI Group representative Steve Wilks said that the biggest issue the City currently faces is making handibus service more equitable to that of conventional St. Albert Transit service. “Those resources that are currently involved in the administration, operation and service delivery [of handibus service] are stretched to the limit,” Wilks said. Part of that is instituting an equitable fare policy, Wilks said, as well as increasing service hours and expanding service into Edmonton. “Current fares are twice that of conventional transit. It operates less days of the week, less hours of the day. It has trip purpose restrictions for regional trips into Edmonton,” he said. The report recommends introducing off-peak weekday service to key Edmonton destinations — like hospitals and universities — by July 2013, and then adding weekday peak-hour handibus service to destinations comparable to those offered by conventional transit, plus a few medical facilities, by July 2013. Such changes would require additional staff and one additional vehicle, plus more than $200,000 a year in operating costs. Public comments on the report can be made via email to transit@st-albert.net or by traditional mail addressed to 235 Carnegie Dr., St. Albert, T8N 5A7. To download a copy of the report, log onto www.stalbert.ca/handibus-consultation.

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HEALTH

Spinal patients find freedom KEVIN MAIMANN Sun Media News Services

People with spinal cord injuries are finding new freedom with two exercise machines at the University of Alberta’s Saville Community Sports Centre. The Saville’s Steadward fitness centre unveiled two new functional electrical stimulation (FES) rehabilitation therapy machines last week that allow people with reduced mobility to exercise paralyzed or weakened muscles in their legs and arms using electrical currents. “It exercises my lower extremities because I’m paralyzed from the chest down. And it gives me better circulation, which reduces swelling in my feet,” said FES user Shauna Paisley Cooper, who broke her neck mountain biking four years ago. The Spinal Cord Injury Treatment Centre Society (SCITCS) provided the equipment at a cost of $49,000. The location of the machines in the inclusive fitness centre environment allows people with reduced mobility to work out with everyone else without having to book appointments. The Steadward’s community transition co-ordinator Bobbi-Jo Atchison said equipment like the FES machines can usually only be accessed in specialized settings like rehabilitation centres. “The nice thing about this program is, once people have gone through the training, they can access this equipment any time the fitness centre is open. They can come get it on the evenings, weekends — they can come at six in the morning if they want to come before work,” Atchison said. For Paisley Cooper, who has a busy family with twin five-year-old daughters, that’s a huge plus. By

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Care giver Kayla Maas straps Shauna Paisley Cooper’s feet into a specialized exercise machine now available at the Saville Community Centre in Edmonton. co-ordinating her workouts with her family’s schedule, she can now work out twice a week. “My daughters do gymnastics at the GO Centre, so when they’re doing their gymnastics, I come over here and my husband hooks me up to the machine, and I work out. I finish, we run back and get them out of gymnastics,” she said. SCITCS president and co-founder Louise Miller said the machines are

not exclusively for people with spinal injuries. “People with MS, people with spina bifida, people who have had a stroke, people with head injuries, they all can use this. And they all do,” she said. SCITCS is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The non-profit has provided $425,000 for staff support and equipment to help people with spinal injuries in northern Alberta.

1 in 6 cancer cases caused by infection SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – About one in six cases of cancer is caused by a preventable or treatable infection, according to a review published online Wednesday in the British medical journal, the Lancet Oncology Researchers from the International Agency for Research on Cancer in France looked at the incidence of 27 different cancers in 184 countries. Four infectious agents — human papillomavirus (HPV), Helicobacter pylori, and hepatitis B and C viruses — are responsible for about two million (16 per cent) of the 12.7 million new cancer cases diagnosed globally each year, they found. “Infections with certain viruses, bacteria and parasites are some of the biggest and preventable causes of cancer worldwide,” said the study’s lead authors, Catherine de Martel and Martyn Plummer. Cervical cancer, which is thought to be caused by HPV, accounted for about half of infection-related cancer in women. In men, gastric cancers and liver cancer — linked to hepatitis B — accounted for more than 80 per cent of cases. Nearly a third of infection-attributable cancer occur in people younger than 50 years. Overall, the incidence of cancers caused by infection is three times higher in developing countries. The researchers said applying existing public health methods for preventing infection — such as vaccination, saferinjection practice or antimicrobial treatments — could substantially reduce the incidence of cancer in the future.

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May is asthma awareness month. Asthma is a serious, sometimes life-threatening chronic disease that can be controlled with proper awareness and education. Over 235 million people worldwide suffer from this disease.

What is asthma?

Deﬁned as “chronic inﬂammatory disease of the airways”. It can cause:

• Shortness of breath • Tightness in the chest • Coughing • Wheezing

If exposed to stimuli, over time the airways in the lungs, or bronchial tubes, become inﬂamed and sensitive. During an asthma attack, the muscle contracts, lining swells and airway narrows.

Causes

Researchers have yet to pinpoint the cause however, the strongest risk factors are:

• A family history of asthma and/or allegy • Exposure, in infancy, to high levels of antigen such as house dust mites • Exposure to tobacco smoke or chemical irritants in the workplace

Normal bronchial tube

Bronchial tube during attack

Triggers

• Mould • Animal dander • Pollen • Cockroaches • Dust mites Non-allergic triggers

• Certain drugs (ASA, beta blockers) • Chemicals, fumes, odours • Respiratory viral infections • Weather, cold air, thunderstorms • Strenuous physical exercise • Tobacco smoke • Air pollution: smog 800,000 700,000

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Treatment

Because asthma is a chronic condition, it usually requires medical continuous medial care. Medication therapies are designed to minimize the airway inﬂammation as well as treat airway airwar narrowing.

Allergic triggers

Moderate to severe asthma: long term medication daily (anti-inﬂammatory drugs) Symptoms: short-term medications (inhaled acting beta2-agonists)

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23,669 31,576

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Actor Sacha Baron Cohen is back on the big screen with another of his zany characters in The Dictator.

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The Black Keys, including drummer Patrick Carney (above) and guitarist/singer Dan Auerbach, brought a crowd of 11,000 to their feet Saturday night at Rexall Place.

Avengers to top $1B, get sequel SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – The Avengers crushed competitors for a second weekend with a record $103.2 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales and was poised to top $1 billion worldwide, studio estimates showed on Sunday. After posting the highest domestic box office debut in history last weekend, Avengers set another record by easily topping the $75.6 million Avatar pulled in during its second weekend in 2009, making Avengers the first movie to exceed $100 million in its second weekend. Avengers has now racked up a staggering $628.9 million internationally since opening overseas on April 25, distributor Walt Disney Co said, positioning it to break the $1 billion threshold after just 19 days. “We’re obviously thrilled,” said Robert Iger, Disney’s chairman and CEO in a statement. “You can never anticipate this kind of success,” echoed Dave Hollis, executive vice president for motion picture distribution. “It’s a staggering result.” Its success owed in large part to “a story that delivers on every level, to every segment of the audience,” he added. The big-budget 3D flick — the first of

Hollywood’s lucrative summer season — unites Iron Man, Black Widow, Captain America and other Marvel comic book heroes in a fight against a villain determined to destroy the planet. Disney announced this week it is planning an Avengers sequel. The movie took in $207.4 million at North American (U.S. and Canadian) theaters over its opening weekend, helping improve the performance of the studio, which earlier stumbled at box offices with its big-budget release John Carter. Avengers mania overwhelmed new horror comedy Dark Shadows, according to studio estimates compiled by Reuters. Dark Shadows pulled in an estimated $28.8 million from Friday through Sunday at domestic theaters. The latest collaboration between actor Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton, the $100-million Dark Shadows is based on the cult TV soap opera that ran from 1966 to 1971 about vampires, werewolves and witches living in a ghostly countryside manor. Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter also star. Studio executives said the total was in line with expectations of about $30 million.

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Two and a Half Men picks up ratings steam BILL HARRIS Sun Media News Services

Ratings for Two and a Half Men are up 45 per cent in Canada this season. That is not a typo. On CTV Two in 2011-12, Two and a Half Men with Ashton Kutcher is averaging 1.62 million viewers. In 2010-2011, also on CTV Two, Two and a Half Men with Charlie Sheen averaged 1.12 million viewers. All these numbers are courtesy of Bell Media, which owns the CTV family of channels. Two and a Half Men has bounced around a bit on Canadian TV this season — from CTV to CTV Two, and from night to night, and from time slot to time slot — but here’s something even more notable about the figures: Just to make it a true apples-to-apples comparison, those 2011-2012 numbers do NOT include the big curiosity-fuelled Kutcher debut on Two and a Half Men last September, which attracted 5.324 million to CTV. That still ranks as the No. 1 scripted-series telecast on

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The stars of Two and a Half Men — (L-R) Ashton Kutcher, Jon Cryer and Angus T. Jones — will all be back for a 10th season of the hit comedy, which airs on CBS and CTV Two, with much bigger paycheques. Canadian TV this season, and third on the overall list behind only the Super Bowl and the Academy Awards. The Two and a Half Men ninth-season finale was back on CTV on Monday, in addition to the show’s U.S. network of origin, CBS. Viewership in the U.S., by the way, has dropped somewhat —

recent episodes have been in the 11-million range, down from the 14-million range last season. The wider point is, the numbers have not cratered post-Sheen, as some predicted. All of which leads me to this conclusion: These days there’s a pronounced “separation of church and state” when it comes to buzz versus broadcast.

Sheen going nuts and eventually getting himself fired from Two and a Half Men was a big story. As a member of the media, I’m not going to apologize for having been so interested in it. That said, it has been reinforced for me that the portion of the public that gets most fascinated by something like Sheen-gate is

not necessarily the portion of the public that is inclined to watch something like Two and a Half Men. Is Two and a Half Men better or worse creatively this season? Well, your personal affinity for Sheen or Kutcher plays a big part in it. The truth is, Two and a Half Men wasn’t exactly Shakespeare before the change, and it isn’t exactly Shakespeare now. This weekend, ahead of CBS making its formal fall announcements on Wednesday, the network finalized a pact to bring the sitcom back for next season. The delay wasn’t about ratings, but contract negotiations — Kutcher, Jon Cryer and even Angus T. Jones don’t come cheaply. All will be getting raises. Moving forward, I guess it’s worth remembering that the demise of a star doesn’t necessarily mean the demise of a show. People who love watching the former don’t necessarily love watching the latter, and viceversa.

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13 Cappie noms for PK GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

When it comes to high school theatre, Paul Kane High School looks ready to steal the show. Paul Kane’s production of White christmas was nominated Tuesday for 13 local Cappie Awards, which recognize the best in high school theatre throughout the Capital Region each academic year. The nominations for White christmas include: • Best musical; • Best lighting (Zachary Sloboda); • Best choreography (Jared McDonald and Haley Humphries); • Best featured actor (Kieran Murphy); • Best female dancer (Carly Doran); • Best male dancer (Jared McDonald); • Best comic actress in a musical (Hayley Moorhouse);

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by shareholders was to blame. “What defeated Telus today wasn’t Mason. ... What defeated Telus essentially was not high enough voter turnout,” he said. Telus, which had the support of two influential advisory firms, said more than 90 per cent of non-Mason shares that had been cast supported the move. It did not disclose the overall turnout. Ghose expects Telus to come back to shareholders within a year with a similar plan, and make a stronger effort to explain its benefits. He doubts Mason will remain involved. “Mason’s tying up a lot of capital in this thing and I don’t think they will forever,” Ghose said. The hedge fund, which had also borrowed a much larger number of nonvoting shares, will likely benefit from the blocked proposal as the price of the nonvoting shares fall back. It can then buy them cheaply to pay back the borrowed shares. The dispute could well turn into an extended battle of wills, with Mason saying there was no reason to assume it would not be a long-term Telus shareholder. Telus has said the plan would have increased liquidity and removed a historical discount on its non-voting shares, which are entitled to the same dividend payout as the voting shares. It said it was good corporate governance to

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Defying forecasts of a hiring slowdown, Canada added far more jobs than expected in April and marked the biggest two-month employment gain in more than 30 years, raising expectations that the Bank of Canada will raise interest rates in the coming year. April registered 58,200 new jobs, mostly full time, after a whopping gain of 82,300 in March, Statistics Canada said on Friday. The back-to-back jump of 140,500 jobs was the biggest since a 143,300 rise in January and February of 1981.

With a Canadian population oneninth the size of that of the United States, it would be as if the U.S. economy had added about 1.3 million jobs in two months. U.S. non-farm payrolls rose by a total of 269,000 in March and April. “It’s a solid report, showing very surprising strength for the second straight month in Canadian jobs,” said Sal Guatieri, senior economist at BMO Capital Markets. “It certainly raises the possibility of the Bank of Canada moving on interest rates sooner rather than later.” But Guatieri, who expects a rate hike in

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Teenage girls have a secret, and there’s nothing to “Like” about it. Many people assume they’re selfabsorbed; on the contrary, teen girls are actually others-absorbed. As it turns out, other people’s thoughts are often what define them. A couple months back, the YouTube phenomenon of young girls turning to strangers to judge their appearance came to light. The “Am I Pretty or Ugly?” (youtube. com/watch?v=8D9mqqkgH-0) video by sgal901 has more than 5.5 million views and 137,000 comments, ranging from “hot” to “kill your self” [sic] to things you wouldn’t even want to repeat in an R-rated movie. While this “Dear Anonymous Commentator, Please judge me” syndrome continues, a far more insidious phenomenon goes unnoticed, despite its ever-growing trend. The same question asked on YouTube is essentially being asked on Facebook, but in a seemingly innocuous way: Young girls post picture after picture, in hopes that others will click “Like.” The button count then determines their prettiness, popularity and self-worth. No longer social networking, the site has become pathology networking for them. Mandy is 13 years old. She says, “People don’t understand that it’s not about the ‘Like’ button; it’s the feeling you get when you know people like you and think you’re

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Teenage girls have started turning to comments from social media to determine their selfworth, a practice that psychologists say could be extremely damaging. pretty, and feeling confident about yourself. “When I don’t get ‘Likes’ it makes me feel kinda like nobody notices me.” A Kaiser Family Foundation survey finds the average eight- to 18-year-old spends 7.5 hours a day online, packing almost 11 hours of media content into that time. So between Skype and mobile uploads, a girl must be camera-ready at all times to expose herself to an audience for attention and validation. The home is supposed to be a place where you lop your hair atop your head and let that throbbing pimple breathe makeup-free. But for today’s teen it’s constant primping, posing and pressure.

To get more “Likes” you have to look good. Looking sexy is equated with looking good. Toothy smiles that show confidence are ne’er to be found. Instead it’s the oft-mocked duck face or fish lips — lips puckered, tummies sucked, backs arched. It’s a burden for Mandy to keep up the clicks. “I think you have to look good and have a lot of friends, because if you don’t have a lot of friends, then what’s the point? “And if you do, that’s when people normally wanna look extra good,” says the teen, whose profile is littered with comments such as “stunning,” “sooo beautiful,” and “so prettyyyzzzz.”

She explains the “Like” button shows love. “And to girls feeling loved is one of the most important things.” Not only is it important, but it is also demanded. “Almost every single one of my friends tells me to ‘Like’ their picture even if I don’t actually like it, and if I don’t press ‘Like’ then they won’t talk to me and be mad at me,” says Mandy. Lesley Lacny is a chartered psychologist in Toronto (lesleylacny.ca). She says this goes beyond the pressures of TV and magazines and crosses the line into dangerous territory. “ ... Now (teens) are vulnerable to feedback from their peers and in particular ones that do not have their best intentions at heart.” Of course the nasty comments can be damaging, but so too can the positive ones. The psychologist says with too much positive feedback on looks girls may learn to overvalue appearance and undervalue other qualities. “The early years of childhood and adolescence are so influential and lead to patterns of how we think and behave as we continue to develop,” she said. And without experiences to show a healthy perspective, Lacny explains this “how do I look” complex could be further engrained throughout adult development. Society is too plugged in; we can’t unplug this behaviour. Simiar pressures have always existed for girls, just never to this extent. But, if we don’t diffuse this, we’ll have a generation of girls so defined by others that they’ll never really “Like” who they are.

Water park opens GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

It’s a sure sign that summer has arrived in St. Albert — many of the City of St. Albert’s outdoor aquatic facilities are getting ready to open their doors for the season. Just in time for the Victoria Day long weekend, the City will open the gates to the Woodlands water play park on Saturday. Admission to the 1,100-square-metre spray park, located at the corner of Boudreau Road and Sturgeon Road, is free. The water features are turned on each day from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., weather permitting. A week later, on Saturday, May 26, Grosvenor Outdoor Pool, located at 1 Grenfell Ave., will splash into summer when its doors open. Admission is $5.25 for adults, $4.25 for youths (1317) and seniors (60+), $3.25 for children (2-12) and free for tots under two years old. For more information on either of these venues, call Fountain Park Recreation Centre at 780-4591553.

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The Enjoy Centre’s Sandra Irving (front left) points out part of the growing greenhouse to Sally Foote of the Kipnes Centre for Veterans (front centre) and Warrant Officer Patricia MacWilliams on Tuesday, May 8. Air women from 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron hosted five ladies from Edmonton’s Kipnes Centre for Veterans for a day in St. Albert, which included a lunch at the St. Albert Legion followed by a guided tour of The Enjoy Centre.

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STK#L42049A.

16,881

18,974

2011 CHRYSLER TOURING 200

2009 DODGE JOURNEY STK#L45062A.

18,998

19,655

2012 HYUNDAI SONATA GL

2011 NISSAN JUKE

STK#Z9802.

STK#L42153A.

STK#Z9797.

19,999

20,995

21,995

22,888

2011 DODGE CHARGER

2011 TOYOTA RAV4

2010 GMC YUKON

2010 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT

STK#L45031A.

STK#L4101A.

STK#L45020A.

25,841

19,975

2007 CHRYSLER PACIFICA LIMITED STK#Z9794.

STK#Z9807.

26,888

26,977

26,998

22,998

2011 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE STK#Z9759.

28,999

15,998

2008 DODGE RAM SPORT STK#L42033B.

19,995

2012 VOLKSWAGEN GOLF STK#Z9804.

23,998

2011 DODGE RAM SPORT STK#L42019A.

34,975

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