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INDEX

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News . . . . . . . . . 3 Opinion . . . . . . . . 8 Entertainment . . . . . 14 Health . . . . . . . 17 Business . . . . . . 18 stalbertjobs.com . . . . 19

Ryan Surbey of St. Albert goes all out with the gangster theme in displaying his 1929 Ford Model A Phaeton during the St. Albert Cruisers Car Club’s annual Autorama show Sunday at St. Albert Centre. Over 200 cars came out for the show and shine, which raised more than $3,000 for the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society.

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Winnipeg children’s singer Mark Cameron — better known to audiences as “Mr. Mark” — blows confetti out of a noisemaker during a Children’s Festival sneak peek performance Monday at St. Albert Place. Story, page 16.

FUN WITH NUMBERS

$150M That’s how much BP has pumped into promoting the U.S. Gulf Coast area as a tourist destination since the company’s oil spill there two years ago made it a tourist dead zone. BP has committed another $30 million for the area by the end of 2013.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY MAY 31, 1578

Explorer Martin Frobisher (c. 1539-1594) sets sail from Harwich, England, with a fleet of 15 ships to build a settlement at Frobisher Bay, located on Baffin Island in what is now the territory of Nunavut. He would discover the Hudson Strait, but the “gold” Frobisher came to mine would turn out to be worthless pyrites.

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Costco one step closer

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Costco may be one step closer to coming to St. Albert after city council approved a development agreement with Landrex Monday afternoon, despite a last-minute monkey wrench being thrown into the plans. The development agreement effectively settles a lawsuit between the City of St. Albert and Landrex over offsite levies in the Erin Ridge North area, and paves the way for Landrex to start work in the area north of King of Kings Lutheran Church and east of St. Albert Trail, including a commercial development that Costco and Loblaws — the parent company of Real Canadian Superstore — have already signed on for. But the whole process was almost thrown for a loop when Landrex lawyers asked council to give them the go-ahead to start grading and deep utility work without the necessary securities and letter of credit in place. “We’ve got a problem, and it’s called the calendar,” said Landrex corporate counsel Gary Wetsch. “We’ve advised the City throughout

that the most important thing is our construction schedule.” Wetsch said that Costco wants access to the site by June 2013, multifamily residential developers out of Calgary and Vancouver Island are ready to apply for development permits, and more than 80 single-family residential lots have been sold to local home builders. The only thing standing in the way, he said, is the $10.6-million loan from TD Canada Trust. “It will require the development agreement to go up to Toronto. Because of the size of the loan, it cannot be approved or finalized in Alberta,” Wetsch said. “That will be two and a half to three weeks under the best circumstances. “At that stage, lawyers and others will take charge and put the security in place. In the best case scenario, we will have the cash in escrow accounts in three to four weeks. If we wait three to four weeks, you can see what happens to our construction schedule.” Wetsch’s presentation to city council was the first that City administration had heard of such a request. “We were expecting Landrex to

be fully, 100 per cent in support of the agreement they signed last week, and there would be no lastminute changes,” city manager Patrick Draper said. After a 30-minute recess to talk things over with Landrex officials, administration came back with a recommendation to move ahead with the project and give Draper until June 30 to work out any necessary supplementary agreements to let Landrex start digging. That motion passed by a 6-1 vote, with only Coun. Len Bracko voting against. “The two parties got together and came up to an agreement for tonight, and then we got a surprise thrown at us. ... This has been going on for several months, and it was up to both sides to make sure this happened in the proper time,” Bracko said. “If we open it up for one developer, others will expect the same.” The rest of council, however, was a little more forgiving. “The spirit of what is before us here is the commitment to move forward and continuing to develop St. Albert into the city that we love,” Coun. Wes Brodhead said.

Sturgeon rated fair

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

There’s quite a bit of work to do on the Sturgeon River, according to a report card delivered to St. Albert city council this week. Council approved the State of the Sturgeon Watershed report at their regular meeting Monday afternoon, which gives the river an overall grade of fair. The report looked at 15 separate indicators, broken out into four categories: land use, water quantity, water quality and biological. Three of those indicators were rated “good,” three “poor,” and five “fair.” For the remaining indicators, it was determined there wasn’t enough data to give a rating. The report contained several recommendations to improve the health of the entire watershed going forward, chief among them being the establishment of an intermunicipal task force or technical committee under the guidance of the North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance (NSWA). Such a committee would ensure plans, bylaws and policies are harmonized between municipalities. “It’s crucial because if we, say, come up with some policy around protecting wetlands within St. Albert, and it’s slightly different than Sturgeon County or Parkland or another town or city, it makes it very difficult to do that,” said Leah Jackson, the City’s environmental manager. The entire report is online at www.stalbert.ca/sturgeon-riverwatershed.

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Tuesday, June 12, 7:00 p.m. East Boardroom, Third Floor St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

SuBDiViSion & DEVEloPMEnt APPEAl BoARD Wednesday, June 13, 6:00 p.m. Council Chambers St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

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Block Parties are a fun way to meet and reconnect with your neighbours while having fun! It’s also an easy way to create a safer neighbourhood. Did you know you can get FREE burgers and buns for your party? For more information or to register for a Block Party, call the Neighbourhood Development Team at Family and Community Support Services 780-459-1756. www.stalbert.ca/block-party-information

tAKE it oR lEAVE it, RECyClE... REnEw Looking to unload a sofa or pick-up some camping gear? 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. 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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CElEBRAtE ClEAn AiR DAy!

Celebrate Clean Air Day, wednesday, June 6, as part of Environment Week. Help improve the air we breathe - walk, bike or take the bus to school or work. St. Albert Transit is offering FREE local and commuter bus service all day! Plus, June pass holders will be entered to win one of seven monthly transit passes for July or August. For more information on Clean Air Day and what you can do to promote clean air year round, visit www.stalbert.ca/clean-air-day.

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Obtaining your Pleasure Craft Operator Card involves writing a multiple choice exam. Fountain Park Recreation Centre can prepare you as well as test you. Courses available for six or more people. Call Fountain Park Program Coordinators at 780-418-6041 to set up a course or to write the exam. Kids of Steel triathlon Fountain Park will be hosting the Kids of Steel Triathlon, Sunday, June 10 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Please note: there will be no lane swim, lessons or fitness classes during this time and no parking lot access

HAVE youR SAy! 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: • Should dogs be permitted off-leash in all parks? • Are you concerned about disruptive/ nuisance dogs and cats? • Would you support a bylaw that requires cats to be licenced? Have you Say in the online survey at www.stalbert.ca/animal-bylawinformation. Deadline: July 2, 2012. For more information, call Aaron Giesbrecht, Manager of Policing Services, 780-4584303.

tHAnK you 2012 St. AlBERt CEnSuS Thank you to residents for participating in the 2012 municipal census. The census is now complete and initial results will be available in June 2012.

Thursday, May 31, 2012

City purchases new police services building GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village will be getting some new roommates pretty soon. At their regular meeting on Monday afternoon, St. Albert city council approved the purchase of the property and building at 50 Bellerose Dr. — the former Management Information Group building and current home of the Food Bank — for space for the local RCMP detachment to expand for at least the next 10 years, and possibly up to 30.

“I’m personally very excited about this,” Coun. Cathy Heron said. “It has a lot of synergies , and the location is key and prime for RCMP to still be central in the city.” The 24,000-square-foot building and 2.09 acres of land will cost $4.425 million, and council also allocated $1.2 million for renovations. General manager of community and protective services Chris Jardine said the renovations would bring portions of the building used by police to a higher level of security and increase energy efficiency somewhat.

“The windows on the facility are original, so obviously they’re not very energy efficient. We’re looking at a changeout program on that,” he said. “The rest of the infrastructure, at this point, we’re not contemplating any other type of energy efficient upgrades or changes. It was mostly around security and functionality for the work units in the building.” The funding for the purchase will come from the City’s capital asset revolving reserve fund and from the 2012 approved capital budget. The provisions of the offer to purchase

include a continuation of the lease agreement with the Food Bank and Community Village on the same terms for at least 12 more years. City of St. Albert staff also noted in their agenda report that this building is very close to the existing detachment at 96 Bellerose Dr., and there may be opportunities for a “synergistic relationship partnership” between RCMP and the Community Village, as well as the possibility of moving the City’s Family and Community Support Services department into the building in the future.

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

1.5% tax cap voted down

Breaking through

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

An attempt to cap next year’s property tax increase in St. Albert fell flat this week. Coun. Cam MacKay brought forward the motion Monday afternoon, calling for the 2013 increase to be less than or equal to 1.5 per cent. “Taxation is one of the largest things that affects the value of people’s homes, and that’s the largest capital asset most people have in their lives,” MacKay said. “People need to see value in everything that’s being done,” he added, “and since we are clearly one of the higher cost places to live in the region, can we create a lot of value by increasing that cost more? Or can we increase value for residents by going in the opposite direction and being more in line with other communities in the region? ... I’m not sure we can do much more in the area of spending to increase value, and this is the best way to increase value for all the residents who live here in St. Albert.” But the motion was defeated by a 5-2 vote, with MacKay and Coun. Len Bracko casting the only votes in favour. Most of council was afraid what limiting the 2013 tax increase might mean for future years due to inflation. “If you say we’re going to do less than inflation, what you’re saying is that we’re going to be doing less than what we did last year, unless you can squeeze the ball of services that we do ... and provide the same level of service for less money,” Coun. Wes Brodhead said. “I’m suggesting that we’ll squeeze and squeeze until you can’t squeeze anymore.” “If we go down to 1.5 per cent, I can almost see a crystal ball saying, in two or three years, it’s going to be a five or six per cent increase,” added Coun. Roger Lemieux. Others felt this sort of cap would handcuff City of St. Albert staff as they work to prepare the 2013 budget. “I think this is going to limit other creativity or information coming forward,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said. “I believe our staff should present to us what is the best budget. For us to predetermine what the percent increase is, we might as well not have a budget process this fall.” Residential property taxes in St. Albert increased by 2.8 per cent in 2011 and 2.6 per cent in 2012.

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Tipsy Gypsy (with star on helmet) of the St. Albert Heavenly Rollers’ Arch Angels travel team fights her way through a pack of Grande Prairie Rage N’ Fyre blockers (in orange) during roller derby action Saturday at the Northstar Hyundai Arena at Servus Credit Union Place. The Arch Angels would pick up the victory, outscoring Grande Prairie 152-120.

Traffic boxes get a bit more colourful GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Driving through St. Albert just got a little more colourful thanks to a new local initiative. The City of St. Albert’s transportation department recently started replacing old grey traffic utility boxes that were nearing the end of their lifespan with colourful new ones sporting a botanical arts design. “At the City, we are committed to continuous improvement as well as looking at opportunities to enhance our Botanical Arts brand,” said transportation coordinator Dean Schick in a press release issued Monday. “The upgraded signal cabinets not only look better than the utilitarian cabinets, they support the City’s brand and, at the same time, deter graffiti vandalism that is usually found on typical utility cabinets.” So far, the new boxes — which house standardized equipment that minimizes signal malfunctions and keeps traffic flowing smoothly — have been installed at five intersections: • St. Albert Trail and Sturgeon Road/St. Anne

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Street; • St. Albert Trail and Boudreau Road/ Giroux Road; • Bellerose Drive at the access to St. Albert Centre; • Gervais Road at Grange Drive/ Gloucester Drive; and • Sir Winston Churchill Avenue at Grandin Road/St. Anne Street. More boxes will be installed as each signal cabinet comes due for an upgrade. Each cabinet costs $1,500, including supplies, production and installation. The current replacement program only covers City of St. Albert infrastructure, but the City will look to partner with other service providers in the future to further promote the botanical arts brand.

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Green ready for Korea

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

A St. Albert native will be flying Canada’s flag as he skis for gold next year in South Korea. Larry Green, who now lives in Edmonton but says his “heart belongs here” in St. Albert, is one of 141 Special Olympics athletes from across the country that will make up Team Canada at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from Jan. 29 to Feb. 5, 2013. “I’m stoked,” said the 34-year-old alpine skier who was also a medal bearer in the Rick Hansen Relay when it rolled through downtown St. Albert in March. Larry’s mom, Terry, who still lives in St. Albert, couldn’t be prouder of her son. “I couldn’t have dreamed this for Larry — to see him, through all the struggles and hurdles, have his dream come true,” she said. In total, Canada is sending 15 alpine skiers to the world games. Larry is also one of 11 athletes from Alberta who will be making the trip to South Korea, along with three coaches and one mission staff member. This is Larry’s first trip to a Special Olympics world games. “I’m not expecting to win medals; I’m just going in there business as usual,” he said. Athletes qualified for the world games by competing at the 2012 Special Olympics National Winter Games, which were hosted by St. Albert, Jasper and Strathcona County. Although Larry’s event was held in Jasper, he still took a lot of pride in the fact that St. Albert was hosting the games and that he could do his best in front of family and friends. “It felt really good having the games right here in St. Albert,” he said. Larry attended Vital Grandin, Albert Lacombe and Bertha Kennedy elementary schools in St. Albert, as well as Vincent J. Maloney Catholic Junior High School — where his mother still works as a teacher assistant — and Bellerose Composite High School. He got started in Special Olympics in 1992

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Larry Green and mom Terry at her St. Albert home. Larry has earned a spot on Team Canada for the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games in alpine skiing. through his friend, Phil Zuk, and his dad, Wally. “Basically, I’ve never looked back,” he said. And the benefits have been life-changing. “Special Olympics has moulded me into the man I am today,” Larry said. “The hardest thing for our Larry was finding something he could do physically,” Terry added. “To be able to compete on something that’s at his level wasn’t available. I didn’t know anything about Special Olympics. ... It became like a double french door just opened, all kinds of things for Larry.” “He was [competing] against people with his own physical abilities, and he met people that have become lifelong friends. ... It made my life as a parent a little happier, because you always want things for your kids. And that opened up all the avenues that meet Larry’s needs even now.” Over the years, Larry has also participated in floor hockey, baseball and soccer, but says he’s now totally focused on skiing. When he’s not working at Fabricland Edmonton West, Larry trains three days a week and is aiming to do his very best when he gets to Pyeongchang. “I’ve always taken pride in my skiing, whether it be local races, provincials, nationals or now the worlds,” he said.

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

OPINION

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his week, downtown St. Albert has been transformed into one of the world’s biggest playgrounds as the Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival takes over an area stretching from St. Albert Place across the Sturgeon River to École Father Jan. To help get people from venue to venue, by Glenn Cook the Canadian Forces have chipped in to build a temporary footbridge across the river. It’s nice to have that connection in between the Perron Street vehicle bridge and the Children’s Bridge on the other side of St. Albert Place — so much so that the City of St. Albert might ponder a permanent footbridge there. It could wind up being something really neat, maybe even a replica of the first bridge built in St. Albert by Father Albert Lacombe in 1862. Of note, this was the first permanent bridge to be built west of the Great Lakes. Of course, this bridge shouldn’t mean the City takes on more costs solely for the sake of pedestrians crossing the Sturgeon River without getting wet. In fact, there may be an opportunity for commerce on the other side. There is a large chunk of City-owned land on Mission Avenue, west of Chateau Mission Court, that currently sits empty, but is directly accessible for servicing with utilities. A permanent footbridge could make a great link to a boardwalk-style commercial development on that land, with shops and cafés occupying the ground floors, and professional offices or condominiums higher up. These businesses and homes would have a great view of the Sturgeon River, as well as St. Albert Place and the rest of downtown, and could definitely attract premium tenants who would pay a pretty penny for the privilege of a prime position. It could extend the resurgent vibrancy of the Perron District even further across the city. The details on exactly how this sort of development could be brought to life would still have to be ironed out, probably by more knowledgeable minds than ours. But if a discussion can at least be started, the whole city may benefit from it down the road. There has been a lot of talk about how to revitalize the downtown core. Maybe it’s time an idea like this entered the conversation.

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Another reason for St. Albert to stand proud

t the time of year where many new families are moving into our community, we are fully aware that selecting St. Albert comes with many decisions. One of these is where to send their son/ daughter to school. At Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools, we want the community to know that being among the best of what the City has to offer includes the schools, the programs, and the outstanding employees we have in shaping the right kind of educational experience. Our first point of reference as a school division is the extent to which we are delivering value to the families that we serve. We monitor our results to verify the extent to ensure that we are delivering value. Our student and staff engagement studies, community satisfaction

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KEOHANE Superintendent, GSACRD My City surveys, stakeholder sessions, and continuous reviews of student achievement are used to validate or correct the path that we take. I am pleased to say that recent recognition from external educational partners continue to verify that our mandate for Catholic education is a brand that brings out the best in our students and a sense of belonging for our families. For the 62 school systems in our province that have recently received a common assessment of results by our government, Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools is the top performer.

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This assessment pertains to the results that our students have achieved, our success related to high school completion, scholarship eligibility for our students and stakeholder perceptions around the safe and caring nature of our schools. This year, we have also received national awards for our work in embracing an inclusive education model for students. Our work in focusing on enhancing the engagement of staff, students, and parents within our schools has been published in provincial and North American education journals. We have a proven track record in providing the best schools for our families. We want to continue this path because we believe that, where faith encounters learning, we bring out the best in everyone. Despite all the accolades

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Rookie teacher takes zone award GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Leah Kres may be new to teaching, but it appears she’s getting the hang of it pretty fast. Kres, a teacher at Albert Lacombe School, was honoured Friday as the winner of the Edwin Parr Award for Zone 2/3 from the Alberta School Boards Association, recognizing the best first-year teacher in the region. “I was actually very shocked and speechless, which is kind of rare for me,” Kres said at the Greater St. Albert Catholic Regional Division’s board of trustees meeting Monday night, where she was recognized. “I didn’t believe it. We were kind of doing a little drumroll with our fingers, and I was doing a drumroll for myself unbeknownst to me. It was quite the shock.” Kres teaches music to all grades from kindergarten to Grade 6 at Albert Lacombe, as well as math, language arts and French to Grade 4 students. She got a bit of a late start on her teaching career, though, spending seven years as an educational assistant before going back to Concordia University College to get her teaching after-degree. “Once I was in an EA role, I just fell in love with the whole school system, and the Catholic school system,” Kres said. “I spent

almost seven years as an EA, working with lots of different children. ... I knew I needed to take it one step further. This is where I needed to be.” GSACRD superintendent David Keohane said that he and the whole division are extremely proud of Kres’s accomplishment. “Especially when one saw the breadth of candidacy at that banquet and heard the individual testimony of the teachers in terms of special moments in education they’ve had, to have Leah stand out in the manner she did was inspiring,” he said This is the second year in a row that a GSACRD teacher has won the Zone 2/3 Edwin Parr Award. Melissa Viveiros from Bertha Kennedy Catholic Community School took home the honour last year. “To have a candidate be a recipient two years in a row speaks very loudly of the new teachers we have in the system and the capacity of these teachers to really fulfill what our mission is all about,” Keohane said. For Kres, though, awards are nice, but seeing her students succeed is the biggest reward. “I can’t imagine being in any other place than working with children,” she said. “We have so many different types of children at Albert Lacombe, from sports academy to children with diverse learning needs, and they are all so fantastic.”

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

Zone 2/3 Edwin Parr Award winner Leah Kres (centre) of Albert Lacombe School is flanked by GSACRD trustees (L-R) Joan Crockett, Rosaleen McEvoy, Cathy Proulx and Dave Caron. E ! IC ED PR UC D RE

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Rainmaker se Photos: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

Dan Davidson, lead singer for Tupelo Honey, gets the crowd fired up under the Rainmaker big top on Friday night. The evening’s festivities also included The Bear Band, State of Shock and The Trews.

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ees turnout jump 25% “During the event, it always seems like there’s hitches, but at the end of the event, we think, Organizers of the Rainmaker really, there wasn’t that much,” Rodeo and Exhibition are he said. “We’re very busy in the whooping it up over this year’s planning and the execution; we edition of the event. work really hard during the event The 48th annual Rainmaker to make sure everything goes off went down at the Kinsmen rodeo without a hitch. We’re very happy grounds in Riel Park over the with the results. We didn’t have weekend and, buoyed by sunny any major issues.” skies, attendance was way up this That sentiment was echoed by year, said St. Albert Kinsmen local RCMP, who said the whole president and rodeo chair Patrick weekend was relatively quiet, with Dower. no major incidents reported. “It was wonderful. The weather “Everything was well-organized [co-operated] and our attendance and there was a good presence was up 25 per cent over last down there, so we really had no year,” Dower said. “It was a very problems,” said Const. Janice positive, very wonderful event.” Schoepp, media liaison for the St. Dower added that there are Albert RCMP detachment. still lots of cash registers to Schoepp chalked up much of count, so they won’t have a total that to the fact that the Kinsmen calculated of how much money brought in their own private was raised over security on the the weekend for fair grounds, another couple who dealt of weeks. promptly with Prior to this any concerns year, though, that cropped the Kinsmen up. had raised “That helped Patrick Dower Kinsmen rodeo chair approximately head off some $4.6 million for problems,” she various local, said. “And once provincial and national causes, security brought people to police, including the Stop Abuse in they were given an opportunity, if Families (SAIF) Society, the St. they were being reasonable, to get Albert Youth Community Centre, a cab to take them home or call a Crime Stoppers, Drug Abuse family member to pick them up.” Resistance Education (DARE) RCMP also had a CheckStop and the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis set up on Sir Winston Churchill Foundation. Avenue as the concerts got going The Rainmaker featured the Friday and Saturday night to snag annual parade on Saturday any impaired drivers heading to morning, concerts on Friday the rodeo grounds. and Saturday night, rodeo With this year’s Rainmaker performances all three days, the squared away, Dower said the West Coast Amusements midway, Kinsmen already have the ball the Dynamo Dogs agility show rolling on next year’s event. and the West Coast Lumberjack “We had a follow-up dinner Show. [Sunday] night, and we already Dower said it all went off have points we’re going to be without any major hitches. looking at for next year,” he said.

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Draper’s development focus hasn’t wavered

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Roughly a month into his new job, Patrick Draper’s focus has not changed. St. Albert’s new city manager said before he started the job that economic development was his biggest area of concern, and that has not wavered since taking over. “It’s probably our largest priority in terms of moving forward,” he said. “We have public works and transit; we have operations that are very sizable and are working, so they need to grow as the present population grows. But economic development is quite small, and it needs to really leapfrog and become a sizable component of the work we do.” The City of St. Albert’s economic development department now reports directly to Draper, and the search continues for a new executive director for that department. “The community will ultimately benefit from that,” he said, “to the extent that, when we add more businesses to the city, yes, it has the obvious [benefit] of expanding the tax base. But it also creates jobs. ... There are some employment opportunities, but we don’t have the whole range.” However — as seen recently in the case of a commercial development proposed for the

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

New city manager Patrick Draper says his number one priority is still economic development. for [something else] on the site, the question old Hole’s Greenhouses location — any kind becomes who’s going to do it and who’s going of non-residential development can draw lots to pay for it,” he said. of negative feedback from nearby residents. Draper added that, when it comes to But Draper doesn’t see that sort of economic development, existing businesses backlash occurring with the light industrial can’t be forgotten in the quest to bring in new development the City has its eye on. ones, and the biggest weapon in the City’s “I think what’s good is there is a process in arsenal may be information about programs these types of situations, where developers that can help them grow. come in, they provide an opportunity to “What I’ve found in my experience is share what they’re doing with the community that a lot of companies don’t know these and listen, and if there really is a demand resources and connections are available, so part of the role we’ll actually play at the City level is an information broker and facilitator, to help those businesses learn where those opportunities are and make those connections,” he said. After moving to St. Albert from Newmarket, Ont., and taking over the city manager position on April 23, Draper said that his first month on the job has been a “fascinating process.” “It’s just been a very receptive environment, both with administration and council, as well as the community,” he said. “They’ve been very welcoming and getting me up to speed on a variety of different issues and opportunities and work going on within the corporation.”

There has been a lot to learn in a short time, however, making for some long days and a few surprises along the way. “I’ve been really surprised at the breadth of work projects, items, tasks, issues, information requests” that the City handles, he said. “In fact, one of the concerns I have is relative to the workload the organization is absorbing. ... One of the things I haven’t quite got my arms around is the totality of the work being done, because it’s vast.” Another surprise for Draper is the regional nature of planning and growth that is done through the Capital Region Board. “I think that’s been really good for land use planning, which is really what the growth plan was dealing with, so that certain communities are not doing something within their boundaries that is going to negatively affect a neighbour,” he said. “There will be some regional dynamic, so how will that affect the City of St. Albert?” Draper added. “And how equipped are we to understand what some of those regional initiatives might mean for our community?” But one area that is not a surprise is the good working relationship he has already been able to establish with city council. Draper specifically asked how well council worked together before he took the job, and so far, it has been as advertised. “It’s an amazing council,” he said. “They’re not all of the same mind on the same issues, but they’ve really found an excellent way to being able to communicate, to listen to their peers and avoid rhetoric, avoid any kind of negativity.” However, with the population of St. Albert eclipsing 60,000 and the aforementioned workload the City takes on, including at the regional level, the time to transition councillors from part-time to full-time may be close at hand. “I’m not sure if it’s five years or 10 years until we end up with a full-time council,” he said, “but with the volume of work and the nature of the decisions that are going to be required, it would be advantageous for residents to have that kind of representation.”

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Ewanyk glad for experience you out of your league and made you successful and won you that championship,” he said. “You just have to know that, up against any team you face, if you play It might not have been the result Travis Ewanyk your game, you’ll have the best advantage.” wanted, but he wouldn’t trade the experience for the The London Knights, who won the Ontario Hockey world. League championship, and the QMJHL champion Ewanyk, a St. Albert native and St. Albert Minor Saint John Sea Dogs were the other teams in the Hockey Association alumnus, and the rest of the tournament. Western Hockey League champion Edmonton Oil Despite losing out, though, Ewanyk is still proud of Kings recently returned from the Memorial Cup in what he and his teammates accomplished this year. Shawinigan, Que., where they were eliminated “Anybody on the team, if you ask them, by the hosts and the eventual champions, it was a pretty special team, and all the the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s accomplishments we had are something we’re Shawinigan Cataractes, in a tiebreaker on going to remember for a long time,” he said. Thursday, May 24. The Oil Kings were honoured with a rally But, even though he didn’t get his hands on Wednesday afternoon at Edmonton City Hall. junior hockey’s holy grail, Ewanyk is still glad It was quite a turnaround from the 2010for the experience. 2011 season, when the Oil Kings were swept “It was a tremendous experience,” he said, in the first round by future Edmonton Oiler “just the whole atmosphere of the event and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and the Red Deer Travis seeing how big a deal it is to the town that was Ewanyk Rebels. the host there in Shawinigan.” “This was the first year we had a mature Oil Kings forward Though the Oil Kings started off the draft class,” he said. “Our first draft was the tournament with a 4-3 win over the Cataractes ’92 age year, with Mark Pysyk and T.J. Foster and then two days off, they wound up having to play and guys like that. And finally everyone was in the three games in four nights to finish off the tournament, prime of their junior career. ... It all came together and losing each one. added up this year.” Ewanyk wouldn’t chalk the losses up to fatigue or any Ewanyk turns 20 in March, but he still plans to other excuse. attend rookie camp with the Oilers, who drafted him in “Looking back on it now, the only thing you can be the third round (74th overall) in 2011, and head back to sure of is how good those teams are there,” he said. the Oil Kings for another crack at the cup next year. “Any of those games could have gone either way.” “I think we’re bringing back something like 20 out It was difficult, though, preparing for teams they of the 25 guys,” he said. “Aside from the 20-year-olds, hadn’t faced all season, so Ewanyk said the Oil Kings Mark Pysyk and Kristians Pelss, two of the 19-yearfocused on their own game. olds, we’re going to have a lot of the same guys back, so “You have to just be confident in your game that got hopefully we’ll make another run.”

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Saint City Rotary Club member Ross Hallett presents fellow club member Linda Perras with the Cliff Dochterman Award at their meeting Tuesday at Cornerstone Hall. The award is given out by the International Fellowship of Scouting Rotarians, and recognizes those who are role models and render distinguished and dedicated service in both Rotary and in Boy Scouts or Girl Guides.

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Jeffery Thriving as author GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Life doesn’t end at 65 — Corinne Jeffery is living proof of that. The St. Albert author is celebrating Seniors’ Week next week with a pair of visits to local libraries, including the Spruce Grove Public Library on Tuesday, June 5, and the St. Albert Public Library on Thursday, June 7, to talk about the first book in her Understanding Ursula historical fiction trilogy, Arriving: 1909-1919, and the upcoming second instalment, Thriving: 1920-1939, which is due this September. “It was eight days after I turned 65 that I signed with my editor,” said Jeffery, who turned 66 in December. “Seniors love this book. ... There’s a sense of connection for seniors,” added the former nurse and teacher. “I’ve had wonderful receptions in senior housing options.” Arriving: 1909-1919 recently went into its second printing, and Jeffery is nervously awaiting a new shipment. “I hope it gets here soon, because I’m

running out of books,” she said with a laugh. Being a first-time author, though, Jeffery said she really had no idea how to gauge her success. “When I was beginning all this, I said to my closest friend here in St. Albert, ‘You know Margaret, what I really want is modest success,’” she said. “We had lunch the other day and she said, ‘Corinne, I think you’ve exceeded modest success.’ I don’t think any of us were prepared for how quickly the book sold.” The trilogy follows the Werners, a family of German Lutheran pacifists who flee persecution in Russia to settle on the harsh Saskatchewan prairie. By the end of the third book, it will cover five generations of the family. Part of the reason for the book’s success is the way it describes the immigrant experience, whether or not the reader’s experience matches the Werners’. “These aren’t famous Canadians; these are ordinary, real people like you and I,” she said. “I’ve had so many people say to me, ‘That’s what I like about your book.’

... There are no talking trees, no magic wands, no vampires. I think people like reading about their own experiences.” Even with the success of the first book, though, Jeffery is hard at work getting Thriving: 1920-1939 ready for the presses. But she said that, now that she has been through it once, the process is a little easier this time around. Jeffery added that she is anxious to get the second book out onto shelves, and she has heard from many readers that they are anxious to get their hands on it. “In fact, my own daughter has repeatedly threatened to break into my computer to get it,” she said. But, even with all that work to do, Jeffery is also making time for plenty of author visits, like the two booked for next week. “The most rewarding aspect of being an author is meeting the readers,” she said. Both of Jeffery’s library visits next week kick off at 2 p.m. For more information or to register for the St. Albert Public Library appearance, visit the second floor information desk or call 780-459-1682.

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Local historical fiction author Corinne Jeffery makes a visit to the St. Albert Public Library on Thursday, June 7.

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White said. “[The exhibit] also talks about what our idea of the West was at that point.” A new exhibit of photos at the Musée Many of the scenes depicted in the photos Heritage Museum says as much about the occurred further south in Alberta, but White photographers as it does about the subjects said it still reflects important aspects of St. of the photos, according to the museum’s Albert’s history. curator. “There certainly was a Blackfoot The exhibit In Focus: Photographing the population in the area; they came and traded Alberta and Montana Frontier 1870-1930 with the forts. They weren’t necessarily is on loan from the Glenbow Museum in always living here, but being nomadic people, Calgary and opened on Tuesday, and features the cultures moved around a great deal,” she photos of ranchers, First Nations people and said. the North West Mounted Police who arrived Those scenes run the gamut from scenic to bring law and order to views of the prairie the territory. landscape to portraits of But Musée curator First Nations leaders. Joanne White said that, The photos are while the photos tell the augmented by pieces from story of those who were in the Musée’s own collection front of the lens, the real and on loan from the Joanne White substance of the exhibit Royal Alberta Museum. Musée curator lies in those who were “The photos are behind it. remarkable, but it does “The way the Glenbow set up this kind of bring it to life and give you that exhibit, they were talking about the frontier immediate connection,” White said. photographer as much as anything. They Such a co-operative relationship between were talking about the different types of museums throughout Alberta is essential to people out taking pictures and the hardships putting on quality programming, she added. they had to go through to get these early “Museums have a large amount of their images of the West,” she said. collections in storage,” White said, “so we No matter the purpose they had in all very much want to get pieces out to be heading west with cameras in tow, all seen. Generally speaking, museums are very these photographers had to deal with willing to help each other out, get the pieces harsh conditions, frigid temperatures and out and let people enjoy them.” equipment that wasn’t nearly as advanced as In Focus: Photographing the Alberta and we see today. Montana Frontier 1870-1930 is on display “There were military photographers and at the Musée Heritage Museum, located government photographers and surveyors inside St. Albert Place (5 St. Anne St.), until adventurers and various people who were Aug. 19. For more information, visit www. coming out and documenting the region,” museeheritage.ca.

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When it comes to the Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival, Bernd Ogrodnik pulls the strings. The Icelandic puppeteer is the creative force behind Metamorphosis, one of the featured shows at this year’s festival, the 31st annual edition. Through intricately crafted marionettes, the show teaches about the environment, co-operation and the power of dreams. “It’s the pictures, the images that linger on,” he said. “The performances I’m doing here consists of seven individual pieces, all without words, and they linger on. That’s one thing you can do as an artist, you can plant little seeds.” In fact, telling his stories without using any words, helps Ogrodnik get his message across better, he said. “Words can be very confusing,” he

said. “The word goes first to the ear, then you process it and it goes somewhere else. With pictures, like music, it goes straight to the heart, straight to the soul.” Ogrodnik’s fascination with puppets started at an early age. “I got hooked early on as a small boy. I grew up in Germany as a small boy, before I moved to Iceland, and I saw a puppet show, and that did the trick,” he said. Ogrodnik also has a background in classical music, and he said there are actually a few parallels between the two. “With the pieces I do now, it takes a lot of dexterity in my fingers. ... I see a lot of parallels between musical instruments and puppets. They both are an extension of the performer, and I handle them the same way,” he said. While Ogrodnik works his magic indoors, performers like Mark Cameron are plying their trade outdoors on the

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

International Children’s Festival chair Nancy Abrahamson is joined onstage by the clowns from Aga-Boom as she introduces acts on the Enmax Outdoor Stage.

Enmax Outdoor Stage, just outside the main entrance of St. Albert Place. Better known to audiences as “Mr. Mark,” Cameron brings percussion to life using instruments ranging from traditional drums to turkey basters and bedpans. He got hooked on performing for kids while drumming for Fred Penner and other children’s entertainers, which was a big change from his usual job in the orchestra for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. “The energy of watching families, I just felt that this is what I want to do. It was a big giant ‘Yes’ sign,” said Cameron. “It’s way more fun. When you get mom, dad and the kids all laughing at the same thing, to me, that’s perfect.” One particular instrument, which he calls the Singa-ma-jig, starts with a washboard, but attached to it are cowbells, horns, kazoos and other noisemakers. Weirdly enough, that too started at the ballet. “A choreographer said, ‘Can you play one of those washboards?’ So I got one, but I thought, ‘This is kind of boring.’ So I added bedpan and some horns to it,” he said. “Before I knew it, it was part of a dance, and I thought, ‘I’ll play this for kids.’ They love it because it’s so tactile; they just want to grab the horns and honk it.” Both performers agree that performing for a family audience like those at the Children’s Festival is much different than performing strictly for adults — and much more enjoyable. “Kids are brutally honest, and if you talk down to them, it’s not so good,” Cameron said. “If you perform for very small children, you perform differently — the speech you use and the energy,” Ogrodnik added. “It’s the same for music.” The festival runs until Saturday.

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

Winnipeg children’s entertainer Mark Cameron — better known as “Mr. Mark” — breaks out his Singa-Ma-Jig for a performance Monday afternoon.

Men In Black 3 ousts Avengers from top spot at box office

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – The third Men in Black alien action comedy bumped the mighty “Avengers” from the top of movie box office charts through Sunday and was likely to dominate theaters over the rest of the U.S. Memorial Day weekend. MIB 3, starring Will Smith, racked up $55 million in the United States and Canada from Friday through Sunday, according to studio estimates. The movie also topped box offices in 104 countries around the world, and was expected to haul in a global $202 million over the four-day holiday weekend, distributor

Sony Pictures said. It is the first Men in Black film to reach theaters in 10 years, and the best performing film since the franchise began in 1997. In MIB 3, Smith returns to his role as Agent J, half of a secret-agent duo that keeps order among aliens disguised as humans and living on Earth. Tommy Lee Jones plays his partner, Agent K. The new installment finds J traveling back to the 1960s to save a younger version of K, portrayed by Josh Brolin. MIB 3 knocked superhero team The Avengers to second place after three weeks

at No. 1. The global, billion-dollar blockbuster collected $37 million in North American theaters from Friday through Sunday. It also became the fastest film to cross the $500 million domestic threshold, getting there in 23 days and shattering the 32-day record set by the 2009 film Avatar, which went on to become the world’s highestgrossing movie of all time. In third place, board game-inspired action movie Battleship brought in $10.7 million during its second weekend in theaters. Sacha Baron Cohen’s spoof The Dictator

took the fourth spot with $9.6 million through Sunday, pushing new low-budget horror film Chernobyl Diaries into fifth place with $8 million. Total figures for the U.S. Memorial Day long weekend were released on Monday. Sony Corp’s movie studio released Men in Black 3. The Avengers was distributed by Walt Disney Co’s Marvel Studios. Time Warner Inc’s Warner Bros. studios distributed Chernobyl Diaries. Battleship was released by Universal Studios, a unit of Comcast Corp. Viacom Inc’s Paramount Studios distributed The Dictator.

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Montreal’s tourism sector appears to be collapsing during the student strike, and Quebec City is reaping the benefits. International conventions, a key indicator of economic strength in the metropolis, are down 50 per cent compared with last year, said the CEO of a major downtown convention centre. Louis-Robert Handfield, who runs the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure hotel, said

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Analysts and former employees have long complained about what they viewed as a hyper-cautious corporate approach at RIM. That grew out of a drawn-out patent dispute early in the company’s rise and was exacerbated by the hiring of a slew of in-house lawyers afterwards. RIM is quietly cleaning out layers of management and recruiting fresh faces to fill important roles in a new structure being fashioned under Heins, who himself replaced longtime co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in January. “Thorsten has a very different leadership style,” said one former RIM employee who left several months ago. “He is picking a very specific organizational structure, inner circle, external hires and strategy, and a lot of folks aren’t 100 per cent comfortable with it.” The former employee spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect his ongoing business relationship with the company. The Waterloo, Ont.-based company currently employs around 16,500 people globally. Two sources with close connections to RIM have told Reuters that RIM plans to bring its workforce closer to 10,000 by early next year.

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violent student demonstrations have hurt an already slumping sector. “Since it’s an industry that books three or four years in advance, this is already a serious problem,” Handfield told QMI Agency. “What’s happening right now certainly won’t help this industry.” Family group bookings, which represent 20 per cent of all reservations at the hotel, are down as well, said Handfield. “During the Memorial Day weekend, which begins this weekend, we had no fewer than 210 room cancellations,” he said.

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“This is three times more than the same weekend last year.” Handfield expects Quebec City to benefit from the protests that have led to attacks on civilians and more than 2,000 arrests since February. The U.S. consulate issued a travel advisory in April, urging U.S. citizens to avoid protest areas. At Montreal Amphibus-Tours, which operates buses that double as boats, the director of customer service said bookings have sagged in recent months.

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attention, and a performance profile, which describes your ability to do the job. Keyword scatter — mentioning your skills a second or third time — doubles and triples your resumé’s ranking in a search that uses those words. CareerCast.com offers these secrets to building a killer resumé: • Understand what yoUr cUstomer is bUying Your resumé will work better when it focuses on the skills and experiences you bring to the responsibilities and deliverables of a specific target job. Your resumé should focus on how employers think about, prioritize and describe that job’s deliverables. • haLF oF yoUr sUccess is in the prep work Decide on a single target job, one that you have the credentials and experience for, then collect six job postings and analyze how your target employers think about and express their needs for that job. Prioritize their common requirements, and capture all of the words and phrases used to describe the job you want in your resumé to enhance the probability that your resumé will get pulled from databases for review by recruiters. • Use a target job titLe Seven out of 10 resumé writers forget to include a target job title. Every movie or TV show you have ever watched, every book, article or blog you have ever read, starts with a title: it gives focus and draws the reader in. A target job title will help make your resumé more visible in database searches and will give the recruiter immediate focus. • ditch the job objective Starting your resumé with a job objective is a waste of time and space. The top of your resumé is prime real estate: algorithms favour information at the top of a document, so the right words up front can help your resumé get pulled from databases. • incLUde a perFormance proFiLe The first section of your resumé should carry the title “Performance Profile,” and it should profile your ability to do this job. Take the most common requirements from the target job deconstruction in Tip 2 and rewrite them as your performance profile. Because long paragraphs are hard on the eyes, keep yours to a maximum of five lines; this can

be followed by a second paragraph or a list of bullets to aid database visibility. • proFessionaL skiLLs Following your target job title and performance profile should be a professional skills or core competencies section. Placing these skills near the top improves your performance with those search engine algorithms, and provides the recruiter with a series of “aha moments” as each word and phrase drives home your suitability. • keyword scatter Repeat each skill listed in the professional skills section in the context of the jobs where that skill was developed and applied. This puts your skill claims in context for the reader, and every time you mention a skill a second or third time, it doubles and triples your resumé’s ranking in a search that uses those words. For more information on how to build a resumé that will get you more job interviews, visit www.careercast.com/ career-news/seven-secrets-killer-resume.

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