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Organizers of St. Albert’s ArtWalk are hoping to get off on the right foot this year, as the first event of 2012 takes place tonight (Thursday) with several new venues for art lovers to visit. See story, P. 15.

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That’s about how many people across the world believe the world will end during their lifetime, and 10 per cent think the Mayan calendar could signify that it will happen in 2012, according to a new poll. About one in 10 also said they experience anxiety about the end of the world in 2012.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY MAY 3, 1915

Lt.-Col. John McCrae (18721918), a medical doctor from Guelph, Ont., composes the iconic poem “In Flanders Fields” over the course of 20 minutes while visiting the grave of a fellow officer in Ypres, Belgium.

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Homeowners in St. Albert will get a small break on their property tax bills this year as city council shaved a couple of percentage points off the projected tax increase for 2012 on Monday night. Increased revenues of $319,000 from new growth in 2011 — partially offset by $145,980 in new expenses reflecting cost savings from administrative restructuring and resourcing for the city manager, a new agreement with the local firefighters’ union and two new staff positions — mean that the projected residential property tax increase will drop from 2.8 to 2.6 per cent. The new agreement with the St. Albert Firefighters Union requires the City of St. Albert to come up with an extra $1.5 million — $800,950 to cover retroactive salary, benefits and overtime costs in 2011 along with the conversion of four full-time equivalents to second lieutenant positions, plus another $713,415 in the 2012 base budget. The 2012 costs will be covered by the City’s corporate contingency budget. The City also had $607,000 set aside in the stabilization reserve to cover retroactive costs, but those came in higher than expected, so another $193,950 had to be added to the 2012 operating budget. The transfer from the stabilization reserve worried Mayor Nolan Crouse, though, who wondered aloud if that particular reserve was running short on funds. “For me, personally, it’s about making sure it’s reviewed at budget time to make sure it’s topped off properly as per policy,” the mayor said, noting that City policy

dictates the fund should have about $2.5 million in it, but currently is at about $2.2 million. City manager Patrick Draper said he would examine the reserve fund and report back to council at a later date. The City is currently in talks with a private enterprise just outside city limits to provide fire service on a contract basis; however, neither the increase in lieutenant positions nor anything else in the union settlement was predicated on that contract being signed, general manager of community and protective services Chris Jardine said. The two new staff positions include a capital projects manager and a development engineer. General manager of planning and engineering Guy Boston told council that the development engineer position was necessary as the City moves toward assessing permanent area charges rather than offsite levies to land developers. “Any community that has permanent area charges has, as we call them, ‘accountineers’ — halfway between an accountant and an engineer — that is required to manage the many agreements with developers in the application of the permanent area charge,” Boston said. With these amendments passed, councillors will lock in the final tax rate when they pass a bylaw at their regular meeting on Monday, May 7. Meanwhile, councillors are already getting set to tackle the 2013 budget. Coun. Cam MacKay had given notice that he would bring forward a motion Monday to limit the 2013 residential tax increase to 1.5 per cent, but instead decided to postpone the motion to a later meeting.

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A boater pilots his canoe, complete with outboard motor, down the Sturgeon River near downtown St. Albert Saturday afternoon. The weather was perfect for boating, with a high of 15 C. But it won’t be ideal this weekend, as forecasts call for rain both Saturday and Sunday with highs hovering around 10 C.

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EVENTS VOTE FOR YOUR FAVOURITE DESIGN!

NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING Monday, May 7, 3:00 p.m. Council Chambers St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street

Agenda Highlights

The complete agenda package is posted to www.stalbert.ca • Property Tax Bylaw • Community Capital Program Grants (CSAB Recommendation) • Legion Funding Request • RV Parking on Publicly Accessible Private Property • Bylaw 11/2012, Amendment 10 to MDP Bylaw 15/2007 • Handibus Report • Council Motion – Arts and Heritage Foundation and City Agreement • Public Hearing - Commercial & Industrial Service Land Use Bylaw Text Amendment (Bylaw 12/2012) 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.

Seven schools are competing for top design in the Spruce Up St. Albert Garbage Can Painting Contest. Vote for your favourite from April 30 to May 6 at www.stalbert.ca/ garbagecancontest. Or vote at City Hall and see the designed garbage cans in person.

SUMMER SCHEDULE – ORGANICS

The City of St. Albert has started their weekly collection of organic carts for the summer season. To view the collection schedule, please visit online: www.stalbert.ca/ refuse-collection-schedule or call Public Works at 780-459-1557.

9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Mondays to Saturdays noon to 9 p.m. on Sundays Completing the census will take only a few minutes. Enumerators have received RCMP security clearance and will be wearing photo ID. For more information on the 2012 Census, visit www.stalbert.ca/census or contact the Census Office at census@st-albert.net or 780-459-1500.

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2012 COMMUNITY SATISFACTION SURVEY

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The City of St. Albert is conducting a survey of residents to ask their opinions and satisfaction with various aspects of living in the community, including about services provided by the City.

20 minutes. When contacted, residents can arrange for an appointment for a more suitable date and time to participate. Participation is confidential and anonymous.

Banister Research & Consulting will be conducting telephone interviews starting April 30 to seek feedback from 800 randomly selected adult residents, with about 200 residents selected from each quadrant of the city.

The survey results will be presented to Council in July. The results are used to track City performance and are important for consideration to make program or service changes. The last survey was done in 2010.

Residents will be called at home between 4:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on weekdays and 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on weekends. The survey takes about

For questions or concerns, please contact 780-459-1500 or email communitysurvey@st-albert.net.

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Many highlights, much to do in environment report GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The City of St. Albert has made great strides when it comes to environmental issues, but there is still lots of work to do, according to a report released this week. The City released its 2011 Environmental Report on Wednesday, highlighting some of the accomplishments from the past year and outlining priorities for the future. City environmental manager Leah Jackson said that, for her, the biggest highlight of 2011 was seeing solid waste rates in St. Albert plummet. “Based just even on having the [new solid waste] program in place for less than a full year, we made some significant improvements,” Jackson said. “So that was pretty cool.”

The environmental report indicates that the amount of solid waste produced per person in St. Albert was 137 kilograms in 2011, down from 169 kilograms per person in 2010. That’s well below the provincial average of 267 kilograms, and the City hopes to bring that number down to 125 kilograms per person by 2020. The amount of waste diverted from landfills jumped from 46 per cent in 2010 to 58 per cent in 2011 — meaning the City is well on its way to meeting its 2020 goal of 65 per cent. Both of these figures can be chalked up to the City’s new automated solid waste collection program, which was started last summer. Jackson said that, after some initial resistance, most residents have caught on to the new system and are taking full advantage of it. “It was a big change, so we did anticipate a lot of phone calls and information requests for

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the first six months,” she said. “But really, after the first couple of months, it really tapered off. Now, most of the calls we get from people are information questions or clarification questions — ‘Can I put this in my green cart?’ ‘Can I put this in my blue bag?’” The report also highlights the fact that St. Albert has been named a priority location for a regional air quality monitoring station by the Alberta Capital Airshed Alliance, which Jackson is excited about. “People often say our air quality is really good — yep, absolutely. But this is the time when we need to start measuring our baseline and get information on what the air quality is like now,” she said. “St. Albert is always going to be getting bigger, and if other communities our size are an example, eventually air quality becomes an issue.” But, as much as the City has accomplished,

there are plenty of steps left to take, and Jackson said that most of those being taken in 2012 centre around the Sturgeon River. “I’m calling 2012 the Year of the River,” Jackson said with a laugh. “We’re putting together a state of the Sturgeon watershed report — not just in St. Albert, but the whole watershed, because a lot of the issues we have don’t just start at Riel Park as it comes into the city, and they don’t stop as soon as it leaves.” There is also money in this year’s budget to retrofit two stormwater outfalls with grit interceptors, and to cap and grade the St. Albert Rugby Football Club and St. Albert Soccer Association grounds to reduce the amount of leachate flowing out of the old landfill site they are built on and into the river. The entire report is available online at www. stalbert.ca/report-on-the-environment.

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The lands in purple along St. Albert’s western boundary totalling 700 acres were designated by council Monday for future light industrial use.

Annexation floated as industrial land chosen GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

If the City of St. Albert’s plans to open up light industrial lands for development within its current boundaries don’t work out, now they have a backup plan. At their regular meeting Monday afternoon, councillors voted to designate 700 acres of land along the city’s western boundaries for future industrial usage, and to have staff prepare the necessary amendments to the Municipal Development Plan. However, at the same meeting, they also voted 5-2 to initiate annexation proceedings with Sturgeon County for the third time in 11 years. “I don’t think it necessarily means hiring lawyers,” said Mayor Nolan Crouse. “... Perhaps there’s something here that’s a winwin.” It was expected that, with the motion to designate the 700 acres of land for industrial use passed, the motion to begin annexation proceedings — initially brought forward by Coun. Len Bracko — would be withdrawn. But Bracko decided to let it stand, and only councillors Malcolm Parker and Cam MacKay voted against it. “We can always touch base with Sturgeon County and see where they’re at, and look at planning for the future,” Bracko said. St. Albert annexed land from Sturgeon County in 2001 for the current Wal-Mart site, a process that was handled quickly. However, a subsequent annexation of 1,337 hectares north and west of the city limits at the time was much more acrimonious, taking six years and a Municipal Government Board hearing to settle disagreements over a taxsharing agreement on land in the Highway 2 commercial corridor. As for the designation of the future

industrial lands, several business leaders spoke in favour of the proposal. But Jim Pennell of Genstar Developments had plenty of concerns that he iterated to council, not the least of which was the rolling topography of the area under consideration. “Industrial users don’t need, they demand flat sites,” he said, noting that the earthmoving costs Genstar is encountering building the Sobeys in northwest St. Albert are about double what they would normally incur for a residential development. Pennell also estimated that it could cost about $10 million to bring services like water and sewer lines to the area. Councillors Wes Brodhead and Roger Lemieux voted against the designation, both admitting that it was an emotional issue. “This is not the very, very best for St. Albert,” Lemieux said. “We are a leader, and we’re recognized in this country and beyond for safety, recreation education, parks, historical value — what has light industry contributed to that?” But the rest of council felt the land was necessary to ensure the city’s economic prosperity and so that large operations wouldn’t have to be turned away. “A grocer needs bread on the shelf to make a sale,” Parker said. “Developers need to see that St. Albert has designated a sizeable zone for industrial so large parcels are available for development.” “We’ve talked about economic development for all the years I’ve been on council, and this could take us to where we make a big difference and move forward,” Bracko added. The amendments to the MDP will have to come back before council for a statutory public hearing at a later date. Staff will bring forward a business case for the 2013 budget outlining what resources may be needed to get the annexation underway. 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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s St. Albert city council was discussing the designation of 700 acres of land along the city’s western boundary for future light industrial use on Monday afternoon, Coun. Cathy Heron urged council to move ahead with the plan by quoting 19th century American poet and humorist by Glenn Cook Oliver Wendell Holmes: “To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie anchor.” When it comes to light industrial development, this is a fine sentiment. After all, that is a port the good ship St. Albert has been trying to reach for years, so it is heartening to see council finally hoist the sails as they did Monday when they approved the land designation. Unfortunately, though, with the course they’ve set, they may be steering the city straight into a hurricane. Like choppy seas, the biggest problem the City of St. Albert may be headed for is the rolling topography of the land they have chosen to set aside for industrial use. As councillors heard from representatives of the development community on Monday, industrial users are looking for flat sites to build on, and they’ll definitely balk at having to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to move dirt. General manager of planning and engineering Guy Boston remarked during Monday’s meeting that other communities in Canada have managed to foster industrial development despite hilly terrain. But in those places, there may not be other options. Here in the Capital Region, if developers don’t want to deal with levelling earth, they can look down the road to Edmonton or Acheson where sites are flat — and probably cheaper. But one saving grace may be the notion of annexation. It seemed unnecessary at the start of Monday’s meeting, but the more you think about it, the more it makes sense. If there are no suitable parcels of flat land within the current city limits, maybe it’s a good idea to start looking beyond those limits again. And perhaps that will lead the city back to smooth sailing when it comes to industrial development.

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‘I have no idea’ won’t fly as events pick up

trolling into a retail store, you happen to notice to a large setup, some type of event across the street. You’re not too sure what it might be, but your interest is piqued. “I’m not from here and I was wondering if you knew what was going across the street?” you might inquire to the store’s staff member. “I have no idea,” is the short reply. Case closed, opportunity hugely missed. Has this ever happened to you? St. Albert is about to get busy with lots of major events, festivals and more. Today is the start of the ArtWalk in the Perron District downtown. The RunWild marathon is this Saturday. Soon the Rainmaker Rodeo, Children’s Festival, Farmers’

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LeLACHEUR Leader Publisher My City Market and Rock’n August will be upon us. It is that time for business owners to fully engage their staff and arm them with the knowledge of what is going on in their community. Who knows? If that customer is interested enough, they might plan a return visit and your chance of seeing them again just increased. After telling them what events and opportunities to visit are coming up, throw in an extra, “You should pop by to see us again when you come!”

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Even if you don’t run a business in St. Albert you can play an important role. But you do need to know what is happening and upcoming. Tell your friends, family members, co-workers and more. What a great way to convince them to come for a visit to St. Albert. There are some very unique draws in our city. Though we hope there are more, these may be the only reason they would hop in the car for a visit, so do what you can to get them here. The great part is that most people will only spend a couple of hours with that primary lure. So, before we let them just drive away, let’s do all that we can to pry open those wallets eating at our restaurants and shopping in our stores. When you’re staring at

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your tax bill and grumbling about how much it is, maybe you should ask yourself the question: “What have I done lately to increase business in St. Albert?” If we want businesses to start carrying more of the tax load, we can all start doing more to create commerce in our city. There are over 60,000 of us. Think of the power of those numbers if they were aligned with promoting all our city has to offer. Convincing one friend, maybe two or more, to head to St. Albert? That really starts to add up. We can also take a moment to think about that last purchase we made that was not in our city. Multiply that purchase by 60,000 and you may fall off your chair when you see the potential local economic impact missed. Owned and operated by

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Thinking of Mother Nature this Mother’s Day GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The City of St. Albert is hoping residents think of Mother Nature on Mother’s Day. The City is holding its annual Clean Up the Sturgeon event on Sunday, May 13, this year, and community recreation co-ordinator Erin Gluck said that it has continued to grow in popularity. “The last two years, we’ve seen increasing numbers. Two years ago, we had about 350 people, and last year, we had about 500 participating,” Gluck said. “Our hope is, if we get a good day and lots of people want to come out on Mother’s Day — a great activity to do with your mother — we could meet or exceed last year’s numbers.” Last year, volunteers collected nearly one ton of garbage from along the banks of the Sturgeon River, which was well above the average haul of 0.7 tons. “[There was the] huge increase in the number of participants, and we also had an extremely windy day, so

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

Mayor Nolan Crouse checks out garbage cans painted by local schools to help promote the Spruce Up St. Albert campaign. You can vote for your favourite garbage can at St. Albert Place or online at stalbert.ca until Sunday. every time they picked up one area, we ended up with more garbage flowing in,” Gluck explained. “The combination of those two, and it was such a wet spring last year, so some of the garbage was heavier.” Many of those volunteers were young kids who were out with their parents or with their minor sports teams. Seeing kids get

involved in environmental issues and organized cleanups is a very encouraging sign for Gluck. “It’s good to see how engaged the community gets, and we’ve found that engaging with schools, community groups, sports organizations, churches, a lot of those different groups, it’s a great community event,” she said.

Plus, she added, it’s a vital part of the river’s health. “Everything we do in the community, even if you’re not right close to the river valley, does have an impact on the river,” Gluck said. “Whether its small things or large things that we’re doing, those things all contribute to making the river healthier.”

The Clean Up the Sturgeon event is part of the larger Spruce Up St. Albert campaign, which runs until September, and includes other events like the River’s Edge Enhancement Project and other neighbourhood and schoolyard clean-ups. “People want to have things they can do to help make their city a better place,” Gluck said. “With the new branding of the city, the ‘Cultivate Life’ [slogan] and the whole green kind of idea, that makes people start to think about what things they can do in their community.” A new event this year is the CityWide Clean-Up, which is slated for Sept. 22 and 23. “We decided to try it for the fall this year, mainly because we’re gaining momentum with the Clean Up the Sturgeon event in the spring, so we wanted to give people a chance to feel like they can contribute in the fall before winter comes,” Gluck said. For more information on Clean Up the Sturgeon, visit www. stalbert.ca/cleanup.

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Fowler students honour school’s namesake “When the school was named [after] Fowler and I was working here, I wondered about that. His son was in my class. ... Sometimes Most of the time, honours like having our staff wasn’t even aware of who Mr. a school named after you are done Fowler is, and some of our students don’t. posthumously, so the honouree doesn’t have But I think this is an important thing to a chance to express how much it means. have.” But Richard Fowler got that chance this And to see it all come to fruition was a past week. dream come true. The former two-time St. Albert mayor, “I’ve accomplished one more thing on my MLA and provincial court judge was bucket list,” Klita said. “I’m so proud of the the guest of honour at Richard S. Fowler behaviour of 300-plus kids, of the Knights Catholic Junior High School on Thursday, of Columbus and the parents, how everyone April 26, as teachers, students and members comes together. It was an idea in my head, of the Fowler family sat down to honour the and here it is today.” school’s namesake and share a pasta lunch. Also present were representatives from “I have been honoured Holy Family Parish, with many awards over GSACRD, the Oblates the years, but none have of Mary Immaculate meant more to me than and deputy mayor Cam having a school named MacKay. after me,” Fowler, 80, told The school was the assembled students originally called Vincent J. Richard Fowler before the meal was Maloney Catholic School, Former mayor/MLA served. “Awards and until it moved to its plaques fade away and current location adjacent are forgotten. But this school is a constant to St. Albert Catholic High School. The reminder to me, and I am humbled each building was then renamed after Fowler. time I drive by or hear of things going on in Fowler recalled his early days, born in this school.” Edson to a father who was a station agent Sharing the head table in the school’s for the CN Railway. After leaving school in gymnasium with Fowler, his wife Dawne Grade 11 to “follow a girl to Calgary — she and several of his brothers and sisters was got away,” Fowler had a number of jobs, then Ernie Klita, a math, science and religion applied to the Royal Canadian Air Force, but teacher at the school. Klita, who has been couldn’t make the cut as a pilot. teaching in the Greater St. Albert Catholic “I had no desire to be a navigator,” he said. Regional District for 35 years, was the “They were going 600 mph up there, and I principal organizer of the event, and said wasn’t going to be in the backseat.” there was one question in his mind that Fowler was working in sales in St. Albert drove him to bring it all together. when he decided to run for mayor and “I’ve always thought, what would it be like succeeded in 1965. During his first term in to have a school named after you?” he said. office, a lawsuit was settled between the City

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Cap rec fees challenged GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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Saturday was World Tai Chi Day, and the Water Garden Spa at the Enjoy Centre celebrated by having tai chi instructor William Tucker and student Mary Tong perform free demonstrations in one of the facility’s open spaces.

It looks like the City of St. Albert will have to change how it collects money from land developers for recreational facilities. At their regular meeting Monday afternoon, St. Albert city councillors approved a recommendation from City administration that the Capital Recreation Contribution (CRC) fee charged to developers be set to $0. Administration’s recommendation stems from a 2011 decision in the Alberta Court of Appeal regarding a legal battle between Prairie Communities Development Corporation and the Town of Okotoks. In that case, the court found that, although developers may volunteer to contribute money, capital contribution charges like the CRC are not expressly authorized by the Municipal Government Act. In St. Albert, this has led to several developers appealing the CRC to the Subdivision Development and Appeal Board. “Appeals will continue so long as the contribution is mandatory and development may be delayed on this issue alone,” said city solicitor Gene Klenke. The CRC was introduced in 1981 as a means of funding public recreational or cultural facilities or the purchase of land for such facilities to be built upon. Since then, the CRC fee has increased according to the

Southam Construction Price Index from $750 per residential lot in 1981 to nearly $1,700 per lot in 2011, and has funded facilities such as tennis courts, swimming pools, ice rinks, clubhouses, baseball diamonds and soccer fields. As a potential fix, councillors also passed Monday resolutions to adjust new development agreements to make specific reference to the required installation of walkway system amenities, and also to make adjustments to the City’s engineering and landscaping standards. This, staff said in their agenda report, would include some of the amenities the CRC covers in the base guidelines for neighbourhood development that the City and developers must work together to meet. Councillors agreed that this would be the best option to move forward for now. “Moving forward on this will certainly keep us in line with other municipalities from a competitive perspective,” Coun. Malcolm Parker said. “The recommended option seems to cover everything.” City staff indicated in their agenda report that Alberta government officials are looking at the Okotoks decision, but have offered no assurances what action they may take or when that action may be taken. Setting the fee to $0 would allow the City to reinstate CRC rates if the province amends the MGA.

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Jonathan Lambergts poses next to many of the awards he has won playing the Pokémon Trading Card Game at his Oakmont home.

Foundation restructuring means layoffs at region seniors’ homes GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Local Pokémon champ gets back in the game GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Most people dream of retiring early, but Jonathan Lambergts actually did it — at age 10. But the Pokémon Trading Card Game player couldn’t resist the call of competition and, now 13, came back to the game and recently placed fourth in the senior division of the Pokémon Spring Regional Championships in Surrey, B.C. on April 14 and 15. “There was always something in me that I didn’t want to quit,” said the Grade 7 student at Richard S. Fowler Catholic Junior High School. “I was in a slump for a long time, but I stayed with it. ... I’ll always be drawn to it somehow.” Jonathan first got started playing Pokémon a few years when his brother got involved. “One of my brother’s teachers actually introduced him [to the game], so I actually kind of tagged along,” he said. “It was one of those things that I was quite interested about.” Eventually, though, his brother grew tired of the game, but Jonathan did not, practicing against his mother, Delfina, around the kitchen table and in local leagues at Mission: Fun and Games in St. Albert, Capilano Mall and Happy Harbour Comics in Edmonton. For Jonathan, it was the strategy and the problem solving that got him hooked in the first place. “I’ve always liked something that made me think,” he said. “I never particularly liked sports ... It was the thinking process — ‘How do I beat my opponent?’” “Pokémon is like logical problem solving on steroids for kids,” Delfina added. But he was also spurred on by the prospect of opening a pack and finding a rare card to add to his deck. “Even if I got one of them, it wasn’t enough for me,” Jonathan said. In 2009, Jonathan reached the pinnacle

of the Pokémon scene in Canada, winning the national championship in the junior division — despite not going to regionals that year. “I didn’t know whether he was going to be good enough to go to regionals,” Delfina said, “then his major competitor came second, and I was like, ‘Oh!’ So we footed the bill that year; I said, ‘He’s got some game, so let’s go to Toronto for nationals.’” Jonathan won every single game he played, including a sweep of the best-ofthree finals. But that made him get a little “cocky,” he said, and when the transition from the junior to the senior division didn’t go smoothly, he decided to give up the game. But he eventually came back to the game, finishing fifth in provincials this year before selling some of his old Pokémon cards to raise the funds to get to Surrey for regionals, where he finished fourth. The comeback came with a new appreciation for the importance of practicing. “It could be soccer, it could be basketball, it could even be card games — it’s all the same,” Jonathan said, who now aims to get two to four games in every night with his mom. “If you don’t practice, don’t expect to do as good as you want to.” Aside from the competition, though, both Jonathan and Delfina have found other benefits to being involved in Pokémon, not the least of which is the community and friendships that have formed around the game. “These kids literally take us around the world. ... The moms, we fundraise. We know not all the kids have the same advantages, so if a kid comes up and he’s a really good player, but he doesn’t seem to have the means, the moms get together and fundraise and get him that plane ticket, get him that hotel room, so he can represent us,” Delfina said. “Even my competitors are my friends. ... He’s a nice guy; he’s a guy that tries hard and has the same goals, and he’s a nice fellow,” Jonathan added.

One of the largest providers of seniors’ housing in St. Albert and the surrounding region has shuffled its deck, resulting in some employees being let go. The Sturgeon Foundation — which operates supportive and independent living facilities for seniors in St. Albert, Morinville, Legal, Gibbons, Bon Accord and Redwater — announced the restructuring on Monday, meaning several managers have been laid off and those who remain are looking after several facilities at once. Sturgeon Foundation executive director Dennis Magnusson said that, after starting in Legal 50 years ago, the foundation took a hard look at the way it operated and decided changes needed to be made. “Every time we added another lodge or a housing project, we’d add another manager. So it got to a point where we had, aside from our corporate office staff, six lodge managers,” he said. So, in 2010 — before

Magnusson was brought on board — the foundation’s board of directors retained an outside management consulting firm to review the management structure and look for ways to become more efficient. “They [the consultants] recommended that, instead of six managers, we have three people — we chose to call them ‘housing administrators’ — to run these places,” he said. “It’s called multi-site management, and that’s in large part what this is about.” “It’s not just about being more efficient and controlling costs,” Magnusson added. “It’s designing a team and having the right talent on board and the right skills and abilities to cope with the challenges of the future.” The restructuring, however, has not gone over well at some of the lodges. At Chateau Mission Court in St. Albert, residents began circulating a petition after a manager there was let go. Magnusson sympathized with their situation, though. “Change is always difficult, and I think speaks to the

fact the person who had been the manager there had been there a very long time and developed some good relationships, and in fact we acknowledge has done a very good job in so many ways,” he said. “The residents and tenants who live there come to rely on the manager who is on site all the time; they turn to her for assistance and guidance sometimes. So it’s natural that people would be concerned they know and care about is no longer there.” He added that residents should not notice much of a difference. “It’s the same front line staff doing the cleaning and preparing the meals and interacting with them on a day-to-day basis,” Magnusson said, noting that home care services provide the actual health care to residents in their facilities, while the foundation provides security, housekeeping, meals and recreational activities. “What the residents will notice is, where they had a manager on each site that they got to know quite well, now there’ll be a different person going between two sites.”

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A volunteer gets set to clean the dirt and mud off a slide at the new playground at Robert Rundle Elementary School as it is installed on Saturday morning.

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The Edmonton Humane Society and the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton are warning people to leave wild baby animals alone this spring, even if one appears to be abandoned.

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Leave those adorable baby bunnies alone, local animal officials warned last week. Concerned Edmontonians have been spotting wild baby white tail prairie hares around the city this spring without their mothers around. Thinking they’ve been abandoned or orphaned, many have called the Edmonton Humane Society or the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society wondering what to do with the critters. Worse, some have taken them into their homes. “Sometimes, we have the best intentions, but it might not be the best thing for the animal,” said Cheryl Feldstein, executive director of the WRS. The organization has been getting around 10 calls a day from people who have picked up an animal or are worried about one. In most cases, the mother is nearby, Feldstein explained. Mother rabbits spend most of their time away from their young because the adults have a strong scent that predators are attracted to. Unless you know for certain that the mother has been killed, you should leave the hare alone, even if it doesn’t move when you get close, officials advise. If you have moved an animal, put it back where you found it. It is just a myth that mothers will reject animals with human scent, Feldstein said. The Edmonton Humane Society deals with domestic animals, but they have also been inundated with calls in recent weeks. While they can direct concerned callers,

it’s best to contact the WRS, said Shawna Randolph, spokeswoman for the EHS. “The (baby hare) today that we showcased (to media) is one that someone came across at the University of Alberta and called us because they didn’t know who to call,” she said. “The person knew for sure the baby’s mother was killed by a bird.” The bunny is now in the WRS’s care. In the coming months, Edmontonians may find a variety of animals that appear to abandoned but really aren’t, including songbirds, fawns and ducks, Feldstein said. “The best thing people can do is leave it alone,” she stressed. If in doubt, she added, call the wildlife hotline at 780-914-4118. You can also find information at www.wildlife-edm.ca.

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Tupelo Honey toast of local scene at EMAs GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Saturday night was a pretty sweet night for Tupelo Honey. The band, with several members hailing from St. Albert, took home two of the biggest honours at the Edmonton Music Awards Saturday at the Royal Alberta Museum, winning both Rock Album of the Year and Album of the Year for their latest CD, Caught Up In the Excess. “It was a packed house; it was great,” lead singer Dan Davidson said. “Album of the Year and Rock Album of the Year, those are the ones that mean the most to us anyway, so it was awesome to win those.” Hearing their name called was quite the surprise for the band, which also includes guitarists Brad Simons and Tyler Dianocky, bassist Steve Vincent, and drummer Greg Williamson. “There was some stiff competition, so it was great to be selected,” Davidson said. Other nominees for Rock Album of the Year included Old Wives, Killinger, Ten Second Epic and White Lightning. The latter two also joined Tupelo Honey as nominees for Album of the Year, along with Colleen Brown and Boogie Patrol. Davidson said that, after a lull of a few

years, the Edmonton music scene is back and “From there, it was a bit startling, because better than ever. it was one of those points in time where we “What I like about it now is that it’s very asked ourselves, ‘Now what? Are we going to diverse. ... There are just so many great keep going under this name? Or are we going musicians that really span the spectrum of to try and do something new?’” genres,” he said. But they decided to soldier on as Tupelo He added that an event Honey, and Davidson took like the EMAs can only over as lead singer. help that scene get bigger “I was like, ‘I gotta try,’” and better. he said. “I had had so much “The fact it’s getting to do with writing the press is showing there’s Dan Davidson vocals all along anyway, music in Edmonton that’s Tupelo Honey so it was kind of a natural doing something,” he thing for me.” said. “... There’s great stuff Now, more than a year later, Davidson said happening, and I think it’s showing young he has settled into the role nicely. bands that it’s not far out of their reach.” “First couple of months, it was a little weird Tupelo Honey was also nominated for not having a guitar in my hands,” he said. “But Single of the Year and Music Video of the now it’s just totally natural. I don’t even think Year, both for their song “Falling.” about it anymore.” Caught Up In the Excess was an album With the EMAs under their belts, Tupelo that was a while in the making, though, as Honey is gearing up for their next gig, which Davidson took over lead singing will be in their old duties from Matt Landry just stomping grounds as the band got started on at the Rainmaker the CD. Rodeo and Exhibition in St. Albert on Friday, May 25, with the Trews and State of Shock.

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“It’s going to be great,” Davidson said. “The Trews are good friends of ours; we’ve toured with them for years. And we know State of Shock from way back. It’s going to be a pretty crazy night.” He added that there are lots of good memories among the band members of attending the Rainmaker. “Probably getting into some trouble when I was younger,” he said with a laugh. “It’s one of those St. Albert mainstays. Everyone goes to the Rainmaker, and it’s like a big reunion.” After the Rainmaker, Tupelo Honey plays Hockeyfest in Brantford, Ont., alongside Creed, Theory of a Deadman, Bleker Ridge and Puddle of Mudd. Then they’ll be back in Alberta to work on the follow-up to Caught Up In the Excess. “I’ve done some [writing] on my own the past little while, trying to bank ideas, even if it’s just little bits of lyrics and hooks here and there,” Davidson said. “I’m always trying to write, and sometimes it comes out for other people. I’ve done a lot of pop writing this year ... but a lot of the writing this year hasn’t been for Tupelo, so I’ve got to get back in that mindset.”

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Students go off the walls at annual AGSA exhibit GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The art is off the wall — literally — at the Art Gallery of St. Albert this month. May marks the start of High Energy XVII: Off the Wall, the gallery’s annual exhibit of art by local high school students in St. Albert. And, along with many of the usual paintings and charcoal drawings, several of the 170 pieces in the show jump off the gallery walls with plaster casts and other three-dimensional elements. “There’s a lot of talent, and a lot of interesting ideas that come out of this. Sometimes, that’s the most inspiring thing — what these kids are thinking about,” said exhibition curator Jenny WillsonMcGrath. “I think it’s interesting how things have moved on from traditional art-making and

students are allowed to express themselves.” Kristen Zentner is a Grade 12 student at St. Albert Catholic High School who has several pieces in the High Energy show, most of which came from a show she put together earlier in the year for her Internationale Baccalaureate program. “I really focused on how women were repressed in history, and different symbols that were used,” said Zentner, who is heading to university next year to pursue a psychology degree. “That’s what the birdcages are about — a psychological cage and a physical cage.” While some of her pieces are charcoal drawings — the medium which she said she feels most comfortable with — Zentner also breaks her mould somewhat by experimenting with relief

sculptures. “I got a lot braver this year. I had a different art teacher this year, and it put a different spin on things. I felt like I had more opportunity to do different things,” she said. “... Just having the opportunity to try different things was really neat.” Other participating schools include Paul Kane High School, Bellerose Composite High School, École Secondaire Sainte Marguerite d’Youville, and the St. Albert Protestant Outreach High School. Each school was also given a challenge project to tackle, a 3D installation piece themed around the word “conversation.” Rebecca Day and Alyssa Anselmo, both in Grade 12, contributed to Paul Kane’s project, a collection of mannequin heads accentuated by wires and Photo Supplied

St. Albert Catholic High School Grade 12 student Kristen Zentner poses next to one of her pieces that will be part of the High Energy XVII exhibit at the Art Gallery of St. Albert.

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The challenge project from Paul Kane High School centred around a theme of “conversation” awaits installation at the Art Gallery of St. Albert. pieces of old cellphones. “It’s hard because you don’t know if it should be positive or negative,” Anselmo said. “With communication, everyone has different opinions on it. But I think most of us went with the negative approach.” Paul Kane art teacher Colleen Hewitt said that the theme of the challenge project was particularly relevant for teenagers today. “With all their texting and emails, Twitter and Facebook, there are so many elements to communication now that we didn’t have before, so many ways to communicate,” she said. “It’s interesting, because there was a little bit of nostalgia for the old way of doing things, like just talking to someone face-to-face or writing someone a letter.” Hewitt has been involved with the High Energy show for almost 12 years now, and she said it has been neat to see how the students’ artwork has evolved over that time.

“There’s a lot more mixed media stuff the kids are doing, which is really reflective of what contemporary artists are doing all over the place,” she said. “There’s more mixed media stuff, more assemblage, more threedimensional stuff added to pieces, that kind of thing.” Both Day and Anselmo are grateful to have the opportunity to show the fruits of their year’s labour. “It’s fun to see all the other art from students,” Day said. Willson-McGrath said the exhibit is one of their most popular each year and one that gallery staff look forward to, even though it’s hard work. “It’s definitely a tradition for us,” she said. “Everyone tries to get in a little bit of a break before to prepare for it.” High Energy XVII: Off the Wall opens tonight (Thursday) in conjunction with the first downtown Artwalk of the 2012 season, and runs until June 2.

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A member of the African Children’s Choir performs at the St. Albert Evangelical Lutheran Church on Wednesday, April 25. The choir raises money to raise awareness of the plight of millions of orphaned and abandoned children in Africa.

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ArtWalk gets off on right foot GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Get your shoes on, local art lovers — St. Albert’s ArtWalk is ready to kick off for another year. With evenings stretching longer and staying warmer, the downtown core is set to come alive on the first Thursday of the month from tonight (Thursday) until September with painting, music and just about everything in between. “It’s great; people come back year after year to do [the ArtWalk],” said Jenny Willson-McGrath, exhibition curator at the Art Gallery of St. Albert, one of the ArtWalk anchors. “I think it’s a really good thing for downtown. And it’s expanding; we’ve gone beyond the downtown core, out to the Hemingway Centre. “It’s growing and we’re making people walk further; that’s good for everyone,” she added with a laugh. The AGSA has a busy night planned, as the ArtWalk coincides with the opening of High Energy XVII: Off the Wall, their annual exhibition of work by students at five local high schools. “That’s kind of a double whammy,” Willson-McGrath said. “The first ArtWalk of the season is normally very busy, and this is always a really busy opening show — not just the opening, but the show in general, we have a lot of foot traffic through the gallery during this one.” The gallery’s satellite studio, just down Perron Street, will also celebrate youth art by featuring the work of St. Albert Catholic High School Grade 12 student Kristen Zentner. Aside from the AGSA, though, this year’s

ArtWalk sees a couple of new venues added. At the St. Albert Public Library, the work of mixed media artist Cathy McMillan will be on display in an exhibit called Paper and Pages, featuring handmade books, altered books and mixed media artwork. “It’s part of our ongoing effort to be more and more the heart of the community,” said library director Peter Bailey. McMillan will be giving a demonstration of her artistic process from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Meanwhile, although Edmonton-St. Albert Conservative MP Brent Rathgeber will still be in Ottawa while the House of Commons is in session, his constituency office at #220, 20 Perron St. will host local artist Kristine McGuinty. While the artists in the Visual Arts Studio Association of St. Albert (VASA) are no strangers to the ArtWalk, this year they’ll have brand new digs to show off. The group is getting ready to move into a new home at the Hemingway Centre — the old RCMP building on Sir Winston Churchill Avenue — and that’s where they’ll be stationed when the walkers come strolling by. Other venues include WARES in St. Albert Place, Gemport Jewelry, Art Beat Gallery, the Bookstore on Perron, Crimson Quill Gifts and Concept Jewelry Design. “Encouraging people to come downtown, regardless of what it’s for, is great,” WillsonMcGrath said. “I think a lot of people who are new to the area or perhaps don’t come downtown will try doing the ArtWalk, get hooked and come back every month.” For more details on this month’s ArtWalk exhibitions, visit www. artwalkstalbert.com.

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Ex-Esk new Bachelor

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A CFL journeyman who’s currently a free agent as The Bachelor Canada? Well, we know the girls won’t be after his money. Then again, his dad is in the Canadian Senate, so there probably is some extra taxpayers’ cash lying around. Citytv

announced on Tuesday that 28-yearold Brad Smith, who has been a receiver with the Edmonton Eskimos, Toronto Argonauts and Montreal Alouettes, will be the inaugural eligible bachelor in the first season of The Bachelor Canada. The nine-episode Canadian version of the well-known format will debut this fall on Citytv. Asked on Citytv’s Breakfast Television if he could envision asking someone he meets on The Bachelor Canada to marry him, Smith said, “I think if you didn’t have the notion in your head that that would be a possibility, it would defeat the purpose of the show. I would have never gone through all the auditioning and the processes had I not had that intent.” And what does Smith consider to be the perfect date? “Coors Light and Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em 5, that’s a Canadian dream,” joked Smith, who originally is from Hudson, Que. Smith isn’t the first Canadian football player to be involved with a version of The Bachelor. Back in 2004, former NFL quarterback Jesse Palmer, who was raised in Nepean, Ont., was the big prize on the U.S. version of the show. Smith’s dad is Canadian Senator Larry Smith, a former CFL player and the ex-commissioner of the league.

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Duane Steele and Samantha King perform during Small Town Saturday Night in Legal.

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As the temperature rose in Legal, so too did the Small Town Saturday Night fever that swept over the town. Residents and out-of-towners flocked to the tiny town — population 1,100 — just north of St. Albert in support of Big Valley Jamboree’s Small Town Saturday Night. The day kicked off with a performance by Five-Second Rule, a local country group whose song (a parody of Toby Keith’s “Red Solo Cup”), and the video that was made to accompany it, was responsible for bringing the Big Valley Jamboree event to the Legal. “I’ve lived here for 10 years,” the band’s frontman Keith Bennett said. “Small Town Saturday Night has been fantastic for the town, for the school and for the community.” After giving the crowded community centre a brief break, the night’s MC welcomed Alberta-born songwriters Aaron Lines, Duane Steele, Shane Chisholm and Tim Ros to the stage. The event continued with a barbecue, beer garden, fireworks and the main event: a concert put on by

Avengers breaks overseas records SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – The Avengers flexed its muscles overseas, opening at No. 1 in all 39 markets and rolling up $178 million a week ahead of its U.S. debut. Joss Whedon’s superhero spectacular earned a whopping $24.7 million in the U.K., Disney’s best three-day weekend ever there. It also took in $19.7 million from Australia, a record $15.9

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Getting fit a family affair JOANNE RICHARD St. Albert Leader

We’re killing our kids with kindness. We chauffeur them everywhere, let them sit around with unlimited screen time, and often let them snack on junk food. We dish out yummy takeout for dinner because everyone’s in a hurry. Well, we’re also potentially hurrying them along to an early death. Obesity is at crisis levels — kids are getting fatter, more stationary and weaker. Childhood obesity hovers at 26 per cent — ballooning by three times in the past 25 years, says the Childhood Obesity Foundation, which also estimates 59 per cent of adults are either overweight or obese. Within two decades, the adult rate is expected to skyrocket to 70 per cent, reports say. Kids are spending as much time in front of screens as parents spend at work, according to Active Healthy Kids Canada. It seems the focus is on mind over matter — more time is set aside for academics over physical fitness in schools and in many homes too. To counteract all of this sitting time, parents need to get moving and take their kids along for the ride — actually, for the run, hike and climb. Build fit bodies, brains and bonds by getting fit together, recommend experts. With the winter encouraging

sluggish, hibernating tendencies and weight gain, we now need to put value on physical activity as warmer temperatures inch closer. “Kids like to play games, they like to be engaged, so exercise needs to be something that is sports-oriented or game-oriented,” says exercise physiologist Dr. Michael Berry, head of the Health and Exercise Science Department at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. He says U.S. statistics indicate there has been a 300 per cent increase in child and adolescent obesity in just one generation, with a third of Americans obese. Thusly, parents need to be good role models: “If adults do not make this a priority, it is not going to be a priority for children.” Go for something unusual to get them excited about working out, says Berry. You’re never too old to join in, says Canadian wellness specialist Beverly Beuermann-King. Parents set the example to their children on how to lead healthy lives. One of the ways to do this is to include the kids in fitness activities. “Often we are better at taking our kids to their activities and watching ... But by including our children and joining them in an activity, we are more likely to persist then if we were on our own,” says Beuermann-King, of worksmartlivesmart.com. Create a bucket list of activities

that you and your children would like to try. “It is important to be creative and not get concerned over ‘being too old’ for the activity,” says Beuermann-King, a life coach who joined her 13-year-old son at his karate studio after taxiing him back and forth for two years. “I wanted to try it out, and I almost talked myself out of it because I thought that I was too old, I would have been the only adult female and I might embarrass my son. Thankfully, I got over myself and went out to a few classes. I was hooked,” adds the resident of Little Britain, Ont. Meanwhile, it’s a difficult juggling act for busy parents: “We tend to turn to convenience foods which tend to be loaded with calories, the wrong fats and sugars,” says registered nutritionist Joey Shulman. The end result: We’re overfed and undernourished, says Shulman, of drjoey.com and author of The Metabolism Boosting Diet. “There is no blame to lay but changes do have to occur on a national level.” According to Toronto fitness expert Josh Hewett, owner of topform-fitness.com, protecting the health and wellness of our future generations has to start in our own homes. “We can’t depend on the school system, medical system, or the media to help our children develop healthier lifestyle habits — it’s up to us as parents.”

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Wellness expert Beverly Beuermann-King and son Nick King, 13, have fun working out together and building strength at weekly karate classes.

FuN AND FIT TOGETHER Make physical activity a family affair with these suggestions from fitness experts Dr. Michael Berry and Beverly Beuermann-King: • Organize a family Frisbee challenge, basketball game or soccer game. • While your children are playing organized sports, don’t just sit and wait for them. Participate in a fitness or yoga class that runs at the same time. • Go for a nature walk and see what tracks and birds are around. • Try an indoor or outdoor game of mini-sticks — a miniature game of hockey with small nets and sticks and a little ball. • Try out the gaming experience — select those that provide great physical activities specifically designed for friendly family competition. • Go rock climbing, ziplining or try some trampoline together.

Study links television ads to obesity, alcoholism in kids SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – New research presented Sunday at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Boston drew a connection between fastfood restaurant advertising on TV and obesity in young people as well as alcohol advertising and underage drinking. While previous research has shown that watching TV is associated with obesity. the study’s lead author, Dr. Auden McClure, and her colleagues sought to determine whether recognition of fast-food ads on TV is associated with obesity in adolescents and young adults. The team surveyed 3,342 youths aged 15 to 23 years. Participants were asked

about their height, weight, age, gender, race, socioeconomic status, exercise, consumption of soda or sweet drinks, frequency of eating at quick-service restaurants, how many hours they watched TV each day, and whether they snacked while watching TV. They also were shown 20 still images selected from television ads for top quick-service restaurants that aired in the year before the survey. The images were digitally edited to remove the brands. Individuals were asked if they remembered seeing the ad, if they liked the ad and if they could name the restaurant brand. In addition, they were shown 20 ads for

alcohol. Results showed that about 18 per cent of those surveyed were overweight, and 15 per cent were obese. The percentage of youths who were obese was significantly higher among those who recognized more ads than those who recognized few ads. “Given the broad exposure of youth to advertising, the more we know about how media and marketing affect young people, the better equipped we are as pediatricians and parents to guide them in making healthy diet choices,” Dr. McClure said. A separate study showed that kids who were familiar with alcohol advertisements on TV were more likely to have tried

alcoholic beverages and binge drink than those who could not recall seeing such ads. “At present, the alcohol industry employs voluntary standards to direct their advertising to audiences comprised of adults of legal drinking age,” Dr. Susanne Tanski said in a statement. “Our findings of high levels of familiarity with alcohol ads demonstrate that underage youth still frequently see these ads. While this study cannot determine which came first — the exposure to advertising or the drinking behavior — it does suggest that alcohol advertising may play a role in underage drinking, and the standards for alcohol ad placement perhaps should be more strict.”

Thursday, May 3, 2012

BUSINESS Coke not in Monster deal

Pepsi rolls out ad campaign SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – In the 1980s, Michael Jackson pitched it as “the choice of a new generation.” In 1990, Ray Charles told people they “had the right one, baby.” Now, Pepsi wants people to “Live for Now.” A multiyear campaign featuring that tagline, as well as various online components, ads and partnerships will roll out globally for the cola brand this year, starting on Monday in the United States. The first commercial in the “Live for Now” campaign will feature hip-hop artist Nicki Minaj singing her song “Moment 4 Life.” Minaj — known for her wacky outfits and dramatic performances — recently released her second album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The campaign is the biggest evidence to date of a renewed focus on marketing at PepsiCo, which has faced pressure from Wall Street to improve North American beverage sales. The company is spending an additional $500 million to $600 million this year on marketing a dozen of its brands, starting with its flagship cola. “PepsiCo is two letters away from Pepsi,” said Brad Jakeman, president of the company’s Global Enjoyment Brands and chief creative officer of PepsiCo Global Beverages Group. “It needed attention first ... It’s the 800-pound gorilla in the room.” “When it’s at its best, it’s telling people what’s important in pop culture,” Jakeman said. “From a brand perspective, I want this brand to regain its rightful place as a true pop culture icon.” Over the next several years, the campaign will feature other artists and entertainers. “Pepsi Pulse,” an interactive website will feature popculture information, entertainment news and original content and Pepsi has also signed a music-related partnership with Twitter.

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Coca-Cola Co took the unusual step of shooting down a report on Monday that said it was in talks to buy energy drink maker Monster Beverage Corp, valued at more than $11 billion. The statement from the world’s largest soft drink maker came in response to a story in the Wall Street Journal that said Coke was in discussions to buy the fast growing energy drink maker, whose brands include Monster Energy and Java Monster. Coke and Monster had discussed a possible deal as recently as last year, according to two sources familiar with the matter. However, it is unclear whether the two have been in talks since then. The Journal’s report that the two companies were in current talks, posted on its website Monday, sent Monster’s stock up 28 per cent to $83.96, an all-time high. Coke later issued a statement disputing the report, and Monster stock fell, closing down one per cent. “At this time, we are not in discussions to acquire the Monster Beverage Corp,” Coke said in its statement. “We continue to review the best ways to maximize the value of our relationship.” An acquisition would give Coke a bigger footprint in the energy drink market, which is growing faster than traditional soft drinks.

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Canola: Too much of a good thing for farmers?

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Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says Canada should learn from the United States’ mistakes, not repeat them.

Build productivity, not houses, says Bank gov

does play a big role in determining monetary policy, SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Bank of Canada he said. Governor Mark Carney said on Friday that Canada Earlier in the week in the United States, Fed will continue to attract large flows of cheap foreign chairman Ben Bernanke said the U.S. central bank capital and that those funds should be used to make “would not hesitate” to launch another round of companies more productive rather than to build bond purchases to drive borrowing costs lower if it houses. looked like the economy needed it. “It is reasonable to expect that Canada will attract That contrasted sharply with Carney’s more for the next decade or so sizeable foreign capital ... positive Canadian economic outlook earlier this and the question is what are we going to do with that month that has signalled the Bank of Canada may capital,” Carney told a business audience in Ottawa. start raising interest rates sooner than expected. “Are we going to build houses ... or are we going to On Friday, Carney maintained invest in our businesses and retool the bank’s “hawkish bias” when he our competitiveness?” addressed a business audience in Carney also repeated his Ottawa, said Camilla Sutton, chief warnings about excess household currency strategist at Scotiabank. debt as Canadians take out She added a stronger Canadian mortgages at extremely low dollar could temper Carney’s borrowing rates, saying the Mark Carney desire to raise interest rates, for country should heed the lessons of Bank of Canada governor fear of boosting the currency the U.S. housing crash. too high and hurting Canadian “We’ve seen this movie. It just played in a major cinema just south of here, over and exports. “If we see a big rally in the Canadian dollar, the over and over again, and it would be the height of expectations for interest rate [hikes] get priced out,” folly to repeat those mistakes,” he said. she said. “There’s a variety of things we can do, have done Sutton said now that the currency has broken and could do prospectively to make sure that doesn’t out of the range it has traded in since January, 98 happen.” cents is a key target, with a close stronger than He also repeated that the strong Canadian dollar this “psychological” level likely to point to further is a challenge for the economy. The central bank is strength. “not obsessed” with the value of the currency but it

“We’ve seen this movie ... over and over again.”

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Western Canada’s farmers might be getting too much of a good thing by planting canola more often than usual to satisfy voracious demand for the oilseed, which is used to make vegetable oil and livestock meal. Canadian farmers are expected to plant a record-large area of canola for the sixth straight year, snatching acres from cereals and legumes out of their usual rotations. Planting canola too often allows disease-causing microorganisms to build immunity to resistant crop varieties, while also cutting production yields an average 15 per cent by some estimates for the second of consecutive plantings. “Nobody can argue that there is no risk,” said Murray Hartman, oilseed specialist for the Alberta government. “(Farmers) seem to put more emphasis on short term and less emphasis on long term.” Crop specialists urge farmers to plant canola only once every four years, but many are more aggressive and some are even planting the oilseed in consecutive years. Over time, lower yields would slow steadily rising production in the No. 1 grower of canola/ rapeseed, leaving world vegetable oil market demand unsatisfied. Disease can also affect trade conditions, with China already restricting Canadian canola imports over fungus concerns. The trend is similar to the love affair farmers have with corn in the U.S. Midwest, where planting in consecutive years has become more common leading up to this spring’s biggest corn area since 1944. In Iowa, the top corn state, 34 per cent of 2010 corn acres were planted again to corn in 2011, according to Thomson Reuters

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Piper Andrea Campbell-Paul plays as the AUPE marks the International Day Of Mourning Friday.

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WELDERS with fitting skills

• Well established shop in Morinville which does specialty fabrication and structural steel. • CWB FCAW/MCAW tickets an asset, as well as candidates with experience in aluminum GMAW and GTAW will be strongly considered. • Competitive wages and benefits. • Full time employment. Fax resume to: 780-939-2557 Email: terry@craigswelding.com Phone Bob 780-939-4584 MPSSCS4180020MPSE

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Skills Canada aims to inspire, test students LINDA WHITE Sun Media News Services

For more than 500 young people from across the country, the Skills Canada National Competition is a welcome opportunity to be tested against both high standards and their peers. For organizers, it also shines the spotlight on career opportunities while breaking down dated stereotypes. “The competition provides a great opportunity for competitors to get a better understanding of what’s involved in the career area that interests them,” says Skills Canada CEO Shaun Thorson. “It also provides an opportunity for visitors to participate in Try-a-Trade activities, from building a brick wall to wiring a circuit board — something we hope will inspire them to consider a skilled trade career.” The annual event features

competitions in more than 40 trade and technology areas. Braden Bainbridge of B.C. will compete in the provincial skills competition in mechanical CAD/ CAM with the hope of securing a place at nationals. “I took drafting and welding at high school and knew I wanted to work in a skilled trade. I like working with my hands and like technology,” says Bainbridge. He’s also studying welding and hopes to marry the two skills. “Eventually, I’ll be able to make something on the computer and also be able to fabricate it.” Despite the lucrative opportunities available in the skilled trades, they’re still seen by many as a second or even third career choice. “We still have this stereotype that skilled trades are about getting your hands dirty and are for people who can’t succeed in other careers and couldn’t go to university,”

says Thorson. “That’s not the case. It requires a lot of skill and intelligence to be successful in skilled trades. We need to start at a younger age providing opportunities for students to learn about this career path.” Thorson points to opportunities in natural resources. “Right now, Canada has a very resource-based economy — the mining, oil and gas sectors — as well as lots of growth in alternate energies ... The Red Seal program provides some worker mobility across provinces and territories in a number of occupations. That helps in taking those skills where the work is.” The bi-annual WorldSkills further underscores the opportunities available in skilled trades. “It’s not only industries in Canada competing for a workforce,” Thorson says. “We also have other countries looking for the same skill sets so it’s a competitive environment.”

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Competitors at regional, provincial and territorial levels will vie for a place on Team Canada at the Skills Canada national competition in Edmonton on May 14 and 15.

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• Transportation Assistants • Utility Project Coordinator For information on these and other current opportunities available at the City of St. Albert please visit our website at www.stalbert. ca/employment or drop by our Human Resources department. Human Resources The City of St. Albert 216, 7 St. Anne Street St. Albert, Alberta T8N 2X4 Fax: (780) 459-1729 Online applications: www.stalbert.ca/employment We wish to express our appreciation to all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for this position but only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. MPSSCS4179806MPSE

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