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2013 Small Business Week Schedule of Events

Presented by Rotary Club of St. Albert / St. Albert & District Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Friday, October 18, 2013 - 7:00 am to 8:30 am Sturgeon Valley Golf and Country Club Cost: $15.00 - Preregister with the Chamber to attend

Saint City Rotary Club Luncheon

Tuesday, October 22, 2013 - 12:15 pm to 1:30 pm Cornerstone Hall, 6 Tache Street Cost: $25.00 - Preregister to attend

St. Albert Library Business Breakfast

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 7:30 am to 9:00 am Speaker Duff Jamison from the St. Albert Gazette St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street No Cost - Preregister with the Library to attend

Northern Alberta Business Incubator Oktoberfest V Beer & Cheese

2013 Small Business Week Nominees SMALL BUSINESS

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Landrex Modern Eyes Gallery and Gift Ltd. Riverside Honda & Ski-Doo

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Wednesday, October 23, 2013 - 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm Campbell Centre, 200 Carnegie Drive Cost: Donation to Young Life St. Albert - Preregister with NABI to attend

Business Awards of Distinction Evening

Thursday, October 24, 2013 - 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm Arden Theatre in St. Albert Place, 5 St. Anne Street Cost: $40.00/ticket or Group Discount - 4 tickets for $120.00 Preregister with the Chamber to attend

Thank you to our generous sponsors!

For more information on any of these events email: events@stalbertchamber.com phone: 780.458.2833 or visit: www.stalbertchamber.com and click on the Small Business Week header. ANYONE IS WELCOME TO ATTEND THESE EVENTS, CHAMBER MEMBER OR NOT

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INDEX News . . . . . . . . . 3 Opinion . . . . . . . . 8 Community Questions . 10 Photo Booth . . . . . . 18 Entertainment . . . . . 19 Finance . . . . . . . .27 Health . . . . . . . 29 BAM! . . . . . . . . 30 Fun & Games . . . . . 36 Business . . . . . . 38 stalbertjobs.com . . . .39

COVER

Linda Helberg, a stock handler at the London Drugs store in Inglewood Towne Centre, sorts through some of the recycling materials in the store’s back room. The store recently got rid of its dumpster because it recycles so much, it only throws away two bags of garbage a week. See story, page 3.

BY THE NUMBERS

1.65 tons That’s how much electronic waste — like computers and cellphones — is processed each year in Guiyu, a group of villages in the Guangdong province of China, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The villages have an area of just 52 km2, leading to high levels of heavy metal and acid pollution.

London Drugs ditches dumpster

cosmetic containers or styrofoam. “We were very excited when we found someone who would take our damaged furniture. We What goes around comes around at London were very excited when we found a program that Drugs in St. Albert. would take the microwaves and electronics that The store in Inglewood Towne Centre marked a we bring back,” Marsh said, noting that the store major waste-diversion milestone last month when sometimes runs promotions where people can it got approval from head office to get rid of its bring in an old device for a discount off a new one. garbage dumpster because it was only throwing What’s left over fills up only about two big black out two bags of garbage a week, recycling the rest garbage bags each week, and it’s mostly specialty of the waste it produces. paper products — waxy or carbon papers — plus “It’s a very good feeling. I don’t know how to waste from customer washrooms and anything describe it,” said store manager Brenda Marsh. that’s food-contaminated. “It’s a huge step, getting everybody on board “[Takeout] coffee cups, because they’re plasticand understanding what it’s worth to the store coated,” Helberg said. “But the plastic [lids] can and what it’s worth to the be if they’re washed. But if environment.” it’s contaminated, I’m not Marsh defers much of touching it.” “We’re extremely the credit to stock handler “When we get 13 pallets of proud of the store — stock Linda Helberg, who has been — that’s boxes, that’s spearhaeding the recycling it’s a group effort.” plastic, that’s all kinds of initiative at the store for the containers— three times a past five years. Linda Helberg week, there’s bound to be London Drugs “We’re extremely proud of something” that can’t be the store — it’s a group effort,” recycled, Marsh added. Helberg said. “... I think back Because this is all happening on when we started this whole process. We’ve behind the scenes, customers haven’t said much gone from heaping garbage [dumpsters] to pretty about the achievement, but Marsh said the head much nothing. It’s quite amazing.” office is very aware. For Marsh, seeing her whole team buy into the The chain received an Emerald Award in 2013 concept and work together for the benefit of the from the Alberta Emerald Foundation for their environment is great. What’s the Green Deal? education and corporate “This is my third store in four years, and the recycling program. Since the program was buy-in in this store is so much stronger than any launched in 2008, more than 42 million pounds of the stores I’ve worked in,” she said. of materials have been recycled through London That might be chalked up to the City of Drugs stores. St. Albert’s curbside recycling program. London Drugs stores also offer their Bring Back “I’m not sure if that has played a part in the the Pack program, where customers can bring the education realm here,” Marsh said. “But we packaging material from their purchases back to have the steps in place, we communicate the the store for recycling. information, we measure the success and we share The St. Albert store is not resting on its the success. It feels really good.” laurels, though, as there are several stores in the Waste is collected from individual departments Edmonton area operating at waste diversion rates in the store and taken into a sorting centre in of more than 93 per cent. the back room. If employees aren’t sure where “There are a lot of stores in Edmonton that something goes, they leave it for Helberg to sort, are on our heels. They’re close, but I don’t know but she makes sure to let them know for next time if they’re actually physically going to get to” the around. same point, Marsh said. It has been a challenge finding companies that For more on London Drugs’ What’s the Green will take some materials for recycling — like used Deal? program, visit www.greendeal.ca.

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Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

London Drugs stock handler Linda Helberg sorts some of the store’s recyclables. The store recycles so much that it recently got rid of its garbage dumpster.

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Churches pushing for palliative care beds Master Plan. “At the time, it was just kind of theoretical,” Wulkan said. “I mentioned A number of local churches are working there might be a possible land donation we together to bring could have access to, and more hospice care and that got the ball rolling palliative care beds to in terms of seeing what’s St. Albert. going on.” Currently, the city has Committee members only one palliative care have also spoken with bed at Youville Home. people who have started But a committee being hospices in other Alberta Rev. David Wulkan led by various ministers communities, as well Christ Community Church is hoping to add to that as with Alberta Health, total, and looking to the which has identified community for help through a town hall a need for palliative care beds in the meeting on Thursday, Oct. 10. Edmonton region. Rev. David Wulkan of Christ While Wulkan couldn’t say why there are Community Church, located in the so few palliative care beds in the city now, city’s far northeast corner, is part of the he was confident it would be a growing committee spearheading the initiative, and concern in the future. That’s not just said the idea for a hospice came out of a because of the aging population, though discussion on the City of St. Albert’s Social — he added that other, younger patients

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“It’s not just for the patient; it’s for the whole family.”

coping with terminal diseases like cancer also need this type of care. “It’s not just for the patient; it’s for the whole family,” he said. “It’s a place for the whole family to be together during the last days. You don’t want to be in a hospital wing, in a ward, where there’s really no room and kids can’t climb on the bed with their mom.” Right now, the plans are very preliminary, and the committee is looking for strong leadership as it moves forward. “We did identify someone to be our financial person, someone to be a secretary for the group, but we really need someone to chair, someone to vice-chair — the visionary, the gogetter,

someone who’s got the time and the expertise to actually pull this together,” Wulkan said. Others already on the committee include a physician, a nurse, the chaplain at Sturgeon Community Hospital and a retiree with experience in international relief and development work. Wulkan said it’s great to see churches and the community working together to achieve a common goal. “As pastors, a lot of us have visited people in palliative situations in hospitals, and we know how tough it is on the family in general,” he said. “If you can provide a more peaceful space, a designated area, it would certainly help the grieving process.” The town hall meeting takes place on Thursday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 271 hall (6 Taché St.).

RCMP on lookout for mall voyeur Surveillance footage courtesy St. Albert RCMP

Surveillance footage from St. Albert Centre shows a man St. Albert RCMP believe was involved in an incident of voyeurism on Thursday, Sept. 12, in the Winners store at the mall.

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St. Albert RCMP are hoping the public can help catch a man who was doing more than browsing at a local mall last month. On the afternoon of Thursday, Sept. 12, police were called to the Winners store in St. Albert Centre after reports of a man recording women using the store’s bathroom.

Around 4:20 p.m. that day, the man entered the store and went into a stall in the ladies’ washroom. He then used a camera to record a woman using the washroom in the next stall. When he was discovered, the man ran out of the store and out of the mall. The male suspect is described as a 25-year-old Caucasian, approximately six feet tall with a slim

build. He had very short brown hair and, although slightly unshaven, was described as being neat in appearance. He was wearing a black T-shirt with a small white logo on the chest, and was wearing black pants or jeans. Anyone with any information on this incident is asked to call the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 780-4587700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).

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School named GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Flying colours Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leader

Second World War veterans Stephen Boczar (left) and Nicholas Stroich (right) pose with Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber outside Royal Canadian Legion Branch 271 in St. Albert on Saturday afternoon after Rathgeber presented each with the Bomber Command Bar decoration for their service in the Royal Canadian Air Force. Boczar, now 92, flew 31 missions in Europe during the war, while Stroich, also 92, completed a total of 52 missions.

It may not have a building yet, but the new school in Erin Ridge North has a name: Lois E. Hole Elementary School. St. Albert Public Schools announced on Tuesday that the new school, scheduled to open in 2016, would be named after the former trustee with the district and lieutenant-governor of Alberta who called St. Albert home. “The Board of Trustees has wanted to pay tribute to Lois Hole by naming a school after her for some time,” said St. Albert Public Schools board of trustees chair Joan Trettler in a press release. “It was something that was very important to us, as she was a trustee with our district for many years and had a significant impact on education in our city and our province.” The board — then St. Albert Protestant Schools — actually passed a directive in January 2005 to name the next school built in the district after Hole. “It gave us great comfort to know that she was aware of our intent to name our next school after her,” Trettler added. Her family met the news with celebration. “Mom was passionate about education,” said her son, Jim Hole, in the same press release, “and we remember her saying: ‘Our public schools, from kindergarten to university, are the foundation of current and future prosperity.’ Mom would be tremendously honoured to have this school named after her.”

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Substance still unknown

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Having a ball Photo: JESSE KUSHNERYK, St. Albert Leader

Players square off during the 5 Rivers Youth Ball Hockey Tournament Saturday at Servus Credit Union Place. 5 Rivers Youth is a Punjabi youth group based in Edmonton.

For the second time this year, City of St. Albert officials are dealing with a mystery substance found near the Sturgeon River. The City was alerted to the substance by a resident at around 8:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 24. It was spotted near a stormwater outfall adjacent to the trails around Riel Recreation Park, approximately 50 metres from the river, and had an unusual colour and smell. City environmental manager Leah Kongsrude said on Monday that, while some test results on the substance had come back, she still couldn’t say exactly what it was. “The only thing unusual that came back was that it was high in some metals. It didn’t have a shine or a sheen; it didn’t look like a hydrocarbon of any kind,” Kongsrude said. “It looked more like a paint than anything.” However, she added, the substance didn’t pose much of a threat to aquatic wildlife because it was corralled by booms quickly

and removed from the river by a hydrovac truck the morning after it was found. “Luckily for us, it was all contained in a low area right by the outfall. It didn’t make it to the river,” she said. Alberta Environment was notified of the incident. While the release occurred near Riel Recreation Park, Kongsrude was confident it was not related to the old sewage lagoons and landfill upon which that park is built. “This location is well outside the landfill area, and it’s nothing like any of the groundwater expressions we’ve seen around the area,” she said. “They’re typically brown or orange, and have a sheen to them.” The federal government mandated that the City redo the capping and grading of the old landfill site after it was found that contaminated groundwater was seeping out of it and into the Sturgeon River in 2004. That work resulted in the closure of the St. Albert Soccer Association and St. Albert Rugby Football Club grounds this past summer. In August, another mysterious

substance was found on the Sturgeon River, on both sides of the Boudreau Road bridge. In that case, City officials determined that it was a refined hydrocarbon — the exact makeup was not known — that was not hazardous to aquatic life. This latest incident bears no similarities to the August incident, Kongsrude said. “None of us have really seen anything like this before,” she said. “In springtime especially, we’ll see hydrocarbons, like a sheen, coming off parking lots or a sediment plume coming off a construction site. You get your typical releases. But this one is new for the books.” Having two incidents like this in such quick succession is obviously not ideal, she added, but she credited residents with keeping a close eye on the river and thanked them for calling in anything that looks suspicious. “It’s higher than we like, of course,” Kongsrude said, “but I do think a big part of it is our citizens. I really appreciate them calling things in, even if it seems like a little thing to they’re not sure what it is.”

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Stanton heads west GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Battle of Alberta Photo: GRANT CREE, Special to the Leader

Drydn Dow (left), a defenceman with the University of Calgary Dinos, shoots the puck away from University of Alberta Golden Bears forward Jordan Hickmott (right) during their Canadian Interuniversity Sport preseason game Saturday evening in the Northstar Hyundai Arena in Servus Credit Union Place. The Dinos won by a score of 5-4.

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It looks like Ryan Stanton will be taking his Stanley Cup ring to the West Coast. Stanton, a St. Albert native, was one of the “black aces” for the Chicago Blackhawks during their Stanley Cup run earlier this year. But on Monday, the defenceman has been picked up on waivers by the Vancouver Canucks just before the deadline for teams to set their opening day rosters. Stanton, 24, played one game for the Blackhawks during the 2013 NHL regular season, where he racked up two penalty minutes, one shot and a plusone rating. He recently brought the Stanley Cup to Meadowview Ball Diamonds in St. Albert, where it drew a large crowd of people who wanted to have a look and have their photo taken with it. He was placed on waivers by the Blackhawks for the purposes of sending him down to the American Hockey League’s Rockford IceHogs, where he spent most of the 2012-2013 season, scoring three goals and 22 assists while amassing 126 penalty minutes in 73 games. He spent five years in the Western Hockey League with the Moose Jaw Warriors, with his best year being his last in 2009-2010, when he accumulated 10 goals and 30 assists in 59 regular season games. In Vancouver, Stanton will be in equally tough for playing time at the NHL level, and may wind up with the Canucks’ AHL affiliate in Utica, N.Y.

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

OPINION

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Waste goals just the start

Here’s what people are saying about #StAlbert on Twitter:

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oy, it sure seems like we here in St. Albert love taking out the trash — and no, this editorial has nothing to do with the upcoming municipal election. Rather, it is a chance to extend wellearned kudos to the city’s residents by Glenn Cook and its corporate citizens for their efforts in making sure waste that can be recycled is recycled, and not sent to the landfill. This week, the London Drugs store in St. Albert set the bar awfully high for other stores in its chain and others in St. Albert by getting rid of their garbage dumpster altogether. The store recycles so much of the waste it produces that they only fill up two bags with garbage each week. They even take packaging materials back from customers to recycle. It has taken a lot of work, a lot of time and a lot of organization to get everyone who works at the store to buy into the recycling concept, but it has all paid off in a way that benefits everyone. London Drugs has set a great example, and the rest of St. Albert is following. As outlined in a report to city council in June 2012, the City of St. Albert is well ahead of its own waste diversion goals. City officials had hoped to divert 65 per cent of waste away from landfills by 2020, but it was already there in 2012. That same year, residents only generated 112 kilograms of garbage per person, down almost 25 kilograms from the year before. With the blue bag and organic systems in place, residents are taking a hard look at just what they were throwing away in the past, and realizing just how much of it doesn’t have to go to the landfill. But, while residents and businesses have done extremely well in diverting waste so far, this is no time to let up. Instead, we should be challenging ourselves and the business community to do even more. That way, St. Albert can continue to lead the way in this important area.

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Artists, performers all in for StArts Fest

re you in? That’s the question we posed in the weeks leading up to StArts Fest and Alberta Culture Days. The St. Albert Cultivates the Arts Society’s mandate is to encourage the citizens of St. Albert to discover, experience and celebrate the creative endeavours of local artists and performers during Alberta Culture Days. The artists and performers were! Poets, potters, quilters, writers, filmmakers, paper makers, singers, painters, storytellers, musicians, youth improvisers and others. This weekend saw St. Albert and area artists and performers give generous of their time and talents. The richness and variety of culture and arts in

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and Visual Arts Studio Association (VASA)’s ArtsWorks weekend make for a diverse selection of activities. Generous funding from the City of St. Albert and the provincial government round out the involvement. It takes many people to make an event happen. Finally, the citizens of St. Albert were! While the festival has room for growth, each year it gets a little bigger. Some events such as the poetry readings and Corrine Jeffrey’s book launch were standing room only. And the number of people who played or listened to one of the pianos were beyond count. I managed to visit most events this year and over the course of the weekend,

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I heard lots of laughter and saw many smiles. People were trying out new things or asking questions about how something was made or why it was done that way. And in a few weeks, the team will meet again and start planning for 2014 StArts Fest. With 2014 marking the 30th Anniversary of St. Albert Place and the planned debut of the St. Albert Youth Festival, we have a exciting challenge ahead of us getting ready to ask you again: Are You In? It’s weekends and experiences like this, that make me proud to call St. Albert “My City.”

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Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

Yard awards in bloom

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Command performance Photo: GRANT CREE, Special to the Leader

Lt.-Cmdr. Tim Cusack (right), a naval reservist who lives in St. Albert, signs a certificate to officially take command of HMCS Nonsuch during a ceremony on Saturday at Griesbach Park in Edmonton. The parade saw former commanding officer Lt.-Cmdr. Frank van Staalduinen (left) and Commodore David Craig (centre), Commander of Naval Reserves, hand over command to Lt.-Cmdr. Cusack. As the commanding officer, Cusack will lead the Edmonton-based sailors for the next three years as they deploy on missions within Canada and overseas. He has served in the Royal Canadian Navy Reserves for 21 years, and is the principal at Louis St. Laurent School in Edmonton.

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The awards were blooming all around St. Albert for local green thumbs. On Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the Enjoy Centre, the City of St. Albert recognized the winners in its second Cultivating Front Yards program, handing out six main awards as well as prizes to the top entries in each subdivision. “St. Albert has long been known as one of the most beautiful cities to live and work in and it’s through the pride and passion of our residents and business owners that our city continues to be the envy of many,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said in a press release. There were more than 200 entries received for this year’s awards program. The winners in the six main categories included: • Best Winter Front Yard: Corry Wood, 48 Fawcett Cres.; • Best Edible Front Yard: Robertson family, 10 Grantham Pl.; • Best Natural Front Yard: Wooding family, 10 Whitehall Cres.; • Best Art in the Front Yard: Barker family, 4 Salina Dr.; • Best Business Front Yard: Sarasota Homes, 25 Carleton Dr.; and • Best Overall Front Yard: Mikalonis family, 16 Portman Pl.

In addition to these awards, a special award was given to the residents of Fair Oaks Drive, as a total of 16 houses on this street were nominated for beautifying their neighbourhood. Due to the high number of nominations for the Best Overall category, City officials decided to recognize the top residence in each subdivision, including: • Woodlands: Flannery family, 12 Wentworth Cres.; • Sturgeon: Barker family, 4 Salina Dr.; • Forest Lawn: Dendy family, 13 Fair Oaks Dr.; • Grandin: Holland family, 7 Grandin Pl.; • Heritage Lakes: Young family, 31 Hampton Cres.; • Braeside: Profetta-Magrath family, 15 Bocock Pl.; • Akinsdale: Silver family, 34 Acorn Cres.; • Mission: Mason family, 55 Montcalm Cres.; • Lacombe Park: Wolinsky family, 72 Lancaster Cres.; • Deer Ridge: Antoniuk family, 71 Deer Ridge Dr.; • Erin Ridge: Raven family, 8 Escallier Pl.; • Oakmont: Thompson family, 107 Otter Cres.; • Parkwood: Mikalonis family, 16 Portman Pl.; and • Kingswood: Gillard family, 4 Kelso Ct.

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

COMMUNITY QUESTIONS How will you ensure the youth of St. Albert have a voice in both in their education and in community initiatives? JACQUIE HANSEN, Alberta School Boards Association

How can council ensure 20% of all housing will be developed as non-market housing that is affordable? DORIS VANDERSTEEN, St. Albert Housing Society

Create joint teen and senior initiatives. Teens can be educated by senior experience and seniors gain appreciation of new perspectives. Nurture teen business ideas.

Taxes and utilities need to be addressed prior to attracting builders of affordable housing.

NOLAN CROUSE

Nurture the creation of youth groups such as SOARing, BAM, Youth Centre, youth curling, youth tennis, etc.

By working with the development industry and create starter and downsizer home initiatives.

ROGER BRADLEY

We must support youth programs like “Building Assets and Memories” and local Student Councils and encourage their feedback on the issues that affect them.

To remain an inclusive community, council must continue to work with local and provincial social agencies to ensure suitable housing options are available.

Support current youth initiatives like BAM, Junior Achievement, sports and arts groups, develop volunteer opportunities and create a place of their own where youth can gather.

Require affordable housing lots in each new ASP. Develop funding supports with all orders of government and engage existing community affordable housing agencies.

HUGHENA BURKE

Engage students through different channels to learn where the gaps and overlaps in services and programs really are.

Continue reviewing development plans from a broad perspective, considering all angles and stakeholder involvement, reach agreement with council members.

MARK CASSIDY

By having open dialogue with them and all other demographics on what we can do better to serve them.

By changing the type of developments we approve and implementing new designs to accommodate our demographics this in order to attain a healthy mix.

Young people can have a voice in community initiatives if we consult them, consider them, include them, treat them with respect, and encourage them to vote like all community stakeholders.

This is a case where the need for affordable housing can best be met by the market – with a boost from zoning and planning. All plans need to be sensitive to the community’s character.

TED DURHAM

We need to pay closer attention to youth groups like BAM. Schools can form committees with youth involvement to bring issues to city council. They are members of this community and we need to listen to them.

The only way we are going to accomplish a good housing mix is to bring back a Municipal Planning Commission. Administration and planning are making decisions in this area without proper public input.

JOHN GOLDSMITH

We could have more youth involved by exercising the internships at the municipal level government that the province has to offer, for one.

Having a goal to help people to help themselves is more important to me. I have yet to have someone define what “affordable housing” is. Perhaps someone can help me out with this one.

Youth can attend council/school board meetings. They can volunteer or join Leaders of Tomorrow programs. Parents can make sure students get involved in non-curriculum activities.

Council can mandate it, but any costs the builder has to subsidize to reduce the price to lower than market is simply added to the market priced housing. There is no free lunch. Somebody always pays.

Council Candidate

Listen to them, don’t dictate to them. Youth leading youth is the answer. Youth are our future; they cannot be ignored. There are so many brilliant young minds out there ready to be engaged.

Answer must involve partnerships with non-profits and province. The City can plan for more low-end market affordable to allow for those in non-market housing to move into, freeing space in the subsidized housing.

SHEENA HUGHES

Encourage schools and organizations to develop extracurricular programs that engage youth and contribute to our community.

Twenty per cent government subsidized housing is unrealistic. Encourage private developers to create quality affordable housing that meets our standards.

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By advocating the formation of a St. Albert Youth Council.

Council in conjunction with administration should encourage developers to voluntarily allocate a percentage of their development for non-market housing at the Area Structure Plan stage.

CAM MacKAY

The youth in St. Albert will have a voice through their parents.

Having every four houses pay for the fifth is not a sustainable economic model. Affordable housing must primarily come from the private sector and be market affordable. This can be done through wise land use planning.

Council Candidate

TIM OSBORNE

Rather than guessing what we think youth in this community need, we need to trust their wisdom and then allow them to take ownership of their initiatives.

We can’t keep rezoning everything to low density residential. We need to find development partners who are committed to providing affordable housing.

MALCOLM PARKER

Take an active role in reaching out to youth through various programs and city initiatives so they feel they are being heard and their opinions are valued as well as seeing demonstrated results.

Encourage partnership agreements between non-profits like the Housing Society, Sturgeon Community Foundation, Habitat for Humanity with both developers and builders so there is investment in new neighbourhoods.

Go to where the youth are, engage them in discussion and empower their voice. Start with hands-on opportunities at a young age like BAM & City Hall School.

Work with developers to have affordable housing options designed as essential parts of the community, not shoe-horned into a development which later gets removed.

Education is a school board responsibility and that should be left to them. City council should provide for a special hour at the first meeting in January to hear from youth about any community issue they want to bring forward.

As the councillor who championed the Affordable Housing Committee for years, I am not certain what you mean by “non-market” housing but I could support a policy of ensuring that 20% of all housing is affordable.

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Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

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stalbertleader.com/election2013 How will you support independent, locally owned businesses in St. Albert? HEIDI FEDORUK, St. Albert Cash Mob organizer

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Initiate tax relief for a business bringing in another business. Market the city. I shop locally essentially 100% of the time. Recognizing that small business drives the local economy, we need a business friendly administration with minimal red tape and a competitive tax base. Conceive, develop and promote a “Shop St. Albert First” program highlighting local business strength. Then lead by example and personally buy locally. Meet with businesses to discuss concerns and gather innovative ideas to forward to council.

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By having an open dialogue with them and finding out what we can do better.

Great arts, cultural and recreational activities and facilities draw participants from far and wide – all of them potential customers for small and independent St. Albert businesses. When we raise taxes, we take money out of consumer pockets. Small business will be the most affected ... If we follow smart economic principles, we will help small business. Reduced taxation and spending increases consumer spending.

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I will have to talk to them to find out. I will listen to their issues and go from there. The best way to support locally owned businesses is to buy here, and encourage others to do the same.

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Assist them in marketing, help improve export potentials, bring customers (residential critical mass) to them. Get rid of red tape at city hall. Allow Economic Development department to be a one-stop shop. Talk with owners to find real solutions to help local business. Stop the tax and utility increases. Change unnecessary regulations that are hurting businesses. A strong partnership should be encouraged and developed between council, administration and the Chamber of Commerce to discuss and address locally owned business concerns.

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We have an abundance of land and buildings for local businesses. We need to re-establish the Municipal Planning Commission tasked with the role of developing a long term City Plan to include lots for smaller entrepreneur.

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Listen to their needs, direct them to professionals who can help them grow their businesses, be willing to review regulatory impediments, encourage them to be innovative and customer oriented. I will continue to support local businesses by example and by collaborating with local business on innovative new ways to engage their customers.

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Reducing red tape, ensure that infrastructure is well maintained and wise land use planning will assist small business to grow and prosper in our community. Support and promote the growing citizen-driven “shop local” movement. A great example of this is the monthly Cash Mob. Then, practice what you preach.

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Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

‘He filled our lives with pure joy every day’ GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The family of a six-year-old boy killed in a tragic bus collision in St. Albert on Friday morning is remembering him as “the happiest little boy in the universe.” The Wedman family lost their son, Thomas, on Friday when he was struck by a school bus while crossing Woodlands Road near École Marie Poburan, where he attended Grade 2. “He filled our lives with pure joy every day, and I am devastated that his life has been cut short,” said a letter posted to the Community of St. Albert Facebook page on Saturday and signed by Sheri, Jeff, Ethan and Isaac Wedman. “As a family, we will get over this tragedy and create a new normal, but we will never forget him. “Hug your kids and families and keep us in your prayers.” There will be a public memorial service for Thomas on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. at North Pointe Community Church (14025 167 Ave., Edmonton). The boy’s father, Jeff Wedman, was in the public eye in early 2012 as he ran for the Progressive Conservative party nomination in the provincial riding of St. Albert, a race that was eventually won by current St. Albert MLA Stephen Khan. In the letter posted Saturday, the family also said they have found “great comfort” in the messages of love and support that have been expressed by the community in the wake of the tragedy, but they asked that people not create a memorial at the scene of the collision. “My son and many other students from [École Marie Poburan] walk by this corner on a daily basis. I do not want these children or anyone else to have to relive this moment every day with the constant reminder. Rather, I want people to remember him for the lovable, fun-loving, free-spirited child that he was.” The collision occurred at about 8:40 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 27. Sir Winston

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Six-year-old Thomas Wedman is being remembered as a “lovable, fun-loving, free-spirited child” who filled his family’s lives with “pure joy every day.” Churchill Avenue was closed for a couple of blocks in either direction for most of the day as an RCMP traffic analyst investigated. A critical response team was called in from Edmonton to assist St. Albert Victim Services in supporting the boy’s family, witnesses and students at École Marie Poburan, a French immersion

school housing about 450 students from kindergarten to Grade 6. “It was quite populated at the time, as school was close to being in session,” said Const. M.J. Burroughs of the St. Albert RCMP detachment. “We’re working with those partners to help everybody involved get through this.”

David Keohane, superintendent of Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools, said that the district’s emergency response measures went into action as soon as they became aware of the collision, and that staff would be keeping a close eye on students for signs of distress, anxiety or trauma. “This accident is an immense loss to all who knew the victim, and will have a profound impact on the school,” he said. “Our heartfelt condolences are extended to the family, friends and classmates of this child.” The bus that struck the boy was contracted to St. Albert Public Schools, and was carrying students to Keenooshayo School and Sir Alexander Mackenzie Elementary School. It is not known how many children were on the bus at the time. “Our thoughts and prayers are also with the bus driver and the contractor,” said Barry Wowk, superintendent of St. Albert Public Schools. “We are a closely knit school district community, and we are all feeling this tremendous loss. Many lives have been changed today, but we can hope and pray that our community will come together once again to help each other heal.” RCMP have said they don’t believe alcohol or speed were factors in the collision. In an emailed statement, St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse expressed his “deepest condolences” to the Wedmans, and said that city manager Patrick Draper would direct staff to review all 25 school sites in the city “to make certain that the most effective crosswalks, procedures, technology and protocols are in place.” Thomas’s heart valves were donated to the Alberta organ donor program, and in lieu of flowers, the family is asking that donations be made to the Human Organ Procurement and Exchange Program (HOPE) through the University Hospital Foundation. The family has also set up an email address at memories_of_thomas@ outlook.com for people to share their memories of Thomas.

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Wes Is More… Environmentally Conscious What We Do Today Should Improve Tomorrow

“For 20 years I have seen Wes contribute to and participate in this community in a variety of volunteer and leadership roles. His earnest desire is that St. Albert remains vibrant, sustainable, and affordable for all who choose to live and work here. As a Councillor he can make a difference.” - Dave Spiers, Inspector, Edmonton Police Service (Retired)

ON OCTOBER 21, 2013 RE-ELECT WES BRODHEAD, COUNCILLOR

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Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

St. Albert library teams up with region to offer ME Card GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The St. Albert Public Library is joining forces with other Capital Region libraries to bring more material to its patrons. The library announced Monday that it has teamed up with the Edmonton Public Library, the Fort Saskatchewan Public Library and the Strathcona County Library to launch the ME Card, which allows members of any of those libraries to borrow physical items from any of the other libraries — putting more than three million items at patrons’ fingertips. “It’s exciting to offer even more choice and convenience in both collection and location to library card holders,” said library director Peter Bailey in a press release. “With the ME Card, there is no need to carry multiple library cards around because patrons will use the card they already have from St. Albert, Edmonton,

Strathcona County or Fort Saskatchewan, and they can also return their borrowed items to any of these libraries.” Upgrading one of the local library cards to the ME Card is free of charge, and can be done through a simple online registration process at www.melibraries.ca. Due to licensing restrictions, however, eBooks and other digital content are not part of the new borrowing privileges under the ME Card system. “The ME Card removes barriers and offers patrons even more value from their library card — no more reciprocal fees, the ability to place holds on any books regardless of which library they belong to, and access to thousands of fun, educational and informative programs across the region,” Bailey added. “The ME Card will be especially useful to those who live in one town and work or study in another, with the ability to use whichever library is the most convenient on any particular day.”

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Valley Zoo welcomes new red panda Kalden

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Japanese fan Yuki Nagata stands in front of Harry Potter costumes during a preview of a Harry Potter exhibition in Tokyo in June.

Potter exhibit coming KEVIN MAIMANN Sun Media News Services

The Telus World of Science wants to take Harry Potter fans on a trip to Hogwarts. The science centre is to announce Monday it will host a new exhibition this fall exploring the wildly popular film series. Harry Potter: The Exhibition, will run from Nov. 23 to March 9, and will showcase more than 200 authentic props and costumes from all eight movies in the series based on books by author J.K. Rowling. “We really take you on a journey. It’s almost like a day in Hogwarts,” said Robin Stapley, VP creative at Global Experience Specialists — the company that created the 12,000-square-foot exhibition in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. Harry Potter fans can make their way through nine different settings inspired by the film sets, including Hagrid’s Hut, Forbidden Forest, Gryffindor Common

Room, and the Great Hall. Iconic props to be found throughout the exhibit include Harry’s glasses and invisibility cloak, Ron Weasley’s wand, items from dramatic Quidditch matches, and costumes from the Hogwarts Yule Ball. “They’ll really get a sneak peak of the amazing craftsmanship and detail that actually went into creating these amazing costumes, and really just celebrate the creativity and passion that the filmmakers had for making this series,” Stapley said. Edmonton will host the Western Canadian debut for Harry Potter: The Exhibition, which is fresh off a successful Asian-Pacific tour. The exhibition premiered in Chicago five years ago and has stopped in eight other locales including Tokyo, Toronto, and Sydney, Australia, adding items from each new Harry Potter film along the way. The Harry Potter series is the largest grossing film franchise of all time, with eight films spanning

a decade between Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (2001) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2011). Its story follows protagonist Harry Potter, an orphaned boy played by actor Daniel Radcliffe, who is accepted into the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and discovers he is destined to battle the evil wizard Lord Voldemort. Stapley said the exhibition has been a hit with fans of all ages. “Oh my gosh, fans young and old across the world have really appreciated it,” he said.“I would say get tickets early so that you won’t be disappointed.” Harry Potter: The Exhibition will be open 10 a.m. through 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday through Thursday. Timed-entry tickets can be purchased in person at the Telus World of Science Edmonton box office, by phone at 780-451-3344, or online at www. telusworldofscienceedmonton.com.

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Edmonton Valley Zoo has a new warm and fuzzy attraction — a one-year-old red panda named Kalden. Kalden was recently moved to Edmonton from the Northeastern Wisconsin Zoo. The Edmonton Valley Zoo is now home to three red pandas — Kalden and two females, Pip and her mother Lala. Kalden arrived in Edmonton on July 11, but was only introduced to his new mate, Pip, last week. “When Kalden first arrived, he was very grumpy. We were concerned that he and Pip would not get along,” said Wade Krasnow, animal care team lead, Edmonton Valley Zoo. “When we introduced them, Kalden behaved like a perfect gentleman. He gave Pip her space and approached her slowly. He liked Pip right away and the

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two have adjusted well to living together.” Red panda mating season occurs annually from January to March, and red panda pregnancies last four to five months. Zoo staff hope to see red panda cubs at the Edmonton Valley Zoo as early as next spring. Due to habitat loss and poaching, red pandas are an endangered species. Only an estimated 2,500 adults remain in the wild. The Edmonton Valley Zoo is part of a worldwide conservation effort to preserve red pandas through a Species Survival Plan cooperatively managed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). Over the past 10 years, the Edmonton Valley Zoo has successfully bred seven red panda cubs, including Pip, who was hand-raised by zoo staff when her mother was unable to care for her.

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THANK YOU to the Community

Splashing down Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leader

Mark Stoneleigh, manager of the ATB Financial branch in Tudor Glen Market, makes a splash in the dunk tank during the bank’s 75th birthday celebrations, which took place across the province on Friday. The Tudor Glen branch also announced a $1,000 donation to the St. Albert chapter of Kidsport and the planting of a commemorative blue spruce tree in the city.

Since 1997 the St. Albert Youth and Community Centre Society has operated the Youth Community Centre (YCC) located at Grandin Mall. The Society was guided by a belief that youth and their families, when presented with meaningful challenges and opportunities to meet their socio-emotional, recreational, cultural and intellectual needs, can realize their potential in the community. The Centre operated on principles of full accessibility, a safe environment, and acceptance of diversity, youth involvement, community collaboration and volunteerism. During 16 years of operation we have seen over 11,500 youth make over 140,000 visits. Youth have participated in 210,000 hours �� community programs such as In School Mentoring, Youth Employment, Heads Up (for Grade Six grads), Outreach and a Drop In Centre. We believe the YCC impacted the lives of many youth who today are in our community living as active and productive citizens. As we were forced to close, the members of YCC Society have decided to dissolve the Society, knowing that it has served the community well and with the hope that other �� There are many to thank and no doubt we will miss some, but the Board of the Society wishes to thank the following: All our community volunteers for their dedicated leadership and time serving on the board, committees, program leaders and assisting with fund raising events.

�� provided support and guidance to the youth we served. Of special note would be our YCC Drop In Youth Workers – always considered our greatest asset, they became the friend �� from life crises to passing the next math exam. Community support and collaboration contributed greatly to the success of the YCC. The following are a few we wish to thank: The City of St. Albert, Family and Community Support Services and the many private donors, businesses and service clubs �� operate the YCC. The many community social service organizations and agencies which collaborated with us to deliver YCC programs and activities. We want to thank the community for �� we sell assets, we made donations of assets to help the following community groups: 55 Plus Club �� St. Albert Salvation Army St. Albert Star Literacy St. Albert Sidekicks St. Albert Food Bank HIV Edmonton Youth Unlimited With any funds that remain, the Society will establish a YCC Legacy Fund within the St. Albert Community Foundation in support of groups providing services and programs to “at-risk” youth in St. Albert. Yours truly, The Board of Directors St. Albert Youth Community Centre Society

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NOTICE OF ADVANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL VOTING STATIONS Local Authorities Election Act (section 73, 74, 75, 80, 81, 82) The CITY OF ST. ALBERT, the GREATER ST. ALBERT ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 734, and the ST. ALBERT PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 5565 hereby make notice that: �� OFFICES

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The Edmonton Comic and Entertainment Expo took over the Edmonton Expo Centre over the weekend, with plenty of folks in colourful costumes coming out to buy merchandise and meet some of their idols, like Christopher Lloyd from the Back to the Future movies.

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Calls for ban on tanning teens heat up KEVIN MAIMANN Sun Media News Services

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The Canadian Cancer Society wants the Alberta government to ban the use of indoor tanning beds by people under the age of 18.

The Canadian Cancer Society is putting heat on the Alberta government to keep youth away from tanning salons. Sarah Hawkins, the organization’s public policy analyst, says Alberta lags behind other provinces on protecting young people from an increased risk of skin cancer. Saskatchewan and Ontario are the only other provinces in Canada that do not regulate youth access to indoor tanning machines, and the Ontario government is currently fast-tracking a bill that will ban anyone under 18 from using the equipment. “Legislation is definitely required,” Hawkins said. “The younger that someone starts indoor tanning, the greater the risk that they’re going to develop certain cancers like melanoma. Youth are also less able to make effective decisions about those types of risks. In similar ways that we legislate things like tobacco, we just feel that youth need to be protected.”

The organization is speaking out in response to The Canadian Partnership Against Cancer’s report Population Health in Canada’s Largest Cities. It ranks cities on cancer prevention measures but does not factor in tanning regulations. Alberta Health conducted a review youth and indoor tanning statistics and consulted a scientific review panel in spring 2012, but the government has not released its findings. Health Minister Fred Horne said the province is looking at options to deal with underage tanning. He said some cities have used legislation, while others have used regulations under existing laws, and some have developed consent procedures. “We want to move on this as soon as possible,” he said. “To me, anything that we can do to avoid

preventable cancer in our province is absolutely critical. It’s not a question of if, but how we’re going to approach it.” The Canadian Cancer Society says one in three 17-year-old girls in Alberta has used indoor tanning machines. Emily Graca went tanning at age 17 for grad, and has now been tanning twice a week for six years. She feels raising the age to 18 is unnecessary. “I believe it should be 16 or older, with parental consent,” she said. “People are old enough to make their own decisions at that age ... But if their parents disagree, they still are a minor.” She added she thinks people under 16 should be allowed to tan at younger ages for medical reasons. Some people use tanning as an informal treatment for psoriasis. Others use it to fight seasonal depression.

Province announces new tribunals to settle condo disputes

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Disputes between Alberta condo owners will soon be settled by tribunals, the province announced Monday. An adjudicator will hand down binding decisions governing routine conflicts between owners, and possibly developers, said Service Alberta Minister Manmeet Bhullar. “Instead of waiting for the Act to be tabled in the spring of 2014, Albertans need to resolve their issues now and we’re acting

on it,” said Bhullar. The tribunals, which will charge petitioners a small fee, should be operating early next year, he said. They’ll save condo owners legal costs, said Bhullar, and allow them to bypass onerous court battles. “When they’re up against developers or big companies, it’s really difficult for them,” he said. “Condo issues are incredibly diverse — that’s why governments have always turned to the courts to solve these problems.” Adjudicators will hear both sides of a

dispute before issuing decisions on issues that don’t involve a huge scope or large amounts of money. said Bhullar. Months of consultations with condo owners that attracted 5,000 responses and attendees, he said, have made it clear the current system of conflict resolution is broken. “Yesterday’s model of self-policing the condo industry wasn’t working anymore,” he said. “Albertans have told us these disputes end up in very long and costly legal battles.” A task force reviewing the tribunals, and

determining who adjudicates them, will soon be launched, said Bhullar. The Condominium Property Act is also being revamped, partly to ensure more protection for owners who’ve often been victimized by unlicensed inspectors, said the minister. “The Act needs teeth,” said Bhullar, who called Alberta’s approach to condo policy a national leader. Alberta is the first province to establish condominium legislation. There are about 8,000 condo corporations in Alberta.

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Good times ‘Bruin’ at AHF Heritage Dinner the Bruin Inn is constantly being rewritten as people add their own memories. St. Albert Leader Today, the site of the Bruin Inn at the The Arts and Heritage Foundation of northwest corner of St. Anne Street and St. Albert is honouring one of the city’s Perron Street is the home to Ric’s Grill, most famous — and perhaps infamous — Cranky’s Bike Shop and Arcadia Café and buildings at an event later this month. Bar. The AHF is hosting its third annual Recently, the AHF acquired the fibreglass Heritage Dinner on Saturday, Oct. 19, and bear statue that sat atop the Bruin Inn in this year, it will celebrate the history and the mid-1990s from an antiques dealer in culture of the legendary Bruin Inn, which Edmonton. stood in downtown St. Albert until 2000 The bear was on display at the Musée and was the home to various night clubs, Heritage Museum, and will be on display beer parlours and even strip clubs over the for the Heritage Dinner. Ramsden said the years. addition of the bear to the AHF’s collection “We were looking to have a Heritage makes this dinner a little more special. Dinner that was slightly “A lot of people who more informal, that weren’t able to see it in would be a little bit more the museum will get the fun, where people would chance to see it at the be getting up and moving dinner,” she said. around, rather than a sitThe last Heritage down dinner,” said AHF Dinner was held in Ann Ramsden executive director Ann January 2012, and AHF executive director Ramsden. “And the Bruin Ramsden said the move Inn just came to mind as to October this year was something that would really fit that.” to spread things out a bit. The Bruin Inn was first built in 1929, on “January to April is really busy time for the site of the old St. Albert Hotel. In the a lot of [fundraising] dinners in St. Albert, 1940s and 1950s, it was a destination for and the Art Gallery [of St. Albert] has a the entire Capital Region, as it was the only fundraiser in May,” she said. bar in the Edmonton area where men and That’s not the only change, though, as the women could drink together. AHF isn’t going quite as formal this time Perhaps the building’s most famous around, and is going with a 1980s theme escapade came in 1984, when thenfor the evening. Edmonton Oiler Mark Messier brought the “This year we decided to give it a little Stanley Cup to the Bruin Inn. twist and have it a little more informal,” Memories like these are still alive and Ramsden said. “It’s a little bit more relaxed well in the minds of many St. Albert than a gala banquet-style Heritage Dinner, residents, and Ramsden said that helps and we’re pretty excited about that.” connect people with history. The last Heritage Dinner focused on the “It’s sometimes difficult to connect Little White School, while the first edition people to an event that happened 100 years of the event in 2010 celebrated Chevigny ago. But with the Bruin Inn, it’s a great House, one of the oldest farmsteads still way to connect people with more recent intact in the area. history,” she said, noting that the history of The AHF’s third annual Heritage Dinner

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AHF executive director Ann Ramsden poses next to the Bruin Inn bear just after it was acquired earlier this year. The bear will be on display at the AHF’s Heritage Dinner on Oct. 19. takes place on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 6 p.m. at the St. Albert Community Hall (17 Perron St.). Tickets are $100 each, or tables of six to eight can be purchased for $750, and are

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GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Martina MacFarlane is heading back to familiar territory. MacFarlane, a graduate of Paul Kane High School in 2005 who once had her work included in the Art Gallery of St. Albert’s annual High Energy exhibition, is returning to the gallery this month so her large-scale acrylic paintings can share the space with Ontario artist Amanda McCavour’s thread drawings in the gallery’s newest show, entitled Room. “It’s definitely fun to have an exhibition in the town I called home for the longest time,” said MacFarlane, who currently lives in Edmonton. “Home is such a big theme for me. It’s important to keep it in the community.” She said that she has been “painting since I’ve been walking,” and that love of art is something that has carried forward and been nurtured ever since. “Throughout high school, it was always one of the options for me, and I just kept going she said. Since graduating from Paul Kane, MacFarlane has earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Alberta and taken part in a number of exhibitions in Edmonton. She has also helped out

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Artist Martina MacFarlane once showed at the Art Gallery of St. Albert as part of the annual High Energy exhibit, but now she’s back with her own large-scale acrylic paintings. Modern Eyes Gift and Gallery in St. Albert since 2005 with photography and graphic design for their promotional materials. Although she graduated from Paul Kane, MacFarlane was born in Vancouver and moved around a lot as a child, something she said influenced the pieces on display at

the AGSA. “They’re a combination of different homes that I’ve lived in,” she said, adding that she works from a combination of photos and her own memories. “The fact I’ve always had these new places I’ve called home is definitely visible in the work.”

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Most of MacFarlane’s works are quite large, measuring three feet by four feet or larger. Working on that big of a scale, though, doesn’t pose too many challenges for her. “These are actually scaled down a little bit,” she said of the works that are on display at the gallery. “I really enjoy working large, but it definitely poses problems for transport and everything else. But because they’re spaces, the size is really important in the way you relate to them, so it makes sense for me to paint on this kind of scale.” Meanwhile, McCavour sews images into fabric that then dissolves in paper, leaving behind just the thread. “These thread images appear as though they would be easily unraveled and seemingly on the verge of falling apart, despite the work’s raveled strength,” McCavour says in her artist’s statement. “I am interest in thread’s assumed vulnerability, its ability to unravel and its strength when sewn together.” Like MacFarlane, much of McCavour’s work at the AGSA is inspired by spaces she used to live in — specifically, apartments that she has rented in Toronto — created in one-to-one scale in thread. Room runs at the AGSA (19 Perron St.) until Nov. 2.

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StArts Fest Photos: JESSE KUSHNERYK and GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

St. Albert celebrated Alberta Culture Days in style over the weekend with the annual StArts Fest. • Top left: Author Corinne Jeffery speaks to the crowd that gathered at the St. Albert Public Library on Sunday afternoon for the launch of Choosing 1940-1989. • Top: Quilters (L-R) Kathie Pavelich, Dianne Betton and Teresa Brunner get wrapped up in their work. • Right: Liz Wilson (left) and Rayma Peterson take part in a bookmaking demonstration Saturday at St. Albert Place. • Bottom left: Andrea Daly and her six-year-old daughter Grace make a “flower pounding” craft on Saturday.

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Sandra Bullock is out of this world in the new movie Gravity with George Clooney.

post-production, that she was floating in space. It meant every scene had to be meticulously planned out in advance, and Bullock had to move her body with absolute, infallible precision. “It was like choreography. Completely,” she says. “And once I got that solidified, I was able to sort of let go and say, ‘OK, now I’ll bring emotional life into it, and we’ll start letting that come out.’ “ Bullock’s career has been riding a rocket of its own in recent years, with a couple of wildly successful comedies (2009’s The Proposal and this year’s The Heat) and an Oscar win for 2009’s The Blind Side. Gravity came to Bullock at a time when she was going through an emotional free fall, shortly after the much-publicized 2010 collapse of her marriage to motorcycle customizer and reality TV star Jesse James, who had cheated on Bullock with several women. As a newly single mom to adopted son Louis, Bullock somehow found it in herself to take on the most demanding role of her career, one in which she’d spend 10 hours each day trapped inside a tiny room. “You realize (the isolation) can be your friend in an odd and perverse way,” Bullock says. “You’re in pain, you’re frustrated, you’re lonely, you’re claustrophobic, it’s dark, you’re waiting for an hour by yourself while they’re figuring something out ... you have all that time with your own head.” It was a physically, mentally and emotionally challenging experience. Yet it wasn’t until Bullock saw the finished film for the first time last month at the Venice International Film Festival that she realized the magnitude of what Cuaron had accomplished. “I needed some time to digest it because I had no idea it was going to be that profound,” she says. “I could not believe this is what I got to be a part of, and this is what I got to make.”

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

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Don’t let diets get derailed JOANNE RICHARD Sun Media News Services

Diet saboteurs lurk all around us. From your heartbroken, brownieloving best bud to your junk-food fanatic partner, seditious forces stalk you, chip away at your willpower, and weigh you down. Decreasing your waistline requires increasing your vigilance about diet derailers. Our fast-paced, stressful lives leave us vulnerable to lots of hype, mind washing, pressure and cravings, says Dr. Susie Rockway, a certified nutrition specialist. The bottom line: “What you eat matters. Anything that goes into your mouth has to be handled by your body metabolized. Best to eat what you need and not what you want,” says Rockway, a nutritional and biochemical expert at lineatabs.com. Easier said than done, she admits, so here’s how to spot and stop major diet derailers: • Food-vacuum boyfriend: It’s not fair that he can eat anything and everything, and never, ever gain a pound, “but men have testosterone and more muscle. They can metabolize more calories,” says Rockway. Weight train to build more muscle for toning, not bulking and you too can consume a few more calories. “But don’t expect to pig out and not get fat!” • Misery loves company — and calories: Your friend’s been dumped

and she wants to share her sorrows and that double chocolate brownie. “That’s fine but be sure to reduce your calories to 900 calories total the next day,” says Rockway. This intermittent dieting can be done at least two times per week, and you can still lose weight. Meanwhile, encourage your friend to expend those feelings with a good game of tennis or running/walking. “Besides, isn’t looking great, the best revenge of all?” • Mom still insists you eat your veggies — and everything else she bakes: Tell her “Mom, I love your cooking, but if I really ate all that, I will become fat! Do you really want to put that on me?” Eat small portions and praise her, but really praise the salad and veggies, says Rockway. Everyone wins. • Your roomie is a junk food addict: You can’t make her/him be healthy but you can control yourself and set a good example without judging too harshly, advises Rockway. Get an air popper for healthier popcorn — no butter, add spices. “Leave articles around that show the negative impact these foods have on belly fat, the one place that is most related to heart disease.” Keep your roomie busy doing something active with you, even long walks. Have weights or exercise bands in the room and use them. • Obese friends may stand in your weight-loss way: “Tell them they are wonderful and gradually get them to move more.” Nagging won’t get you

anywhere! Substitute the junk for healthy alternatives that taste good and don’t pile on the calories. “Melt some dark chocolate, dip the banana slices into it and freeze it — tasty and filling. Freeze grapes too.”

• Lack of sleep can derail a diet: Those who get more hours of sleep are less likely to have weight issues, studies show. “Maybe it’s that more hours awake leads to more eating opportunities, or it may be the hormonal cycle of cortisol and other hormones,” says Rockway. Incorporating exercise into your day, even as little as 12 minutes daily, increases a good night’s rest and reduces stress. • Beware air time: Airports and planes are notorious diet derailers. When travelling, pack along healthy food, including an apple or grapes and nuts, advises Rockway. Buy water at the gate. Stay hydrated on the plane. “If you have to eat airline food, go for protein with the cheese and fruit; avoid carb overload.” • Vacationing is the worst: “Everything is out to get you! You are eating out every meal, you are held captive and just thinking about where you will eat your next meal makes you want to eat more,” says Rockway. Eat where they offer salads, lots of veggies and fresh fish or lean meat — yes, steak! Enjoy dessert but then work out like mad, do something active. Go for water or diet soda. “If you pig out and drink, then go light as possible the next day!”

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Hold the fries, pass the salad. McDonald’s Corp said it would offer healthy options as part of its popular value meals, letting customers choose a side salad, fruit or vegetables instead of french fries. The announcement last week by the world’s largest fast-food chain comes as more companies respond to government and consumer pressure to address the global obesity epidemic. McDonald’s, which often bears the brunt of criticism over the restaurant industry’s penchant for tempting diners with indulgent and often high-calorie food, said it would offer the option in all of its 20 major global markets by 2020. McDonald’s also vowed to promote and market only water, milk and juice as the beverages in its popular Happy Meals for children as part of its announcement at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York last week. Waist sizes around the world are increasing, setting off alarms in public health circles. In recent years, the U.S. food industry has begun yielding to pressure from government, parents and consumers seeking to slim down adults and children. Sugary sodas have been yanked from public schools; sugar, sodium and calorie levels have been reduced in products, and calorie counts have been posted on some restaurant menus. Photo: Sun Media News Services

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Researchers pinpoint gene that gets rid of bad memories THANE BURNETT Sun Media News Services

The haunting recollection of bloodshed on a distant battlefield. The memories of watching a parent die in their bed. What if there was a way to make life’s worst moments fade quicker? In different degrees, the mind does this naturally. Now, researchers at MIT have pinpointed the gene, Tet1, responsible for showing unwanted memories the door, paving the way for exorcising our demons through

science. And yes, in a plotline similar to the 2004 Jim Carrey movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, that could mean popping a pill to dissolve our haunted psyche. Tet1, the MIT study found, helps control natural memory extinction. The paper’s co-author, Andrii Rudenko, says researchers

used mice that had their Tet1 gene “knocked out.” They found those mice retained bad memories — in this case, a metal box that had previously delivered a mild shock, but was no longer a threat. Mice with normal Tet1 learned not to distrust it any more. Rudenko tells QMI Agency this could lead to treatments for post-traumatic stress.

As for popping a pill to delete old emotions, he reasons: “I am not sure but why not? “For example, this pill may be in form of some sort of pharmacological activator of Tet1 protein. I just think that such pill — if ever developed — may still be used in conjunction with cognitive behavioural therapy.” He said no single pill will erase all sad memories. But science may one day be able, with a therapist, raise a nagging recollection and try to target just that one haunting.

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Reality TV star Hayden Moss is getting more than his 15 minutes of fame. Much more. But the strapping young lad from Texas, a fit 190 pounds at six-footone, has made sure to be ready for his close-ups — and especially his ratings-boosting shirtless scenes. “It starts with eating right. Always,” he tells Sun Media during a recent promotional stop in Edmonton. “I would say I eat better than 99% of the world.” Moss, 27, won Big Brother 12, which aired on CBS and Global TV in 2010. He can currently be seen on those networks’ other (and arguably much more popular) long-running reality TV series Survivor. The 2011 graduate of Arizona State University is accompanied on the 27th season of the show — Survivor: Blood vs. Water — by his

girlfriend and returning castaway Kat Edorsson, 23, who lasted 33 days on last year’s Survivor: One World. Moss earned $500,000 with his Big Brother victory. A cool $1 million, of course, is up for grabs in Survivor. Filming for the latest installment of Survivor, which took place in the Philippines, wrapped up in June. But Moss, the only person to ever appear on both Big Brother and Survivor, has been sworn to secrecy. Internet rumours suggest he outlasts his girlfriend and makes it to the final four. However, Moss won’t even hint at how much weight he loses while marooned on the remote island for fear that the total will reveal how close, or not, he comes to the Final Tribal Council. Fortunately, he’s much more forthcoming about his nutrition and fitness regimen. “At home, I try to eat less of the

white carbs,” he explains. “So my carb intake is mainly vegetables and fruits.” He adheres to a high-protein, low-carb diet, although he doesn’t really consider it a diet in the sense that he doesn’t restrict calories. “I eat as much as I want to eat, but it’s just high in protein and low in carbs — usually,” he adds. “There’s a cheat day, or two, every single week, where it’s like, ‘OK, I’m out with friends and I’m going to have some beers and pizza,’ because at the end of the day, you’ve still got to have fun.” Moss stays away from soda and drinks mostly water. He also never eats dessert. “Ever. I don’t know why, but I don’t like sweet stuff that much,” he says. “I think that’s kind of a blessing for me. I can’t even tell you the last time I ordered a dessert.” As for exercise, Moss strives to work out most days of the week, opting for resistance training.

He targets his upper body on Mondays, his lower body on Tuesdays and his core on Wednesdays. On Thursdays and Fridays, he performs a variety of full-body movements. “I do a lot of bodyweight exercises — pullups, pushups, dips, reverse rows, a lot of that,” he explains. Moss typically throws in some cardio with every workout, either at the beginning or end. But no matter what he does in the gym, he knows he must back it up in the kitchen. “I mean really, at the end of the day, it’s about what you eat,” he emphasizes. “... The problem is most people don’t have very much willpower. It’s hard. I’m not saying it’s easy. It’s really hard, especially when you’re out with friends. The drive-thru is the easiest thing to hit on the way home. It’s a tough thing to try to eat clean.”

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— and targeting of those factors separates her program from other cancer research. “The combination of those two is really A leading women’s cancer researcher is unique to our program, and now unique to taking her expertise to the University of U of A,” she said. Alberta. One of her primary goals is to develop a The U of A has recruited Lynne Postovit simple way to detect ovarian cancer at an to serve as the Dr. Anthony Noujaim early stage. Currently, ovarian cancer is Legacy Oncology Chair and the Sawinespecially difficult to diagnose and treat. Baldwin Chair in Ovarian Cancer, thanks “Ideally, I envision a test that can be to $5 million in funding from the Noujaim done on an annual basis, when the risks of family, the Alberta Cancer Foundation ovarian cancer increase. So we’re looking and the Royal Alexandra at women who are Hospital Foundation. menopausal and post“She is unequivocally menopausal, and that can one of the best scientists be paired with something of her generation,” simple like a pap smear said Sandy McEwan, or a blood test,” Postovit the U of A’s chair said. “We’re looking for Sandy McEwan of the department markers that are in the University of Alberta of oncology. “She is blood or in some type already internationally of fluid that we’d be able recognized and is a fabulously good to detect easily, without a lot of pain to scientist.” women or a lot of effort.” Postovit, who arrived this summer Retired teacher Mike Mort says a test like from the University of Western Ontario, the one Postovit envisions could have saved is assembling a team of clinicians and his wife, who passed away from ovarian scientists to collaborate on research into cancer five years ago. breast and ovarian cancers. In a bid to “Research has to be done. There has to be develop early detection strategies, the team a simple test that ladies can get when they will look at proteins secreted by cancer have any questions,” he said. cells to find ones that are unique to cancer. “I would think the outcome could have They will also address advanced disease by been different. If it had been caught early, looking at processes that allow cancer cells it’s curable.” to survive and thrive. Approximately 175 women are diagnosed She says her focus on the microwith ovarian cancer each year in Alberta, environment — embryonic factors outside and about half of them die within five years tumours that allow the tumours to spread of being diagnosed.

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“She is ... one of the best scientists of her generation.”

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The University of Alberta’s has recruited leading women’s cancer researcher Lynne Postovit as the Dr. Anthony Noujaim Legacy Oncology Chair and the Sawin-Baldwin Chair in Ovarian Cancer.

Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

Researcher touts video games for rehab

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A world-renowned video game researcher is highlighting the benefits of video game therapy programs used at Edmonton’s Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital. Dr. Jane McGonigal, designer of the health resilience game SuperBetter and author of the New York Times bestseller Reality is Broken, will give the keynote address at the Edmonton Northlands Spotlight on Research Breakfast on Wednesday, Oct. 23. McGonigal says more health researchers are now looking into how video games increase resilience and how they can be designed to specifically help patients recover from disabilities, brain injuries and even depression. “The natural properties of games help combat things like anxiety, depression, frustration and social isolation, which often arise when you’re facing a chronic disease or condition,” McGonigal explained. “We’re trying to find out how to harness those properties to help solve real-world problems and improve peoples real lives.” McGonigal pointed to a “promising” study from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Psychology that showed video

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Glenrose Hospital occupational therapist Quentin Ranson (left) and Chris Nickerson, a digital media and information technology student at NAIT, demonstrate Smash Up Derby. game therapy effectively eliminated some symptoms of depression amongst sufferers, including feelings of loneliness, disinterest and pessimism. She said even violent games have been shown to help children manage feelings of fear and anxiety as well as treat soldiers suffering from nightmares due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

Patients with severe burns who played a 3D game called Snow World designed at the Georgia Institute of Technology while getting their wounds cleaned reported more effective pain relief from the game than with morphine, she said. “The opportunity to decrease our reliance on drugs and allow people to have fewer side effects and have it be less

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Panattoni VP Brad Hoffman (left) poses with EIA VP of commercial development Myron Keehn on Wednesday, Sept. 25.

Deals pave way for EIA to become cargo hub

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Airline passengers have been streaming through Edmonton’s new airport expansion for about a year and a half. But a pair of deals announced last week during a national cargo conference in the city could bring even more behind the scenes business to the bustling terminal. A new partnership between the Edmonton International Airport (EIA) and Panattoni Development promises to turn the airport’s 1,800 acres of land into a hub for shipping across the country. “We want to ensure that we’re allowing growth to continue and we’re enabling growth,” said Myron Keehn, vice president of commercial development for EIA. Keehn said development will include jobs both in the local economy as well as across Canada. “What it will do is further position Edmonton as a logistics supply-chain powerhouse,” he said, adding the city is already the “bestkept secret for logistics.” He explained that, though most people know the airport as an entryway for people into Alberta, what they don’t know is the massive influx of goods that fly into the province daily. The people that deal with those products and put them into the supply chain — called freight forwarders — need space to do that job. That’s where Panattoni comes into the picture. The Californiabased commercial real estate company is as a development middle-man of sorts. They have

leased the available land from the EIA until 2072 and plan to market the real estate to freightforwarding companies. As they find clients, they build a facility for the freight forwarder’s needs and rent it to them. The land exists just adjacent an existing cargo building but what it will house remains to be seen. “Until you know what the end use is, you don’t quite know what the building looks like,” said Brad Hoffman, vice president for Panattoni. They are in the design phase of one building that will take up about 100,000 square feet and are searching for other interested partners. Not all buildings are still being speculated. A 30,000 square-foot building — the second part of last week’s announcement — is being built now. Soil is now being turned where the $5 million to $10 million freight forwarding building will house both office and warehouse space on five acres of land. “The Edmonton airport is incredibly positioned,” said Hoffman, adding the airport’s development are key components in infrastructure upgrades like the recently renovated 41 Avenue interchange. He said on the initial 80 acres of development space, up to two million square-feet of warehouse space could be built. And as the infrastructure and support services like fire protection have already been built into the airport’s strategic plan, all that remains now is companies to get on board.

From skates to pads to helmets, a hockey player’s equipment has to fit properly. Chris Joseph wants to add sticks to that list. The former Edmonton Oilers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Tampa Bay Lightning and Vancouver Canucks defenceman is the owner of the Base Hockey performance centre in Campbell Business Park, where custom-fitted hockey sticks come with a reasonable price tag and a little bit of instruction. “Every child walks out of here a better shooter — guaranteed,” said Joseph, who now lives in St. Albert. “And the parents love it; they come and they watch. There’s days when it’s like a barbershop in here, with all the dads sitting back, watching and talking.” At Base Hockey, hockey players of all ages can come in, have a stick fitted, and have their shot analyzed and compared to Joseph’s own using the performance centre’s high-speed video cameras. “We always work on the wrist shot, the snap shot and the slap shot. Once they’ve got the basics on those, then we can work on other shots,” Joseph said. Junior sticks run from $120 to $150, intermediate sticks from $150 to $175, and senior sticks from $170 to $195. Instruction is typically $50 for a one-hour session. While snap shots, wrist shots and slapshots

are all analyzed, Joseph said it’s important to find a stick that works for all three, as well as for stickhandling and passing. “Sometimes the stick won’t flex as much on a wrist shot as it does on a slapshot, but you don’t want to go too far and your slapshot becomes whippy,” he said. “You have to find that stick that will work for everything. … You still have to stickhandle and pass with this stick; shooting is just a small percentage of the game.” During the last National Hockey League season, Ottawa Senators defencemen Sergei Gonchar (now with the Dallas Stars) and Jared Cowen used Base sticks, and the company recently fitted Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin for one. Having current NHLers, and alumni like Joseph, Cliff Ronning and Al Iafrate, associated with the brand is very valuable, he added. “We can teach somebody to teach the fundamentals we’re teaching; it’s pretty basic,” he said. “But the NHLers can give you that little bit of information that other people can’t, and that’s just through experience.” Other Base Hockey performance centres are located in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and Edmonton. Base Hockey is located at #120, 145 Carleton Dr., and can be reached by phone at 1-888-728-6977, ext. 522. You can also find out more at www.basehockey.ca.

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The unemployment rate has been a big concern in recent years. But it’s quite a bit higher for young professionals — the cohort hit the hardest by the recession and the economic downturn. But some intrepid young adults have bypassed the abysmal job market in favor of striking out on their own. Just a few years ago, Samantha Phelan was a student at St. Christopher’s Secondary in Ontario. Now, at only 23 years old, she’s an entrepreneur with quite the impressive resume. She’s organized a trek to Africa and climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for cancer research. She’s travelled and lived throughout Asia, Europe and South America. And this summer, she’s living in Toronto, working on a new start-up company called ConqRit with The Next 36, a Canadian Entrepreneurial Leadership program. She’s certainly not your typical nineto-fiver, but Phelan said she came pretty close to following that path. “I had job offers on the table when I graduated, but I sat in the interviews and I was just so disengaged,” she said. “I realized that freedom is what I really wanted.” And Phelan said that many of her friends and schoolmates feel a similar sort of disengagement with their employment prospects, or lack thereof. “There are people who are eight months out from graduation and they still don’t have a job,” she said. “Or they

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Samantha Phelan, 23, is one of many young entrepreneurs choosing independence over traditional jobs. settle for minimum wage jobs even though they have a university degree.” There’s no getting around it: for many students and recent grads, the job prospects can seem pretty bleak. In June, Statistics Canada released a report that revealed that the unemployment gap between youth (aged 15 to 24) and adults is currently the widest it’s been since 1977, with a youth unemployment rate of 14.3 per cent in 2012. The report also found that youth are twice as likely as adults to be laid off. But many young visionaries like Phelan aren’t letting those numbers get them down, turning instead to the lesstravelled road for those in their early

20s: self-employment. The Sarnia-Lambton Business Development Corporation (SLBDC) has seen a number of energetic young entrepreneurs come through the Ontario Self-Employment Benefit Program. Some of the more recent ventures they’ve seen in the area include a pet store business run by a Vet Tech, a local beauty lounge, a photography business and an HVAC business. Two such young entrepreneurs, Sarah Caraher and Riley Martin, were motivated to start their own business after their usual summer jobs fell through this year. The Sounds of Summer is a performance company they started as a way to combine their shared love of music with some sharp business acumen. Caraher, 20, had never considered starting her own business until she looked at the job market this summer and found it sadly lacking. “It hadn’t even crossed my mind until we (realized) we didn’t have a summer job,” she said. “(But) it ended up being a window of opportunity for us to try something different.” At the moment they’ve booked more than 50 different gigs over the course of the summer, and they’re always looking for new opportunities. But Caraher said that starting a new venture can present some big challenges, especially for young professionals who have a great idea or a marketable skill set, but no prior business experience. “I knew nothing about business two months ago,” she said. “We just had to learn as we went.”

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