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Paul Kane High School

Home to Excellence!

These outstanding citizens make Paul Kane High School their home during the school day INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY AWARD Katie Fitzgerald

Katelyn Blakely

SCIENCE OLYMPICS First Place Overall Division 4, Gold Medal

Brandon Handfield

BROSTROM-MALTBY MEMORIAL AWARD

This annual award is presented to students who have been involved in school and community activities. This year’s recipients are Katelyn Blakely, for her involvement in student activities and year book, and Brandon Handfield, for his involvement in social justice, student government and Change for Africa.

Adam Boljkovac, Riley Heemeryck, Amanda Klaczek, Elizabeth Van Staalduinen and Ziyou Zou

Silver and Bronze Medal

Kayla Bruce, Alexandra Deileman, Avtar Mandaher, Nicole Nobrega and David Wandler

JAPANESE SOBA BOWL SKIT CONTEST First Place: Savannah Foreman,

Nyall Hughes, Jennie MacDougall and Emma Shandro

Second Place: Chris Danks,

RYAN BURAK MEMORIAL AWARD

Mark Sherstan was presented with the Ryan Burak Memorial Award in recognition of his outstanding contributions to Paul Kane athletics programs and his commitment towards improving his academic standing while at the school.

Keeghan Hobbs and Sam Ray

Third Place: Jordan Denesha

Katelyn Blakely

ST. ALBERT BREAKFAST LIONS CLUB DR. GERRY BOYCHUK MEMORIAL SERVICE AWARD

Katelyn Blakely was recognized with this award for her role in various school activities, including Students’ Union and year book, as well as community volunteerism for organizations such as the Hope Foundation of Alberta and St. Albert Hope Kids.

ETHEL E. CUTS SCHOOLLOGIC SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD

Mark Sherstan Alysha Hinecker

This award is presented to the students who have demonstrated athletic and leadership qualities in several sports while maintaining good academic standing. This year’s winners are Alysha Hinecker, who excelled in basketball, soccer and volleyball, and Mark Sherstan, who excelled in basketball, track and field, and volleyball.

Fourth Place: Nyall Hughes Fifth Place: Nathan Yue

ACTIVITY AWARDS

Mark Sherstan

BRONZE Najm Abaza Jamie Malbeuf Rebecca Black Jared McDonald Adam Boljkovac Molly Moore Kayla Bruce Adrianna Rangeloff Laura Bryan Hayley Taylor Francesca Cammarata Thomas Taylor Lindsay Davidson Sarah Tougas Jared Day Corissa Tymafichuck Megan Ferguson David Wandler Annika Kamminga Kimberley Wilson Julia Matheson Ziyou Zou SILVER Sarah Anderson Francesca Cammarata Omeirah Charles Ian Ferrier Annika Kamminga Molly Moore Bryan Young

GOLD Katelyn Blakely Annika Kamminga Molly Moore Michelle Sullivan

Nolan Chalifoux Francesca Cammarata

DAN GORDON CITIZENSHIP AWARD

This award, presented to Francesca Cammarata and Nolan Chalifoux, is for the students who best display the characteristics of the late Dan Gordon, including empathy, organization, leadership and involvement. These traits are exemplified by Francesca in her work with Students’ Union, Social Justice, school newspaper, St. Albert Cultural Services and Fountain Park Pool, and by Nolan in his work with Paul Kane rugby, the St. Albert Centre mural display, World Wildlife Fund, Edmonton Humane Society, St. Albert Children’s Fesitval and St. Albert Food Bank. This award is sponsored by Mr. Sam Elias of ReMax Real Estate.

LEADERS OF TOMORROW AWARD

Katie Fitrzgerald, Brandon Handfield, Molly Moore, Andrea Payne and Corissa Tymafichuk

PREMIER’S CITIZENSHIP AWARD Jasmine Paquette

PLATINUM Katelyn Blakely Brandon Handfield

AWARD OF DISTINCTION Katelyn Blakely Brandon Handfield

High school students who have not yet registered can call the school at 780-459-4405 after August 26 to book an appointment to register.

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News . . . . . . . . . 3 Opinion . . . . . . . . 8 Finance . . . . . . . . 11 Rock’n August . .PULLOUT Entertainment . . . . . 13 BAM! . . . . . . 14-15 Photo Booth . . . . . . 17 Health . . . . . . . 19 Fun & Games . . . . . 20 Business . . . . . . 22 stalbertjobs.com . . . 23

COVER

St. Albert Cruisers car club member Greg Charters poses outside his North Ridge home with his 1960 Chevrolet Biscayne, but he says he can’t pick a favourite of the five 1960s GM vehicles he’s bringing to Rock’n August this year. More Rock’n August coverage in the special 8-page pullout feature in this week’s Leader.

BY THE NUMBERS

429 km/h

That’s how fast (equivalent to 267 mph) the world’s fastest production car, the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, can travel. The record was set in Germany on July 10, 2010. The Bugatti Veyron Super Sport has an 8.0-litre, W16 engine with an output of 1,200 horsepower, and its base price is $2.4 million.

Sarah Cornett gives a scratch to her seven-yearold greyhound Baron during a fundraising barbecue for the Northern Sky Greyhound Adoption Association on Sunday afternoon at Pet Planet on St. Albert Trail. Baron is a retired racing greyhound from Florida. Northern Sky places about four to six retired racing dogs into new homes across Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba every month.

Lacombe Lake close to re-opening GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Lacombe Lake Park is almost ready to get back to normal, according to City of St. Albert officials. The lake has been encircled by temporary fences for months now as City crews have worked to stabilize its banks. But public works director Dan Rites said this week that the fences are just about ready come down. “The fence will stay up until the grass takes so it doesn’t get trampled, and the grass has a chance to grow in a bit,” he said. “The intent is to bring the fence down as soon as possible.” The fences went up last October after crews went in to repair part of the promenade that had been damaged by fire and noticed the instability in the banks.

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Fences keeping visitors away from the banks of Lacombe Lake are set to come down soon, according to officials with the City of St. Albert. Rites said it was likely caused by regular wear and tear over time. “Just the freeze-thaw cycles and the action on the sides, on the banks,” he said. The extent of the damage varied from location to location around the lake. “Mostly around the banks,

there were some cracks starting to form,” Rites said. “With the amount of dogs and foot traffic around there, with the cracks showing, we didn’t want anyone to break an ankle or anything like that.” To fix the cracks, Rites said crews used backhoes to bring the

level of the banks down and then build them back up with dirt and fill. Water was even drained to allow crews to get at the cracks, and the lake will have to be refilled in order to have it ready for skating this winter. A small portion of fence will remain up over the winter, though, as the City has some more extensive repairs in the budget for 2014. That will involved shoring up the banks further with rocks and other materials. “Right now, it’s just more along the lines of tearing down where the cracks were, tearing down the banks so the cracks go away, and re-seeding it,” Rites said. Despite access to the lake being cut off, though, Rites said he didn’t think use of the park had dropped off any. “Every time I’ve gone out there, there have been a ton of people out there,” he said.

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Indigenous Games set to kick off Sunday GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

With the Alberta Indigenous Games just days away, organizers are a little too busy to get excited. The games kick off in St. Albert on Sunday and run until Thursday, Aug. 8, and games CEO Allan Ross said that the past few days have been hectic as they try to nail down some of the last-minute details. “The excitement part, we’re waiting for that to kick in. Right now, we’re frantic with trying to make sure everything’s locked in,” he said. “I think we’re on top of it,” Ross added, “but we could use a few more volunteers.” Athletes will compete in ball hockey, basketball, volleyball, track and field, lacrosse and archery at venues across St. Albert. Golf events will take place on the Enoch First Nation, while canoeing events will take place at Telford Lake in Leduc. Organizers are expecting some 500 athletes between the ages of 12 and 18 to compete in the games’ eight events. That’s a far cry from their goal of registering 1,400 athletes, but Ross said that total “will do just fine.” “It has to do with several factors. One obviously is a lack of funding some of these athletes have in First Nations communities, Métis communities and inner city communities. The financial barrier is a huge consideration for our lack of numbers,” he said. But despite the low numbers, Ross said he has seen a lot of support from the St. Albert community for the games, including Mayor Nolan Crouse’s wife Gwen

acting as honourary chair. “We have the St. Albert youth leadership group facilitating the volunteers, and we have the St. Albert [Community Information and Volunteer Centre] facilitating a pool of resources for us,” he said. “The St. Albert Track and Field Club is assisting with our track and field. We’re quite satisfied with the generosity of St. Albert’s community.” And that generosity will help the First Nations kids who come to compete stay on the right track as they grow up. “It’s critical. With all the economic and social conditions and health issues facing indigenous communities, both in urban and rural centres, these games provide that type of wisdom and strategy for them to find a better way,” Ross said. “It’s very critical that we can reach a large number, if not through the games, then through our public relations and reaching to the communities.” If you’d like to volunteer for the games, you can call Ross at 780-884-5357. For more information on the 2013 Alberta Indigenous Games, visit www.aig2013.ca.

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Edwards enters public board race “I think it gives me an understanding of the role of trustees in the community, and I think it will help me bring a balanced perspective to the work of a trustee,” she A former St. Albert Public Schools administrator has said. “I also believe that, as a parent in this community for become the first to throw her hat in the ring for a spot on years and as a taxpayer in St. Albert, I have, I think, quite the district’s board of trustees this October. a variety of experiences, and I know the work of trustees After a 35-year career as a teacher, principal and needs to be very balanced; trustees need to be able to administrator, Glenys Edwards wants to continue her work understand the perspectives of all the voices of members of with the public school board by winning a seat on its board the community.” of trustees in the upcoming municipal election. At a local level, as St. Albert Public Schools gets ready “When I found out there was going to be an opening for a new elementary school in the northeast corner of the on the board, I decided that was an area city, Edwards wants to make sure the I wanted to devote some of my time board of trustees remains a strong voice to,” Edwards said. “I’m very interested advocating for sustainable and stable in education; I’ve been an educator all provincial funding. my life. I was looking for some kind of “As we are vulnerable to budget volunteer work, some sort of way to give cuts, I think the trustee voice needs back to the community.” to be heard at the provincial level so Chair Joan Trettler is the only that the government understands the Glenys Edwards incumbent member of the public board importance of public education,” she Public trustee candidate of trustees to announce her intentions said, adding she also wants to promote so far, and she will be retiring after four inclusive education that provides for the terms. individual needs of each student. Edwards retired recently from her post as associate Also, as the Alberta government looks toward shifting superintendent of planning and instruction for St. Albert toward province-wide bargaining with teachers, Edwards Public Schools. She has a master’s degree in education from wants to see negotiations continue to be done at a local the University of Alberta, and she and her husband Al have level. lived in St. Albert for the past 40 years. “[Local bargaining] has served our community very She said her experience as an administrator and dealing well historically, and I think trustees know their local with the board from the other side would serve her well if circumstances. Local bargaining helps us knows what our she is elected. local employees need and want,” she said.

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Glenys Edwards, a former teacher, principal and administrator with St. Albert Public Schools, has thrown her hat in the ring for a spot on the district’s board of trustees this October.

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OPINION

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Pay it forward to truly needy

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

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o often, the stories dominating the news cycles are the ones that cause us to lose faith in humanity: violence, scandals, discrimination and generally the worst things about human nature. That’s why it was such a breath of by Glenn Cook fresh air to hear last month about the young man who quietly walked into a Tim Hortons in downtown Edmonton and paid for the next 500 coffees behind, a bill that totalled $895. But, as copycats have emerged in the week since — the same thing has happened again at other Tim’s locations in Edmonton, plus in Calgary, Ottawa, Saskatoon and even rumours of a Good Samaritan in St. Albert — what may have started out as a random act of kindness has long passed the point of benevolence and really needs to stop. It’s not that being a good person — or “paying it forward,” as many would put it — should be discouraged. It’s more that the money being spent on buying strangers coffee in the middle of July could be better spent elsewhere. The vast majority of people who have benefited from this generosity didn’t really need it in the first place. They all had that toonie in their pockets, ready to buy their own coffee. Did those people further back in line truly pay it forward? Did that toonie subsequently find its way into a charity’s donation box or a homeless person’s hand? Probably not. Think of the difference the money being spent on coffee could make if put in the hands of a charity that could make the absolute most of it. Think of what an organization like Youth Empowerment and Support Services could do with the $895 that the original coffee contributor forked over. If it’s true there was another of them here in St. Albert, think of how many people the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village could have helped with that money. Paying it forward is great and all, but when we pay it forward, let’s make sure those who benefit are those who truly need the help.

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Rock’n August has something for everyone

ock’n August will celebrate its 17th anniversary this year from Aug. 6 to 10, with a rock concert to follow on Friday, Aug. 16, at Servus Place with April Wine and Trooper. Rock’n August was created as a way to raise money for diabetes research. In the past, the money raised was used to buy much-needed equipment for the Alberta Diabetes Institute at the University of Alberta. These days, that money pays for two post-graduate fellowships, key researchers who work to develop a cure for diabetes, a disease that will affect one in four Canadians in the next three to four years. It was an easy decision for us to support the ADI; it is a world-renowned facility that, in 2000, developed a new procedure dubbed The

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BRADLEY Rock’n August President My City Edmonton Protocol, which is a treatment for diabetes through an Islet transplant. It has been hailed as the most significant breakthrough in diabetes research since the invention of insulin, and today, this protocol is practiced around the world. The event has grown from a two-day show to the present five-day extravaganza organized through a partnership of the Cosmopolitan International Clubs of Edmonton, Sturgeon Valley and St. Albert; the St. Albert Cruisers Car Club; and the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce. With

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the help of other service and car clubs in the area, this small, fun-filled event has turned into an international classic car display showcasing over 700 extraordinary vehicles last year. I got involved with Rock’n August through my service club, the St. Albert Club of Cosmopolitan International, over seven years ago and have happily served as president for the last three years. I am truly amazed by the support we receive each year from the corporate sponsors, who contribute their time and money to support our different events throughout Rock’n August week. I am amazed at the support we receive from the City of St. Albert, the mayor, city council and staff, who ask, “What do you need?” then make it happen. I’m amazed by the hundreds of volunteers

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who staff each of the events all week. I’m amazed by the tens of thousands of people who attend the events come rain or shine and support the cause by purchasing a $3 button. And I’m proud of the executive committee members who dedicate hundreds of hours of their time each year. This wonderful festival of cars and music has attracted visitors to our city from all over Canada and the United States. With an estimated 50,000 people attending this event each year, it is one of the major happenings to take place in St. Albert. Whether you are looking for your favourite antique, enjoying the breakfast pancakes, taking in a drivein movie or dancing to that good old-fashioned rock ’n roll music, Rock’n August offers fun for the whole family. Owned and operated by

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‘No regrets’ as Lemieux exits GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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Roger Lemieux has announced that he will not seek a third term on St. Albert city council this October.

At a time when many are looking to add their names to the municipal election ballot, Roger Lemieux is taking his name off it. After serving two terms on St. Albert city council, Lemieux announced Thursday that he would not seek reelection this October, citing balancing those duties with family — his 12th grandchild is currently on the way — and work as the main reason why. “There comes a time when you just have to turn the page and start a new chapter — open one door as the other one closes,” said Lemieux, 65, who works full-time with an area manufacturing firm. But, he said, he has “no regrets” about his six years on council, and felt he and his colleagues did a lot of good work. “Economic development is

certainly a big one,” he said. “Ray Gibbon Drive, I led the charge on that one, the last leg, and that’s going to be fruitful here in a few months. “Serving the public was normally very easy, but it wasn’t easy at times, because you can’t solve all the problems. However, the good decisions made far outnumber the questionable ones.” Lemieux also had high praise for the City of St. Albert employees that he worked closely with during his two terms. “Yes, they get compensated, and they get compensated well, but from my perspective, many of them go way beyond the call of duty. It’s not just a job

City hopes visitors hop aboard new Saturday botanical bus route GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The City of St. Albert is hoping to get visitors on board with a new way to see all the botanical features it has to offer. Starting Aug. 3, St. Albert Transit buses will be carrying visitors along a new route called the Botanical Loop, ferrying them between the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce’s outdoor Farmers’

Market downtown, the Enjoy Centre on Riel Drive and the St. Albert Botanic Park on Sturgeon Road free of charge. “St. Albert is known as the Botanical Arts City, and our attractions are second to none. The Botanical Loop initiative provides tourists with the opportunity to further explore and spend additional time touring, eating and shopping in our city,” said Joan Barber, manager of marketing and

research with the City’s economic development department, in a press release. “It’s an important initiative that helps promote our city throughout the province but also further builds and diversifies our economy in partnership with stakeholders and the community.” The route will run every Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. until Sept. 14 this year. In future years, it will run from June to September. The City is hoping that the

for them,” he said. Lemieux moved to St. Albert in 1972, and the following year, he founded LBH Building Supplies in Riel Business Park, operating it for the next 28 years before turning it over to his son. He was first elected to city council in 2007. When asked if he might consider running for provincial or federal office in the future, Lemieux was coy. “I’ve been approached, and some strong supporters are suggesting so, so that’s on the clear horizon,” he said. “I don’t know where that will lead me; we’ll see what happens.” But, even though he’s not running, Lemieux still encouraged people to get out and cast their ballots this October. “If you like St. Albert the way it is, you should go out and vote. You never know what could happen in any given election,” he said.

“It’s an important initiative that helps promote our city.” new route will entice some of the people who come into St. Albert for its botanical attractions to stay even longer. Surveys show that 69 per cent of visitors to the Enjoy Centre and its amenities are from out of town, while 63 per cent of the 10,000 people who flock to the Farmers’ Market every Saturday during the summer are nonSt. Albert residents. The ride aboard the Botanical Loop buses will be interactive, with

Joan Barber City of St. Albert local storytellers sharing funny stories, the history of St. Albert and interesting facts about the city. The luggage area above the front wheel well of the bus will also be full of live plants. For more information on the Botanical Loop, visit St. Albert Transit’s website at www.ridestat.ca.

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Rec dept. streamlined

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The City of St. Albert is putting some serious work into residents’ recreation. Effective Sept. 9, the City will combine its recreation services department with operations at Servus Credit Union Place to form the new Recreation and Parks Department. “Abundance of recreation opportunities is one of the reasons St. Albert remains a community of choice for people to live and raise families, and the City is committed to fostering the positive impact of access to recreation opportunities to the quality of life of residents,” said City general manager of community and protective services Chris Jardine in a press release. “The new department structure is aligned with the City’s Recreation Master Plan that provides a long-term road map for recreation services that enhance community health and well-being, foster community development and celebrate the role of recreation in the social, economic and overall quality of life of residents and visitors.” The new Recreations and Parks Department will be headed up by Diane Enger — who

currently serves as director of Servus Place — and will consist of three separate branches responsible for specific areas: • Community Recreation, responsible for the use of community facilities like arenas and rinks by residents and visitors, as well as parks programming and planning; • Business and Marketing, responsible for electronic communication, advertising, marketing, sponsorship and concession services; and • Recreation Facilities, providing direct delivery of recreation facilities to residents. The Recreation Facilities branch itself will encompass three specific service areas: aquatics, including the Landrex Water Play Centre at Servus Place; Servus Place operations; and recreation infrastructure. Former recreation services director Monique St. Louis was recently appointed director of Build St. Albert, overseeing the City’s new Capital Partnership Program, which could inject $120 million worth of new infrastructure projects being spearheaded by local not-for-profit groups. The new department structure will be implemented over the next few weeks, during which time residents will still be able to access recreation facilities, programs and services.

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City to gather last round of feedback on offsite levies

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Before it goes to city council, the City of St. Albert wants to get one last round of public consultation on a proposed new offsite levy bylaw. The bylaw will be presented to council for approval on Monday, Aug. 26, but before that happens, the City is hosting an information session for developers, landowners and residents on Thursday, Aug. 8 in the east boardroom on the third floor of St. Albert Place to discuss final updates to the bylaw. “Stakeholder consultation is a critical component to updating the Off-site Levy Bylaw,” said City director of engineering Tracy Allen in a press release. “Since 2011, the City has been consulting with other municipalities as well as key industry stakeholders to ensure the revisions to the bylaw support and enhance the City’s goal of a competitive investment environment.” The bylaw will set the offsite levy rates, amounts and obligations for both the City and land developers. The information session will spell out changes made since the last such session in March in areas like infrastructure allocations, affected lands, projects and calculations. Councillors voted to delay first reading of the bylaw in April after further questions were posed by stakeholders during a non-statutory public hearing in March. The review of the City’s offsite levy bylaw and processes was initiated in 2011.

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Interested parties who would like to provide their feedback or have questions on the bylaw but are unable to attend the Aug. 8 meeting can submit their comments or questions in writing to the City until Aug. 16. For more information on the City’s offsite levy process, visit www.stalbert.ca/off-site-levies.

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Wolf dies at Valley Zoo

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A six-year-old Arctic wolf has died at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, prompting zoo officials to investigate the death. Zoo operations supervisor Dean Treichel confirmed Friday that Kayok, a six-year-old female Arctic wolf, died at the zoo on July 18. The cause of death is not yet known, he said. “We haven’t got any concrete results back yet,” said Treichel. “With all animals that die at the zoo, a post-mortem is done and we always learn something from them.” Treichel said they’re still waiting on lab test results to confirm the cause of death but zoo staff are taking it pretty hard. “Staff are upset because this was an animal who was very charismatic and who people loved working with,” he said, adding Kayok was a key component of the zoo’s educational programming. Kayok came to Edmonton from the Parc Safari zoo in Quebec along with her sister Shilah, said Treichel. The zoo is now taking time to see if wants to bring in another wolf. “Wolves will always be a part of our collection but we’re going to take some time to look at the next steps if we bring another wolf in,” he said. The last significant animal death at the zoo took place in 2010 when someone unleashed

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Kayok, the Arctic wolf, in 2007.

a dog inside a pen to maul a group of guinea pigs before leaving poisoned oranges behind to kill off the rest. The Edmonton Police Service investigated the guinea pigs’ deaths but no arrest was ever made. The incident prompted zoo officials to tighten security. Presently, plans are underway to establish an Animal Care Committee that will pull together expertise from various sources to strengthen the focus on animal enrichment, nutritional standards and behavioural training, said the City of Edmonton. The Edmonton Valley Zoo care team cares for more than 350 animals on a daily basis.

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Rock’n August a family affair for Charters GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Rock’n August is a family affair for Greg Charters. With his dad, his uncle and his stepson entering their classic cars alongside Charters’s own five vintage vehicles, the annual festival becomes something of a family reunion. “My grandparents come out. I have aunts and uncles who come out. Definitely it’s Christmas and Rock’n August — that’s how the year breaks down,” said the St. Albert Cruisers car club member. In fact, Charters’s love of cars started with his father, and it’s something he has passed on to his 16-year-old stepson. “It’s sort of in the family; we’re really a cartype family,” he said. Charters’s garage includes a 1960 Chevrolet Biscayne, a 1964 Chevrolet Bel-Air, a 1967 Chevrolet Chevelle, a 1967 Chevrolet Impala and a 1969 GMC shortbox stepside pickup. “They all have different looks and different personalities. One was just never enough,” he said, noting that all five were recently in the K-Days parade in Edmonton. “Definitely Rock’n August, I phone a bunch of friends, a bunch of relatives, and we all pile in the cars and go in the parade.” The fact that they are all General Motors

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Greg Charters poses with his 1960 Chevrolet Biscayne, which is one of five cars he will enter in Rock’n August himself, while his dad, uncle and stepson all are entering cars of their own. products from the 1960s is no coincidence. “I’ve always been a Chev guy. I like the Chev cars, and I like the styling they had in the ’60s,” Charters said. “I like the ’50s too, but I haven’t gotten in there yet.” And each one of those vehicles comes with a story, even if it’s not necessarily his own. Take, for example, the ’67 Impala, which Charters first saw in a parking lot at a car show in Saskatoon that he and his dad went to one Father’s Day.

“The guy had brought it there for the widow of the original owner, [who] was one of the founding members of the Dragons car club in Saskatoon. Over all the years of his life, he had many cars, but there was only one that he kept, that he liked the best, and it was that one,” Charters recalled. Unlike cars today, though, Charters’s cars have few creature comforts, and with manual drum brakes, bias-ply tires and no power steering, driving is a much more active

experience. “Things weren’t always the way they are today. You didn’t get in the car and use your Bluetooth and look something up on your GPS in the ’60s,” he said. Charters does some of the minor restoration work on his cars, but leaves the major stuff to the professionals — “I don’t do my own dental work,” he quipped. But he’s always trying to learn about his cars and pick up little tips to keep them in authentic, tip-top shape, and said the classic car community is incredibly tightknit and inclusive. “It is a real community. ... It helps people up,” he said. “I’m not saying that everyone you meet is great; you have some bad experiences. But overall I think it’s good.” While it’s a time to see his family, Rock’n August is also a lot of work for Charters. As a member of the Cruisers, he’s busy every year volunteering at the festival, including helping park cars downtown between the cruise and the street dance on Friday night. “It’s like when you go to someone’s house for a party. That person has to clean everything up and make all the food and clean up after, whereas you can just show up and leave,” he said with a laugh. “But yeah, definitely every year, I participate in Rock’n August, and I try to get the word out. I promote as much as I can with the car people that I meet.”

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Trooper keeps engines revving GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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Like the classic cars at Rock’n August, Canadian rock legends Trooper just keep on revving their engines. The band makes their first stop in St. Albert in five years on Friday, Aug. 16, to help wrap up the 17th annual classic car festival at the Northstar Hyundai Arena in Servus Credit Union Place alongside April Wine and the Campus Thieves. Trooper’s lead singer Ra McGuire said he is a classic car buff himself, although he won’t be showing off any rides are Rock’n August. “I used to own a white ’62 Studebaker Hawk GT!” McGuire recalled. “Unfortunately, I was touring so much at the time I didn’t have the time to maintain it properly, so I sold it into a good home.” Trooper last played St. Albert in 2008 as part of the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition. While Rock’n August raises money for the Alberta Diabetes Foundation, McGuire is a big proponent of Kiva, a charity that provides micro-loans to

people in developing nations. “[Kiva] helps gives people a leg up, after which they pay back the loans. I like the idea of that, and the lending process starts to be kind of fun and interactive,” he said. While Trooper’s biggest hits — like “We’re Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time),” “Raise A Little Hell” and “The Boys in the Bright White Sports Car” — came in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the band is still very much in demand, with dates booked all through the summer from Victoria to Gander, N.L., and all points in between. “Being in Trooper is still a ton of fun — especially since most of the shows turn into sold out parties!” McGuire said, adding that its fulfilling to see the crowds along the way remaining as enthusiastic and full as they ever were. Among those crowds, though, are lots of young kids, another generation of music fans who are being turned on to Trooper. “Most of the people we see from the stage at all-ages shows are between the ages of 15 and 25,” McGuire said. “It brings a ton of energy to the

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proceedings. All of them know ‘We’re Here For a Good Time’ and ‘Raise a Little Hell’ — and probably had one or the other as their grad song — but it’s amazing to me how many of the other songs they know!” The band is also reaching out to fans new and old through their website (www.trooper.com) and through social media channels like Facebook (www.facebook.com/trooperband) and Twitter (@trooper). One of their planned shows this summer was in Calgary, but the area was hit with massive flooding just as they were on their way to the gig. “The show that was cancelled can be rescheduled, but the trauma of the flood is going to take a long time for Albertans to get over,” McGuire said. “We’ve been super-impressed with the way people have pulled together in the face of the disaster. We played the Stampede a couple of weeks later and I wore the ‘Hell or High Water’ shirt that I bought online in support.” Tickets for the Rock’n August concert are $29 for general admission or $49 for floor seats plus service charges and are available through Ticketmaster.

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Love it or hate it, hearse gets a reaction GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

Love it or hate it, Rick McLaren’s classic car always gets a reaction at auto shows. McLaren — who, although he lives in north Edmonton, is a member of the St. Albert Cruisers car club — owns a 1954 Pontiac hearse, complete with a skull as a hood ornament, a coffin in the back, a license plate reading “DST2DST” and the words “You’ll Cruise With Us ... Eventually” on the window. McLaren is once again bringing his bone wagon to Rock’n August this year, and like at other shows he has been to, he expects to turn plenty of heads. “People either love them or they hate them. ... It’s the kids that want to look in the cars, and the parents pulling them away saying, ‘Don’t do that,’” he said. “I’ve personally run into it three or four times since I’ve had the car, and I’ve only had it on the road for two full summers. ... Some people just can’t face their

mortality, I guess.” McLaren said that, even though working on hearses and finding parts can sometimes be a pain, he wouldn’t trade his ride for anything in the world. “I’ve always wanted a hearse. Even as far back as 1977, I remember going to go look at one in a farmer’s field, a 1950s Cadillac hearse,” he said. “I’m not too much into the new ones; I like the ’50s hearses, even the ’60s. “It’s something that nobody else has. It’s not the easiest to drive, it’s not the easiest to park, but the fun factor is way up there.” He has owned a few other hearses over the years, usually selling them to other enthusiasts and pumping the profits into the ’54 Pontiac, which was built by the Superior Coach Company and was the second-last of 207 produced. The restoration work has been extensive, with nearly the entire drivetrain being replaced over the years and the rear axle being

rebuilt, and a new clutch and an engine rebuild scheduled for this winter. “From the day I bought it to the day I put the license plate on, it was exactly a year to the day,” McLaren said. “That was almost every night, working on it four to five hours a night, and most weekends.” But, while the classic car community is generally tight-knit and inclusive, McLaren said the hearse subculture — including the Edmonton Bone Wagon Association — is even tighter. “Anybody can get into it, though. They’re so easy to come by,” he said. “... Our club is open to anybody who even just likes one; they don’t even have to own one.” McLaren has been coming to Rock’n August for several years now, and its the atmosphere that keeps him coming back. “It’s a great show, and St. Albert is a great little town,” he said. “It’s not a one-day venue; it’s an all-week venue. ... And it all goes to a good cause too.”

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Harlequin guitarist Glen Willows (left) and singer George Belanger ham it up for the crowd at last year’s Rock’n August concert. This year’s bill features Trooper and April Wine.

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Even with several changes from last year, organizers with the annual Rock’n August classic car festival are revved up with ticket sales so far for the event’s wrap-up concert. The concert — featuring April Wine, Trooper and the Campus Thieves in the Northstar Hyundai Arena at Servus Credit Union Place — is scheduled for Friday, Aug. 16, nearly a week after the festival’s signature show-and-shine in Lions Park. But Howes said the timing is actually working in their favour, giving volunteers and participants a chance to wind down from the hectic week before the concert. “At our meeting the other night, there were only one or two of us out of 14 that have our tickets, but of course, we’re all going this year,” he said, adding that switching to Friday night and signing on with Ticketmaster have also helped boost sales. “And we’ve got 350 volunteers for that event. I know, last year, at the end of it, when we were doing our final tallies, very few of [the volunteers] went; they were too tired. Even a few of them had tickets but didn’t go.” As of mid-July, there were more than 900 tickets sold for the concert — compared to only about 560 total last year — and they were selling another 10 to 12 each day.

That’s well on the way to a sellout crowd of about 1,900, Howes said. “The promoter told us at a meeting [in July] that you’re on your way to a sellout,” he said, adding that they are planning an advertising blitz in the next couple of weeks to push things over the top. “We’re well past on-pace for a sellout. ... We sold about 50 per cent of our tickets the week of Rock’n August last year.” Plus, he added, even a crowd of 1,000 is five times bigger than the crowds they used to draw for a dinner and dance before the concert was started last year. “If we can sell out, we can raise another $30,000 or $35,000, which would be 50 per cent more than we have the last two or three years,” Howes said. While April Wine and Trooper may be bigger draws than Harlequin and Doug and the Slugs were last year, the Campus Thieves — featuring former St. Albert Idol winner Ryan McGale as lead singer — are back for a second time after wowing the crowd last year. “They promised us a whole new set. They’ve got a couple of new songs they’ve written from an EP about a month ago, so we’re looking forward to a couple of those tunes,” Howes said. “And they’re going to open and close with a couple of good covers again. I can’t tell you which ones they are, but I do know.”

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Campus Thieves return for RnA encore GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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Caleb Steinwandt and the rest of the Campus Thieves will be back to rock Rock’n August at Servus Place on Friday. Aug. 16.

It may be a year later, but the Campus Thieves are being called back for an encore. After hitting some high notes last year alongside Doug and the Slugs and Harlequin, the Campus Thieves have been invited back to this year’s Rock’n August concert, sharing the stage at the Northstar Hyundai Arena at Servus Credit Union Place on Friday, Aug. 16, with legendary classic rock bands Trooper and April Wine. The Campus Thieves are made up of drummer Mac Huddleston, his brother Spencer on bass, guitarists Codie Fetter and Caleb Steinwandt, and former St. Albert Idol winner Ryan McGale on keyboards and lead vocals. For McGale, coming back to his hometown to play is always special. “There are a lot of people there that I know, and it definitely makes the show a lot more personal,” he said. “It’s quite exciting.”

Since playing Rock’n August in 2012, the Campus Thieves have had a big year, headlining the YOUCAN Music Festival in September and New Year’s Eve celebrations, both in Edmonton’s Churchill Square, and placing first in a battle of the bands competition in February. “I think this year, we’ve really grown up a lot and changed a lot as artists and people,” McGale said. “We’ve done a lot creatively in those regards.” They also toured from Victoria to Calgary, playing five shows along the way. “It was pretty cool to play for people that haven’t really heard us before,” Mac said. “A lot of the people that come to our shows in Edmonton have come to our shows before. But it’s a confidence booster to know people from other parts of Canada actually like our music.” Along the way, their independent self-titled album from 2012 reached No. 1 on the chart of a campus radio station in Kelowna, the first No. 1 on their

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resumé. “That was pretty cool. There were some pretty big names on that list that we surpassed, so we felt pretty cool about that,” Mac said. But, no matter how well the past year went, the band has their focus squarely set on the future. They recorded material for a new four-song EP this past spring, and that is currently being mixed and mastered for a fall release. “We’ve definitely changed creatively quite a bit, so this EP will show that we’ve grown up a little bit from our old album,” Mac said. “It’s kind of a risk, too, because it’s quite a bit different, so we’re not sure how everyone’s going to react.” Aside from the EP, the band plans to keep on writing and possibly make a music video or two. The all-ages Rock’n August concert starts at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16. Tickets are $29 each for general admission or $49 for floor seats, and are available through Ticketmaster.

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If these tires could talk: ’70 Charger holds memories GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

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St. Albert Cruisers car club member Randy Colgan works to shine up pistons that will be turned to awards for various Rock’n August categories on Monday evening in a garage in the Grandin subdivision of St. Albert.

Every classic car comes with a story, but Randy Colgan’s 1970 Dodge Charger comes with more than most. Randy grew up with the car, which originally belonged to his brother Rick, and after restoring it to its former glory, he’ll be looking to add another chapter to its history at Rock’n August this year. Rick bought the car in Manitoba in October 1970, and the next year, he and a friend took it on a road trip to Acapulco, Mexico, where they had some close calls passing semi trucks and with bandits, and talked his way out of a few speeding tickets. Then there was a run-in with a water-filled ditch when one of Rick’s friends borrowed the car to run an errand. Randy’s history with the car started a few years later when he used it to take his road test to get his driver’s license. “Unfortunately, [I] had a bit of a lead foot, so it took [me] several times with [my] driving instructor before [I] proved [my] ability to tame [the car] down — at least for the duration of the driver’s test,” Randy said. In 1973, the car was sold to a local welder,

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Randy Colgan poses with his 1970 Dodge Charger near the Sturgeon River in St. Albert. and for the next 34 years, it sat outside the welder’s shop waiting to be restored. But in 2007, Randy bought it back and hauled it to Alberta to start the restoration. Starting in 2010, almost everything was replaced — from the dashboard and the heater to the shocks and fuel tank — and miraculously, after 40 years and that run-in with a watery ditch, a build sheet was found in relatively good shape under the driver’s seat. Today, thanks to the diligent work of Randy and some friends, the Charger is looking just as good as it did on the Manitoba Dodge lot where it was first bought in 1970.

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in the exhibit are all children, which he said is born out of an appreciation for child-like The worlds of dreams and reality innocence. are set to collide this month at the “At least for myself, I see a child, Art Gallery of St. Albert. and I’m touched first,” he said. The gallery’s latest exhibit, “At this age in particular, which is Dream Within a Dream —which between about eight and 10, not runs throughout the month of only do they retain that innocence, August — features the photography but they also become reasonable. of Edmonton’s Tyler Enfield It’s like this melding of two alongside the hand- and computer- powers.” created collages of Illinois artist Photos like those in the exhibit Julie Nauman-Mikulski. make up much of Enfield’s Jenny Willson-McGrath, the photographic work, but he also gallery’s curator of exhibits, does some nature work — even said that both artists’ works travelling to South America to get have surreal, a photo of an ethereal, almost elusive eyelash otherworldly viper. qualities to them “I enjoy that link them photographing together nicely. architecture, “It’s this particularly in Tyler Enfield notion of double Europe,” he said. Photographer dreaming — am “But for artistic I awake or am I value, I keep asleep? It’s a middle plane between coming back to this series.” dreams and reality,” she said. Enfield is also an author of “Both Tyler and Julie, their work is children’s books — his title Wrush heavily influenced by dreams, and won a Moonbeam Children’s Book you can see that when you look at Award in 2010 — and gives writing it.” workshops for adults and kids. For Enfield, he wants people When Enfield has an idea for a who see his work to feel it first and photo, he said there’s quite a bit of consider it later. work that goes into it both before “It’s like getting punched in the he releases the shutter — location gut by beauty,” he said. “You really scouting, wardrobe, lighting — and feel it, but you may not understand after in Photoshop to get the image yet, because I don’t always in his head onto the page. understand it either. The idea is “It’s a compelling movement not to create something for deep of energy within. I won’t be able contemplation ... It’s more to be felt, to settle properly until I’ve given then contemplate the experience of everything I can to try and recreate that initial gut punch.” this image,” he said. The subjects of Enfield’s photos Dream Within a Dream runs at

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Sometimes, a White Flag (above) is one of the photographic works by Tyler Enfield that join collages made by Illinois artist Julie Nauman-Mikulski in the latest exhibit opening today at the Art Gallery of St. Albert. contemporary — will appeal to the AGSA (19 Perron St.) until Aug. art that the gallery put on in 2009 the community here and everyone made them realize that they need 31. will find something they like,” she to take every opportunity to put Meanwhile, upstairs in the added. such work on display. gallery is another exhibit, Animal Artists featured in the Spirit, featuring prominent First “We don’t get a lot of aboriginal exhibit include Joane CardinalNations artists from across Alberta artists submitting their work; Schubert, Jason Carter, Erik Lee that’s something we need to work in a celebration of their culture Christophersen, Terry McCue on, encouraging more people to to coincide with the Alberta and Aaron Paquette. The works submit,” she said. Indigenous Games being held in on display are on loan from the “I just hope these works — some St. Albert from Aug. 4 to 8. of which are very traditionalAlberta Foundation for the Arts. Willson-McGrath said that a Animal Spirit runs until Sept. 7. looking works and some very previous show of First Nations

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said. “I think it’s a positive thing that has happened, with gay marriage and alternative lifestyles. We’re Sun Media News Services really (debating) issues when they come up and Michael J. Fox frantically and comically looked from we’re not brushing them under the rug, whether side to side. it’s something like Trayvon Martin, we’re having Fox had been asked a question during a panel conversations about it. session at the Television Critics Association tour, but “In a much different way but a similar vein, we can he couldn’t tell where it was coming from in the large have a character just come out with a disability and ballroom. not have to dance around it, not have to play “I have Parkinson’s,” Fox said, prompting games with it and play soft music and play laughter. “I’ll synch up with you sooner or to people’s expectations. Just to say, whether later.” it’s Mike Henry (Fox’s character in the new Fox’s tone about his real-life affliction show) or whether it’s me, ‘I’m here to do a job — not mocking it, but being able to see the and if it bugs you to see me move differently humour in it — permeates The Michael J. Fox than you move, look away or change the Show, which debuts Sept. 26 on NBC and channel.’ Global. “I think it’s less audacious than we thought Fox, 52, hasn’t been a regular on a TV series Michael J. it was. I think it’s going to seem pretty normal since he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s and Fox to people after a couple episodes.” left Spin City a dozen years ago. Um, just don’t refer to it as The New Actor “I didn’t know if people would laugh if they Normal, Mike. That show didn’t do so well. knew I was sick,” said Fox, looking back on Nonetheless, this is a huge vote of his decision to leave TV. “In many ways I was worse off confidence in the likeability and star power of Fox, then than I am now, in relation to my symptoms and even though the show’s co-creator Will Gluck joked how I was struggling with them.” that he really wanted to do a show about a guy with But recent recurring roles and guest spots on Parkinson’s and a couple people passed. shows such as Rescue Me, Curb Your Enthusiasm and As Fox suggested, “It’s a little meta. The struggle The Good Wife got Fox thinking he could handle a with Mike in the show is, he wants to go back and do full season of TV. Plus, he feels the atmosphere has work (as a TV newscaster), but he doesn’t want to go changed and it’s a good time to return. back and be a novelty.” “I think there’s an attitude in the world now, Same thing with Michael J. Fox as he tries to synch especially in our society, that is more accepting,” Fox up with a modern TV audience. Sooner or later.

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HEALTH

U of A research offers hope for MD patients ALLISON SALZ Sun Media News Services

Researchers at the University of Alberta say they’re one step closer to a potential treatment for those suffering from muscular dystrophy. Dr. Toshifumi Yokota, a researcher at the university’s faculty of medicine and dentistry, says his team has discovered a way to regrow an important protein lacking in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. “Our discovery is very promising,” he said. “We hope we can identify new therapy and targets for treatment of muscular dystrophy.” Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rapidly progressing form of muscular dystrophy that occurs primarily in boys. DMD is caused by an alteration, or mutation, in a gene that causes patients to have progressive loss of muscle function, which begins in the lower limbs. “This is one of the most common and devastating disorders worldwide,” Yokota said. “Life expectancy is 25 years.” Using mice, the team discovered a mutation that causes

muscle fibres to dramatically regrow the dystrophin protein, which acts as a support beam that keeps muscles strong. Mice with the mutation had many of these unique muscle fibres that are somehow involved with the regrowth of the important protein that is virtually non-existent in those with the neuromuscular condition. Using specialized laser equipment in their lab, the team hopes now to try and figure out what is causing the muscle fibres to increase in number. Yokota says identifying that could lead to potential treatment. He said human trials are still five to 10 years away — but trials on human cells have begun. Yokota left the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., in October 2011 to become the lead researcher on this subject at the University of Alberta. The project is being funded by various research player groups and government departments from multiple countries. For more information on muscular dystrophy or to join their registry initiative go to www.muscle.ca.

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Duchenne muscular dystrophy researcher Dr. Toshifumi Yokota holds a diagram of a Dystrophin protein complex in his lab at the University of Alberta on Monday.

Kate’s post-baby bump normal: experts JOANNE RICHARD Sun Media News Services

The baby talk is getting ugly. Apparently the royal lovefest is over — no sooner has baby prince George Alexander Louis got through the bumps of birth and made the big debut that all attention has shifted to Kate Middleton’s post-baby bump. Mere days after making her first public appearance, the Duchess of Cambridge’s labour of love is all forgotten and the post baby body bashing begins. The trending topic has many weighing in including #getinthegymgirl comments on Storify. com: “Gross, when is Kate Middleton gonna lose that baby weight?” Even OK! magazine released an ill-timed cover entitled “Kate’s Post-Baby Weight Loss Regime” a day after the royal birth. Fat shaming knows no shame. Women are scrutinized and criticized, made to feel fat and ugly for remnants of doing nine

months of hard labour for a bundle of joy, agree experts. “For God’s sake, she had the baby just days ago! Women retain water and the uterus naturally shrinks through breastfeeding over a three to six month period,” says Dr. Wendy Walsh, a therapist at drwendywalsh.com. “Judging a woman right after birth is so unfair and it speaks to how much we sexualize women, even new mothers. Her job is not to be a Victoria’s Secret super model – it’s to be a good mother!” says Walsh. Post-pregnancy lesson 101: “The uterus — womb — does a ton of stretching for a growing baby to use as a nest for nine months, as does a woman’s abdominal wall muscles to accommodate for that expansion,” says pediatrician Dr. Ari Brown, of baby411.com. Women often look like they are eight to 12 weeks pregnant with that little bump after delivery for at least six weeks

after delivery, says Brown, who applauds Middleton for going au natural in the big baby reveal. “It’s part of the process of life and normal to look like that. “Clearly she is focused on what’s important — being a new mom and not vanity!” says Brown, an author and speaker. Cruel comments infuriate Dr. Pepper Schwartz: “Don’t women see they are helping terrorize each other with increasingly high standards of having nonhuman body perfection? “Perhaps the critical commentary originates in the desire to bring the Royals down to everyday size –—but, at that, it’s petty and a little bit crazy,” says Schwartz, a relationship expert. She says expecting or asking for bodies to be unaffected by pregnancy is creating an unhealthy superwoman myth. The last thing a post-pregnant body should need to do is “become infinitely perfect immediately or any time!”

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Kate Middleton has been taking a beating on social media for her post-baby bump, but experts say it’s perfectly normal.

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Actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead in her home in Los Angeles. L.A. police conclude that she died of an overdose of drugs prescribed to treat depression.

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The first execution using an electric chair is carried out at Auburn Prison in New York on William Kemmler, who was convicted of murdering his lover, Matilda Ziegler, with an axe.

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$1.3B Enbridge pipeline gets approval MICHAEL DI MASSA Sun Media News Services

Enbridge has announced a $1.3-billion pipeline project for its terminal located just west of Sherwood Park. The Woodland Pipeline Extension Project will connect the local terminal to Enbridge’s Cheecham terminal south of Fort McMurray. It is planned to be in service by the third quarter of 2015. The Alberta Energy Regulator first approved the project, which will be funded 50 per cent by Enbridge, in August 2012. “The Woodland Pipeline Extension is being constructed to serve the Imperial Oil and ExxonMobil Kearl oilsands project and its recently announced expansion,” explains a press release announcing the extension project. “Enbridge brought into service the Woodland Pipeline between the Kearl oilsands project and the Enbridge Cheecham terminal in the fall of 2012.” According to Enbridge, the pipeline extension would be 385 kilometres in

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Enbridge has received approval for a $1.3-billion pipeline project for its terminal just west of Sherwood Park. The pipeline should be in service by fall 2015. length, 36 inches in diameter and will have an initial capacity of moving 400,000 barrels per day (bpd). That figure could double to 800,000 bpd,

depending on the thickness of the crude oil being transported. “The majority of the proposed route of the Woodland Pipeline Extension

follows existing Enbridge right-ofway and will be in a shared corridor with the Waupisoo Pipeline,” the release states. Currently, the 380-kilometre Waupisoo pipeline carries 550,000 bpd of synthetic and heavy oil from Enbridge’s Cheecham terminal to the Stonefell terminal near Bruderheim. “Extension of the Woodland Pipeline will bring additional crude oil transportation capacity into the Edmonton area, enabling us to accommodate forecasted regional oilsands production growth from the Kearl project and other oilsands projects targeted for delivery into the Edmonton hub,” said Stephen J. Wuori, president of liquids pipelines and major projects for Enbridge. According to the announcement, “With the Woodland Pipeline Extension Project, Enbridge is constructing infrastructure projects valued at more than $4.3 billion to service the increasing requirements of the Alberta oilsands producers. These projects are forecasted to come into service between 2013 and 2015.”

Department store revival on tap as HBC buys up Saks

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Richard Baker is doubling down on his attempt to revive big-name department stores with a $2.4-billion bid to buy Saks Inc, bringing the New York retailer into Canada and under the same roof as Lord & Taylor and Canada’s Hudson’s Bay. Baker’s Hudson’s Bay Co is offering $16 per share to Saks, a 30 per cent premium over levels in May, right before media reports that the luxury U.S. retailer was up for sale. The deal is worth $2.9 billion in cash, including Saks’ debt. “We have this tremendous opportunity in Canada to roll out Saks,” Hudson’s Bay chief executive Baker said in an interview. “Department stores still make a lot of money.” Baker plans to open up to seven Saks stores in Canada plus maybe two dozen Off Fifth outlet stores. He is also eyeing closing one more Saks Fifth Avenue store in the United States, where the retailer has already shuttered several. The deal is subject to a 40-day “go shop” period where Saks can seek other offers. It will create a North American operation with annual sales of $7.2 billion, based on 2012 figures. That compares to $12.1 billion for Nordstrom Inc, which opens its first Canadian store next year, and $27.7 billion for Macy’s Inc, who also owns Bloomingdale’s. Shares of Saks closed 4.2 per cent higher Monday at $15.95, just below the offer price, indicating a rival bid was unlikely. HBC shares rose 5.8 per cent to end at C$17.45, down from an intraday high of C$17.81, as markets

focused on the likelihood that the expanded company will spin off its real estate into a trust, on the lines of a stock-boosting decision from U.S. department store chain Dillard’s Inc in 2011. Baker said HBC’s plan was to create a Real Estate Invesmtent Trust, or REIT, but only selling some of it to the public and keeping the rest. “Real estate values dramatically improve in very well run operating companies,” he said. Analysts and retailers say one draw is that Canada, where retail sales hit a record high in May, is still viewed as under-served, despite the arrival of a growing number of foreign stores. Canadian prices are generally higher than in the United States, and discounts tend to be less aggressive, prompting many shoppers to seek deals in towns just beyond the U.S. border. HBC expects C$100 million ($97.3 million) a year in savings through consolidating information technology systems and more efficient clearance for the existing chains. Saks is best known for the $1-billion Fifth Avenue flagship store in Manhattan that alone generates one-fifth of its annual sales. It will operate separately within HBC with its own merchandising, marketing and operations teams. “The Fifth Avenue store is a gem and everything else is second to that,” said independent retail analyst Walter Loeb. “Many of the stores are not as productive.” Saks, which closed some U.S. stores after the 2008 recession, currently has 41 full-service stores and 67 outlets worldwide. It will compete in Canada

with retailers like the Holt Renfrew chain, as well as Nordstrom. The deal is the latest by Baker, who with his father Robert is part of a group that owns National Realty & Development Corp, a private developer of U.S. retail and shopping centers. In 2006, the two led a group that bought the midtier U.S. department store, Lord & Taylor, via NRDC Equity Partners. Two years later, the firm bought Hudson’s Bay, North America’s oldest corporation, which has roots going back to the 17th-century Canadian fur trade. In a 2011 deal hailed as a masterstroke, Baker oversaw the sale of 220 leases from low-end Zellers stores to Target Corp, giving the discount retailer locations for its Canadian expansion and yielding $1.8 billion for the Canadian retailer. “I wouldn’t bet against Richard Baker. He seems to have a magic touch when it comes to real estate,” said Barry Schwartz, portfolio manager at Baskin Financial Services in Toronto.

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Please drop off your resume at: 9670 125 A Ave, Edmonton

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