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watching my progress was really important to me. All the feedback and comments helped me push on to this point. I am so grateful for all the support from friends and family, and so many new friends,” he said. While this trip is wrapping up and Ranson will no doubt take some time to relax once he gets back to St. Albert, he already has plans in mind for his next motorcycle adventure. “My next trip will probably be a revisit of Alaska,” he said. “No big epic trips planned, but I sure would love to ride in Europe or Asia.”

trek also does a number on a motorcycle. Luckily, Ranson’s bike — a Suzuki DR650 nicknamed Skelly — held out, only needing minor Almost six months and 30,000 kilometres later, mechanical repairs along the way. Dave Ranson finally got to see “Skelly is tired. There are some penguins. a number of little things that Ranson rolled out of need attention but no major Riverside Motorsports in problems,” Ranson said. “I St. Albert on Aug. 25 to need to ride 3,100 kilometres embark on his Prairies to more to Buenos Aires, where Penguins motorcycle ride I will ship me and the bike to raise funds for spinal to Canada. I have grown cord injury research. And, attached to Skelly and want to on Saturday, he reached his bring it back with me.” final destination — Ushuaia, Knowing he was so close Argentina, the southernmost to the finish line, though, ;Xm\ IXejfe point in South America and Ranson was careful in the last GiX`i`\j kf G\e^l`ej the gateway to Antarctica. few days not to push Skelly “(Saturday) I took a fivetoo much. hour tour to go and see an island with thousands “For the last two days, we have been in very of penguins. It was a great way to see them up cold and wet conditions, but the end was so near close,” Ranson said via email. “There may still be I didn’t even feel it. I had to be careful not to rush more opportunities to see penguins before I get to the last few kilometers, I was so excited,” he said. Buenos Aires.” “I thought about my wife as I reached the city — The timing was perfect, too, he added. she has made a big sacrifice to allow me to make “Other than my Christmas break, the timing it this far.” of everything worked out perfectly,” he said, In fact, Ranson has been in contact with “especially because my wife’s birthday was the day Wanitta and the rest of his family constantly I made it to the end.” throughout the whole trip via the Internet or Ranson came back to Canada to celebrate satellite. He has also been updating his blog and Christmas with his family, and his wife Wanitta his Facebook regularly. met him as he passed through Belize back in “Having people October. interested Half a year and and 30,000 kilometres will take its toll on any human, but that kind of

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The weather may have been chilly, but the generosity of St. Albertans warmed the hearts of local firefighters last week. With temperatures hovering in the –20 C range the whole time, St. Albert Fire Services members spent four days and three nights perched on the roof atop Fire Station No. 2 on Boudreau Road as part of their annual Rooftop Campout fundraiser for Muscular Dystrophy Canada, finally touching down on terra firma Saturday afternoon. “You get the sympathy donations that way. That kind of furthers our cause,� said firefighter and organizer Adam Colameco. “The whole point is to show people that we suffer a little bit, that it’s the least we can do to prove our point for the cause.� The weather this year was significantly colder than it was in 2013, when daytime highs hovered around the freezing mark. Colameco said they were able

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the coldest. I think it got down to –30 C there when we went to bed,� he said. “But we had a great donation on Day 2; we had a great big heater up there. And

knowing what you’re doing it for, focusing on that as opposed to the cold, I think that’s what gets a guy through it.� So far, between the campout,

the boot drive at Safeway the weekend before and a few turns as waiters at Eastside Mario’s, firefighters have raised about $45,000, besting their goal of $40,000. “Every year, we think to ourselves, ‘Surely it’s got to come to an end. It’s our fourth year now, and this is surely going to be the year it goes down a bit,’� he said. “But every year, it all seems to come through in the end.� And they’re not done yet. Firefighters will continue collecting donations at the Fire and Ice Family Day Festival at Lacombe Lake Park on Monday, and they currently have a silent auction going on their website at www.stalbertfirefighters.com. “We should be really close to $50,000 by the end of it all,� Colameco said. “We set ourselves a tight goal this year,� he added. “In the past, we made it a little so we didn’t set ourselves up for failure. This year, $40,000 is a big number for us, so to reach that, just within the Rooftop (Campout) is good.�

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As the City of St. Albert wraps up the 2013 fiscal year, things are right on track, according to a report to city council on Monday. At their Standing Committee on Finance meeting on Monday afternoon, councillors heard from administration that the City should finish the year with a surplus of about $1.25 million — a variance of about one per cent on the approved 2013 budget of $126 million and on track with thirdquarter projections that pegged the surplus at about $1.1 million. “To be within one per cent of a $100 million budget is always easier for council to deal with,� Mayor Nolan Crouse said. “And to be on the right side of that is also easier for council to deal with.� Manager of financial operations and reporting Brenda Barclay told the committee that most City departments were under budget by four to 24 per cent, but some wound up going over budget. The infrastructure services department, which oversees public works, was over

budget by $1.9 million, mainly due to snow removal costs. “This was the third-most snowfall in the last 50 years,� Barclay said. “There were two residential and two collector (snow clearances) versus two collector and one residential clearing in 2012. Nine days a month had snow. Similar high costs were experienced by other municipalities.� As well, revenues in the community and protective services department were down due to traffic cameras being out of service and staff vacancies. However, the planning and engineering department collected about $1 million more revenue than expected thanks to more permit fees, specifically for condominium projects and the new Costco warehouse store on St. Albert’s north end. In total, the City’s revenues were $2.17 million higher than forecast, and its expenses were about $900,000 higher than forecast. A more detailed report on the City’s final year-end financial position will come to the Standing Committee on Finance on March 10, which will include recommendations on what to do with the surplus money.

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t was a quiet gesture, done without fanfare or an accompanying press release or likely even a lot of advance notice. But it is one of the most significant things the City of St. Albert has done in a long time. On Friday, as athletes from around the world were flying their flags at the Yp >c\ee :ffb opening ceremonies of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, another flag began flying over St. Albert Place: a rainbow flag, signifying St. Albert’s solidarity with other Canadian municipalities in recognizing the rights of the LGBT community and condemning the abuses and discrimination that homosexuals are subjected to in Russia. It’s a rare public statement by a normally staid civic government, but a welcome one on an issue that deserves more attention than it gets. Some would rather go farther, though; there were suggestions of boycotting the Games over LGBT rights in Russia, and around the world for that matter. But, as pointed out in a brilliant blog entry by Kathy Benjamin on Cracked.com Saturday, Olympic boycotts don’t work. There has barely been an Olympic Games without a boycott. The most famous were the boycotts of the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow and the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, and neither of those helped either side win the Cold War. Isn’t it better to go over to Russia and beat them at their own Games? Isn’t it better for athletes to show up, dominate the oppressors and use that gigantic stage to further their cause? As Benjamin also wrote, if the U.S. had boycotted the 1936 Games in Berlin, Germany, we would never have seen African-American sprinter Jesse Owens win four gold medals, quite literally right under Adolf Hitler’s nose. In the end, flying an LGBT pride flag over St. Albert Place for the duration of the Sochi Olympics may be more symbolic than anything — it’s not as though Vladimir Putin’s mind will be changed by that one simple act — but it is a powerful symbol nonetheless, one of tolerance, respect and Canadian values. It’s something that can make residents truly proud of the city we live in.

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the call of duty and give back. This is our month to say thanks to you and give back. In doing so, we hope that you come out to one of our events and say hello. We feel that, in order for St. Albert to remain a family-oriented community, the public needs to know and trust the ones that are called upon to keep the community safe. We are a highly trained group of professionals who are exceptionally proud to serve with our skill sets in the time of need and crisis. Our community has time and time again given us the opportunity to do so, and we are so incredibly thankful to be given the chance to serve. We live here, raise our families here, and invest our time here. When things happen in our community,

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A gift from some local artists is keeping some special kids warm during this chilly winter. Last week, the St. Albert Quilters’ Guild handed over 30 quilts to the Children’s Heart Society, bringing their total donation to 70 quilts over the past year. The quilts are handed out in “comfort bags� to young cardiac patients and their families as they come into the Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, along with a stuffed animal and information for parents on how to cope with the situation. Children’s Heart Society vice-president Tina Krieger knows full well how comforting a quilt like this can be. Krieger’s 17-year-old daughter recently underwent her seventh open heart surgery, having battled congenitive heart disease since birth. The family relocated to St. Albert from Saskatchewan nine years ago to be closer to the Stollery, and the Children’s Heart Society helped the family cope through a number of those operations. “She still has every one of (the quilts),� Krieger said of her daughter. “You’re given the quilt the day you’re in pre-admission, which is the day you sit and wait for hours to be taken down to the surgical room. For my daughter ... hospital linen isn’t the warmest, softest material, and this is a blanket of warmth. She takes it right down to the operating table.� Krieger added that the quilts stay with her daughter as she rests in the intensive care unit and later as she is able to get around in a wheelchair. “It hides the hospital robes and keeps her warm,� she said. “They’ve always meant the world to her. It’s an absolute stranger that has made her something that give her comfort and warmth and makes her feel loved.� Meanwhile, Quilters’ Guild president Liz Henderson said that knowing the quilts will make a difference to young patients and their families is a good feeling. “(Krieger) was saying that even sometimes, when parents are sitting in the room waiting for their children to come back from surgery, they’ll sometimes wrap themselves in the quilt,� she said. “It’s just such a comfort.� Henderson added that she thinks that comfort comes from the personal touch.

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It might not be your typical Valentine’s Day love story, but the St. Albert Theatre Troupe is hoping patrons will make a date to see their latest production. The dinner theatre company is opening its 2014 season this week by putting on Bernard Slade’s Same Time, Next Year, which chronicles two lovers who get away from their spouses and meet up at a hotel in northern California for one day every year. Director Katie Elliott said that the story was chosen as the troupe looks to keep taking on challenging works as they kick off their third full season. “We’ve added a drama that opens just after this show, and as well we took on this one, which is a two-hander,” she said. “It’s a two-act, full-blown show that has just two actors in it. That bring new challenges to us and the actors, and it’s a really good story.” The only two roles in the play are those of lovers Doris, played by Beverly Luckett-Nafe, and George, played by Global Edmonton weatherman Kevin O’Connell. “They’ve been working very hard. It’s a very demanding show to take on, but they’ve been good,” Elliott said. “It’s a completely different way to run rehearsals when there’s just the

two (actors). I do a lot more one-onone work with the actors to add to the rehearsal process.” Another challenge is the passage of time throughout the course of the play. When George and Doris first get together, it’s 1951; by the end of the play, it’s 1975.

È@kËj X cfk fe dp gcXk\# Ylk @Ëd lj\[ kf k_Xk%É BXk`\ <cc`fkk ;`i\Zkfi “The big demand was in costuming,” Elliott said. But that passage of time also allows the audience to see how attitudes changed over that period. “It shows a progression through time, and it shows a lot of the relationships and the power balances that come with the progression of society in North America. ... It really exposes how the power dynamics and relationship dynamics between men and women

and between people in general have changed, and how that affects how they relate to one another,” Elliott said. This is Elliott’s third turn as director for a St. Albert Theatre Troupe show, and she’s balancing those duties with her studies in the communications program at Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton. “It’s a lot on my plate, but I’m used to that. I somehow seem to thrive on the stress,” she said with a laugh. Same Time, Next Year premiered on Broadway in 1975, and a film adaptation was released in 1978. But Elliott tries not to let other adaptations affect how she directs a play. “I base a lot on my actors. I go off where they are and how they are, and build shows up from there,” she said. “It being done before is great, because people can have a recognition of what the show will be about and draw some attention that way, but I usually try to keep our interpretation independent.” Same Time, Next Year runs Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 6 p.m. from Feb. 13 to March 1 at the Kinsmen Banquet Centre (47 Riel Dr.). Tickets are $50 each, $45 for seniors (including dinner) and are available through the St. Albert Theatre Troupe’s website at www.stalberttheatre.com, by calling 780-222-0102 or emailing mark@stalberttheatre.com.

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‘Well yeah, all the stuff we’re playing is pretty cool.’ But that’s the kind of piece, as David says, you hear in the supermarket all the time. It’s very much in everybody’s consciousness.” “We want to be as interesting, as exciting and as cutting-edge and as rhythmically vital as any jazz group that you’ve ever heard,” he added. With Saturday’s A String Quarter is Like a Family show, though, Summer hopes that kids come away with the courage to follow their dreams and a greater understanding of classical music. “What makes the rhythmic pulses in

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“It took one song to take us all around the world in a year,” said Kelley of the success of “Cruise.” “That’s crazy.” H1 Did you know when you recorded “Cruise” it would become as popular as it has? ?lYYXi[1 We knew we had something special. We knew we liked it but you cannot predict stuff like this. H1 Was there a benchmark moment when you knew “Cruise” had exploded? B\cc\p1 It was the combination of a couple of different things. The awards (including the 2013 American Music Award for single of the year for the remix version featuring Nelly) and seeing the fans and hearing it on the radio and seeing the reaction. That’s what we dreamed of. We moved to Nashville to write songs and like Tyler said, ‘You can’t expect that. You can’t call anything that big to happen.’ That’s why it was so special. At the time that song was written, we didn’t have a publishing deal. H1 The song and the album were overlooked by the 2014 Grammys that just took place. Did that hurt? ?lYYXi[1 Grammys don’t meant a ton to us because they’re not fan-voted so if we’re not there, we’re not there. And if we are, we are — whatever. We care more about the fans and what they have to say, what

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