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These are exciting times for economic development in St. Albert, and local officials want to help out in any way possible. That was the message from the City of St. Albert Tuesday morning during the ninth annual Business Breakfast, held at the Enjoy Centre. Hundreds of people came out to the event to hear Mayor Nolan Crouse, city manager Patrick Draper and economic development executive director Guy Boston speak about the progress St. Albert has made over the past year and the opportunities coming up in the near future. “We — economic development and the departments in the City that are in support of growth — are here to help you capitalize on St. Albert’s coming economic prosperity,� Boston said. Boston spoke at length about some of the areas of the city where residents can expect to see both residential and non-residential developments starting to pop up

over the next year. One of the most immediate is in the south end of Campbell Business Park, where Hermanos Holdings is already moving dirt for a development at 1 Carswell Street. “We’ve talked about ketchup by the case,� Boston said, referring to the hint he dropped at last year’s Business Breakfast about Costco coming to town. “There may be another opportunity in this area for other stuff by the case or by the pallet.� The South Riel lands were also a hot topic, with Icon Communities ready to build 700 residential units and GWL set to develop another 150 acres. As well, Boston said Melcor is expected to submit an area structure plan soon for its Jensen Lakes development — located just west of Walmart along Villeneuve Road — and have shovels in the ground sometime this year. The City’s economic development department is also working on a number of marketing strategies to bring both businesses and families to St. Albert.

Some of those efforts include a “Did You Know?� tour for developers and real estate agents, the Dig In “horticulinary� festival at the Enjoy Centre this October, a tax calculator for the City’s website, and an event called #GENYCEO, which Boston described as a “little Dragons’ Den� where kids 15 and up can pitch business ideas for the downtown core and earn seed funding. Of course, some of the best marketing is word-of-mouth, and Boston said St. Albert’s reputation is changing and attracting investors like Cape Construction from British Columbia. “We don’t have to toot our own horn. We’ve got people doing that for us,� he said. While all this new development sounds great, Boston said it also presented “huge opportunities� for existing businesses in St. Albert. “There are new markets and there will be new areas to grow into,� he said. “There’s more commercial development, so you can double up on your business sites or expand into new ones.�

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St. Albert city council paved the way this week for a new francophone junior/senior high school to be built on the northwest corner of Eldorado Park. Councillors gave third and final readings to a pair of bylaws Monday afternoon that redistrict seven of the 10 acres of land in the park so that the Alberta government can build the new 450-student school for the Conseil Scolaire du Centre-Nord anywhere on the site at the corner of Erin Ridge Drive and Eldorado Drive. “This has been an interesting journey, not only for council but for the community

as well,” said Coun. Wes Brodhead. “There are a number of reasons why we want to do this, one of which is the introduction of a bus lane. And I truly believe that’s the best configuration of the school on the property.” Both bylaws passed by 5-2 votes, with councillors Cam MacKay and Sheena Hughes voting against. “In my own personal life, I’ve never felt bad when I try my best. But in this case, we never tried at all,” MacKay said. “We never tried to look for a superior location, a location that was safer and better situated for this school. It’s difficult to look residents in the eye and say this was the best solution we could come up with, because we all know we never tried.”

Meanwhile, Hughes said this decision was not just about land or bus lanes or schools. “If this rezoning occurs, it will not only be remembered as just a council decision, but a personal decision. It is a test of character for each person on council,” she said. But Mayor Nolan Crouse said he was focusing on the whole community when casting his vote in favour. “I represent 62,000 people — I represent children, I represent anybody and everybody that lives in the community. I don’t just represent taxpayers; I don’t just represent people in a particular location,” the mayor said. “I have to look for the greater good of the entire community,

and in our particular case, for me, the greater good is to approve this particular location.” “One thing that’s incumbent on councillors is to always be open to all sorts of new information,” Brodhead added. “And in this particular case, the best location going forward was to move it to the west side.” A work plan for the site and for possible traffic mitigations will be developed over the next few months. Once that is finalized, likely sometime next year, staff will bring back to council bylaws to subdivide out the school site and transfer it to the francophone, and revert the remaining land in Eldorado Park back to parkland.

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Organizers of a local car show are revved up after finding a new location to park themselves. For the past 21 years, the St. Albert Cruisers car club has been putting on their Autorama show-and-shine on the last Sunday in May, raising money for the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society. But the future of the event was cast into doubt in January when the club was told it would no longer be able to stage it in the parking lot at St. Albert Centre. However, organizing committee chair Blair Art said last week that they’ve found a new home in downtown St. Albert, in the parking lot across from St. Albert Place. “We’re happy,� Art said. “It’s nice to be in a position where we can plan now anyhow.� He added that there were other potential locations on the table and that people had approached the club with ideas, but the downtown location made the

most sense. “There are a lot of car shows that go in communities’ downtowns, and I guess we thought this would be an added

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space, truthfully, if we have the same number of cars we’ve had in the past,� Art said. “But there’s some parallel parking along St. Thomas Street on one side, the side next to the parking lot, that’s kind of an overflow area. And we also have an overflow area in the green space across the street.� And, he added, they won’t have to move off their traditional date in May. “When we talked about changing dates, you immediately walk into all kinds of problems with other car shows and other events that are not necessarily car shows,� he said. With the location set, Art and the Cruisers are hoping to work with businesses in the downtown core to make the Autorama experience a memorable one for visitors. “We want to be what I’ll call good neighbours,� he said, noting he has already met a couple of times with the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce’s Perron District committee. “We’re talking to all those businesses that back onto the park.�

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The overall quality of life for young people in St. Albert has improved over the last five years, according to a new survey. On Monday, staff with the City of St. Albert’s Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) department presented city council with the results of the latest 40 Developmental Assets survey, which was completed in 2013 and charts the progress the City has made since the program was introduced in 2008. More than 3,600 students from Grades 7 to 11 were surveyed last year, indicating the number of assets — or “basic building blocks of human development” identified by research completed by the Search Institute out of Minneapolis, Minn. — they feel they have or have access to in St. Albert. Such assets can include positive family communication, caring school climates, safety, equality and social justice, peaceful conflict resolution and a sense of purpose. On average, students reported an increase of three assets in St. Albert, climbing from 18.9 in 2008 to 21.9 in 2013. Increases were also reported across every grade level. Sixteen per cent of students felt they had between 31 and 40 of the assets in 2013, compared to nine per cent in 2008. Among external assets — assets that are reinforced and supported by society through government policy, health care providers and law enforcement officials — only two assets were noted to have decreased: Creative activities and time at home. There were three decreases among internal assets — ones that involve commitments, skills and values that guide young people — including reading for pleasure, personal power and self-esteem. “We’re going to take a fine look at all those fine details and look who might be our strategic partners in the community — culture, library, etc. — and then engage those communities,” said Scott Rodda, the City’s FCSS director, when asked about addressing the areas that were down. But there were also decreases in the number of risk-taking behaviours — such as alcohol use, marijuana use, weapon use, gambling or skipping school — reported by students, no matter how many assets they felt they had. In 2008, 9.9 per cent of students who reported having zero to 10 of the 40 assets had engaged in risk-taking behaviours; in 2013, that dropped to 7.1 per cent. The figure among those who reported having 21 to 30 assets dropped from 2.2 per cent to 1.4 per cent. “It is impossible to assume that the positive results are solely due to the efforts associated with the 40 Developmental Assets initiative; however, according to the Search Institute, any increase in the number of assets overall is a very favourable outcome and clearly suggests St. Albert is doing great work,” the report reads.

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The leaders who drive economic engines in communities across western Canada and the northwestern United States will once again be making a pit stop in St. Albert. Just as they did last year, the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce will be hosting the 2014 edition of the Northwest Chamber Leaders Conference from March 5 to 7 at the River Cree Resort and Casino, bringing together delegates from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana and Oregon. “You always learn things from others, and that’s part of the joy of these conferences,” said St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Lynda Moffat. “You learn from experts and you have the opportunity to share time with each other.” Last year, Moffat said everything went very smoothly. “Of course, it was our first year to host it here, and we learned a few things that we’d like to do better,” she said. “So this year, we’re giving those a try, and I think it will be absolutely awesome this year.” Last year was also the first time the conference was held in Alberta.

Premier Alison Redford delivered a keynote address at last year’s conference, but Moffat said she would not be able to do the same this year.

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boards of directors and how to do board development — just to help out your directors to do their job really well,” Moffat said. “I think this speaker is absolutely world-class.” Another speaker is Alan Mallory, a Barrie, Ont., native who climbed Mount Everest in 2008. “He’ll be talking about teamwork and how critical it is to succeed in anything you want to do,” Moffat said. Delegates will also have an evening of fun at Mayfield Dinner Theatre in west Edmonton. The theme of this year’s conference is “Think Global, Act Local,” which is a concept Moffat said is becoming more and more relevant with each passing year. “We’re trying to look outward into the global economy, and I know global competitiveness is a very big issue identified by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and it’s something we try to carry forward in the work we do,” she said. “Being globally competitive, there’s a lot of help there for businesses who wish to trade internationally. It’s just a bit of education and discussion and things like that let them know there’s a lot of help out there for them.” For more information on the conference, visit www. northwestchamberleaders.com.

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The motion as amended by Coun. Osborne will implement a 14-day grace period prior to the imposition of a $150 late fee. If the renewal occurs within the 14-day grace period, the renewal will be backdated to the original renewal date.

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Almost 30 years after it first hit theatres, The Breakfast Club still connects with the drama students at St. Albert Catholic High School, and they’re hoping it will connect with audiences when they put it on at the Arden Theatre next month. The school’s drama department is getting ready for the curtain to go up on their production of the John Hughes classic on March 5 and 6 at the Arden, with shows at noon and 7 p.m. each day. Drama teacher Debbie Dyer said it’s the themes in the story that still ring true almost three decades later. “Even though their (labels) are ‘brain,’ ‘princess,’ or ‘criminal, and those are the stereotypes, instantly you start to feel that the characters — whether you’re watching it on the screen or our piece on the stage — that they’re multi-dimensional. There’s not a one-dimensional human being that exists, and that’s something John Hughes recognizes in a lot of his writing,” Dyer said. “I’m not being simplified, I’m not being degraded, I’m not being judged as being a teenager. Here’s a person that’s actually reflecting my story.” Emily Vilcsak, a Grade 10 student who is playing Allison Reynolds — the “basket case” of the unlikely group of students who find themselves bonding during detention on a Saturday — in the first day’s shows, said she was a fan of the movie before the show was announced, and has since watched the movie “over and over.” “I fell in love with it. It’s such a great story, and it’s so relatable to the audiences

we’re trying to engage,” she said. “I learned from the story, and I hope the people watching it will learn.” Vilcsak hadn’t landed the role of Allison prior to her marathon movie sessions, but she knew that was the role she wanted to play. “It’s the exact opposite of what I am. I’m very outgoing and sure of myself and confident, and she’s very closed off and unsure of herself,” she said. “It’s definitely different.” Meanwhile, Grade 11 student Alexander Welling hadn’t seen the movie before he got the role of Andrew Clark, the group’s jock, but he had heard good things about it. But when he sat down and watched it, he said he was surprised. “It was interesting seeing how different stereotypes can connect together — that’s what really surprised me about it,” he said. “I can see why the movie has lived on for 30 years as a classic.” Dyer said that ability to relate has resulted in the actors really rising to the challenge for this play. “They have honestly committed to the characters, the events and the honesty of what John Hughes was trying to convey in his script,” he said. SACHS also put on Hughes’s Pretty in Pink a few years ago, and while Dyer said there are a few similarities, the stories are very different. “Pretty in Pink was more about relationships and how divisions stand in the way of the perpetuation of love,” she said. “(The Breakfast Club) is more about the idea of, in this microcosm of a high school, how divisions always seem

to occur. I think that might be the reality in our culture from 1985 to 2014 because successive generations of students have walked into this school knowing this film.” While other high schools in St. Albert tend to put on musicals, Dyer tends to gravitate toward dramas, but that’s not simply to stand out from the pack. “The most important thing is the craft and the art of acting,” she said. That has been a bit of a challenge for Vilcsak, though, as she comes from a musical theatre background with the St. Albert Children’s Theatre. “I’ve been doing musical theatre since I was six. That’s all I’ve known — singing, dancing, the big facial expressions,” she said. “So when I heard Mrs. Dyer just does strict plays, I was nervous. I was so nervous because I was like, ‘I don’t know how to do that.’ It’s so different, but I was up for it.” Tickets for The Breakfast Club are $20 for adults and $12 for seniors and youth, with five-packs available for $75. Five dollars from each adult ticket sold will be donated to Youth Empowerment and Support Services in Edmonton. Dyer said that donation is because the young characters in the play face struggles that many teens who turn to YESS also face. “There’s a sense of not being heard, not being listened to that sometimes alienates and isolates you, which might perpetuate other issues in their life and have them end up in a place like YESS,” she said. Tickets are available by visiting the front office at SACHS or by calling 780-4597781.

The best of the best of St. Albert’s arts community will be recognized once again next month. The annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts awards gala will be held on Friday, March 14, at the Arden Theatre, where winners in six categories will be announced out of a pool of 31 nominees. “These awards are important to me as they honour and recognize those individuals and groups who ensure the long-term sustainability of our arts and cultural heritage, not only through their own creativity but also by nurturing the passion in others,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said in a press release. Award recipients will receive a custom piece of art crafted by Kyle Walton, owner of Hammer and Forge Design Studio. The gala starts at 6:30 p.m., with this year’s theme being “Retro Radio.” Tickets are $35 each and are available through Ticketmaster or the Arden box office.

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Like an accomplished musician, Phil Alain is hoping for a brilliant encore performance. Alain is the creative force behind Night of Artists, a three-night celebration of the arts that, after taking a one-year hiatus in 2012, will be back at the Enjoy Centre in St. Albert from March 7 to 9. “We’ve got everything from printmakers to sculptors to oils to acrylic (paintings). It’s got it all,� Alain said. The festival is also showcasing mediums like fashion and live music, and it’s all taking place in the Enjoy Centre’s Moonflower Room. “I want to keep doing it (at the Enjoy Centre) every year. It just really highlights the art really well,� Alain said. “With the botanical feel of the greenhouse, it’s the perfect setting.� The Friday evening gala will feature more than 500 pieces of art on display and on sale, along with performances by the Command Sisters and the Kelly Alanna Jazz Trio and artist Lewis Lavoie painting live. Saturday evening will feature two fashion shows — one featuring fashion from St. Albert merchants, and the other the work of designer Laura Dreger. There will also be a silent auction of some art pieces to help create more opportunities for the arts community and get artists’ work out there

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point, Jepson said he got a note from Anderson asking him to add lots of breaths and pauses to make his death more believable. “I’ve never experienced almost dying before, so I’m using all my acting abilities and vocal abilities,� he said. Anderson said Jepson and the rest of the cast are amazing, but there are little things that have to be worked on to increase the play’s believability. “I’ve asked people to sing in ways that probably their singing teachers would hate, because I want us to feel like these are real people,� he said. Anderson himself is an accomplished performer on stage, having been in numerous musical theatre and opera productions over the last three decades, including the original Canadian cast of Phantom of the Opera. Moving behind the stage as a director, though, has allowed him to realize a vision that includes some non-traditional staging that tells the story in a different way. “I probably should have been more afraid of this than I was,� he said. “But it seems like the perfect fit.� And while he is confident in his work, he hopes it will be appreciated by the play’s award-winning author,

Jill Santoriello, who is flying in from New York for opening night tonight (Thursday). “I’m hoping she’ll see things in her work she hadn’t seen before — that it will be a voyage of discovery for her as well,â€? Anderson said. “... Yes, there’s pressure, but it’s more excitement to see how she feels about what it does or doesn’t do for her work.â€? Anderson is familiar with Dickens’s work, with his mother reading him and his siblings the classics when they came home from school for lunch. But he feels adding music to the story helps move it along and allows characters to better connect with the audience. “The music adds all the colour that Dickens’s long, expository narrative passages, his descriptive passages, have. You can’t put those on the stage. ... We’re trying to do that with the sound,â€? he said. A Tale of Two Cities: The Musical opens tonight (Thursday) at Festival Place (100 Festival Way) in Sherwood Park and runs until Saturday, March 8. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. except for a matinĂŠe at 2 p.m. Sunday and no show on Monday. Tickets are $27.50 each, or $22.50 for students and seniors, plus fees and are available through Ticketmaster or the Festival Place box office at 780-449-3378.

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“It had the potential to go in a very heartfelt ‘hands across America’ kind of way,� Hoggard said of the new track, which has become the fastest selling in the Vancouver pop band’s career. “In the spirit of the concept of the song, we were like, ‘Hang on, f--k, this, let’s just do whatever the f--k we want. I think that would almost be the truest form of expressing the sentimentality of that song in video form.’� So this was purely a selfish act? “Absolutely,� Hoggard said, with a hearty chuckle. “I was naked for myself. And it just so happened to be caught on film. I’m a fan of naked people, just this mutual ‘Let’s put it out into the universe.’ What’s wrong with a little bit of flesh?� We caught up with Hoggard, 29, as he relaxed barefoot in the sun on the front steps of his West Coast home with his trusty dog Charles Bronson at his side before Hedley set out for a cross-Canada tour during the worst winter ever. “We’re just so thrilled with the way we’ve put together the show

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Edmonton Police Service Insp. Chad Tawfik said the special serving hours for Sunday’s game brought out “respectful and polite� patrons. The reasonable behaviour has Minister of Justice and Solicitor General Jonathan Denis as well as Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk gathering feedback on Alberta’s liquor laws over social media. “Do you think that this weekend’s change in alcohol sale regulations is evidence that we should be less restrictive all the time? Should we question the ‘wisdom’ of closing all bars in the province at the same time of the night?� asked Lukaszuk on Facebook and Twitter.

Denis credited Premier Alison Redford — who was with Denis at Calgary’s The Garage Sports Bar to watch the game — for the onetime loosening of the province’s drinking laws before surveying his own Facebook friends. “I’ve often felt we should look at having a later ‘last call’,� said Denis, noting the blanket closing time for bars in Alberta often leaves people rushing to find a taxi at 2 a.m. The last major overhaul of Alberta’s liquor laws was in 2008 when the government eliminated cheap drink specials, stopped establishments from hosting ‘happy hours’ after 8 p.m. and limited last-call drink orders.

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“Exercise improves insulin sensitivity,” he explains. “Exercise — when you lift weights, in particular — improves the way your body utilizes the hormone insulin. This is really important. One of the most overlooked factors of fat loss is blood-sugar management. When you lift weights, you manage your blood sugar better.”

Krahn points out that he makes all of his clients lift weights, no matter what their age or gender. The only difference between his male and female clients is that the men train to failure (the point of momentary muscular failure during an exercise). “That makes a big difference in terms of whether or not you’ll gain more muscle,” he advises. “For a guy that wants to get bigger, he has to train to failure.” Krahn, who divides his time between training clients, writing and speaking, cites a study that suggests training to failure is more important than the actual amount of weight used. Along with that, Krahn is a stickler for proper tempo and keeping the weights under full control. “A lot of guys and girls you watch in the gym, they fling the weights around like they’re having a seizure,” he says. “When you experiment with tempo and you start to focus on more controlled concentric and eccentric muscle contractions to really increase the time under tension, you’ll build up more lactic acid. When you increase lactic acid, your body produces more lactate. Lactate increases growth hormone and growth hormone’s excellent for muscle growth and fat loss.” All good advice. But Krahn, founder of online personal training and nutrition company eBodi.com, is the first to admit that the “basic tenets of body transformation” he espouses aren’t new. “Truth is constant. It’s like gravity. It’s always there. Truth never changes,” he says. “It’s just the way the physiology works. The body works a certain way.” Nor are the basic fitness tenets a big secret. “There are no secrets in the world,” Krahn adds. “It’s all there. It’s about doing it. That’s the hard part.”

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some of it is noise and that other bits of noise will offset it, and in the wash you find that the underlying inflation rate isn’t falling really rapidly,” Poloz said. “So in that sense it’s reassuring. It’s helping us to feel a little more comfortable.” Still, Poloz said there was nothing in the data to make the bank rethink its forecast that inflation will hover at around one percent in the first half of 2014 before returning to the two per cent target in about two years. Poloz, 58, took over as central bank chief last June. In October he oversaw a major policy shift because of growing worries about disinflation, saying policymakers were puzzled by the trend. The central bank abandoned 18 months of talking about eventual interest rate hikes and adopted what it called a neutral stance. In January, Poloz said he was even more worried by disinflation and left the door open to a rate cut. Inflation

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