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Blue and gold are going pink this month at St. Albert Catholic High School. On Tuesday, the school launched its Hawks Have Heart campaign to raise money for the Alberta Cancer Foundation, with events planned throughout February to meet their goal of $5,000. The campaign is the brainchild of Evan Holstein, a health and wellness teacher and coach of the senior boys basketball team. He started the fundraiser in honour of his sister-inlaw Amanda, who passed away Jan. 18 at the age of 19, just a few months after being diagnosed with a rare form of cancer that started in her adrenal glands. “She was a big spirit. She was funloving. She was very humble and family-oriented. She was a really great person,� Holstein said. At first, the fundraiser was just going to centre around Holstein’s basketball team and their home tournament on Feb. 14 and 15. “I’ve got a great group of guys. They’re very caring and have got big hearts,� he said. “I’ve always had their backs, and this was one of those opportunities where they said, ‘We’ve got your back.’� But, as he organized it, the rest of the school jumped on it. “As things started to grow and ideas (came in), I said, why not?� Holstein said. “Our school has been very good when we do fundraisers.� Students will have the chance to dye their hair pink to show their support, with a head shave happening at the end of the month. They are also encouraged to wear pink every Wednesday throughout February, as well as on Valentine’s

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team’s first game of the tournament on Friday, Feb. 14, at 12:30 p.m. Holstein said getting the team to go pink took a little bit of persuading. “Some of them got onboard right away; some of them needed a little more convincing,� he said. “But once the majority bought in, it was easier for them all to buy in. And it shows unification and team spirit.� Holstein has already dyed his hair and his beard pink, and the student who raises the most money during the month will get to shave it off. While he wants the campaign to continue and grow in the future, he said he’s sure Amanda would be proud of the school’s efforts so far. “We found out (about the cancer) back in October, so I kind of had it in the back of my mind that this was something we were going to be doing, but it became a lot more personal,� Holstein said. For more information or to donate, visit www.albertacancer.ca/ hawkshaveheart.

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The Skyhawks at St. Albert Catholic High School will be making some improvements to their nest thanks to an announcement from the Alberta government this week. St. Albert MLA Stephen Khan was at SACHS Tuesday morning to announce a modernization project at the school, believed to be worth around $20 million. “St. Albert High is, in and of itself, a great high school. All the province is doing is making sure they keep up the teaching excellence, the student excellence and the administrative excellence,” said Khan, who grew up on Malmo Avenue, just down the street from SACHS, and spent much of his childhood in the school and its fields. The modernization will include modifications to existing space to accommodate a new career technology suite, a new learning technology suite, special needs programming, physical education programming and a new administration suite. “This is going to be touching students throughout the school,” said SACHS co-principal Garret Doll. “It’s not just one area. It’s CTS, it’s the labs, it’s the fitness area. Every student is going to be impacted.”

Crockett said she and the rest of the board were “delighted” with the news. “It’s fantastic news in that it gives even more momentum,” she said, adding that the announcement dovetails nicely with the launch of Shaping Our Future, a recently launched community conversation about future high school programming. The board submitted a request for $21.2 million in upgrades, and although neither Khan nor GSACRD officials have exact cost estimates yet, it is believed the project’s budget is close to what was asked for. The project has been on the board’s wish list since at least 2008. Modernization projects have also recently been announced for W.D. Cuts Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader Junior High School in St. Albert and F]ÔZ`Xcj ]ifd >i\Xk\i Jk% 8cY\ik :Xk_fc`Z JZ_ffcj# Jk% 8cY\ik :Xk_fc`Z ?`^_ JZ_ffc# Jk% 8cY\ik Sturgeon Composite High School in Z`kp ZfleZ`c af`e DC8 Jk\g_\e B_Xe Xe[ jZ_ffc dXjZfk JhlXnb `e Z\c\YiXk`e^ k_\ XeefleZ\d\ek Namao. They are part of the provincial f] X dXafi df[\ie`qXk`fe gifa\Zk ]fi J8:?J# n_`Z_ k_\p _fg\ kf Ôe`j_ `e knf kf k_i\\ p\Xij% government’s mandate to modernize 70 classroom?’” It will also include much-needed schools across Alberta and build 50 new Doll added that the school is very much a schools. upgrades to the school’s mechanical, gathering spot for the entire community, so electrical and plumbing systems. Doll said he hopes that students in this project should benefit all of St. Albert. “(The school’s opening in) 1967 was Grade 10 today will be put some of “Our last modernization, the Hawks’ a long time ago, and the way classes are the modernizations to use before they Nest came in, and it’s been used for public being run is very different,” said SACHS graduate. forums, for community groups — it’s a co-principal Garret Doll. “When you’re “We’re thinking a two- to three-year great facility,” he said. “And this is going to talking about the demands of electrical timeline,” he said. “We don’t know the be a continuation of that.” and wi-fi throughout the school, (it’s very exact number. But we have plans already in Meanwhile, Greater St. Albert Catholic different). Back in the day, it was, ‘Huh? place. They’ve been looked at revamped a Schools board of trustees chair Joan You need more than one plug-in in a number of different times.”

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St. Albert RCMP are looking for witnesses to help paint a clearer picture of a single-vehicle collision in the city last week. Police, along with paramedics and St. Albert Fire Services crews, were called to the scene of the crash on McKenney Avenue near Langley Avenue at around 11:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 30. Once there, they found a small two-door car on its roof and a man lying on the ground about five metres away. RCMP believe the car was heading west on McKenney Avenue when it lost control, crossed the median, hit a tree on the boulevard and rolled onto its roof, coming to rest in the eastbound lanes. The man found at the scene was taken to hospital in Edmonton via ground ambulance with undisclosed injuries. RCMP don’t know yet whether speed or alcohol were factors in this crash, so they’re asking any witnesses to come forward with information by calling the local detachment at 780-458-7700.

D@:IFJF=K J:8D Meanwhile, RCMP are also warning of an old scam that has resurfaced in the area. Police say that they recently received a report of a resident receiving a phone call from someone claiming to work for Microsoft, Windows or another software company who tells them that their computer is running slow or has a virus and that he or she can fix it by installing anti-virus software or asking the customer to allow him or her remote access to their computer. According to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre, the programs installed by the third party are more often than not keyloggers or other malicious software, which can be used to capture sensitive data like online banking passwords and identity information. What’s worse, the customer is then asked to pay for the software or repair service via credit card. St. Albert RCMP are reminding people to never give out any personal information over the phone and to report any suspicious calls to the local detachment or to the CAFC at 1-888-495-8581.

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It may be called At Odds, but the artists and their works in the Art Gallery of St. Albert’s newest exhibition are working in perfect harmony. The exhibit opens at the AGSA today (Thursday), featuring the works of Sydney Lancaster, Susan Seright and Claire Uhlick that explore conflicting ideas or notions through various media. “I don’t know Susan well personally and I am acquainted with Claire Uhlick, but I really do admire their work very much,” Lancaster said. “I think there’s a lot of support and a lot of respect in the artistic community in Edmonton and here in St. Albert as well.” Lancaster’s mixed media work focuses mainly on birds’ nests, which she said is a perfect way to explore the concept of home as an ideal versus reality, and how that plays into our sense of security, belonging and identity. “There’s that memory in the back of the brain we all have of home, that nurturing, that nest that helped bring us all into being,” she said. “That’s true and fascinating and really interesting but ... what happens if — as it is for most of us, I think — that nest is not an ideal place? For a lot of people, to one degree or another, that understanding of home can be quite ambiguous, quite fraught.” Lancaster’s work runs the gamut of mediums, from gel-transferred photographs and sculptures to charcoal drawings and even video. “I kind of approach it like having a set of tools to work with,” she said. “Each of the different media offers me a different way of talking about the same kind of idea. It’s like looking at things from different angles.” Meanwhile, Seright’s works focus on the opposing ends of bipolar disorder, which

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And instead of going in the garbage dump, they’re being reinvented.” Some of them have hinges, drawes and sliding elements, so she doesn’t mind if gallery patrons get a little hands-on. In the end, though, Seright hopes they come away from the exhibit with “an awakening, a sense of themselves.” For Lancaster, she hopes to give viewers a little bit of room to breathe and to think. “I’m hoping to create contemplative spaces with this work,” she said, “places where people can pause and think in general terms about security and belonging and home, and maybe take away some different ways of looking at their own experience.” At Odds runs at the Art Gallery of St. Albert (19 Perron St.) until March 1.

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Although they played a few U.S. gigs with Social Code, Nesbitt said he and Gies have never done a proper tour south of the 49th parallel before, and he’s very excited for it. “It’s going to be pretty exciting to see some different highways, some different scenery,” he said. Compared to the band’s first EP, Diskosno, Nesbitt said the band has really started to find its own voice. “That record (Diskosno) was kind of llike our take on an Usher song. We were taking Top 40 pop and saying, ‘Wouldn’t it be interesting if we did that in our own way?’” he said. “This record, we wanted to get a little deeper with lyrics and get away from what’s happening in in pop music, and do something a little more creative and artistic.” Another point of difference, though, is the

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TELUS World of Science Edmonton, said in a statement. “The diverse subject matter of our exhibits cover a breadth of areas we feel will provide a lasting impact on many lives in Alberta.” Wildlife Rescue will use interactive exhibits to teach visitors how animals are rescued around the world and delve into the cutting-edge science involved in rescues. The exhibition will run concurrently with K’NEX: Building Thrill Rides from May 17 to Sept. 1. K’NEX will explore the science, math and technology behind amusement park rides using display models built with

K’NEX toys, including a roller coaster that stands more than 10 feet tall. Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology: The Exhibition will touch down Oct. 11. The 10,000-square-foot multimedia experience will immerse visitors in the world of Indiana Jones with props and costumes, and will also include archaeological artifacts and educational material from National Geographic and the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Harry Potter: The Exhibition continues to run daily through March 9 and How to Make a Monster is running through April 21.

method of distribution. Diskosno was mainly available on cassette, while Fukushimarama will be made available first on iTunes. “We were finding that people are more apt to buy digitally these days,” Nesbitt said with a laugh. “Go figure.” Up until now, all of SIIINES’s releases have been shorter EPs, and Nesbitt doesn’t see a full-length album coming anytime soon. “We like the speed of releasing stuff,” he said. “It’s an old kind of model to hide away in a studio for a year, do a record, then go and tour it for three years. ... Four songs are enough to kind of give people a taste of what we’re doing. We’d rather keep a steady stream of stuff rather than hide away and release something every couple of years.”

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sinister Lord Business (Ferrell.) Problem is, Emmet is the kind of guy who follows rules to the literal letter — every day he wakes up, opens his book of instructions and does precisely what’s expected of him. Thinking outside the box is not his strong suit. Pratt’s own relationship with Lego was a little more chaotic, especially as a kid. “I liked to make swords and weapons and whack people with them,� he says. “That was my thing. Hit my brother with a Lego sword.� So crafting swords won out over building actual Lego models according to the instructions? “By the time my Legos got to me, there were no instructions on them,� Pratt says, explaining that jumbled boxes of the plastic bricks were handed down to him from his brothers. Not that it really mattered: “I wasn’t an instructions-following type of kid.� But now, as an adult, he’s definitely more inclined to stick to directions. “Like, if I’m putting together Ikea furniture. All it takes is saying, ‘Oh, I can wing it!’ and putting together a dresser for two hours, then realizing you’ve put screws in the wrong way

and you have to take the whole damn thing apart.� It’s surprising that Pratt has time to assemble his own furniture in the first place. After getting Hollywood’s attention on Parks and Recreation, recently renewed for its seventh season, Pratt was cast in several small but notable dramatic roles, including an injured first baseman in Moneyball and one of the Navy SEALs who raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Zero Dark Thirty. After headlining The Lego Movie, in theatres Feb. 7, Pratt will lead a spacefaring team of ne’er-do-wells in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, coming out in August. And in a few months he’ll begin shooting Jurassic World, the fourth instalment in the Jurassic Park series — “Jurassic Park was really kind of my Star Wars,� he says — slated for a summer 2015 release. All this, plus the 17-monthold son he has with actress wife Anna Faris. No wonder Pratt relates to Emmet: “He’s just a doofus with extraordinary things happening around him,� Pratt says. “I was like, ‘Yeah, I know how to do that. It’s happening in my own life.’�

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A St. Albert inventor and entrepreneur is hoping an appearance at a major medical equipment trade show last year will pay off. In November, Mariela Wilhelm — who owns and operates Uchi Ltd. based in St. Albert — was in Dusseldorf, Germany, as one of 17 Albertans among the thousands of exhibitors at Medica, a major international medical trade fair. Wilhelm, a former critical care nurse, was at the show not only to promote Uchi’s line of nursing covers and baby carriers, but also to show off the new kangaroo care wrap she invented last year. “The Medica conference is huge. Last year, they had 135,000 visitors,” she said. “It’s overwhelming.” Wilhelm got the chance to go to the trade fair after meeting some Alberta government officials at a breakfast meeting in September. “I had already booked (a neonatal conference in) Miami, but luckily I had not booked my ticket yet, so I was able to get a ticket from here to Miami to Germany and back here,” she said with a laugh. “I was gone for 12 days. It was exhausting.” Kangaroo care is a treatment option for premature babies, where the baby is held against its parent in skin-to-skin contact in an upright position. This

therapy can reduce the mortality rate of premature babies, and while it is critical in developing nations where incubators are in short supply, it is starting to be implemented in developed nations, with Sweden, Germany and Belgium leading the way.

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shows at local hospitals. “I’m very knowledgeable with … helping moms with breastfeeding, and I’m a very strong advocate of natural parenting,” she said. “So I opened up a little store from my home. I realized there was a need for someone to help moms choose the right (breast) pump, so I started selling lactation supplies. But my clients asked me to make things, so I started sewing.” The advent of kangaroo care is part of a larger trend that has seen baby wearing gain in popularity across North America over the past decade or so. “In nature, you don’t separate the mom and the baby,” Wilhelm said. “It’s just natural. Now we’re saying, it’s not just a nice thing to do, it’s the right thing to do. … It’s good, it’s nurturing, but it’s nothing new. It comes and goes, but I hope it will stay this time.” For more information on Uchi Ltd. and kangaroo care, visit www.uchimama.net.

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