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Elmer S. Gish School 75 Akins Drive 780.459.7766 Kindergarten Information Evening/Open House/Cogito and Global Programs: February 13, 6:00–8:00 p.m.

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When you register your children with St. Albert Public Schools, you’ll start them on a path of adventure, learning and creativity that will last a lifetime. Opportunities in academics, sports, fine and performing arts, community service projects, extracurricular activities and more await your children at our schools. Choose from our English, French Immersion, Logos Christian Education or Cogito programming for your children – each program prepares students for Grade 1 and provides the foundation for success. We also offer different scheduling options to accommodate your family’s lifestyle – choose from our regular half-day Kindergarten programs, our full-day every-day programs, or our full-day, alternating day programs.

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Leo Nickerson Elementary School École Elémentaire Leo Nickerson 10 Sycamore Avenue 780.459.4426 English, French Immersion & Logos Christian programs available. Kindergarten Information Evening/Open House: February 5, 6:30–8:00 p.m.

Muriel Martin Elementary School École Elémentaire Muriel Martin 110 Deer Ridge Drive 780.458.0205 English and French Immersion programs available. Kindergarten Parent Information Evening: January 30, 6:30 p.m.

Robert Rundle School 50A Grosvenor Boulevard 780.459.4475 Kindergarten Parent Meeting: January 30, 6:30 p.m.

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:FM<I People from all over the world have been coming to St. Albert lately, like the Japanese students who visited Paul Kane High School (page 3), the Australian teacher who is on a year-long exchange program (page 4) or the bantam hockey teams from all over the world competing in the John Reid tournament (page 7).

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Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

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Students from Japan got a little taste of Canada — and its winter weather — last week as they were hosted at a local high school. Students from Paul Kane High School played host to 22 students from Takamizu High School in Iwakuni City, Japan, from Thursday, Jan. 9, to Saturday, Jan. 11, fulfilling their end of an exchange that saw the same number of Paul Kane students visit Japan for 10 days back in May. The exchange was part of the Kakehashi Project, which is sponsored by the Japanese government. Laura Allen, the Japanese

teacher at Paul Kane, said the been incredibly valuable. exchange is more than just a “I’ve learned so much about chance to practice a new language. the world, just by being there “They’re making international and having them come here. friendships … It’s been and they’re ridiculously fun,” realizing she said. “It’s people been culturally are people extravagant — I everywhere can’t even begin you go in to explain it. CXliX 8cc\e the world,” I’ve loved every GXlc BXe\ k\XZ_\i Allen said. minute of it.” “And they’re The three days practicing their communication hosted by Paul Kane students skills with people who were only part of the 10 total days communicate a little more the Japanese students spent in indirectly than they do.” Alberta. The Japanese students Meanwhile, Grade 11 student are sharing the homes of the Paul Emma Shandro said the Kane students. experience of the exchange has “The homestay part is my

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biggest difference she’s noticed is the “vast varietyâ€? of goods available. “I’m not sure if that’s a Canadian comparison or living in a large community. ‌ The amazing array of fresh produce that you can get in the middle of winter really surprises us,â€? she said. “And we feel the price of things is really good. We’ve added lots to the Canadian economy already.â€? Cooper and her husband were in Canada for a vacation over the summer, visiting Vancouver and the Rocky Mountains. But she hopes to see much more of the country over the coming year. “We want to get across to Niagara Falls,â€? she said, “and we would love nothing better than to go to Churchill (Man.) and see the polar bears. Whether we can

venture that far, we’ll have to see.� But, as far as her education career goes, Cooper hopes to come away from Canada with a wide range of new experiences. In fact, at the end of the exchange, she is required to write a research paper, and while she initially hoped to write on evaluating teacher performance, after just a couple of weeks, she has already changed her mind to write on the role of schools in building communities. “The purpose of the exchange is really to further your information, to challenge yourself, to work outside your comfort zone — which are all things I really love to do — and to go back with ideas that you can exchange and build on,� she said. “For me, it’s all about best practice. How can I be the very best teacher I can be, regardless of the country I’m in?�

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The City of St. Albert is on the lookout for residents who make our city a better place to live. Last week, the City put out the call for nominations for its Community Recognition Awards, which recognize citizens in categories such as sports, arts and culture, citizenship, professional achievement and past era businesses. “St. Albert is an outstanding community because of the calibre of our residents,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said in a press release. “Every day I see shining examples of people who go above and beyond to make our city a better place to live, and who enhance the image of our community to others through their actions.” The St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce also hands out its complementary

Pillar of Business Award during Small Business Week every October as part of its Small Business Awards of Distinction program. Winners will have their name permanently included on an art installation in a green space on the northwest corner of Sir Winston Churchill Avenue and Perron Street, in downtown St. Albert. Nominations for this year’s Community Recognition Awards are open until Feb. 15. They will then be reviewed by the City’s Community Services Advisory Board during the month of March, and recommendations on recipients will be made to city council in April. A presentation will be made to the winners in June or July. For information on the various categories or to download a nomination form, visit www.stalbert.ca/ community-recognitionprogram.

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St. Albert firefighters are used to rescuing people and pets. Now, they’re rescuing the city’s Family Day festivities. The International Association of Fire Fighters Local 2130, which represents St. Albert Fire Services employees, has taken over the planning of festivities for the long weekend in February, and will present the Family Day Fire and Ice Festival on Monday, Feb. 17, at Lacombe Lake Park. IAFF Local 2130 president Warren Gresik said that the festival is a great way for firefighters to reach out to the community. “When the City (of St. Albert) did approach us to ask if there was any interest, it was kind of a no-brainer,” Gresik said. “The fire department ties into the community and the ‘fire and ice’ aspect, and we thought this was kind of an opportunity to give back to the community as well.” Family Day festivities started in St. Albert in 2011 as part of the city’s 150th anniversary celebrations. In 2012 and 2013, they were organized

by the Spirit of St. Albert Society, which was formed to carry forward some of the events created for the 150th anniversary. But, with SOSA regrouping and focusing on other events in 2014, the firefighters have stepped up to take over Family Day. Gresik is hoping to bring out about 5,000 people to the festival, and so far, there are lots of events planned, including pond hockey games, coffee can curling, family skating, sleigh rides and even fire artist performances. “We’re trying to get as many activities as we possibly can,” he said. “I’m confident that, when Feb. 17 does roll around, it’ll be a great event.” The Fire and Ice Festival will also raise money for Muscular Dystrophy Canada, which is a favourite charity of firefighters across the country. While the firefighters have only had about two weeks to plan the festival so far, Gresik said the

response from the community has been great. “Our guys are pretty resilient; we’re going to do our best to make it a wonderful event, and I’m confident we’ll succeed,” he said. “So far, it’s positive feedback from the sponsors we have heard from. We think we exemplify that community spirit, and there are a lot of businesses in town that feel the same way.” Last year, Lacombe Lake Park was unavailable for Family Day festivities after a hole was cut in the ice on the lake, making it unsafe for skating. SOSA moved the event to Lions Park, but attendance suffered. Gresik said they’re relieved and excited to have Lacombe Lake Park back in shape. “It’s such a great family area,” he said. “With the fire department, we assist public works with checking the ice levels and stuff, and just looking around there, what a beautiful area it is.”

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The bantam AAA St. Albert Sabres are hoping to ride a recent hot streak all the way to victory against competition from all over the world this weekend. The Sabres are the host team in the 36th annual John Reid Memorial Tournament, which starts today (Thursday) and runs until Sunday at the Mark Messier, Troy Murray and Northstar Hyundai arenas, all in Servus Credit Union Place. The Sabres have been on a roll lately, going 7-1-1 in their last nine Alberta Bantam Hockey League games, and head coach T.J. Woodward said he wants to keep the momentum going. “At the beginning of the year, I looked at this tournament as a measuring stick, to see where we’re at right now in the season, see how we match up against the top teams,” he said. “But the way we’ve been rolling since the beginning of December, I assure you we’re not looking at it that way. … I want to play the best,

and I want to beat the best.” But it won’t be easy, as the John Reid tournament attracts some of the best bantam hockey teams from across North America and even the world. This year, the field is stacked, including the defending champions from the North Shore Winter Club in North Vancouver, B.C., as well as teams from Winnipeg, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Dallas and even HC Kometa from Brno, Czech Republic. “That’s just fun. That takes me back a little bit to when I was a little guy myself and it was Canada vs. Russia,” Woodward said. But many of the Sabres are relishing the chance to put their skills up against international competition. “I think it’s going to be fun,” said forward Aidan Steinke. “We play the Czech Republic in the late game Thursday, 8 o’clock, and that’ll be pretty fun. The whole town will be out, probably.” “It’s going to be a test … it’ll be a good experience,” added fellow

forward Ryan Cooper. HC Kometa played an exhibition game Tuesday evening at Servus Place against Edmonton’s Canadian Athletic Club. While the players are trying to focus on games, though, it’s hard not to keep an eye in the stands, as numerous Western Hockey League scouts make the trip to St. Albert every year to evaluate talent ahead of the league’s bantam draft, which will take place in May. “I’m just trying to focus on the game and not who’s up in the crowd,” Steinke said. Overall, it’s an exciting time of the year for both players and coaches. “Being a St. Albert kid, this is the one tournament they all look forward to,” Woodward said. “They’re talking about it from day one. As soon as they make the team, that’s one thing they’re excited about, that they get to play in the John Reid.” For more information on the John Reid Memorial Tournament, visit johnreidmemorial.com.

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additional free and spontaneous recreational opportunity and we want residents to have their say in the process.” The City is looking at two sites for the park: 43 R Riel Dr. and Gloucester Park. These sites were chosen through an extensive process that took into consideration criteria like location, environmental factors, security and safety, parking and accessibility, and community support. The final design of the park will be completed once a site is chosen. In 2013, City staff proposed both Liberton Park and Seven Hills as possible sites for the park. Seven Hills was eliminated due to the historical significance of the site, and Liberton Park didn’t go ahead after nearby residents expressed their opposition to city council. Feedback collected through the open houses and through email and phone calls to St. Albert Place will be compiled and included in a report to city council on Monday, March 24.

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Members of the Baha’i faith in St. Albert are once again looking for remarkable women in St. Albert and Sturgeon County. The Baha’is of St. Albert are hosting their annual Celebration of International Women’s Day on March 8, 2014, but they have already put out the call for nominations for the awards that will be handed out that evening. “Women’s issues are humanity issues,” said Elaine Tahririha of the St. Albert Baha’is. “Just because, in St. Albert, women and girls can achieve whatever they set their hearts to doesn’t mean that happens in the rest of the world.” Categories under which women can be nominated include arts, business, community service education, health, literacy, mentorship, motherhood, peace, youth, First Nations initiatives or science. Tahririha said it’s always a treat to see the nominations roll in and see what kinds of contributions women are making to their communities.

“It’s very hard to choose,” she said. “There are so many people that do so many worthwhile things. That’s why we decided to [honour] five instead of just one. That way, we can honour different categories — we can honour a youth, we can honour a senior volunteer, or someone in the arts or someone in business. It looks at women in all walks of life.”

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to see the women the Baha’is have recognized go on to win more awards. “In our first year, we recognized Lois Hole, and look what happened, where she went,” Tahririha said with a laugh, referring to the former lieutenant-governor of Alberta who hailed from St. Albert. “The interesting thing about it is that most of them don’t really think they’re doing anything,” she added. “They’re just doing their normal life, and they’re surprised when their friends or co-workers take the time to fill out a nomination for them.” This is the 18th year for the International Women’s Day celebration. This year’s celebration will take place at the Sturgeon Valley Golf and Country Club, and Tahririha said they’re venturing out into getting sponsors for the event. “It’s gone from a little event that no one knew about to an event that a lot of people know about, and we’re getting it more and more wellknown,” she said, adding that about 120 to 140 people attend each year. The deadline for nominations is Feb. 8. Nomination forms are available at www.stalbertbahai.org.

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Miedema says the soldiers train hard for the tourney all year, and competition between the units is “strong.” As for what’s at stake for these competitors, Miedema says there’s something much more coveted than the medal that’s hung around the necks of the winners. “Pride, absolutely. They play for the medal at the end of the day, but honestly it’s bragging rights at the bar when they can sit down and say that they were the best,” he said. “They take it extremely seriously.” The tournament runs until Friday.

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The City of St. Albert will continue to help low-income seniors with their property tax bills, but the way they do it will be changing. On Monday afternoon, the City’s Standing Committee on Finance — which is made up of all seven city councillors and chaired by Coun. Wes Brodhead — voted to keep the program, which has been running since 2009, in place, despite the fact that the Alberta government is no longer handling the administration of it. “While this program didn’t come in during my term on council, the intent was to help out seniors who are struggling with

property taxes. And I don’t see anything that’s dramatically changed that would suggest they don’t need that assistance anymore,” said Coun. Tim Osborne. The program knocked $100 off the tax bills for low-income seniors who own their homes outright and received the Alberta Seniors Benefit; a total of 605 properties were included in the program in 2012. But the provincial government is instituting a new seniors property tax deferral program for the 2013 tax year, and thus has told municipalities that it would no longer administer such rebate programs on their behalf. This program replaces an education tax deferral program previously in place at the provincial level. In 2013, 49 St. Albert

seniors took advantage of that program. While the recommendation from City staff was to scrap the municipal assistance grant program altogether due to the associated extra administrative and advertising expenses, councillors voted to keep it on at a price tag of an extra $10,000, which will be paid for out of new assessment growth funds. “Taking $100 out of their pockets makes a dramatic difference,” said Coun. Sheena Hughes. “For many people in St. Albert, $100 is just throwaway money. But when we’re talking about people in this income bracket who currently live in St. Albert — (600) of these families — this is a huge difference to them, and we need to recognize that.”

Coun. Cam MacKay, however, voted to scrap the program because he felt it didn’t address the needs of seniors who rent their homes and thus are more vulnerable than those who own. “Everybody in St. Albert has trouble paying their taxes. The issue is not age, but income. … I think we should looking at reducing the tax burden for all St. Albertans,” said MacKay, who joined the meeting via telephone. City staff will now work on amendments to the grant program’s policy document to allow for it to be administered internally and to prevent people from applying for both it and the provincial tax deferral program. Those amendments should be back to the committee by the end of March.

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a possibility, but that 24: Live Another Day is a separate story that has nothing to do with the script of the proposed film. “The film is an ongoing situation,” Sutherland said. “There’s always an opportunity to do that. But Howard (Gordon, executive producer) came up with this and this was the opportunity that came to us first.

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but I’m anxious about (shooting in London),” Sutherland said. “Traffic there is very difficult. We plan to be shooting outside. I’m sure we’ll be hated by a large portion of London for snarling up their traffic, and for that I apologize in advance.” Story-wise, things pick up four years later, and Jack remains a fugitive. One interesting element is that as the new season begins, Jack and his trusted former sidekick Chloe, played by Mary Lynn Rajskub, will be working against each other. Sutherland and the producers insisted that 24: Live Another Day will be both rewarding for devotees and also completely accessible to anyone who never saw the first eight seasons. “The benefit of coming back four years later is four years need to be explained,” Sutherland said. “So it is a justifiable moment for characters to be catching up.” Sutherland, 47, was asked about the physical demands of returning to Jack Bauer. “I started working out about five months ago,” Sutherland said. “I’m not getting any younger. “I’m not taking any supplements. But I’m probably in the best shape I’ve ever been in my life.” So to sum up, Kiefer Sutherland is nervous, but in great shape. Wrapping that into Jack Bauer should be explosive.

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too busy to work out. “I’m like, ‘You’re not busier than I am. And if I can find a way, you can find a way,’” he says. “When I’m home, I’m on the track just about every day.” Boldon’s track workouts start with the exact same warm-up he used during his career. He walks the turns of the track and strides (not quite sprinting) the straights of the track for eight laps.

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he explains. “If you want to get strong, you get that bar and you put those weights on and you get on that platform and you move that bar.” Boldon, who earned a bronze medal in the 100m and a silver in the 4x400m relay at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, has also been known to hit the soccer pitch on occasion. “On a day like today, where all it’s done is rain, I will pick up that ball, put some air in it and just go out and move for 30 minutes straight with the soccer ball, back and forth, up and down the pitch,” he says. Variety, after all, is among the keys to an effective workout regimen, according to Boldon. “I know that a lot of people get stuck in ruts and they feel like they plateau because they do the same thing,” he explains. “What happens is the body adapts. The body’s like, ‘Oh this. We can do this all day.’” That’s why Boldon, a fit 190 pounds at five-foot-nine (15 pounds heavier than in his sprinting heyday), also recommends progressively increasing workout intensity. “If you’re comfortable with every workout that you do, you probably need to be doing it a little bit more intensely or more of it.” Consistency is crucial, too. “My thing is just to move every day,” he advises. “To me, anything you do on a daily basis that gets your heart rate up is a good thing.” But to those guilty of taking shameless gym selfies, Boldon would appreciate if you just leave your cellphone in your gym bag.

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mouths from 2013, with the slim majority saying it was a bad year for them and their families and people a bit worried about the economy,” Keren Gottfried, a senior research manager for Ipsos said in an interview last week. But the overall optimism, she added, “shows people want to look at the world with the glass half-full.” The poll, which was released on Friday, determined that 53 per cent of

people around the world believe the global economy will be more robust in 2014, with the sentiment strongest in India, China and Indonesia and weakest in Sweden, France and Italy. Spaniards, Argentineans, Hungarians and Mexicans were the most likely to say last year was disappointing, while the numbers were the lowest in Australia, Indonesia and Sweden, where 42 per cent or fewer people had a

lousy 2013. The poll showed personal New Year’s resolutions were popular in most countries, particularly Indonesia, Argentina, Turkey, Brazil and South Africa where 90 per cent or more people made them, compared with 56 per cent in Hungary and 38 per cent in Sweden. Gottfried views the numbers as an indication that people are making resolutions because they want to make things better and are starting the year with excitement.

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injuries are carrying a dreadful burden,� Karygiannis said. “All of us must work to remove the stigma of PTSD and other mental health issues.� Many military personnel have complained about the lack of help for PTSD, some even claim to have been punished for going public with mental health problems. The new crisis line is staffed by veterans 24 hours a day, and callers can remain anonymous. There is also a social media effort, started by two vets of Afghanistan, that enables soldiers to help each other.

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