St. Albert Leader Jan 2, 2014 by St. Albert Leader

Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014 â&#x20AC;˘ Vol. 3, Issue 12

St. Albert Public Schools

Kindergarten Fair

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St. Albert Public Schools

Kindergarten Fair Do you have a child who will be starting Kindergarten in the fall? Please join us for the St. Albert Public Schools Kindergarten Fair, where you can find out more about our programs, full and half-day Kindergarten, yellow busing, school boundaries, speech and occupational therapy, and much more! Free admission and free parking!

Bellerose Composite High School 9:30 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. Introduction to St. Albert Public Schools 10:00 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. The following sessions will run concurrently every 40 minutes: • Preparing your child for Kindergarten • English Kindergarten Program • Logos Christian Kindergarten Program • French Immersion Kindergarten Program • Cogito Kindergarten Program

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Deal struck, bylaw quashed in Jan.

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2013 IN REVIEW

JANUARY

INDEX News . . . . . . . . . 3 Opinion . . . . . . . . 8 Interactive . . . . . . 9 Photo Booth . . . . . . 11 Finance Feature . . . 12 Leader Ho Ho . . . . 15 BAM! . . . . . . . . 20 Entertainment . . . . 25 Cover Contest . . . . 26 Fun & Games . . . . . 28 Business . . . . . . 30

MEXICO DEATH

A young St. Albert man died while on vacation in Mexico, according to reports that surfaced in January. Chris Rogers, 21, died in early January at the Great Pernassus resort in Cancun, Mexico, following an incident at a nightclub. According to Mexican news reports, a man — who was independently confirmed by other news agencies to be Rogers — died around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 5, after being punched in the nose inside the nightclub and going outside. There was speculation that he may have been hallucinating before falling over the edge of a balcony. Rogers attended Bellerose Composite High School, and a former classmate told Metro Edmonton that he was an engineering student at the University of Alberta.

COVER

2013 was a busy year here in St. Albert, with new events like the BAM! Slip ’n’ Slide joining old favourites like the Bellerose Bike-A-Thon, the Father’s Day Soapbox Derby and Canada Day fireworks on Seven Hills. There was even a municipal election to spice things up in October. The Leader takes a look back at some of these events from 2013 starting on page 3.

CITY-AHF DEAL

Months of tense and, at times, contentious negotiations between the City of St. Albert and the Arts and Heritage Foundation of St. Albert drew to a close in January when the two sides signed off on a new five-year partnership agreement. Negotiations began the previous August after St. Albert city council voted to continue working with the AHF rather than move any or all of the functions the City delegates to the foundation in-house. A report to council in July characterized relations between the two sides at

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the time as “strained.” The negotiations were directly responsible for AHF executive director Paul Moulton tendering his resignation, which took effect Dec. 31, 2012, as well as the resignation of board member Sam Azer. The new agreement took effect April 1, and is based on several principles, including management oversight, accountability, financial reporting, collaboration, transparency, open communication and no duplication of services.

BONG SHOP BYLAW

Changes to the City of St. Albert’s business licensing bylaw aimed squarely at drug paraphernalia shops were struck down by a provincial court judge in January. In a written decision issued on Friday, Jan. 11, Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench Judge Terry Clackson said that the bylaw oversteps municipal boundaries and is unconstitutional. “In my view, in legal effect and in practical effect, the impugned bylaw is about criminal law, a power which is plainly beyond the competence of the municipality,” Clackson wrote. “Therefore, both in terms of purpose and in terms of effect, the amending bylaw is legislation in relation to criminal law. As such it is ultra vires [beyond the power of] the municipality and must be struck down.” The bylaw was challenged in court by the owners of Chad Smoke Shop 420 Ltd. in Gateway Village after the store was inspected and ticketed in May 2012. A week after the ruling was issued, the City announced that it would appeal.

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It was a whole new ballgame for Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons (above) when he visited CFB Edmonton in January. Meanwhile, St. Albert teams were fighting hard during the annual John Reid Memorial Bantam AAA Tournament at Servus Place (below).

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Khan out of cabinet 2013 IN REVIEW

FEBRUARY

KHAN SHUFFLED OUT

St. Albert MLA Stephen Khan was shuffled out as Minister of Enterprise and Advanced Education in Premier Alison Redford’s cabinet in February. Redford announced two changes to her cabinet in early February, including Khan’s duties being transferred to deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk, as well as Stephen the appointment of Khan Dr. Richard Starke as St. Albert MLA Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation, replacing CalgaryCurrie MLA Christine Cusanelli. “Recognizing the impact of falling resource revenues on our bottom line, my government will lead by example with a smaller, more focused cabinet,” Redford said in a press release. “These changes will allow us to continue to build Alberta by putting a priority on economic diversification and growth.”

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St. Albert Special Olympian Larry Green shows off the two bronze medals he won in alpine skiing at the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in February after arriving home at the Edmonton International Airport. Green’s medals came in the intermediate giant slalom and the intermediate super G, and he qualified for the world games by virtue of his performance at the 2012 Special Olympics National Winter Games, which were hosted by St. Albert.

Khan later said he was “just fine” with the move, and said he accepted Redford’s rationale of leading by example through tough economic times.

‘ABOUT TO EXPLODE’

St. Albert is “about to explode” with growth, particularly in the commercial and industrial sectors, City of St. Albert officials said at the annual Business Breakfast in February at the Enjoy Centre. Economic development executive director Guy Boston told the packed room that St. Albert is poised to blow their yearly averages for commercial and industrial growth out of the water in the next few years. That included the May opening of the new Target location in St. Albert Centre and a new shopping centre in Erin Ridge North that would be anchored by a “well-known big box retailer” that he couldn’t yet name at the time due to a pending deal. “But just so you know, at this place, you can go buy ketchup by the case,” Boston said.

SCHOOLS PARTNER

Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools was looking to give its students a head start on both their post-secondary education and a career overseas by partnering with

MacEwan University in February. The district announced a five-year agreement with MacEwan’s School of Business that will allow local students to earn credits in three universitylevel business courses while still in high school. These credits can also be put toward the students’ high school diplomas. The program will also give students a head start in learning about the Chinese language and culture, giving them a competitive advantage in an increasingly global business landscape.

The idea was sparked when Greater St. Albert Catholic Schools superintendent David Keohane returned from a tour of Chongqing, China, three years ago, and was amazed at the number of Westerners travelling across the Pacific Ocean to conduct business. “It was only a four-day journey, but I really understood that our youth are coming to a crossroads where they have opportunities now to invest in education that can create occupational ties much further than their backyards, their province or their country,” Keohane said.

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Bikes bring both hope and concern in March 2013 IN REVIEW

MARCH

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LIBERTON VICTORY

BIKE-A-THON 10

When it all boiled down, Bellerose Composite High School’s Bike-A-Thon wasn’t about numbers or TV hosts this year — it was all about the cure. The 10th edition of the fundraiser for cancer research was closing in on $1 million raised in total when it wrapped up in March, and students had created a lot of social media buzz trying to get the attention of talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. But Sue Leighton, Bellerose’s athletic director and a principal organizer of the Bike-A-Thon over the past decade, said that, at the end of the day, there’s only one thing that really counts. “There’s lots of places numbers matter, but all we care about is

getting a cure,” she said. “If we make it to a million, that’s great, but right now I’m focusing on how happy I am for these kids to have raised so much money and done it for all the right reasons.”

PAIR OF PLAUDITS

St. Albert earned itself a couple of national honours in March.

First, Reader’s Digest named St. Albert the healthiest town in Canada, thanks to a submission from local resident Sharon McNally. Meanwhile, later in the month, St. Albert rebounded in MoneySense magazine’s ranking of the Best Places to Live in Canada, bouncing all the way back to No. 2

overall after slipping to 12th spot in 2012. In the magazine, writer Mark Brown cited great children’s programs, affordable housing on large lots and amenities provided by the City of St. Albert as just a few of the reasons for taking top spot. St. Albert trailed only Calgary in

Residents around Liberton Park claimed victory over plans to build a mountain bike skills park in their backyard in March. City of St. Albert staff presented the public feedback that had been collected regarding the project over the several weeks to city council in March, along with a recommendation that the Liberton Park site be removed as a potential location for the bike skills park. Rahim Jamani, an area resident and administrator for a Facebook page entitled We Love Liberton Park Just the Way It Is, said that he was thrilled the park is being taken off the table. “We’re definitely ecstatic that City administration and city council heard our concerns and took them seriously,” he said.

Developers confirm Costco coming to St. Albert in April 2013 IN REVIEW

APRIL

PROVINCE FORKS IT OVER

The Alberta government made good on its promise to reimburse the City of St. Albert for Ray Gibbon Drive in April. The provincial transportation ministry announced in early April that it would hand over the final installment of $17.2 million to pay back the City for the construction of Stage 3 of Ray Gibbon Drive, which is currently being built from Giroux Road to Villeneuve Road. Mayor Nolan Crouse said he was overjoyed with the news. “There was always this question of whether or not we were going to be paid back, and we’ve had it in dribs and drabs

… There was this road to nowhere and this rhetoric around, ‘The road’s not needed,’ and, ‘It won’t get paid for,’” Crouse said. “But all along, I had to continue to provide the faith to council. The province was telling me all along, MLAs and ministers, that the money’s forthcoming and you will get paid, and it won’t be 10 or 20 years from now.”

COSTCO COMES TO TOWN

The cat officially got out of the bag in April — Costco was on its way to St. Albert. After months of speculation and hinting, local developers Landrex were finally able to confirm the news in April, saying that Costco would anchor a new commercial development in Erin Ridge North, north of the King of Kings Lutheran Church on St. Albert Trail. “Economically, it’s an incredibly exciting time for us,” said Landrex president Troy

Grant, “but it’s also an exciting time for the city. It puts you on the map a little bit.” Speculation had been running rampant, especially after City of St. Albert economic development executive director Guy Boston told a packed house at his department’s annual Business Breakfast in February that a “well-known big box retailer” — which he couldn’t name due to pending deals — was coming to town, a place where “you can go buy ketchup by the case.”

STUDENTS IN BOSTON

As police combed Boston and some of its suburbs in April for a suspect in a bombing attack, students from a St. Albert school watched it unfold right before their eyes. Nineteen Grade 7, 8 and 9 students from Sir George Simpson Junior High School’s academic challenge program were in Boston for a trip to complement their science and

social studies curriculums, as well as outings to the Boston Aquarium and a whalewatching trip out on Boston Harbor. The group also included three staff members and three parents. The group arrived in Boston on Monday, April 15, landing in the city only about half an hour before two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Then, that Friday, even though they were staying in the suburb of Woburn, Mass. — about half an hour outside Boston and outside the shelter-in-place order — the group stayed inside their hotel as a precaution while local and federal authorities attempted to track down Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the second of two suspects in the bombing. “I feel like I imagined the whole thing, even though I know I didn’t because we saw things everywhere,” said Grade 9 student Heather van der Veen.

Message from St. Albert City Council We wish all residents and businesses in St. Albert a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year! Mayor Nolan Crouse and St. Albert City Council

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New schools announced 2013 IN REVIEW

MAY

TWO NEW SCHOOLS

Students in St. Albert should have a little more elbow room come 2016 thanks to two new schools in the city that were announced by Premier Alison Redford in May. A new elementary school under the jurisdiction of St. Albert Public Schools will be built in Erin Ridge North, with a capacity of 600 students, while a new 350-student school covering Grades 7 to 12 for the Conseil Scolaire Centre-Nord is slated for Erin Ridge, at the current site of Eldorado Park. “We made a commitment to build new schools and we’re doing just that,” Redford said in a press release. “This is about more than bricks and mortar — it’s about building strong communities so

all our kids get the best possible start in life. By investing in schools today, we are investing in ourselves, and our province.” Officials with St. Albert Public Schools said the new school has been a long time coming for the district. “Although it’s late, we have a chance,” said superintendent Barry Wowk. “We weren’t sure what we were going to do in the future.”

CIVC DOUBLES DOWN

The St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre doubled down on their annual Volunteer Citizen of the Year award in May. For the first time since 2001, the CIVC named co-winners of the prestigious award, with both Helen Kieran and Violet Oko taking home the honours. “I’m totally shocked, I really am,” Kieran said after receiving her award. “It was a great honour

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Helen Kieran (left) and Violet Oko congratulate each other after being named Volunteer Citizen of the Year co-winners in May.

just to be nominated.” Kieran and Oko are good friends, with each of their lengthy volunteering resumés including duties with the St. Albert Retired Teachers Association. Sharing the award was a thrill for both of them. “Helen’s adorable; I know her very well. It was fun,” said Oko, who added that she was “humbled” by the award after 40 years of volunteer service in St. Albert. “It’s wonderful to share it with somebody else,” Kieran added. The awards brunch, held at the St. Albert Alliance Church, also saw a special Youth Philanthropy Award given out to students and staff at Bellerose Composite High School in recognition of the annual Bike-A-Thon event, which has raised nearly $1 million over the past 10 years for the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Kids With Cancer Society, including almost $270,000 in 2013 alone.

BCHS PLACES 2ND

When it comes to second chances, the Reach For the Top team at Bellerose Composite High School certainly made the most of theirs in May. After finishing third in the Reach For the Top provincial championships on their home turf in April, the BCHS team thought they wouldn’t have a chance to go back to the national championships and improve on their eighth-place finish in 2012. But since two teams from Edmonton’s Old Scona Academic High School finished ahead of them, and only one team per school is allowed to go to nationals, Bellerose made the trip to Toronto for nationals in

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A sunny Sunday salvaged what was an otherwise rainy Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition put on by the St. Albert Kinsmen in May. late May and came back with a second-place finish. “It was better than we ever dreamed we could have done. It was terrific,” said Grade 12 student William Mazurek, who was part of last year’s eighth-place squad. “Last year, we were sitting there at the final game, watching the teams and going, ‘These teams are incredible. They’re

thousands of times better than we are.’ I don’t think any of us ever dreamed we’d be on par with those teams, let alone beat them.” Reach For the Top is a trivia game where schools are represented by teams of four, and the topics can run the gamut from sports to theatre to science, and the questions can take many formats.

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MP Rathgeber ditches Tories 2013 IN REVIEW

JUNE

CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL

Into every festival a little rain must fall, but even still, organizers of the International Children’s Festival were hailing this year’s edition a success in June. City of St. Albert cultural services director Kelly Jerrott said Monday that, even though there were rainy conditions for most of the festival’s five days in downtown St. Albert, that couldn’t dampen spirits. “Even with the weather, I think we had a really good festival,” Jerrott said. “We were lucky; the rain toward the end of the day on both days we had that heavier rain, so most of our school groups were in … The timing worked out very well.” Just after the festival wrapped up, Jerrott said that 23,000 tickets were sold for main stage performances, plus 17,000 tickets for site activities throughout the festival. “Plus Toddler Town was a big hit again this year, so we’re really excited with all of that,” she said. “We had so many school groups come in, and those were good numbers this year.”

MP LEAVES TORIES

Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber was looking for a new place to sit in the House of Commons in June. Rathgeber notified the board of directors of the EdmontonSt. Albert Conservative Party Association and the Speaker of the House of Commons in June that he had resigned from the Conservative Party caucus and intended to Brent sit as an independent MP Rathgeber for the remainder of the Independent MP current parliament, then announced his decision publicly via Facebook and Twitter shortly thereafter, citing the government’s “lack of commitment to transparency and open government.” Rathgeber told a press conference at his downtown St. Albert office that he still believes he can effectively represent the people of Edmonton-St. Albert and advocate for them as an independent MP. “You elect the member to represent the constituents in Ottawa, not to represent Ottawa to the constituents,” he said. “When you have a PMO that tightly scripts its backbenches, like this one attempts to do,

MPs don’t represent their constituents in Ottawa. They represent the government to their constituents.” Rathgeber had been in a battle with fellow MPs at the committee level over proposed changes to his private member’s bill, which would put the onus on the CBC to prove to the federal information commissioner that releasing information about things like the salaries of on-air talent or high-ranking executives would prejudice the broadcaster’s journalistic, creative or programming activities in order for an exclusion under section 68.1 of the Access to Information Act to apply. The bill would also apply to high-level public servants across the federal government. Meanwhile, Edmonton-St. Albert Conservative Association president Darren Bieganek said the association was “disappointed” with Rathgeber’s decision, but would not call for a by-election.

BUCCINI STEPS DOWN

Gerry Buccini might have stepped down, but this is no swan song. After 43 years, Buccini — the only president the St. Albert Community Band had ever had — relinquished that role in June, with his last event as president being the band’s spring concert at the Arden Theatre.

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But Buccini, 66, didn’t relinquish his chair in the clarinet section of the concert band, hoping instead to just be “one of the boys” for once while feeding a love for music that has lasted his whole life. “I play third clarinet now, and I love it. I’m learning more as a third clarinetist than I ever did as a first clarinetist,” he said. “The turning points in my life have been the increased level of musicianship these conductors can bring to make you a better player,” he added. “That’s something I’ve been delighted to be a part of.”

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OPINION

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Farewell to an arts champion

Here’s a photo of a building or landmark around St. Albert. Can you figure out where it is?

ith tight Christmas deadlines and creativity diminishing with every mug of egg nog consumed, spaces like this one on editorial pages of newspapers across the country are often filled with platitudes at this time of year, or perhaps suggestions about the sort of New by Glenn Cook Year’s resolutions prominent politicians should make as the calendar turns over. Tempting as that may be, though, and even with the editorial focus on a review of 2013 this week, we would be remiss here at the Leader if we did not at least in some small way recognize the passing of Pat Wagensveld just before Christmas. In a time when the arts are an easy target for people looking to save a quick buck on their property tax bills, Wagensveld was one of the biggest champions for the local arts scene, if not the biggest of all. She was a regular at both gallery openings and city council meetings, and for the same reason: her passion for the arts and her desire to see them nurtured. An accomplished painter in her own right, Wagensveld also worked tirelessly behind the scenes for the betterment of all artists in St. Albert. She was instrumental in founding the Visual Arts Studio Association of St. Albert (VASA) in 2005 and in negotiating a lease with the City of St. Albert for the use of the Hemingway Centre on Sir Winston Churchill Avenue in 2012. Even in only a little over a year since the doors opened, the impact of bringing together so many artists under one roof, where they can collaborate and share ideas, has been immeasurable. Wagensveld was honoured in 2011 with the lifetime achievement award at the Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts Gala at the Arden Theatre. Looking back now, there could not have been a more deserving recipient of such an award, and it’s fortunate that we — as a community into which the arts are woven so tightly — had the chance to say thank you. It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words. But there may never enough pictures and enough words to accurately convey just how much Pat Wagensveld meant to St. Albert and its arts community.

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St. Albert Transit committed to accessibility

or many years, St. Albert Transit (StAT) has been committed to the goal of providing a fully accessible transit service that can be used by all residents, including those with mobility impairments. In 2010, StAT became the first transit operation in Alberta to operate a 100 per cent accessible fleet. All of our buses are equipped with ramps that enable access for passengers with wheelchairs, scooters, and other mobility aids, and our drivers can lower the front entrance of the bus (called “kneeling”) to roughly the level of the curb. There are no more stairs to climb to board a bus. StAT continues to work with the groups like the Seniors Working Group Transportation Committee to convey the message that, for seniors who are able,

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Youth Centre closes its doors 2013 IN REVIEW

JULY

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“The Saturday before, he served me pancakes at the [St-Jean Baptiste] parade in Morinville,” Crouse said. “And then seven or eight days later, he’s no longer with us.” “He was just a genuine, good man. Just a nice, good quality person.”

Officials with St. Albert Public Schools took a big step earlier this year PHOTOG EARNS MEDAL to make their schools safe places for all While he’s used to lugging around regardless of sexual orientation. cameras and hard drives, Dave The public board of trustees voted Bowering brought home a different 4-1 on Wednesday, June 26, to adopt piece of hardware in July. a standalone sexual orientation and Bowering — a St. Albert photographer gender identity policy, becoming only and documentary filmmaker — received the second board in Alberta to have the Knight of the Order of St. Michael such a policy, following the lead of medal from the Army Aviation Edmonton Public Schools. Association of America during Board chair Joan Trettler said the 101st Airborne Combat the adoption of the policy is a Aviation Brigade’s annual proud moment for the entire ball at the Opryland Hotel in district. Nashville, Tenn. “I think it was an important The medal recognizes step forward,” she said. Bowering’s work documenting The sole vote against came the lives of the men and women from trustee Gerry Martins, of the 101st Airborne Charley who reiterated his position Paul Company 6-101, a MEDEVAC from when the board first voted Krauskopf unit, over three trips to to have staff draft the policy Morinville Mayor Afghanistan since 2010, and it’s in February that gay, lesbian, something that hadn’t quite sunk in a bisexual and transgender students were already protected under existing policies week prior to the ceremony. “It’s a pretty huge honour. I’m not dealing with student conduct and with sure I can fathom the whole thing right discrimination and harassment. now,” he said. Civilians are eligible to receive the KRAUSKOPF PASSES award, although it is rare. Bowering Morinville lost a “good man” when Paul Krauskopf passed away in July, said did some of his own research, too, and he was fairly sure it’s never been the mayor of St. Albert. awarded to a Canadian before, nor to a Krauskopf, a longtime town photojournalist. councillor who had been serving as mayor of Morinville since Lloyd YOUTH CENTRE CLOSES Bertschi stepped down due to work After getting kicked out of its current commitments last fall, passed away space, the St. Albert Youth Community suddenly at the age of 63. Centre decided to close its doors for Among his duties with the Town of Morinville, Krauskopf sat on the Capital good in July. The centre’s board of directors made Region Board alongside St. Albert the decision on Monday, July 15, opting Mayor Nolan Crouse, who said his to shutter both the drop-in centre in passing came a complete surprise.

Grandin Park Plaza — which received an eviction notice last month from mall owners Amacon due to a dispute over a roof repair bill — and the SAYCC Society itself. Board chair Doug Campbell said it was a sad day, but in the end, it was purely business. “At the not-for-profit level, when you’ve got a board of directors, you always want to lead with your heart, but sometimes your head has to take over,” Campbell said. “Part of what we had to decide was to make a business decision relative to our continued operation.” The drop-in centre closed its doors as of July 31. The SAYCC Society continued to operate until Sept. 30.

AHF NAMES NEW HEAD

The Arts and Heritage Foundation of St. Albert plucked their new executive director from within the organization in July. The AHF has removed the “interim” tag from Ann Ramsden, announcing on Wednesday, July 17, that she would be the new full-time executive director effective immediately. Ramsden had been acting executive director following the departure of Paul Moulton at the end of 2012. “Ann is a highly respected museum professional,” said AHF board of trustees chair Brent Luebke, “and the board and I are very confident that she will ensure that Arts and Heritage Foundation of St. Albert remains an integral part of the arts and heritage of her adopted city.” Ramsden began her tenure with the AHF in 2003. Before being named acting executive director, Ramsden was the organization’s director of heritage, overseeing the restoration of the Little White School and the St. Albert grain elevators. She also oversaw operations at the Musée Heritage Museum, which saw a record 28,034 visitors come through the doors in 2012.

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A St. Albert family won their fight to have life-saving treatment for their threeyear-old daughter funded by the Alberta government in August. Laura and Dane Sadownyk, who live in Erin Ridge, had been wrestling to have treatment for their daughter Aleena — who was diagnosed with an extremely rare condition called MPS VI, or MaroteauxLamy Syndrome, earlier this year — funded through the provincial government’s Shortterm Exceptional Drug Therapy Program. The funding decision was

announced via a press release from The Isaac Foundation, a non-profit group based out of Ontario who had helped take up the Sadownyks’ cause. “We are extremely pleased with the recent news of the funding request being accepted,” Dane said in the press release. “The past few weeks have been very difficult for us, but we can now focus on improving Aleena’s well-being and look forward to her having a bright future ahead.”

PRAIRIES TO PENGUINS

Dave Ranson was on his way to seeing some penguins in August. The St. Albertan rolled his motorcycle out of the parking lot at Riverside Motorsports on St. Albert Trail on Saturday, Aug.

24, logging the first few turns of the wheels in his six-month, 30,000-kilometre trek to the southernmost tip of South America, all to raise money for spinal cord injury research, dubbed Prairies to Penguins. “I cannot describe the emotions that are churning inside. I feel like a kid who’s going to Disneyland for the first time,” Dave said only about an hour away from hitting the road. Meanwhile, Dave’s wife Wanitta was just as nervous and excited. “[It’s] the other people on the road” that Wanitta was worried about. “He’s pretty safe, he’s a very cautious driver.”

FAMILIES WELCOMED

The finishing touches were put on Habitat for Humanity’s Aurora Place development in St. Albert in August. On Thursday, Aug. 29, officials handed over the keys to the last 10 families to fill out the 30-unit

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Dave Ranson buckles his helmet to get rolling on his Prairies to Penguins ride in August. development at 70 Arlington Dr., giving those families the chance to achieve their dreams of home ownership. “We’re hard-working, we’re loving, we’re diligent and, most of all, we have a common goal to better ourselves,” said Nathan Duperron, who will be moving into one of the units with his daughters Caeleigh, 13, and Teagan, 11. “We are taking is a massive step forward as a family,” he added.

Longtime councillor Bracko announces he won’t run again 2013 IN REVIEW

SEPTEMBER BRACKO BOWS OUT

After a total of five terms on St. Albert city council, Len Bracko bowed out in September, announcing he would not run again in the municipal election slated for Oct. 21. “This was not an easy decision … but I guess the time comes where I need to re-evaluate,” Bracko said in early September. “I’m not running this year, in this election, but I still want to be involved federally and

provincially on certain issues in Bracko also pointed to his St. Albert.” involvement in the establishment “It’s been a real of Lois Hole Centennial privilege meeting so Provincial Park and the many [people], knowing Grey Nuns White Spruce so many,” he added. “We Forest as highlights of can agree to disagree, his time on council. but not be disagreeable.” “When I look back, Over his time it just blows me away on council, Bracko to see what I’ve been said there are many involved in,” he said. accomplishments he is But the issue Bracko Nolan proud of, but perhaps is most associated with Crouse the one that stands over the past few years is St. Albert Mayor out in his mind is the bringing light rail transit implementation of lifecycle to St. Albert, and he said he has maintenance and replacement mixed feelings over where he is budgeting for equipment and leaving that discussion. infrastructure in St. Albert. “We need to get the functional

alignment study done, and then the residents can decide when they have the facts,” he said.

CRASH KILLS BOY

The family of a six-yearold boy killed in a tragic bus collision in St. Albert in September remembered him as “the happiest little boy in the universe.” The Wedman family lost their six-year-old son, Thomas, on Friday, Sept. 27, when he was struck by a school bus while crossing Woodlands Road near École Marie Poburan, where he attended Grade 2. “He filled our lives with

pure joy every day, and I am devastated that his life has been cut short,” said a letter posted to the Community of St. Albert Facebook page on Saturday and signed by Sheri, Jeff, Ethan and Isaac Wedman. “As a family, we will get over this tragedy and create a new normal, but we will never forget him.” RCMP were called to the intersection of Sir Winston Churchill Avenue and Woodlands Road at around 8:40 a.m. on Sept. 27. The boy was crossing Woodlands Road when he was struck by the bus, which appeared to be making a righthand turn onto that street.

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New look for city council 2013 IN REVIEW

OCTOBER NO DEAL — YET

She may not have struck a deal, but Nora Furber still walked out of the Dragons’ Den feeling like a winner on October. Furber is the owner of Monjeloco Jeans on Perron Street in St. Albert, and she was featured on the season premiere of the CBC show Dragons’ Den on Wednesday, Oct. 2, looking to entice five venture capitalists into investing in her business. After much deliberation, the Dragons couldn’t make a deal at the valuation she had come up with — Furber had asked for $300,000 for 40 per cent of her company, representing a total valuation of $750,000 — but they encouraged her to keep plugging away. “I believe the Dragons want me to get that little more experience, see what I can do with it, and then come back,” she said. “They gave

me that push, that help, so I’m going to take it 100 per cent.” In fact, Furber added, off camera, they encouraged her come back next year once she had a solid year of sales under her belt. “They said, ‘When you have a year in business, when your sales are bigger … when you have that, come back. We’d love to see you again,’” she said, noting that she had only been in business about eight months when she made her pitch.

CROUSE RE-ELECTED

Nolan Crouse was still the first to cross the finish line in October, but the gap between him and his opponent was much closer this time around. Crouse was re-elected to his third term as mayor in the Oct. 21 municipal election, gathering about 55 per cent of the 18,138 votes cast. That’s a smaller margin of victory over challenger Shelley Biermanski than when the two squared off in 2010 and Crouse got 67.8 per cent of

the votes. But Crouse wasn’t reading too much into the numbers. “I think the community still has the confidence and faith that I’m going to be the right person as mayor,” he said during a gathering at the St. Albert Inn and Suites. Meanwhile, Biermanski felt she was closer to winning than many thought she would be. “Last time, I was virtually unknown, and this campaign was a lot stronger campaign,” she said. “I think that, if I would have had a little different strategy, I would have had it.”

NEW-LOOK COUNCIL

The names at the top of the St. Albert city council list stayed the same, but the ones below shuffled quite a bit in October. As they did in 2010, Cathy Heron and Cam MacKay finished first and second in the race for the six seats on city council in the Oct. 21 municipal election. But the rest of the slate didn’t look quite as

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Mayoral incumbent Nolan Crouse (right) watches the results roll in with supporters on election night at the St. Albert Inn and Suites. familiar. One incumbent, Wes Brodhead, kept his seat, finishing fifth in voting. But another, Malcolm Parker, was voted out of office. Three new faces were included on council: Sheena Hughes, Tim Osborne and Gilles Prefontaine. Heron said that topping the list once again and being the only candidate to break the 10,000-vote mark was an endorsement of her work over the past term.

“It means I didn’t screw up. Over the past three years, I must have done something right,” she said. “It’s a nice affirmation of the first three years. I can move forward doing the same thing for the next four years.” Meanwhile, MacKay said he was humbled to be re-elected and happy at the gains he was able to make. “I’m second to Cathy, but I gained 1,500 votes and she stayed the same, so I’m catching up,” he said.

Little dog with big reward finally caught near Entwistle in Nov. 2013 IN REVIEW

NOVEMBER DRAGONS SLAYED

Eric and Michelle Whitehead are used to picking mushrooms, not picking a business partner. But that’s exactly what the St. Albert residents were doing on an episode of CBC’s Dragons’ Den that aired on Wednesday, Nov. 6, when both David Chilton and Arlene Dickinson wanted a piece of their mushroom company, Untamed Feast. “What you didn’t see is that we had all five offering at one point,” Michelle said. “We decided to go in that back room and have a

little chat. … In the end, it wasn’t a difficult decision.” Untamed Feast sells dried mushrooms — hand picked in forests throughout Canada by Eric, Michelle and their crews — and sells them on their own or in recipe kits like porcini risotto, morel coconut rice or wild mushroom soup. The couple did the deal with Dickinson, getting $65,000 for 20 per cent of their company, which will go toward new equipment to help automate the manufacturing process. Michelle said she was the dragon they were targeting all along because of her marketing acumen. “She’s building a pretty big investment portfolio with companies that are akin to

ours — green, sustainable, organic,” she said. “And we heard a lot of great things about her.”

SYDNEY’S HAPPY ENDING

The little dog who could have fetched a big reward was finally caught in November. For almost seven months, volunteers had peppered St. Albert with posters looking for information on the whereabouts of Sydney, a 25-pound black whippet who had just recently been relocated from Mexico, some offering rewards as high as $10,000. On Nov. 21, though, Sydney was finally snagged near Entwistle, Alta., almost 100 kilometres west of where she was last seen in the Forest Lawn subdivision. “We have no idea how long she’d been out there, but it had been a few months at

least,” said Lisa Hoff, one of the team of volunteers that searched tirelessly for Sydney throughout her ordeal. “We’re not sure how she got out there, but we’re thinking she made her way herself. She’s a whippet, so she probably would have run while it was still warm out. … The fact this dog survived is a miracle.” Sydney’s saga began back in April, when Sydney was brought to St. Albert from the SPCA shelter in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. “She was in her home in St. Albert for all of 16 hours,” Hoff said. Sydney eventually encountered a man near Entwistle and befriended his border collie, and they lured Sydney into a garage to get her to safety before the winter really set in.

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Tax hike in at 1.87% 2013 IN REVIEW

DECEMBER BUDGET PASSES

After three weeks of deliberation, city council officially rubber-stamped the City of St. Albert’s 2014 budget in December, but not without some trepidation over the revenues included. Councillors voted unanimously to approve the municipal and utility operating and capital budgets Monday, with the municipal operating budget resulting in a residential property tax increase of 1.87 per cent. “We each had a shot at it. We might not like bits and pieces of it — there are areas I don’t like — but we had opportunities to put forward motions if we didn’t like something. … It’s a big package, it’s a lot of work, and going forward, we’ve got some work to do,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said, also praising the City staff who worked long hours to put budget documents together. However, despite their votes in favour, some councillors had concerns that the amount of revenue the City was collecting was not being accurately reflected in the tax rate. “I’m going to vote in favour, but with great trepidation, because I really feel this revenue should be accurately disclosed and municipal property taxes should have gone down as a result,” Coun. Sheena Hughes said. “Because this is my first time out, I’m going to trust that, when the taxes come in in January, we’re going to make the correct changes to reflect this.”

SHINING STAR

Katie Fitzgerald’s star was shining bright in December. The Grade 11 student at Paul Kane High School was one of six outstanding volunteers from across the province recognized by the Alberta government during the 2013 Stars of Alberta awards ceremony, held at the Chateau Lacombe hotel in downtown Edmonton on Thursday, Dec. 5, which was also International Volunteer Day. “It’s such an honour,” said Fitzgerald, 16. “And to be grouped with these amazing people is so cool. It’s so awesome to get this award, to be recognized.” Fitzgerald has been instrumental in establishing the St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre’s SOARing program for youth volunteers, and has been involved in initiatives through the BAM (Building Assets and Memories) youth group in St. Albert, Me to We, Free the Children Canada, the Second Chance Animal Rescue Society, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and Special Olympics, among others.

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The foam finger. The sledgehammer. The tongue that seemed incapable of staying inside its mouth. For better or for worse — and it’s genuinely hard to pick one over the other — Miley Cyrus tore through 2013 like a wrecking ball. Does that make her the top entertainer of this year? It depends how you define top. She wasn’t the biggest moneymaker (although she certainly brought home dumptrucks of cash), nor was her artistic contribution to entertainment particularly valuable (even if she’s actually very good at what she does.) Yet she was certainly impossible to avoid or ignore. The former Disney tween queen and the small empire of people that manage her — or fail to rein her in — couldn’t have asked for more exposure. From calling off her engagement to Hunger Games hunk Liam Hemsworth to shearing off her hair and dying it blonde to her much-parodied “Wrecking Ball” video, in which she swings naked from the song’s titular instrument of demolition and orally assaults a sledgehammer, you had to be blind and deaf not to have Miley Cyrus infiltrate your world. But it was her jaw-dropping performance on the MTV Video Music Awards in August that cemented this as the year of Miley. That outfit. That foam finger. And if you didn’t know what twerking was before this year, you do now. The image of Miley’s barely-clad butt grinding Robin Thicke’s crotch is not easily deleted from one’s memory. Sinead O’Connor expressed concern over the music business prostituting Miley. Canada’s own Tegan and Sara called her the Madonna of this generation, “a hugely talented pop star with agency over her body and sexuality, which terrifies people.” Fans worship her, parents don’t know what to make of her. She is either the harbinger of the apocalypse, or the face of individuality and empowerment

in music, like a trailer park Lady Gaga that you might actually want to pound a few beers with. So while the other nine people listed here all helped make 2013 an unforgettable year in entertainment, no one caused a ruckus quite like Miley Cyrus. Hats off, and tongues out.

2. JENNIFER LAwRENcE The odds seem to be ever in JLaw’s favour. Coming off her 2012 Oscar win for Silver Linings Playbook, she spent this year hungrily gaming in the critical juggernaut Catching Fire, and is about to be seen in David O. Russell’s much-anticipated American Hustle. The fact she’s deliciously funny and shockingly humble in real life is just the icing on the cake.

sounded iffy on paper, but ended up being the second highest-grossing comedy of the year. And then came Gravity, and our minds, hearts and eyeballs collectively exploded.

4. BRYAN cRANSToN We followed Breaking Bad’s Walter White on his five-season journey into the heart of darkness, culminating with this year’s wrenching series finale. But we wouldn’t have gone along for the ride if it wasn’t for Cranston’s portrayal of a chemistry teacher turned meth kingpin. We loved him. We hated him. We miss him.

3. SANdRA BuLLock After navigating a couple years of personal trauma, Bullock’s career has never been hotter. Her buddy cop comedy The Heat

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5. RoB FoRd While the citizens of Toronto have long since stopped finding the antics of their crack-smoking mayor entertaining, Rob Ford was unquestionably a goldmine for late night comedians and their audiences. And the stuff just writes itself — Ford’s so-called serious interviews with American journalists have been funnier than that lame Saturday Night Live skit. 6. dAN ANd SAM HouSER You may not have heard of the London-born, Brooklyn-based brothers and cofounders of video game company Rockstar Games, but you’ve almost certainly heard of Grand Theft Auto. This year’s Grand Theft Auto V, the latest installment in the 15-year-old franchise, raked in $1 billion in its first three days of release, making

it the fastest-selling entertainment product in history.

7. MATTHEw MccoNAugHEY He may have the face that launched a thousand romantic comedies, but shirtphobic bongo enthusiast McConaughey exercised his acting chops as much as his abs this year, with dramatic turns in Mud, Dallas Buyers Club and American Hustle, at least one of which is likely to net him an Oscar nomination. This probably means there won’t be a How to Lose a Guy in 11 Days, but we’ll just have to live without it. 8. PHARRELL wILLIAMS If you found yourself bobbing your head along to a song on the radio this year, Pharrell Williams was probably to blame. The jack-ofall-musical-trades collaborated with Robin Thicke on “Blurred Lines” and Daft Punk on “Get Lucky,” wrote three songs for the Despicable Me 2 soundtrack and is nominated for seven Grammys this year, potentially to add to the three he already has. Hey hey hey! 9. BENEdIcT cuMBERBATcH A year or so ago, Benedict Cumberbatch was “that guy in that Sherlock Holmes show, except they’re in modern times, but not the Jonny Lee Miller one.” This year, he faced down Capt. Kirk in Star Trek Into Darkness, Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and the U.S. government in The Fifth Estate, not to mention his roles in 12 Years a Slave and August: Osage County. The man’s career is currently travelling at Warp 9. 10. RoBERT dowNEY JR. Iron Man 3 didn’t make $1.2 billion at the box office because people like looking at crimson-and-gold CGI superheroes. Downey is the face and heart of that franchise — and, arguably, of The Avengers as well — and thus has earned his place as the highest-paid actor in Hollywood.

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Delta to honour deep discount fares from website glitch SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – A website glitch on Boxing Day morning caused some Delta Airlines fares to be offered at deep discounts to normal prices, including a reported round trip between New York and Los Angeles for $40. Delta on Thursday afternoon said the problem had been fixed, while saying it would honour tickets bought at the low fares. “For a portion of the morning today, some prices on delta.com and other booking channels were incorrectly displayed, resulting in lower-than-usual fares for customers. The situation has been resolved and the correct prices are being displayed,” said Delta spokesperson Trebor Banstetter. The company did not specify the cause of the glitch. Airfarewatchdogs.com, a travel and fare lookout website, said fares went as low as $40 for a round trip between New York and Los Angeles, and $200 for a

first-class roundtrip ticket between Los Angeles and Hawaii. Economy rates for roundtrip travel between New York and Los Angeles on Delta typically cost around $400 or more. A first-class roundtrip ticket from Los Angeles to Hawaii for the second week of January currently costs more than $3,500 on the Delta website. “Airlines employ analysts whose job is to constantly monitor competition and keep tweaking rates. It is possible that one of them entered a wrong number,” said George Hobica, founder of airfarewatchdogs.com. Hobica said most of the software airlines use for adjusting rates do not have safety catches that cross check on a value entered, which makes it easier to make mistakes, especially during busy travel seasons. In September, United Airlines had a similar problem, with its website selling tickets for as low as $5.

Brick backs off Boxing Week website discounts SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – An error on The Brick’s website has left customers fuming because the furniture store wants them to pay back the huge Boxing Week discounts they received. Customers who bought The Brick items online the evening of Dec. 24 and the morning of Dec. 25 and received an extra 50 per cent discount on their purchases at checkout are now being told it was a technical error and the Brick wants more money. In a statement on its Facebook page the store writes, “The advertised price in the flyer and on the product pages was correct when these customers added the item to their shopping cart and did not reflect this additional discount until the shopping cart was checked out. The Brick apologizes for the confusion and is currently working to contact all affected customers to advise of correct pricing.” The store also said it will offer customers 10 per cent of their affected online purchase as credit toward their next purchase. If the comments on its Facebook page are any indication, The Brick can expect plenty of complaints. “Congrats on finding an original way to lose clients,” wrote David Chabot. “You should have bit the bullet and sent out a memo saying you made a mistake but merry Christmas. You should fire everyone in your marketing department.” Many other shoppers posted comments expressing disappointment and anger, calling the store “a total joke” and telling it to “honour the incorrect pricing.” Some wrote they plan to just cancel their order, and

one woman said she “will probably never buy from The Brick again.” Some customers supported the store and suggested others stop being “greedy” and just give the store what it’s owed. The company’s terms and conditions expressly state that all orders are subject to, among other things, “errors that may be made on pricing such as the one that was readily apparent to those customers,” Greg Nakonechny, VP of legal for The Brick, told QMI Agency. The Brick reserves the right to “correct any error, inaccuracy or omission at any time without prior notice or liability to you or any other person” and “reject, correct, cancel or terminate any order, including accepted orders for any reason,” read the terms available on the website. “We’re doing exactly what the customer wanted us to do, and that’s honouring the purchase price that they selected to purchase that item for,” he said. Nakonechny would not provide an estimate of how many customers were affected but said the company would contact every one of them and offer them the choice to pay “the price they saw advertised” and receive the 10 per cent discount on their next purchase or cancel their order altogether. Real Coallier, who works for Quebec’s office of consumer protection, said such online transactions can’t be modified after the fact and said customers should file complaints if The Brick asks them for money.

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Be one of the 8% in ’14 BRITTANY KUSTRA Special to the Leader

The explosion of fireworks at midnight on Dec. 31 each year brings with it a widespread sense of renewal. As 2013 went by and the busy holiday season took over, you may have forgotten or started ignoring the resolutions you made with such good intentions barely 12 months ago. The good news is that you aren’t alone. According to a study published in the University of Scranton’s Journal of Clinical Psychology, almost half of us usually make a New Year’s resolution, but a meager eight per cent of us achieve that resolution. Our top goals are to lose weight, get organized and save more money. But because so few of us achieve our goals year after year, it’s no surprise that the self-help industry is so profitable. From books and tapes to coaches and workshops, both individuals and businesses take advantage of goal setting, especially around the new year. Experts estimate that the self-help industry is worth around $11 billion dollars. But do you really need a celebrity guru to lead you on a quest for success? For 2014, we’ll be setting both personal and professional goals, and to beat the odds,

we’ve found a few ways to increase our chances of reaching them: • Consider your goal on a smaller level. Perhaps you’re aiming to lose 10 pounds over the year — how can this broad goal inf luence your daily decision making? Daily decisions will lead to longterm habits. • Having goals can focus your resources. If 2014 will be the year to expand your business, ensure that your dollars and your man hours are being put towards that growth. •Create a team. Having a buddy will keep you accountable to put down that cigarette, and developing a vision for 2014 with your colleagues will provide you encouragement and a sounding board • Celebrate small wins! If you’re keen to get organized in 2014, congratulate yourself after tackling that first overwhelming filing cabinet. • And lastly, feel good about yourself! Setbacks can be frustrating, but think about how you want to feel when you accomplish your goal, and remember that you’re well on your way. Brittany Kustra is the Communications Coordinator for the Northern Alberta Business Incubator Society.

City of Edmonton chief economist John Rose is expecting another year of high job growth in 2014.

Edmonton economy coming up roses in 2014 — expert

Rose said the average salary in the city is between $50,000 and $60,000 annually. An attractive economy will no doubt attract Everything is coming up roses in Edmonton, says newcomers to the city, which could potentially cause the city’s chief economist. a shortage of rental units, and drive prices up. In a year-end interview last week, John Rose said He also expects the city’s economy to experience the city had another stellar year on the job front. a growth of just under four per cent in Edmonton in Employment growth should come in the three 2014. per cent range for this past year, significantly higher The national growth is expected to sit somewhere than the national average, he said. around 2.3 per cent for next year. Over the past year, one of every But if there is anything to take 10 jobs created in Canada has been away from this rosy picture, the created in the metro Edmonton city’s top economist says it’s to region. enjoy it. We created jobs at a rate on par Don’t pay attention to what’s with a region more than twice the going on in other parts of the John Rose size, and it’s done wonders for the country — things are good in Economist city’s economic outlook, Rose said. Edmonton, Rose said. “We’ve had a great couple of “People need to be cognizant of years in Edmonton in terms of employment growth. the fact that we’re not Vancouver or Toronto. Don’t Next year won’t be as strong as 2013, which was a pay attention to the national news, pay attention to complete surprise,” he said. what’s going on locally, because all in all, we’re in a “(But) there is such momentum now that we can good place,” he said. be very confident growth will continue in 2014.” “So if they want to buy a house or car, proceed Not only are people finding jobs, he says, but because Edmonton is expected to have a very good they’re making more money too. 2014.”

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