St. Albert Leader June 19, 2014

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That’s how many athletes — including Mikkelson and Spooner — that Canada sent to Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, the largest Canadian contingent in the Winter Olympics’ history. Those athletes won a total of 25 medals, making it the most successful Winter Games ever for Canada on foreign soil.

in skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Jk% 8cY\ik C\X[\i The casting call was first put Meaghan Mikkelson has two Olympic gold medals, out around November. While but now she’s going after a new title: The Amazing Mikkelson was interested, she Race Canada champion. didn’t think any of her teammates Mikkelson announced via her Twitter account on would be, so she was surprised Tuesday morning that she and Olympic teammate when Spooner approached her Natalie Spooner are one of the first three teams to about teaming up. be unveiled for the second season of the reality “She’s definitely one of my best show, which premieres July 8 on CTV. friends on the team,” Mikkelson “It was such a high being at the said, describing herself as a Games (in Sochi), and when you “perfectionist” while Spooner is a come home, there’s a bit of a lull, bit more spontaneous. “We had a a bit of a drop from that high,” good relationship going into this, Mikkelson told the Leader but coming out of it, we’re closer Tuesday afternoon. “I knew than we’ve ever been before.” that from Vancouver in While the roadblocks and 2010. So coming home detours along the way are and having another challenging, Mikkelson’s challenges challenge waiting for are compounded by the fact that me when I got home the hand she broke in Sochi, Russia, was something that during the Winter Olympics this I was excited about. year had not healed quite right It was a great transition when filming for The Amazing Race away from the Olympics.” Canada began. The Amazing Race Canada is a “It was a bit of a challenge for us, homegrown spin on the highly successful but I played in the gold-medal game The Amazing with a broken hand,” Race series that she said. sees teams race Still, she’s anxious to destinations to see how the race across the plays out on TV and country, with seeing her family and the last team friends react to the to arrive at experience for the first each week’s time. pit stop risking “It’s tough to keep elimination. The it quiet because there team that reaches are things I do every the finish line first single day that remind D\X^_Xe D`bb\cjfe will win the grand me of what we had 8dXq`e^ IXZ\ Zfdg\k`kfi prize of $250,000 to do,” she said. “I’ll cash, gas for life from be doing something Petro-Canada, the chance to fly free for a year and I’ll just bust out laughing. My anywhere Air Canada flies across the world, and husband will say to me, ‘What’s so two Chevrolet pickup trucks. There are also other funny?’ And I’ll just say, ‘You have prizes to be won at different pit stops along the way. to wait until the show airs.’” The Amazing Race Canada is hosted by Jon The show will air on Tuesdays Montgomery, himself an Olympic gold medallist this summer at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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St. Albert’s mayor took a little time during a recent trip to brush up on ideas to make our city safer. During a recent trip to Niagara Falls, Ont., for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ annual conference, St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse took a side trip to Caledon, Ont., the municipality that topped Maclean’s magazine’s ranking of Canada’s safest cities from 2008 to 2012, while St. Albert tumbled out of the top 10 during the same period. While Caledon has a significantly larger rural component among its population of nearly 60,000 than St. Albert does, Crouse said, overall, there were still a lot of things he could take away from the visit. “Everything about what they do seemed to be about strong community involvement. ... I came away with this ‘wow’ feeling. There are so many things that they do that were true community involvement in community safety over and above what we’ve been doing,” he said. In fact, one of the things that

made the biggest impression on Crouse was the Police Advisory Council of Caledon (PACC), which he said similar in nature to St. Albert’s RCMP Community Advisory Committee (CAC), but is much more powerful and encourages its volunteer members to attend conferences, even footing the bill sometimes. “It was the committee structure. The leads of all those organizations all come together as one — they’re a committee of committees. That made we go ‘wow,’” he said. “Our CAC is more ad hoc, and not as much a committee of societies.” He likened the PACC’s structure to the City of St. Albert’s Strategy and Mobilization Committee, which sees representatives from various organizations come together to talk about social needs. As well, Crouse noted that Caledon has a strong police liaison program in its schools — believed to be one of the strongest in Ontario — a police station in their local recreation complex and a squad of 10 Road Watch volunteers, who watch for traffic violations at intersections

and forward their list to local police, who send out warning letters. The focus on public safety began in Caledon after a car crash involving a drunk driver killed eight young adults on Mother’s Day, 1993. Meanwhile, during his visit, Crouse also saw that St. Albert was already doing a few things that Caledon was doing, which reassured him that our city is heading down the right path. One of those things was Citizens’ Patrol, which has been strong in St. Albert for many years. “It’s kind of a mirror of what we do, with the exception that they have a councillor on each of their (crime prevention committees). If you’re on council ... you’ve got to go out on Neighbourhood Watch or Citizens’ Patrol. That’s part of being a councillor,” Crouse said. While Crouse has plenty of new ideas in his pocket now, he said it might take some time to put them into practice. “It’ll take a little while to move through this, but it’s a job I have ahead of me. It’s on my to-do list now.”

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City council reviewed the indevelopment Urban Forest Management Policy, which affects the maintenance and care of all trees and shrubs located within the city’s boulevards, parks, trails, civic properties, and other natural areas.

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Staff will incorporate all proposed changes to the policy. Council has also requested that the Environmental Advisory Committee review the policy. All changes and recommendations will be reviewed by city council again by the end of the fourth quarter of 2014.

Staff will incorporate all proposed changes to the policy discussed during the meeting and have city council review the policy again at the Aug. 25 council meeting.

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The new contract will be awarded to the collection services under the same schedule of collecting organics weekly in the summer months and bi-weekly in the winter months and collecting blue bags weekly throughout the year.

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In 2013, work began on one of the three drainage creeks that carry stormwater from Heritage Lakes into the Heritage Pond, including removal of sedimentation and debris, and replacement of rocks and landscaping. Now, the other two drainage creeks need the same restoration.

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The organizer of a local 3-on-3 basketball tournament is hoping it will be another slam dunk this year. The second annual J.R. Patrick Classic 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament will be held Aug. 9 and 10 in the south parking lot at Servus Credit Union Place, and its namesake organizer is hoping to keep the momentum the event gathered in its first year going. “The (tournament) I used to run before, our first year, we had only 18 teams. And last year (in St. Albert), we almost doubled that and had 33 teams, so I was really happy,” said J.R. Patrick, a former captain of the Edmonton Energy who has played professional basketball in places like China, France, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. “This year, I’m looking to improve on that and get another 15 to 20 teams, and just keep going every single year.” Like last year, the tournament will feature divisions for boys and

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I moved it up, and we should get a lot more teams out this year just because of that alone,” he said. Still, he expects the high level of competition to carry forward despite the scheduling change. “It was a great turnout last year as far as the amount of quality players,” Patrick said. “We had teams from Fort McMurray, a team from Vancouver. I’m looking forward to having a few more out-

of-province teams and growing this thing as big as possible.” A portion of the proceeds from the tournament will go to the Boys and Girls Clubs and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton, a cause that’s very dear to Patrick’s heart. “A lot of friends I had growing up came from single-parent families, and it’s a place they can actually go to after school. It’s a different outlet as far as being able to do something constructive and something positive for their community, for themselves,” he said. Although the Capital Region is a hockey hotbed in the winter and leans toward baseball in the summertime, Patrick said that, with Canadians having more success in the U.S. college and pro ranks, he is seeing basketball carve out its own little niche in the area, and he’s very encouraged by that. “Kids are getting better. With the players they’re watching on TV, in college and in the NBA ... they’re working on their game, and there’s a strong passion for basketball in Edmonton now that I haven’t seen

since I was a kid,” he said. “I’m really happy for the way things are looking for the future.” For more information on the tournament and how to register your team, visit http://www. jrpatrickybc.com/j-r-patrickclassic.

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Officials with St. Albert’s new Dig In! festival are cooking up something special. The festival, which will be held at the Enjoy Centre on Oct. 10 and 11, held its official media launch on Monday, showcasing the chefs and the workshops that will be part of its inaugural edition. “It’s all about growing and eating,� said Dawn Fedorvich, an economic development officer with the City of St. Albert. “We’ve planned a weekend of culinary adventure that’s going to empower people to both eat local and grow local themselves.� It’s an event that fits perfectly into St. Albert’s botanical arts brand, said Mayor Nolan Crouse. “This kind of event this fall is linking all of what you do into the St. Albert brand, and at the end of the day, over a period of 10 or 20 years, we’re hoping to keep that brand of culinary arts, literary arts and botanical arts, and have this brand of a green and cultivated community in all kinds of arts,� he said. The festival is being co-ordinated by the City’s economic development department along with the Alberta Culinary Tourism Alliance (ACTA). “We all need to eat, but the next thing is, some of us really love to eat,� said ACTA executive director Tannis Baker. “This is about taking that experience beyond the consumption to actually appreciating it.� The first event on the festival’s agenda is a gala dinner on Friday, Oct. 10, where nine chefs from across Alberta will come together to collaborate on dishes that feature ingredients grown and raised in the province. Guests will also have a hand in their dishes, with interactive elements — like picking your own salad herbs — planned. Many of the chefs taking part in the

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gala are well-known in culinary circles, including Karine Moulin from Hotel Arts in Calgary, who recently competed on Top Chef Canada. “We have to support our local farmers and producers. We try to do that our clients, and it has been awesome,� Moulin said. Edmonton Petroleum Club chef Doreen Prei, who was recently featured on an episode of Chopped Canada on the Food Network, is also taking part in the gala. She said that, while it’s important for people to buy local, it’s also important to show people what they can do with local products once they get them in the door. “Then they get passionate about what they can do at home. We’re not creating a haute cuisine event; we’re making it nice and easy, things you can make in your home and be very inspired,� Prei said. The following day, there will be free presentations on the main stage in the Enjoy Centre’s Moonflower Room, as well as preregistered sessions taking place at the Enjoy Centre, Bellerose Composite High School and other locations that will deal with topics like container gardening, extending your growing season, baking, jam making and wine tasting. Registration for these sessions is $20 each or three for $50. There will also be a series of retroinspired events, like competitions for the best pickles and pies, as well as a hot pepper-eating contest. Enjoy Centre co-owner Jim Hole has taken charge of growing the peppers for the contest, including the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper, currently recognized as the second-hottest variety in the world. “It’ll require some very brave people to take on this enormously hot, mouthburning pepper,� Hole said. For more information, for tickets to the gala dinner or to register for the Saturday sessions, visit the festival website at www. diginstalbert.ca.

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Students and staff at Leo Nickerson Elementary School are getting set to celebrate a big milestone. On Tuesday, current and former staff and students will be at the school to mark its 50th anniversary with a special assembly and the unveiling of a new outdoor mural. “It’s very exciting for the staff in particular right now; lots of us have been here for quite a long time,” said Andrea Daly, who teaches art and language arts at the school. “I’ve been here since 1998, and our vice-principal has been here since ’98, so there’s quite a number of us that have been here for 15 years and have been part of the school culture for a really long time. And as we get closer to the date, the staff and students are getting more and more excited about it.” Daly said that almost half the school’s staff have been involved in the planning of Tuesday’s festivities, whether that’s tracking down former staff or putting together a time capsule, which has

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drowning in Lake Wabamun in 1961 — will be at Tuesday’s assembly. The mural will take up most of an exterior wall of the school facing Cunningham Drive, near the bus lane where students are picked up and dropped off every day.

It was created by students with the help of artist Stan Phelps during his residency at the school earlier this year. “A lot of the students were invited down a few at a time to come and participate and add elements to the mural,” Daly said. “We have not seen the completed,

assembled mural yet — even myself, I haven’t seen it yet. But we’re all excited to see what it’s going to look like.” Phelps also worked with students to create graphic novels and comic strips, which were published as eBooks. With so many young kids attending the school, Daly said 50 years is a period of time some of them can’t quite grasp, but with the anniversary events ramping up, they’re beginning to understand how big a deal it is. “Fifty years is a really long time in their minds; sometimes a year is hard to grasp for the little guys,” she said. But, when she looks ahead to the next 50 years, Daly hopes to see Leo Nickerson continue to grow but still stay the close-knit community she has come to know and love. “I just really hope, in the next 50 years, that our students and staff continue to build upon the amazing family culture we have here. ... It’s such a positive place to be, such a happy place to be,” she said.

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With another season of the Cash Mob St. Albert under her belt, Heidi Fedoruk is confident she’s making a difference. The cash mob wrapped up its second year on Thursday, June 12, as a crowd of 92 people descended on D’Arcy’s Meats in Campbell Business Park following a barbecue to raise money for the nearby LoSeCa Foundation. Fedoruk said that, between the cash mob and social media, the awareness of the importance of shopping local is growing by leaps and bounds. “For the people that show up at the mobs, they’re often surprised by the statistics I give about shopping locally, and it does stimulate that conversation,” she said. “How much overflow does that bring in? I hope it’s lots. I hope people are thinking about

it before they go shopping, and not just thinking about it once a month when it’s a social outing.” During a cash mob, shoppers meet up and converge on a local business, with each committed to spending $20 there. Since starting up in September 2012, the mob has hit 17 local businesses, with another 17 getting exposure as the meeting points for participants. Each event has averaged 69 participants, and businesses are averaging $2,200 in sales over the hour those participants are there. “We are just under $60,000 that the Cash Mob has contributed to the local economy,” Fedoruk added. “It makes me very grateful. People say, ‘How long are you going to do it for?’ And I say, ‘As long as people keep showing up.’” That day is likely a long way off, as the cash mob has built up quite a following of regular

participants. “We really have a lot of regulars for whom this is something they look forward to; they bring a friend and enjoy it. I’ve gotten to know everybody by name,” Fedoruk said. Of course, they always welcome new mobbers, and this month had their youngest-ever mobber at just 15 days old. After taking the summer off, Fedoruk said she’ll be raring to go once again in September with lots of new ideas and new businesses to hit. “There are still lots of businesses we haven’t done, and there are businesses we can go back to because they always have new products and we have new mobbers every month,” she said. “I’m going to keep doing it as long as people keep showing up.”

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The third Thursday of every month, it’s easy to find Gidget Dusza — just look for the crowd at a local business. After two years and 17 events, Dusza is the only person among those participating in the Cash Mob St. Albert with perfect attendance, a string that has stretched from Modern Eyes Gallery and Gift to Mission Fun and Games to the Enjoy Centre and all points in between. “I’ve lived in St. Albert for close to 40 years, and out of all those cash mobs, there were three or four stores that I’d never been in,” she said. “It takes you out of your comfort zone and makes you go into a store

you normally wouldn’t think of going into.” Cash mobs are designed to support local businesses. Participants gather in one spot, then make their way to a local business, committing to spend at least $20 each there. Shopping local is something Dusza holds very dear to her heart. “It’s very important to shop local, because if we don’t, businesses won’t survive. Especially the small businesses — not the big box stores so much, but the small

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First Nations culture and dance will once again be in the spotlight as St. Albert officially rings in summer for another year. This year’s summer solstice falls on Saturday, and a day later, National Aboriginal Day festivities will take over Lions Park, with First Nations, MĂŠtis and Inuit cultures all represented. Celebrating aboriginal culture is “absolutely a mustâ€? in St. Albert, said Libby Szarka, president of the St. Albert National Aboriginal Day

organizing committee. “It’s a great way to improve the relationship between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people, and an opportunity to learn their culture,â€? Szarka said. Plus, she added, even though St. Albert’s history is more closely associated with Catholic missionaries who traveled west from what is now Quebec, it is very much intertwined with aboriginal people as well, especially the MĂŠtis. “That’s a part of Aboriginal Day, highlighting the Inuit, MĂŠtis and First Nations,â€? she said. The festivities got a bit of a kickstart this past Saturday as elders and dancers from

Poundmaker Lodge helped officially open the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce’s outdoor farmers’ market downtown, leading a procession of dignitaries to the ribbon cutting ceremony in front of St. Albert Place. Entertainment will be provided by singer Tim Harwill, the band Cross Country, musicians Alfie and Byron Myhre, Inuit throat singers and the MÊtis Child and Family Jiggers, among many others. Last year’s festivities were very well-attended, Szarka said, with almost 1,000 people coming out. This is the sixth year that celebrations have taken place in St. Albert.

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vendors. In total, the festival hosts 49 different restaurants and food trucks but there is already a waiting list building up for next year. “We’re maxed out,� said Lucas. This year’s festival will feature several new attractions including a foodie field trip, which will take people to different locations in and around the city, including a walking tour to the Yellowhead Brewery, a River Valley tour and medicinal tea making sessions, as well as a tour of the Barr Estates Winery. Several musical acts including Tupelo Honey, Christian Hansen and the Former Ladies of the Supremes will grace the RE/ MAX stage every night from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. Tickets are available at Tix on the Square and on the Taste of Edmonton website tasteofedm.ca. And an advance sale — 40 tickets for $40 — is running until July 16, after that the prices revert back to normal prices, 40 tickets for $50. Taste of Edmonton runs July 17 to 26.

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forget,” says the actress. “It’s a story I’ll tell my grandchildren someday.” Like many a production on the road, the company of Newsies had forged into a close, familial unit. Disney decided that if it ain’t broke, they wouldn’t fix it, and transferred most of the cast to Broadway. “I got to share that night with half the cast and so we all made our debuts together,” says the winsome Ms. Lindsay. The actress comes to Edmonton scattering a comet’s tail of great reviews across the country. (Burbled one Vancouver reviewer, “She has a lovely voice combined with sublime comic gifts.”) She finds that being on the road is what keeps the production fresh. “They keep bringing in new people from New York or Los Angeles. It brings a new energy each time. Also audiences react differently everywhere we play. On Broadway it’s the same show every night because nothing changes. On the road, the new audiences demand a kind of constant renewal.” Wicked opened to bad notices from most of Gotham’s heavy-hitting critics (“Overproduced,” “Confusingly Dark,” “Does not speak hopefully for the future of the Broadway musical”) in 2003. But audiences knew better and it has become

one of the most beloved and successful shows ever. For nine straight years on Broadway, it was the top grossing musical. Still playing, it has conquered the world, making some $3 billion to date. Wicked is a revisionist take on what happens before the familiar 1930 Judy Garland movie. Glinda (Lindsay) is ditzy, self-oriented and very blonde. Her roommate and favourite hate object is Elphaba (Laurel Harris) who has emerald bright green skin, is lost and hurting and is destined to become the Wicked Witch. The two reluctantly strike up an unlikely friendship that endures and becomes the beating heart of the show. According to those who have seen this particular road show, Lindsay and Harris generate a remarkable stage chemistry. Glinda is a tough role because she comes on as your essentially dumb blonde. But as the show progresses she shows that she is a lot more. “She’s very young,” offers Lindsay. “She may bubble but she’s not bubble-headed. There are a lot of layers there and she grows into them during the show.” She tries to teach Elphaba how to be a seductive young woman (in the hit song “Popular”) but learns more from her friend than she knows. The Glinda who descends

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