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The City of St. Albert has snagged a new company to take over its photo traffic enforcement services. Starting July 2, the City will partner with Global Traffic Group Ltd. for a five-year contract, switching from Xerox Business Services Canada, which has been providing photo enforcement services in St. Albert since 2001. Aaron Giesbrecht, manager of policing services for the City, said the decision was made following a tender for bids and a comprehensive evaluation process

of each company that put their name in. “We based that off price and their ability to work with the City, the qualifications of the company,” Giesbrecht said. “When we looked at all those factors, Global was the one that came out on top.” The contract includes the operation of three photo radar vehicles that operate at various locations throughout the city, as well as fixed red light and speed-on-green cameras at three intersections along St. Albert Trail: at Boudreau Road/Giroux Road; at Hebert Road/Gervaid Road; and at Bellerose Drive/McKenney Avenue. “It is paramount that St. Albert

continues to be one of the safest communities in Canada,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said in a press release. “Photo enforcement is an integral part of our traffic safety program and has been proven to change driver behaviour. It is vital that we as a City do everything we can to ensure our residents’ safety.” “We are excited that we are the company of choice for St. Albert,” added Global Traffic Group CEO David Steer in the same release. “Like the other communities we serve, we are looking forward to working with the City and the RCMP doing our part in keeping St. Albert’s roadways safe.” While the contract maintains the

number of hours of enforcement as previously, Giesbrecht said it allows for the addition of more cameras and new technologies over its fiveyear term. “It’s not as if this contract is written in stone. We can look at other things as well, and that’s something we may be doing in the future,” he said. Currently, the photo radar vehicles used in the city are property of Xerox Business Services Canada, and the operators are subcontractors. When the new contract comes into effect, new vehicles owned by Global Traffic Group will be used and operators will be employees of that company.

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Science fiction and fantasy names were all the rage with expectant Alberta parents last year. In a record-breaking year, the province welcomed 25,789 newborn girls and 27,301 newborn boys in 2013. Olivia edged out Emma for the top girl’s name while Liam remained the No. 1 choice for boys. HBO TV show Game of Thrones, based on a fantasy book series by George R.R. Martin, had a huge influence on parents who named their daughters Arya, Daenarys and Brienne, and their sons Tyrion, Theon and Robb. Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and The Hunger Games also proved to be trendy as some children were named Hermione, Draco, Thorin, Arwen, Peeta, Primrose, and Rue. There was a boy named Aslan for the lion in C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, as well as

a baby named Inara from Joss Whedon’s celebrated TV show Firefly. Service Alberta Minister Doug Griffiths said the excitement around the release of the annual provincial baby names list is “impressive,� noting the unique spelling of girl’s name Eunique. “There are a couple that stood out in my mind, boy’s names like Whiskeyjack and Heavendip and Goodluck. Girl’s names as well, like Violetrose,� said Griffiths, adding names Urban and Sir for boys and Lava and Siri for girls also stand out. “I thought Siri was just an iPhone app but it’s become quite common,� he said. Charlotte and Avery were two new additions to the top 10 most popular girl’s names, while William saw a resurgence in popularity for boys. Otherwise, the top 10 lists for both genders remained roughly the same as 2012’s lists with Liam, Lucas, Ethan, Noah and Logan the top five boy’s names and Olivia, Emma, Emily, Sophia and Ava the top five girl’s names.

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candidate in the race: former transportation and infrastructure minister Ric McIver. Former municipal affairs and energy minister Ken Hughes dropped out earlier in the week. While Horner expects a hard-fought race, he is keeping in perspective the fact that, after the dust settles, they’re all still members of the PC party. “One of the candidates described it as a full-contact football game with you and your brothers in the backyard,” he said. “At the end of the day, you’re still relatives. Someone’s going to win, but that doesn’t mean you can’t go have a great banquet at the end of the football game.” There was quite a bit of support for Horner to throw his hat back in the ring, he added, but he felt family was more important. “I’m quite humbled by the amount of support that came forward — the amount of financial support that was committed, the team and the people,” he said. “Across the province, it was substantially more than we had in the last leadership race, before we even got started. I’m very humbled by that and appreciate the support. But the right decision for me is to stand down and support the candidate I think will do the job as we move forward.” He added that there wasn’t necessarily anything from the 2011 leadership that turned him off from running a second time. “It was a gruelling year-long campaign, and I think people know where I stand in terms of the party’s values,” he said. “I think the next leader of our party needs to make decisions through that lens of the party’s principles and our values.”

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club development. Courage Canada executive director Matt Morrow, who was hosting the seminars with vice-president Gary Steeves, hoped to re-introduce blind hockey to Albertans. “The sport of blind hockey has been around since the ’70s,” said Morrow. “It’s been played in various cities throughout the country, with the two oldest continual programs (in) Toronto and Montreal.” There are several rule differences from NHL-style hockey, Morrow said. But from his perspective, this does not affect the quality of the game. “One major difference is the puck,” Morrow said. “It is slow and it makes

noise. So that way it is accessible to everyone in the game.” Morrow also explained another difference is that when a forward crosses centre, they must make at least one pass to allow the defencemen time to adjust to the play. And face-offs start on the ice so that the players react to the referee’s whistle, not the drop of the puck. “Also goals can only be scored in the bottom three feet of the net,” Morrow added. “The puck doesn’t make a sound in the air and usually the goalies are the lowest visioned players on the ice. Typically have no vision at all.” More information on the event and blind hockey in general can be found at couragecanada.ca.

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Big Sugar won’t be bringing much of their YardStyle to St. Albert’s backyard, but they will be bringing a whole lot of rock ’n’ roll. The Canadian reggae-rock legends are headed to the Kinsmen Rodeo Grounds on Friday, May 23, to rock the Rainmaker Music Festival as part of the annual Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition. Big Sugar’s latest release, YardStyle, is a collection of acoustic songs, a mixture of songs from their back catalogue and originals. But lead singer and guitarist Gordie Johnson said they’ll likely leave the acoustic guitars at home and just bring their electric equipment to St. Albert. “One assumes that, for a rodeo, they want a rock show,” Johnson said over the phone on Monday. “The YardStyle performances, the acoustic performances, fit more neatly into theatres and places like that, places that are more acousticfriendly.” Still, putting together a CD like YardStyle gave the band a chance to look back on a lot of the songs in their catalogue, some of which still get regular play on the radio, and Johnson still feels a lot of pride in those songs.

“It’s a living, breathing thing for us; we don’t look back to the past too much. We play those songs because we’re still feeling them, they’re still alive for us,” he said. YardStyle was inspired by the songwriting process, Johnson said, as most of the band’s songs start out as acoustic jams before electric instruments enter into the mix. “That’s just kind of us in our natural state,” he said. “If you catch us on a tour bus or backstage somewhere, or at a

2010, releasing a new CD, Revolution Per Minute, a year later and heading back out on the road. Since getting back together, Johnson said things have been going great. “The vibe was always good anyway. We didn’t stop playing and touring because the fun had worn off. It just felt like it had run its natural course at the time creatively. We were all thinking of doing different stuff, and I didn’t want to phone it in, you know?” he said.

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“When we decided to get back together, it was only because we wanted to,” he added. “Not for any other reason. There’s no amount of money you could offer us to make us come and do it.” Big Sugar also recently returned from a trip to the Netherlands to play a few shows. Johnson said they were well-liked in Europe prior to going on hiatus, and

now promoters are starting to discover that they’re back together. “With the Internet now, they see us playing in North America, and they say, ‘Hey, would you come back and play for us?’” Johnson said. “That’s kinda cool. We just got back from there; we’ve been there twice in the last two months and we’ve got some plans to go back in the near future.” But it all almost ended abruptly in 2012 when Johnson lost the use of his left hand, meaning he might not be able to play guitar anymore. Thankfully, he underwent successful surgery on a ligament in his wrist in Calgary and regained use of the hand. It’s not 100 per cent the same as before, he said, but he’s looking at it as a chance to continue learning. “My playing’s a little different, but your playing changes over time anyway — or at least mine does. I like to always stay developing and learning new stuff, and allowing myself to be open to influence,” said Johnson, who has also been learning to play the steel guitar. “It keeps music an alive, in-the-moment thing.” Tickets to Big Sugar’s concert under the big top at the Rainmaker Music Festival are $39.99 each plus fees and taxes, and are available through Ticketmaster or at the Crown and Tower Pub or The Beer Hunter.

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When it comes to balloon sculptures, Rupert Appleyard isn’t just full of hot air. Appleyard — better known as his steampunk, time-travelling, balloontwisting character Phileas Flash — will be taking the International Children’s Festival in downtown St. Albert by storm from May 27 to 31 with his elaborate and whimsical balloon creations. Appleyard can make just about anything kids can imagine out of balloons on the spot while roving around the festival grounds, but he’ll also have a permanent spot set up in St. Albert Place where he’ll be working on one of his signature giant balloon sculptures. Previous sculptures have been inspired by Game of Thrones and Despicable Me — images of which have gone viral on the Internet, thanks mainly to mentions on actor George Takei’s Facebook page — and Appleyard said he often figures out exactly how they’ll come together on the fly. “You’re making them and suddenly go, ‘Wouldn’t it be funny if he was doing

this?’ Or some little detail — I’ve made cowboys and given the cowboy a gold tooth,” he said. “You kind of come up with ideas as you go along. It’s a bit like being a balloon whisperer; you have to listen to the balloons. They don’t speak, they squeak.” Appleyard is originally from Ipswich, England, but came to Canada a couple of years ago when he married a woman from Newfoundland. This will be his first appearance at the International Children’s Festival. His involvement with balloon sculpting goes way back — although, at first, it was his brother who was into the craft as a clown in a small touring circus in the United Kingdom while Appleyard worked as the ringmaster. “I started going out with him and seeing him hand out balloons to people, and I thought, ‘That’s kind of cool.’ Especially flowers — when someone gets handed a flower, they smile, no matter if it’s a man or a woman,” he said. He went on to busk for a few years as a balloon twister. He added the character of Phileas Flash about a year ago, though, when he got an elaborate military waistcoat as a birthday present and decided to combine his passion for balloons with a passion for the TV show

Doctor Who. “(The character) touches on (kids’) imaginations, and that’s my whole purpose in life, to engage children’s imaginations,” he said. “That’s our future. Our future is their imaginations.” When out roaming the grounds, Appleyard said he can go through upwards of 200 balloons a day, and the walking and hot weather can really take a physical toll on him. “I might only do a four-hour shift, but that four-hour shift is intense. And you become exhausted because you’ve got people in front of you the whole time,” he said. “I’m thinking about what balloons I’m making; if I’m roving around, I’ve got my time machine on my back and trying to be funny the whole time. It wears you out, and there’s no off moment.” But he’s still very excited about his first Children’s Festival experience. “I was just talking about what I’m going to make, and it’s going to be really good — big,” he said. To see more of Appleyard’s work, visit his website at www.flashballoons.com. For more information on International Children’s Festival performers and tickets, check out www.childfest.com.

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You could say Tim Hicks is an overnight sensation 17 years in the making. Riding the success of his debut CD, Throw Down, which was released in 2013, and the four hit singles it spawned, Hicks is rolling into St. Albert on Saturday, May 24, to headline the country portion of the annual Rainmaker Music Festival as part of the St. Albert Kinsmen’s Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition. But if it sounds like success has come quickly for the 34-year-old singer who originally hails from Niagara Falls, Ont., that’s certainly not the case. “I was playing six nights a week for 17 years,” he said. “I’ve been playing in bands since I was seven years old, literally. There’s footage of that someplace that I’m hoping nobody finds. ... I never had any other summer job; I just played and sang. That’s how I supported myself all through university. I’m proud that I’ve been a working musician for a real long time.” Throw Down reached No. 16 on the Canadian country music charts, and all four singles Hicks has released have peaked between No. 8 and No. 14. A fifth single, “Here Comes the Thunder,” was just released to radio stations on Tuesday. All that success still takes Hicks by surprise sometimes. “This whole year has been unbelievable, and continues to be,” he said. “(His first single) ‘Get By’ came out in January of last year, and it feels like this whole thing has happened so fast. But by the same token, when I think about all the things that have happened, it feels like a lifetime ago. ... I feel just lucky in a lot of regards. I know 10 guys just like me that were out playing the circuit I played, and go out every night still and play.” Hicks was also nominated for the Rising Star award at the 2013 Canadian Country Music Association Awards, and

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“I think there’s some competitiveness there, but it doesn’t get in the way of everyone being friendly.” That includes Michelle Wright, the Canadian County Music Hall of Fame inductee with whom he’ll be sharing the stage under the big top at the Rainmaker. “I played with her in, I think it was 2006. I played a local festival where I’m from; she was the headliner and I got to open for her,” Hicks said. “She was as nice as pie then, and she still is. Every time I see her, she always makes a point of saying hello to myself and the guys.” Before he gets to see Wright again in St. Albert, though, Hicks has a long day of travel ahead of him, as he’s scheduled to play a show in Sydney, N.S., the night before.

“Apparently our agent doesn’t own a map,” Hicks said with a laugh. “They do that kind of thing to us all the time, and we laugh about it. You’d think that, in this game, you’d be partying all night and sleeping all day, but it’s really not like that. We joke all the time that the reason we wanted a record deal was so that we didn’t have to work so hard, yet somehow everything happens at 5 a.m. as soon as you sign that deal. “Nobody will be drinking the night before. We’ll all be up bright and early to get on a plane and get out to see you guys.” Tickets for the country concert at the Rainmaker Music Festival are $49.99 plus fees and taxes and are available through Ticketmaster or at the Crown and Tower Pub or The Beer Hunter.

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said. “We have been for 135 years and we will continue that into the future.” While this year’s parade marshall was originally scheduled to be announced on Monday, it was not due to an unspecified change in plans. Other entertainers announced, however, include Alyssa Reid with Virginia to Vegas set to play on July 18, followed by Our Lady Peace on July 19. Calgary band Loverboy will play on July 21, Marianas Trench on July 22, the Village People on July 23 and Gord Bamford on July 24. Everclear, Soul Asylum and Eve 6 will all play on July 25. The Road Hammers will play July 26 and the following day, USS will wrap up the Koodonation stage. Kiss added the Bachman Turner Overdrive will also be joining the Koodonation stage.

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for at least three months. The billboards ask short questions such as ‘2 Weeks?’ or ‘Do it anyway?’ to get people thinking about vacation pay and unsafe work. Calgary-based OHS officer Rob LeRouzic says he hopes the humourous TV spots will help people remember the safety procedures at their workplace before OHS officers like himself show up for an inspection. “This is going to get the information out to workers so they understand what the hazards are and employers understand their responsibilities,” he said. “It takes away the ‘I didn’t know’ excuse... If you don’t know, ask,

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because now if I come in and write a ticket, we know you had the opportunity to educate yourself on what the legislation is.” Tammy Milliken, an employment standards education program consultant, said employees get two weeks of vacation pay after each of the first four years of employment and three weeks after five consecutive years including the fifth year, a fact which often causes some confusion. “We just want to make sure that people are getting what they’re entitled to,” she said. Workers can report employment standards complaints anonymously, with investigators following up at random. Individuals with questions or concerns can call OHS at 1-866-415-8690 or Employment Standards at 1-877427-3731.

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