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Local dental clinic opens wide LEAD the

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Dawn Fedorvich with the City of St. Albert looks to be a brave soul as she tempts fate with the Trinidad Moruga scorpion pepper, the second-hottest pepper in the world. Other brave souls will also be tempting fate during a pepper-eating contest Saturday at the Enjoy Centre as part of the Dig In horticulinary festival. See story, page 10.

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That’s how many Scoville heat units there are in a Carolina Reaper pepper, which is currently the hottest in the world. By comparison, a banana pepper measures 500 SHU, a jalapeno has 5,000 SHU, and a ghost pepper clocks in at just over 1 million SHU.

“It’s really important to us because giving back just feels good.�

A pair of local dentists are opening wide — not their mouths, but their doors and their hearts. On Sunday, Oct. 19, Dr. Frank Neves, Dr. Christina Matrangolo and the staff at Bright Dental on Giroux Road are hosting their third annual Dental Compassion Day, a chance for lowincome St. Albertans to come in and get necessary Dr. Christina Matrangolo dental work done free of charge. Bright Dental “Every year it gets more and more popular. We’re really excited,� Matrangolo said. In previous years, the office has seen about 40 to 50 patients over the course of the day — and these are not just routine cleanings. “There’s a lot of hygiene, but there’s a lot of emergency treatment — abscessed teeth, broken teeth, stuff that has been bothering people for a long time, but they couldn’t afford to get it treated,� Matrangolo said. “We do a lot of emergency treatments that day — root canals, extractions, stuff like that. Basically stuff that is going to get them out of pain that day.� “It’s very fast-paced, because we’re trying to get in as many people as we can,� she added. “It’s a long day, but it’s fun.� Patients are dealt with on a firstcome, first-served basis between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Last year, that meant a long lineup forming early in the morning. But it has also resulted in community members asking how they can volunteer to help the doctors out and get people in and out quicker. “The majority of patients coming in are children,�

Matrangolo said. “There’s definitely a need — especially when it’s a financial issue and parents don’t have benefits, it’s hard to afford dental work. But it’s something that’s so very important.� The past two times Bright Dental has held this event, it has been earlier in the year, usually in August. But Matrangolo said they decided to push it back this year for a very good reason. “We had feedback from a few teachers saying it would be nice if we could do it in September so

they could get the word out to students in their school who may be in need,� she said. Both Matrangolo and Neves know they are lucky to be in a position where they can give back to the community, so it’s important to them to do so. “We feel fortunate that we live in this city, but unfortunately there’s still poverty. And actually it’s very surprising how much of it there is, considering we’re in an affluent area,� Matrangolo said. “It’s really important to us because giving back just feels good. It boosts the morale of our clinic, it helps the public, and it’s something that, if you have the means to do it, you should do it.� For more information on Dental Compassion Day, visit www. brightdental. ca.

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Cops team up to ďŹ ght speed

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Photo radar is not part of the unified enforcement approach, and Kading said people generally seem pleased to see more drivers getting pulled over. “It’s created a bit of a stir in the community,� she said. “This is something that’s very promising.� Kading said she has heard plenty of discussion lately around calming traffic in the region. The agencies plan to continue pooling resources on the border and will expand their efforts to include Checkstops in the near future.

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Edmonton and St. Albert cops are teaming up to nab more speeders. Officers say a new partnership between the Edmonton Police Service, St. Albert Municipal Enforcement Services and St. Albert RCMP is keeping streets safer on the Edmonton-St. Albert border as traffic in the area increases. “Both sides I would say, with the Anthony Henday coming in, are noticing an increase in traffic around our border areas, but each agency on their own really doesn’t have PHARMACY BREAK-IN the staffing levels to address it well,â€? said St. Albert RCMP are looking for tips on St. Albert RCMP Cpl. Laurel Kading. “That a break-and-enter at a local pharmacy last was the catalyst.â€? week. The three law enforcement agencies first Just before 3 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. teamed up for a pilot project on Sept. 25. Cops 2, RCMP were called to a break-in at the caught dozens of drivers that day resulting Grandin Medical Pharmacy, located at 1 St. Cpl. Laurel Kading in nearly 80 charges being laid and one Anne St. When they arrived, they found that St. Albert RCMP suspended driver being taken off the road. a glass door had been smashed, but no one Kading said police were “very pleasedâ€? was inside the pharmacy. with the results. Police believe that whoever broke into the She said an innovative approach is needed to address an pharmacy made off with an undisclosed amount of prescription increase in bad driving, and it helps to have agencies with drugs. These drugs, they warned, could be potentially harmful to expertise in different areas. the person taking them if they are misused. “Typically, most drivers in the Edmonton region ... are Anyone with any information on this break-and-enter is asked getting really frustrated with traffic,â€? she said. “We’ve noticed, to call the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 780-458-7700 or anecdotally, increased aggression in driving. People are in Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477). hurries, people aren’t patient on the road.â€? — with ďŹ les from Glenn Cook, St. Albert Leader

“Most drivers in the Edmonton region ... are getting really frustrated with trafďŹ c.â€?

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The Friends of the Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival Society is looking to “scare” up some funds with an event later this month. The society — which helps put on the International Children’s Festival every May in downtown St. Albert — is holding a “Spooktacular” fundraiser on Tuesday, Oct. 28, from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at the Art Gallery of St. Albert (19 Perron St.) where folks can come dressed as their favourite witch, goblin or ghost. “We thought we’d try October, and as we looked at dates, it just slid into that week of Oct. 28, and a bunch of us just got Halloween crazy,” said Louisa Jans, a member of the board for the Friends of the Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival Society (FNAICFS). “It’s an excuse to dress up and decorate pumpkins.” “The sky’s the limit for how much we want to raise,” she added. The evening will feature plenty of treats and no tricks, and families will also have the chance to decorate a pumpkin for a $10 donation. The society is also hoping to convince people to take part in the festival’s Butterfly Donor program, which has five different levels and has plenty of perks, including recognition both in the official

festival program and on the festival’s website, as well as an invitation to a VIP opening night performance and reception. “The perks go up as the levels go up,” Jans said. Butterfly Donors also have the chance to purchase tickets to the festival finale — a popular show that almost always sells out — almost a month before they go on sale to the general public. This isn’t the first time the FNAICFS has held a fall fundraiser; Jans said that, in years past, it has taken many forms, including a breakfast event. “We’re trying to keep it fresh and new, and hopefully reach out to a different audience who would like to become supporters of the festival,” she said. While the festival won’t roll around again for several months, Jans said it’s still important to make sure it stays at the forefront of people’s minds. “Once people get more knowledge about the festival, they realize how huge it is and that it takes a year (or more) to plan,” she said. “As soon as they put one to bed, they’re thinking of the next one. So money is always welcome 365 days a year.” If you’re interested in attending the FNAICFS’s Spooktacular fundraiser, please RSVP to naicf.freinds@gmail.com by Monday, Oct. 20. The 2015 edition of the International Children’s Festival is scheduled to run from May 26 to 30.

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Photo radar still needed

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dmonton Mayor Don Iveson got fired up this week on a topic that also affects us here in St. Albert: photo radar. In a blog post published on Monday, Iveson rebuked those calling for an end to photo radar speed enforcement in Edmonton — an online petition had more than 18,000 by Glenn Cook signatures as of Tuesday evening — saying that, despite an auditor’s report that found massive cost overruns as the program transitioned from a private contractor to being run in-house, the program has always been and will always be about road safety, not about generating revenue. Iveson essentially said he had zero sympathy for those who get photo radar tickets: “[T]he most effective and principled way we can put photo radar out of business is to stop speeding,” he wrote. As bad as people might think photo radar is in Edmonton, though, the perception is that it’s even worse in St. Albert. Passing a Jeep or a covered truck that’s parked on a boulevard or tucked in behind an electrical box seems to be a daily occurrence. People were unhappy when mobile units disguised to look like utility boxes were deployed. But for his part, Mayor Nolan Crouse has towed the same line as Iveson: It’s all about safety. Crouse and other City of St. Albert officials have long maintained that, in an age where traffic safety is a major concern, photo radar is designed to keep roads safe and change driver behaviour, not to be a cash cow. And when you look at the 2014 civic budget, where fines and penalties — which includes not only photo radar tickets but also parking violations and fines on those who pay their property taxes late — make up only $4 million of nearly $150 million in total revenues, it’s hard to argue that point. Other communities have tried to get rid of photo radar and failed, as citizens have recognized its value and kept it around. For example, voters in Morinville voted in favour of keeping photo radar as an enforcement tool in a plebiscite earlier this year. In the end, Iveson is right: If you don’t want a ticket, slow down and drive the speed limit. Enough people doing that is what will put photo radar on the shelf.

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ell, the ice is back in all five rinks and the steady parade of hockey players, ringette players and figure skaters has begun in earnest. St. Albert is a blessed community in the sense that we have such amazing facilities for our kids to enjoy their chosen sports. On the other hand, we have a chronic shortage of ice in St. Albert to accommodate all of our needs. Let me focus just on hockey to illustrate what I mean. We have over 1,800 young people playing hockey on over 110 teams in St. Albert. We anticipate more to come as families settle back into routines and kids find out what activities their friends are involved in. We always see a spike in registration following an Olympic year

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BECIGNEUL St. Albert Minor Hockey My City and are seeing that again this year. From our initiation leagues through our development leagues, and federation teams at the novice, atom, peewee, bantam and midget levels, plus our representative Raider teams up through our Junior B Merchants, St. Albert Minor Hockey has something for everyone who wants to follow their hockey dream. That is, everything except enough available ice. The SAMHA ice allocator picked up approximately 15 hours of additional ice for this season at the Garrison

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when their own leagues folded this year. This was quite fortunate because we lost some of our ice allocation this year when the City provided more ice time to ringette and figure skating, the latter which has seen an increase in their numbers due to the closure of other skating clubs in the region. The cost of outside ice doesn’t come cheap. It works out to about $250 per hour, but when you have 110 teams, you need ice for games and practices, particularly for our representative teams, who practice several times per week to remain at the top of their game. Last year, St. Albert teams spent close to $500,000 on ice that they purchased outside of St. Albert. Teams regularly drive to Legal,

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Onoway, Gibbons and Bon Accord just to practice. Add the additional $100,000 that SAMHA will spend on Garrison ice and we are quickly at $600,000 that could be spent in another St. Albert facility. I understand that the ice isn’t utilized every hour of every day. A late morning walk through Servus Place will confirm that. I don’t know what an additional sheet would cost to run, but there is room to add one on the north side of Servus Place and tie it into the existing plant. The statistics say a community needs a sheet of ice for every 10,000 residents. We are closing in on being one and a half rinks behind. We need to add at least one arena to our priority list of facilities. Owned and operated by

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garden.� Aside from the pepper-eating contest, the festival features a gala on Friday night with a menu designed by eight of the best chefs from all over Alberta, plus workshops on everything from baking and preserving to cheese, wine and vertical gardening. “I can’t believe how embraced this festival has become. Every day someone emails saying, ‘I just heard about this festival — it sounds so great!’� said Dawn Fedorvich, economic development officer with the City of St. Albert and one of the principal organizers of Dig In. “People are very excited about it.� As Fedorvich says, the response to the festival has been great, with the Friday night gala sold out and the workshops on Saturday filling up fast. “I couldn’t be happier, for the first time out, to know we’re so close to on par with what the audience wants,� she said, adding that working with the Alberta Culinary Tourism Alliance has been a wonderful partnership. Both Fedorvich and Hole believe the festival will bring a lot of value to St. Albert and add to its botanical arts brand. “I hope it becomes that signature event that builds upon our brand

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Range Road 260 Area Structure Plan

Disclosure of CRB Income

Animal Bylaw Amendment

BACKGROUND

Council voted on the third and final reading for the Range Road 260 Area Structure Plan, which would see the development of the Avenir neighbourhood area.

Council considered on a motion that would see an obligation for Mayor Crouse to disclose all income received from the Capital Region Board.

Council voted on a motion that would see outdoor skating rinks be used as off-leash areas for pets during seasons where the ice rink would normally not be used.

THE VOTE

CROUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRODHEAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HERON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HUGHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OSBORNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PREFONTAINE . . . . . . . . . . . . MacKAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

VOTE POSTPONED UNTIL OCT. 20

CROUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . BRODHEAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HERON. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HUGHES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . OSBORNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PREFONTAINE . . . . . . . . . . . . MacKAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .absent

“Baby-boomers and millenials are looking for more walkable neighbourhoods, more park space, and more variety in the kinds of housing available and I think these new neighbourhoods are offering that.�

NOTABLE QUOTES

“We had a discussion with the external auditors and they stated that all income reporting is done properly and reects the revenue the city has received.â€? — Patrick Draper, city manager

– Coun. Gilles Prefontaine “I’m disappointed we’re seeing such high densities in these new neighbourhoods. There’s high density, and then there’s super-high density... Because of the higher densities, we’re not going to have these neighbourhoods pay for themselves.�

– Coun. Sheena Hughes

WHAT’S NEXT FEEDBACK

“You have six councillors who are on the Capital Region Board and report on the income and one who doesn’t. It seems logical to ask why there is a hole in this.�

“We’re looking to have a year of experience with running this change. There will be staff monitoring each location for unique challenges.� – Patrick Draper, city manager

— Coun. Sheena Hughes

The Avenir neighbourhood area will begin development with an expected completion date of 2030.

Council will review a legal document provided by Coun. Cam MacKay, work to correct any errors in the legal document, and assemble legal documents from Mayor Crouse and the CRB and revisit the motion on Oct. 20.

Council and staff will look at the Animal Bylaw to amend it in order to ensure that ice rinks can be used as off-leash areas for pets during the offseasons and present the amendments to council by the end of the first quarter of 2015.

“We’re taking a leap of faith with this plan. The numbers don’t make sense now but they’re supposed to make sense in the future.�

“We received a legal opinion ďŹ ve minutes before this meeting and I think postponing this motion to review the document is the right way to go.â€?

“In the long term, I think we need more fenced dog parks. In the interim, I think this provides responsible pet owners an option.�

— Coun. Tim Osborne

— Coun. Tim Osborne

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Chefs set to Dig In for Friday night gala

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Blair Lebsack is ready to Dig In on Friday evening. The acclaimed chef at RGE RD in Edmonton is trading in his usual kitchen for the one at the Enjoy Centre as he and seven other chefs from all over Alberta come together to create a oneof-a-kind menu for the sold-out gala at the Dig In horticulinary festival, running this weekend in St. Albert. “It’s going to be a lot of fun,” Lebsack said on Monday morning. “One of the best things about it is that we’ll get to see lots of our friends that we don’t get to see. With the other chefs that are participating, it’s going to be a good time.” Those friends include: • Steven Furgiuele (Culina Mill Creek,

Edmonton); • Jan Hansen (Heritage Park, Calgary); • Danielle Job (Holts Café, Edmonton); • Julia Kundera (Glasshouse Bistro, St. Albert); • Brad Lazarenko (Culina Family of Restaurants, Edmonton); • Karine Moulin (Hotel Arts, Calgary); and • Doreen Prei (Petroleum Club, Edmonton). While it has been tricky at times coordinating the menu, Lebsack said the chefs have been able to get together and plan things out, which has been a lot of fun. “As soon as you get eight chefs in a room to brainstorm ideas Blair Lebsack about what their side Chef, RGE RD of the menu could be, you end up with a lot of different ideas,” he said. “The great

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going to be a success and everyone’s going to have some tasty things. And we’re going to keep our eyes peeled that, next year, we can get a little crazier.” Lebsack is no stranger to the Enjoy Centre, saying he visits the facility “quite often” and that it’s a “great space.” But it’s just one part of a vibrant food scene in the Capital Region that has evolved in the past few years thanks to young chefs who are willing to take risks. “What we’re seeing is (chefs saying), ‘We’re going to do our menu really well. We’re not going to have these massive menus that try to appease 95 per cent of the population,’” Lebsack said. “People are being very specific about what they’re cooking, and it’s really good because it’s letting people showcase what they do best.” For more information on the Dig In horticulinary festival, visit www. diginstalbert.ca.

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Think pink A young boy gets a bird’s-eye view of the crowd of thousands that turned out for the CIBC Run for the Cure in downtown Edmonton on Sunday afternoon. The run raised money for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

Monument to Quanto unveiled PAMELA ROTH Sun Media News Services

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Knowledge key to foraging for wild food

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nettle and fiddleheads. The beauty is, this is the time of the year when you find the patches you can pick in the spring. They’re A little knowledge can go a long way when spring edibles, but they’re really hard to find it comes to finding wild food, according to in the spring. So you find them in the fall the co-owner of a local mushroom company. when the plants are higher, and then you Along with his wife Michelle, Eric note where you want to be in May and June.” Whitehead owns Untamed Feast, a company Other wild crops to make note of for next based out of St. Albert, and will be leading year are shaggy mane mushrooms and herbs a foraging tour of the city as like rosehip and volunteer horseradish. part of this weekend’s Dig In There are also still some medicinal horticulinary festival, where mushrooms that grow in the participants will learn how area that are harvestable to spot herbs, mushrooms year-round, although their and green growing in the medicinal qualities are highest wild. in the fall. It might sound like a “If you know where to go, dangerous pastime given these derelict horseradishes the number of poisonous were left by pioneers, and they STINGING NETTLE mushrooms and plants out never went away. They kept there, but Whitehead says propagating,” Whitehead said. knowledge is the key. “You can have a fantastic harvest.” “People tend to think that Aside from where to find wild picking wild mushrooms is food, though, Whitehead hopes scary; ‘I wouldn’t want to people come away from the tour do that.’ But I say to them, and from the festival as a whole ‘Have you ever picked with a greater understanding a saskatoon?’ When of why wild food is important. you go pick saskatoons, “I’m all about letting your you’re not a berry expert. food being your medicine,” You pick the saskatoons he said. “Instead of eating that you know. You’re not denatured chicken fingers and FAIRY RING running around throwing fries and then having some every berry in your mouth,” health problems and having to Whitehead said. “That’s the take pills, if we’re smart about it, we can beauty of wild harvesting — really just be eating our medicine. it’s 100 per cent controllable. I don’t mean to eat wild food all It’s way safer than driving the time; just to have it even in traffic. If you don’t once a week. Almost all the know exactly what it is, wild mushrooms are highly don’t eat it. medicinal, and those are the “If you’re picking same ones that are highly saskatoons and wild delicious.” blueberries, fantastic. You Untamed Feast featured FIDDLEHEADS can do that safely. And last season on the CBC show you can do the same with Dragons’ Den, where the mushrooms. You’ve just got to learn company scored a deal with marketing one species at a time and get maven Arlene Dickinson. really confident in it.” Since then, Whitehead said While the prime picking business has been booming, but season for mushrooms that’s not much different from and other wild crops was how it has been for the past 15 earlier in the summer, years. Whitehead will still be “We’re always basically in able to show people along sellout mode, always looking the Dig In tour what they to get a good harvest together,” can look out next season — he said. “That’s the thing with SHAGGY MANE which, it turns out, is quite wild food — it’s as sustainable a lot here in our neck of the as it gets. There’s only going to woods. be as much of these plants or mushrooms as “You can find fairy ring mushrooms, Mother Nature provides, and then that crop which are common in any park here in is over. it’s done. You’re not going to replant St. Albert. I’ll be showing them how to find it. It doesn’t work that way.” those — although we won’t be picking any, Their products are available online at because I was out this morning, and (the www.untamedfeast.com — which also season) is definitely over,” he said. “And I’ll offers recipes and videos on harvesting — be showing them how to find wild stinging but Whitehead hopes people will come out

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Untamed Feast’s Eric Whitehead gets busy with wild food in the kitchen.

to see them at the last outdoor farmers’ market of the season on Saturday for the full experience of what they have to offer. “That’s where people get not only to meet us, but they get to see all the little tricks and goodies we don’t sell in retail,” he said. “We do mushroom-infused salts, we do some fresh mushrooms, we do all kinds of things we don’t sell on the website and are only

found there. People can come down, smell them, check them out, taste them. That’s really valuable to someone that’s interested in this stuff.” Whitehead’s foraging tour as part of the Dig In festival begins at the Enjoy Centre at 12:30 p.m. and lasts for an hour. For more information on the festival, visit www. diginstalbert.ca.

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Hotel set to rise above downtown CLAIRE THEOBALD Sun Media News Services

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A new 50-storey tower — 26 of which will be a Delta hotel — was announced for downtown Edmonton, near the new Rogers Place arena, on Monday.

Edmonton’s arena district continues to rise with construction of a Delta hotel — 26-storeys of a 50-storey condo tower — now set to begin. The latest Edmonton Arena District partnership was announced Monday. It’s the first new hotel Edmonton’s downtown has seen in 30 years. “The Edmonton arena district is proud to be playing an important role in downtown Edmonton’s transformation into a more vibrant and dynamic place that will draw visitors from across the region, the country and the world,� said Daryl Katz, chairman of the Katz Group of Companies. “We couldn’t think of a better partner here to welcome them when they arrive.� The new Delta Edmonton hotel is expected to top 50 storeys, with 362 four-star hotel rooms and 200 luxury condominiums. The glass exterior was specifically designed to match the rest of the arena district development, which includes the Rogers Place and the record-breaking Stantec tower that, upon completion, will reach 62 storeys high.

While the Delta Centre Suite Hotel, Inside the Delta tower, suites will attached to City Centre Mall, will remain be modern and sleek, featuring open until the new tower is finished in 24,000-square-feet of meeting space, 2018, Green said Delta will only operate including a 9,500-square-foot ballroom one hotel in Edmonton’s downtown core. and a large fitness facility with a rooftop Plans for the old hotel are still in the works. pool. There are no estimates yet as to how “I know it will be the best property much the new hotel in Edmonton,� said will cost as the Ken Green, president final design will be of Delta Hotels and completed in the Resorts. “I think next few months. The Edmonton is looking hotel is part of an for a property of this estimated $5 billion nature, this will be far in new development superior to anything expected downtown that’s in the market over the next five place.� years, developments The last new hotel in Iveson says are Edmonton’s downtown changing Edmonton’s core was The Westin humdrum reputation. Edmonton Hotel, Don Iveson “It’s the most completed in 1974 and Edmonton mayor underestimated city in renovated in 2004. North America, still, Mayor Don Iveson but not for much longer,� Iveson said. “The said the development of such large, secret’s getting out.� multi-use buildings in the area is a sign of Construction will begin on the hotel Edmonton’s real estate market maturing. parkade — that will connect through “I think that’s a sign of confidence, one pedways the hotel, Stantec tower and the that we can take back to the market and say Edmonton is ready for the big leagues,� winter garden — this fall. Work on the main Delta tower in 2015. said Iveson.

“I think that’s a sign ... Edmonton is ready for the big leagues.�

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Encore long time coming for PreTenors

GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

After a couple of years away, the PreTenors are back for an encore performance. The operatic comedy trio that features two St. Albertans — Kieran Martin Murphy and Trent Worthington — returns to the stage at the Arden Theatre on Saturday, Oct. 18, for their first performance in about two years. Murphy, who plays Luciano Paparazzi alongside Worthington’s Jose Whocarras, said that, no matter where he goes or what other role he plays, people always ask about The PreTenors, so it was time to bring them back. “Every single night, someone was asking me, ‘When are the PreTenors going to perform again?’ Every single night,” he said, noting that the PreTenors have been performing together for 18 years now, including several successful runs at the Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival. “So that’s when we thought, ‘Well, OK, if people want to see the show.’ “We made the decision months ago that we were going to produce this show, and by golly, these people that wanted to see it, they’d better show up!” he added with a laugh. However, it’s not

“We try to change the exactly the original show up a little bit. We’ve lineup, as newcomer Ron got some pretty strong Long steps into the shoes standard material, and of Placebo Domingo that then we always embellish used to belong to the it with something new, retired Michel Landry. like a new medley or a Opera tenors with a couple of new songs,” he sense of humour aren’t said. “And this time, it’s exactly a dime a dozen, great to have a couple of so Murphy said they really nice vocalists come put out a few feelers in and join us.” the local classical music Putting together the community, and Long new arrangements and turned out to be a great fit. finding a place for them “He’s got a wonderful in the show is trickier set of pipes, and he’s going than one might think, to add to the show quite Kieran Martin Murphy especially nicely,” Murphy said. The PreTenors with a Aside from Long, there longer are a few other new twists to the show at show like the one at the the Arden, including Arden will be. “It takes a lot of a couple of guest thought and effort to stars and some actually new music to move bring some new things energy.

“Every single night, someone was asking me, ‘When are the PreTenors going to perform again?’”

around,” Murphy said. “What are you going to add? And if you do add, what are you going to subtract? It’s always a trick for us. ... To extend it to 90 (minutes), you have to be clever and smart about the choices you make.” Luciano Pavarotti was one of the most recognizable opera singers in history when he passed away in September 2007. Since then, though, Murphy said taking the stage with his comedic send-up of Pavarotti hasn’t been strange — in fact, he thinks of it more as an homage. “Because he’s still fresh in everybody’s minds, they know him and they know what we’re doing,” he said. “We don’t make fun of these guys; we don’t tear them down for humour. We embellish, we make their characters larger than life, and we treat them with respect even though we’re having fun with them. And I think people get that.” Tickets for the PreTenors are $42 each, and are available through Ticketmaster or the Arden Theatre box office (780-459-1542).

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Painters Guild show ‘falls’ into place GLENN COOK St. Albert Leader

The weather may be getting colder, but things are heating up for the St. Albert Painters’ Guild. The guild, based out of St. Albert Place, is gearing up for its annual fall show and sale, which will take over the lobby of the civic building from Oct. 17 to 19. The theme for this particular show is “Changing Colours,” but show co-ordinator Betty Tessier said that extends far beyond autumnal motifs found in some of the paintings. “I think everybody had something in their paintings before we actually chose what the theme was,” said Tessier, who is also the guild’s past president this year. “... It can be any type of painting.” In total, the guild has 36 artists and two students participating in the fall show. Those two students are local high school students who the guild was able to send to the Summerscapes program at Red Deer College over the summer thanks to a raffle held at their spring

show and sale. “We’ve got a lot of new artists that joined just this past year, so we have such a variety of painting. We have some who are well-known in the area and are basically professionals, and then we have some who are just learning,” Tessier said.

“We’ve got a lot of new artists ... we have such a variety.” Betty Tessier St. Albert Painters’ Guild Tessier herself got started with the guild through her brother-in-law, and being involved has helped her expand her artistic horizons. “I’ve tried more mediums —

before I was doing just watercolours, but then I started fooling around with acrylics,” she said. “Lately I’ve been using the liquid acrylics, where you sort of pour it on your canvas and move the canvas around to get more of an abstract work.” Membership in the guild remains strong, with more than 80 members currently, and some of the more experienced artists helping others along through regular sessions and workshops. “Every year, at the end of the season, we have some that drop out, and then we have new ones that come in,” she said. “The whole idea, when the guild was formed, was to help teach. ... The professionals will go and critique the other people’s work and give them comments, and say, ‘You’re doing this well, but maybe you could try this or that.’ So they’re learning that way.” The St. Albert Painters’ Guild fall show and sale runs from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Oct. 17; from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Oct. 18; and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oct. 19. An opening reception will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. on Oct. 17.

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St. Albert Painters’ Guild member Berni Buyse works on her latest masterpiece on Tuesday morning at the St. Albert Place studios.

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X St. Albert stand-up comic brings his act home as part of the ATB Financial Edmonton Comedy Festival Tyler Hawkins is a stand-up comedian who hails from St. Albert and, over the course of almost 20 years in the business, he has opened for such comedy legends as Russell Peters, Bobcat Goldthwaite, Jamie Kennedy, Rich Hall and Norm Macdonald. Now, he’s bringing his act home as part of the ATB Financial Edmonton Comedy Festival, which runs from Oct. 15 to 18 at various venues around the Capital Region, including the Kinsmen Korral in St. Albert. How did you get your start in sttand-up comedy? Well, I used to do improv. And then I was doing improv with people who were a lot younger than me, annd I got tired of that. So then soomebody said to try amateur niight at Yuk Yuk’s. I tried it for abbout three months, then I quit beecause I hated it. But one of the giirls there thought I was funny annd I should keep doing it, so she keept begging me to come back. So I finally did come back, and I’ve beeen doing it ever since.

So whhat point are you at in your comedy careeer now? Is it a full-tiime thing for you? Or close to fulltime?? I thinkk I’m as close to full-tim me as you can get in Canadian showbiz. I mean, I do have another job. Yoou can sort of mak ake k a livingg at it, but itt’s nott very much of a liv ivvin i g. That’s what peeop ople don’t understta ta d abo tand b ut stand--up. Peeop ople l wililll be b like, ‘H Hey, teell me a jo jokke.’ And I’m m likee, ‘H Hey ey,, I doon’ n’t work for freee.’’ Th Then en they’ll give me, llik ike, ik e a e, dollar, and I’’m like kee, ‘I‘It’ t’s a lot more tha hann thhat at.’.’ II’d ’d never go to a plum mbe berr and say, ay,, ‘Fix Fixx th this his sin sink nk for free.’’ BButt tthat’s h t’ what h t people think.

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“People will be like, ‘Hey, tell me a joke.’ And I’m like, ‘Hey, I don’t work for free.’” Gooing back to the Edmonton Comedy Festivall, hoow much does it mean to you to have a festiivvval liike ke thi hiss up and running in your own backyardd??

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The two ATB Financial Edmonton Comedy Festival shows in St. Albert — both featuring Hawkins — take place on Friday, Oct. 17, and Saturday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. both nights. For more information or buy tickets, visit www.atbcomedy.com.

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Postmedia buys Sun Media for $316M ANTONELLA ARTUSO Sun Media News Services

The $316-million purchase of Sun Media’s English-language papers will create the country’s largest digital and news organization, Postmedia president and CEO Paul Godfrey says. Postmedia is positioning itself to compete with digital behemoths to provide homegrown content on multiple platforms — print, web, tablet and smartphone, he said. Godfrey, the former president and CEO of Sun Media, pointed out that many senior Postmedia executives have links back to the chain. “In some ways, today is a family reunion,” Godfrey said Monday. Rod Phillips, chairman of the Postmedia board of directors, said the agreement was reached late Sunday and must still get the green light from regulators, including the Competition Bureau. “But today is a very exciting day — today’s a great day for made-in-Canada journalism,” Phillips said. “And in our view it’s the best way forward for an industry that for the past decade has faced significant competitive challenges from digital giants like Google and Facebook.” Postmedia has no plans to close down newspapers, even in the markets where it already has a competing product,

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The Toronto Sun and the National Post are seen side-by-side. On Monday, it was announced that Postmedia would buy Sun Media from Quebecor for $316 million. Godfrey said. While there are no job guarantees, there are no immediate plans to conduct layoffs and, in some cases, Postmedia has identified places where the staff may need to be beefed up, he said. “We intend to keep Sun Media’s large daily newspapers in those markets where we overlap. Their readers and their advertisers in many cases are different from those of Postmedia,” he

said. Glenn Garnett, vice-president of editorial for Sun Media Corporation, said the involvement of so many former Sun leaders, now senior Postmedia executives, will ease the transition. “I think this is the best outcome we could have hoped for,” Garnett said. “In this media landscape, critical mass matters and this deal is as big as it gets. In Paul, Wayne (Parrish) and

Lou (Clancy), Postmedia has senior executives who understand the Sun brand and, more importantly, are forward thinking and innovative in developing digital. My managers are pumped and looking forward to it.” Postmedia has acquired 175 Englishlanguage publications and their associated digital properties, including Canoe, the Toronto Sun, the Ottawa Sun, the Winnipeg Sun, the Edmonton Sun, the Calgary Sun, the London Free Press and 24 Hours in Toronto and Vancouver. Sun News Network was never part of the acquisition discussions and remains with Quebecor Media, Godfrey said. “We will own the Sun brand as it pertains to newspapers including the logo,” Godfrey said. Sun Media will continue to operate independently with its own newsrooms and opinions, he said. Although advertising revenue has been on the decline, newspapers remain a premier source of reliable journalism and this deal gives both Postmedia and Sun Media “more runway” as the industry evolves, he said. Many people are still happiest receiving their information on printed paper but increasingly, young people want their news in a digital format on the device of their choice, he said. “If you don’t march towards that future, you’re going to disappear,” Godfrey said.

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Banner year for million-dollar home sales in region

CLAIRE THEOBALD Sun Media News Services

Realtors say it’s a banner year for those buying and selling million-dollar homes in Edmonton, with the city just two sales away from setting an all-time record. “As long as those multimillion-dollar sales continue to happen, it’s going to help boost the average price up slightly,” said Greg Steel, president of the Realtors Association of Edmonton. “We don’t see that stopping any time soon.” Last year saw a record of 118 multimillion-dollar residential sales in the city, up from just 89 in 2012. As of the end of this September, there had already been 116 multimillion-dollar homes sold. Not only are there more multimilliondollar deals happening then ever before, the sale prices themselves are ballooning. The highest priced home sold in 2012 went for just over $3.4

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Hard work, hustle paying off BRITTANY KUSTRA Special to the Leader

If someone were to ask you to name a billionaire, your answer might be Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerberg. But here’s a name you should know: Elizabeth Holmes. The 30-year-old Holmes is one of the world’s youngest billionaires, tied with Zuckerberg in age, but her name is far less well-known. And although Holmes is new to the billionaire club, she’s spent the last 11 years working on her successful start-up, Theranos. No, Theranos isn’t the new Facebook — but it could save your life. Theranos, which is a combination of the words “therapy” and “diagnosis,” is taking Silicon Valley by storm, and is poised to revolutionize health care across America, or potentially, the world. The company has developed tools to take the nasty needle out of bloodwork. With a single pinprick, Theranos software can run important medical tests. When the new blood analysis technology was realized, Holmes and her team set their sights on a lofty goal: “We started thinking about how to make this service accessible to those people. And to us, that meant going to them and creating a framework in which we could ultimately be, in terms of our goal, within five miles of every American’s home across the country.” It appears that Holmes’s goal might soon be realized. Just last month, Theranos confirmed a deal with Walgreens, which will place Theranos “wellness centres” in Walgreens stores in Palo Alto and Phoenix. The longterm goal for Theranos is to expand to every single Walgreens store across the United States. The announcement of the Walgreens

announcement is a game changer for health care in the U.S. For people unable to travel long distances to see a doctor or afford a doctor’s visit, the Theranos alternative allows them to regularly monitor their health, and potentially identify signs of severe illness before it’s too late. So, how does a 30-year-old develop a scientific breakthrough and become a billionaire? It might sound like she was an overnight success, but her story is a solid reminder that the only road to success is one of hard work and hustling. Holmes’ journey with Theranos began when she dropped out of Stanford University as a sophomore to focus on the company — 11 years ago. Holmes developed the technology, which is ultra-secretive and protected by more than a dozen patents. In an interview with Medscape, Holmes explained, the passion behind the product, saying, “I knew that I wanted to do something that could make a difference in the world. To me, there was nothing greater that I could build than something that would change the reality in our healthcare system today, which is that when someone you love gets really, really sick, usually by the time you find that out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it.” After 11 years of research, testing, patents, raising capital, hard work, and passion, Holmes recently valued the company at $9 billion. With a 50 per cent stake in the company, that puts her worth at $4.5 billion. Sounds like the hard work is finally paying off.

Alta. economy in ‘sweet spot’

DAVE LAZZARINO Sun Media News Services

While some areas of the world are dealing with economic nightmares, in Alberta, the outlook is more of a fairy tale — at least for now. “Alberta’s economy is in a sweet spot right now. I call it the Goldilocks economy — not too hot, not too cold,” Todd Hirsch, chief economist for ATB Financial, said. Hirsch said recent drops in oil prices may not be exactly what provincial budget-watchers would like to see, but the overall impact of

them is minimal — if not positive — in the long run. “There’s enough momentum in Alberta’s economy and the energy sector in itself that even at $80 oil, it’s not going to please a lot of people but it won’t be enough to majorly derail our economy,” he said. Upward spikes in oil prices, he said, even have the potential of making negative changes to the economy, putting upward pressure on things like housing prices and throwing off the balance of labour markets. Alberta’s unemployment rate has remained steady quarter to quarter at just under 4%.

Brittany Kustra is the Communications and Marketing Coordinator for the Northern Alberta Business Incubator.

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