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WHY PAY MORE FOR THE SAME TREATMENT!At Leading Edge Physiotherapy the cost of 3 treatments is just $450
North Suite 130, 145 Carleton Drive, St. Albert 780.458.2669 • Central Royal Glenora Club 11160 River Valley Road, Edmonton 780.761.1160
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PLANTAR FASCITISGOLFERS ELBOWTENNIS ELBOW
Radial shockwave is an acoustic pulse that is pneumatically generated. It causes the bodyto Respond with increased metabolic activity around the site of pain. This increases thecirculation and begins the healing process. It takes 3 treatments completed one weekapart with follow up appointments 4-12 weeks after the completion of those treatments.
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Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader
Bellerose Composite High School49 Giroux Rd 780.460.8490Principal: Larry DickMay 5-9: Bulldog Football CampMay 5: Stars of BelleroseMay 5: Cosmetology Hair Show field tripMay 7: Dog Treat ThursdayMay 8: Math Club meeting
Elmer S. Gish School75 Akins Dr 780.459.7766Principal: Erin SteeleMay 5: Celebrating French Canadian culturewith Les Bucherons all dayMay 6: Cultural traditions shared inclassroomsMay 7: Cultural books in classroomsMay 8: Culture rotations in classroomsMay 9: Celebrate Culture through DanceAssembly & students will wear clothes thatrepresent their culture
Keenooshayo School40 Woodlands Rd 780.459.3114Principal: Michael EricksonMay 5: Div. 1 to Edmonton SymphonyOrchestra; school council: 7pmMay 6: Bowling clubMay 8: Read-in; Gr. 1 to Profiles Art GalleryMay 9: Sr high band performance;Keenooshayo Parents’ Association flower sale:11am-5pm
Leo Nickerson School10 Sycamore Ave 780.459.4426Principal: Kevin JonesMay 5: Door decorating based on schoolbook study of “Only One You”May 6: Partners in the Parks Day clean up ofCunningham Dr, Forest Lawn Ravine & school ydMay 7: Read-in: 10:30amMay 8: Volunteer Luncheon, “A World OfThanks” program: 11:45am, lunch: 12:15pm;Mila’s Cake Walk, fundraising for the EdmontonHumane Society (win a cake, tickets 50¢ ea)May 9: Coffee & muffin morning, drop in onyour way to work: 7:30-9am; French playUnitheatre: 9:30amAll week: Artist in Residence Stan Phelpswill be working with students to create a50th Anniversary mural
Lorne Akins School4 Fairview Blvd 780.460.3728Principal: Loretta ManningMay 2/3: 32 Hour Famine (Free the Children)May 5: Gr. 8 social Japanese culture field trip(Edmonton Japanese Community Association);SAPEC interschool badminton doublescompetition; Gatorugby practiceMay 6: SAPEC interschool badminton doublescompetition; Gatorugby practiceMay 7: Staff meeting; Gatorugby game(Greater Edmonton Jr. High League); TheInventor’s Fair for Social StudiesMay 8: Sugar Shocker demonstration(Lorne Akins Health and Wellness Committee)May 9: Sean Senego to give Guitar & Pop &Rock student workshop on Friday morning &concert during lunch in the atrium: 12:30-1pm
Muriel Martin School110 Deer Ridge Dr 780.458.0205Principal: Les KirchnerMay 6: Guest readers: 10:15-10:45am;French book fair; French Spectacle: 6:30pmMay 7: Principal/Assistant Principal for themorning; Staff Appreciation lunch; French bookfair; Hats on for Mental Health Hat DayMay 8: Movin’ On Up, period 3; Hot lunch;Compost bagging & sale, all gradesMay 9: Counsellor for the morning; Compostbagging & sale, all grades; Treat Day; Mother’sDay Tea, KindergartenMay 10: Compost saleAll week: Spell-a-thon; School yard clean up;Mission Impossible
Outreach High School50 Sir Winston Churchill Ave780.458.0839Principal: Brian SamuelMay 6: Celebration of Learning assemblyMay 8: Pancake breakfast
Paul Kane High School12 Cunningham Rd 780.459.4405Principal: Duncan KnollMay 3: 70 students participating in Vulcanrugby tournamentMay 5-9: AP exams in Chemistry, Psychology,Spanish, Calculus, English Language &English LiteratureMay 5-7: Tickets to Paul Kane graduation onsale after school in the cafeteriaMay 7: French Immersion students writingDELF examMay 10: Free2Walk to support the end tohuman trafficking: 7:30pm, Lion’s ParkAll week: Student art at the High Energy ArtExhibition, Art Gallery in St. Albert
Robert Rundle School50A Grosvenor Blvd 780-459.4475Principal: John OsgoodMay 6: Community readersMay 8: Kindergarten Mother’s Day TeaMay 9: Class photos; Gr. 1-3 Winspear“Magnificent Musical Portraits”May 15-16: Gr. 4 Bennett Centre, learningabout Alberta’s land, history & people
Ronald Harvey School15 Langley Ave 780.459.5541Principal: Janet TrippMay 5: Dynamix Gymnastics; Read-in withguest readersMay 6&7: Scholastic book fairMay 7: Read-a-thonMay 8: Floor hockey tournament, Gr. 6students versus staffMay 9: Div. 2 track meet at Fowler Track;Kindergarten Mother’s Day Tea; Gr. 3 swimminglessons; Band concert by Elkford SecondarySchool; School Development Society compost sale
Sir Alexander Mackenzie School61 Sir Winston Churchill Ave780.459.4467Principal: John StrembitskyMay 4: Grice Gazelles in Run WildMay 5: School yard clean upMay 6: Jersey Day: support your favouriteteam; School yard clean upMay 7: Cupcake Day, 50 cents each; Schoolyard clean up; Staff meeting, early dismissalMay 8: 1A, 1M, & 1T swim, Fountain ParkPool: 9:20am; 1C & 1L swim, Fountain ParkPool: 2:10pmMay 9: Gr. 3 symphony field trip: 9:45am;Kindergarten Mother’s Day Tea: 10:30am &1:30pm
Sir George Simpson School50 Grosvenor Blvd 780.459.4456Principal: Pierre Rousseau� Reading Week�Health morning featuring Dr. Cristina LuciaStasia from the University of Alberta
� Band trip to Banff & Jasper�Outdoor education trip to Hinton
Wild Rose School58 Grenfell Ave 780.460.3737Principal: Barb ScottMay 4: Run Wild RunMay 5: Music Monday, Sing AcrossCanada: 10-11am; Cyber EtiquetteAfternoon, Gr. 4-6May 6: Rock ‘n Read, community readerscelebrate literacy by reading to classes:10:30-10:55am;Gr. 3 Clay Works/Museum all dayMay 7: Wild Rose Walk of Fame Show;Habit Day - SynergizeMay 8: Gr. 5 Historical Fair, parentviewing: 3:30-5:30pm; Gr. 6 Bennett CentreScience ReviewMay 9: Swiss Chalet lunch; KindergartenMother’s Day Tea; Gr. 3 symphony field trip;Gr. 6 canoeing
William D. Cuts School149 Larose Dr 780.458.8585Principal: Mike Tod� Badminton finalsMay 9: Career Day
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Gardeners who don’t have enough space can look to one of the many community gardens in St. Albert — like the one John Grylls (pictured) runs on his property on Meadowview Lane — to experience a little bit of the farm in the middle of the city. See story, page 12.
That’s how many cases of measles have been reported in Alberta so far in 2014, prompting Alberta Health Services to declare an outbreak of the disease in Calgary, Edmonton and central Alberta. AHS is now offering an additional dose of vaccine for infants six to 12 months old, and is urging kids over four who attend daycares and schools to get their second dose as soon as possible.
A local veterinary clinic is hoping to get the scoop on poop this spring.
Tudor Glen Veterinary Hospital is hosting its second annual Poop-A-Thon on Saturday at the off-leash area at Lacombe Lake Park, with four teams competing to see who can pick up the most poop uncovered from the winter while raising money for a pair of local charities.
The first event was held last year, and although it was later in the season and there were fewer teams, they were still able to pick up more than 50 pounds of poop.
“We started thinking about how we could get involved in the community. Obviously, we love pet owners, but what could we do to better St. Albert, because it’s such a beautiful city?” said Dr. Tammy Wilde, one of the co-owners of the hospital. “And dog poop always curls people’s noses up, the thought of it, so we thought if we could get out there and help clean up the city, then we’re doing our part.”
And Wilde said it was a great time.
“It’s a competitive time,” she said with a laugh. “It’s competitive, it’s fun, and it goes by fast. ... But don’t wear flip-flops to it.”
This year, there are teams from Tudor Glen Veterinary Hospital, The Ranch Kennels, Clippin’ Along and the City of St. Albert scheduled to participate. There will also be a barbecue and bouncy castles on site, as well as draws and information displays, and they hope to raise $5,000.
“It’s been a great response —
lots of donations from different businesses around for food and tents,” Wilde said.
The hospital has also been selling paper poops for donations, which are being put up for display in their reception area, and their fundraising “poop-o-meter” currently sits at almost $4,000.
Aside from the aesthetic benefits of picking up poop, there are health benefits — not only for dogs, who may ingest it directly or by licking their paws and pick up worms and parasites, but also for humans.
“(Parasites) can migrate through the backs of our eyes, causing blindness and liver and lung issues,” Wilde said. “We always hear of people affected by it, and even though those numbers are low, if we can prevent one child from losing their eyesight, we’ve done our jobs.”
And that’s why the proceeds of the events are going not only to the Edmonton Humane Society, but also to the Stollery Children’s Hospital.
“We’re trying to get the news out there that this is a zoonotic
disease, so it can affect people. And our children are the ones who are often affected because they forget to wash their hands and stuff like that,” Wilde said.
“Our pets are such an important part of our family, and we want everyone to be happy — both the furry guys and the humans,” she added.
The Poop-A-Thon fundraiser takes place Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information or to make a donation, call Tudor Glen Veterinary Hospital at 780-458-6051.
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The St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village is hoping to whet the appetites of potential donors with the help of a noted local chef.
Alex Johnson is a chef at the Jasper Avenue location of Cactus Club Café in Edmonton, but he has been lending his talents to the St. Albert Food Bank for the past few months, leading monthly community cooking classes at their facility on Bellerose Drive. Next weekend, though, he’ll be lending his talents in other ways, creating canapes and desserts for the food bank’s third annual Hors d’Oeuvres and Silent/Live Auction event, taking place Saturday, May 10, at the St. Albert Community Hall on Perron Street.
“(Johnson) is fabulous,” said Suzan Krecsy, executive director of the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village. “... He’s a great chef. He’s very creative. We just love having him here.”
The event will also feature Mayor Nolan Crouse as the auctioneer and entertainment from local singer-songwriter Martin Kerr.
The highlight of the auction will be a private dinner party catered by Johnson, but there are plenty of other items available as well, including makeovers, golf packages, sports memorabilia, works of art, trips and lots more.
“This is the day before Mother’s Day — hint hint,” Krecsy said with a laugh.
“Businesses in St. Albert are very generous to us,” she added. “They’ve given us some really nice stuff.”
In the past two years, the food bank has made between $20,000 and $25,000, but organizers are shooting for $30,000 this year, as this year is the 30th anniversary of the founding of the St. Albert Food Bank.
Krecsy said that, since 1984, St. Albert has changed quite a bit, and the food bank has changed right alongside the city, evolving from being simply a food crisis centre, where food
was given out on an emergency basis, to what it is today. The biggest change, though, has been the addition of the community village, which opened four years ago.
“That’s been extremely successful in actually reducing the number of folks who need to continue accessing the food bank,” she said. “It’s the hard work of our community liaison, our social worker, and the community partnerships we have. It all benefits our clients.”
She added that they will look at a few other events to celebrate their 30th year as the actual anniversary gets closer in November.
“We’d like any previous volunteers, board members, anyone who had anything to do with the food bank over the past 30 years to give us a call and give us their names so we can thank them appropriately,” Krecsy said.
Tickets for the event are $50, with a portion of that cost being tax deductible, and are available through Eventbrite.
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The City of St. Albert is encouraging residents to think of another mother — Mother Nature, to be exact — this Mother’s Day.
As part of its ongoing Spruce Up St. Albert initiative, the City is hosting its 16th annual Clean and Green RiverFest on Sunday, May 11, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., starting at the east parking lot of St. Albert Centre. There, participants can help pick up litter from the banks of the Sturgeon River, plant trees along the river and take in the displays at the environment fair and enjoy a barbecue lunch.
“There’s almost something to meet every sort of age group,” said Margo Brenneis, community recreation co-ordinator with the City.
The planting of trees is handled through the River Edge Enhancement Project (REEP).
Last year, between 300 and 350 volunteers came out to lend a hand, including a number of large community and school groups.
Organizers are hoping for about the same turnout again this year, but Brenneis said the turnout can always be helped or hindered by the weather.
Brenneis was one of the co-ordinators of the first RiverFest 16 years ago, and over that time, she said it has grown and evolved for the better.
“It used to be just a cleanup of the river, and very much focused behind St. Albert Place. And the replanting was done on a totally different day,” she said, noting that the event was formerly known as
Clean Up the Sturgeon. “What I’ve seen over the years is those two groups come together. (The people who) clean up litter are often people that are also wanting to see something tangible, like planting. It’s grown in size, and also in focus on the environment, and not just cleaning up litter. The environment and beautifying St. Albert is bigger than that.”
When St. Albert was recently named the number one place to live in Canada by MoneySense magazine, the city’s green spaces and trails were a major contributing factor. And keeping the Sturgeon River healthy plays a big role in that, too.
“With the surveys we’ve done in the community, our parks and quality of life are key. And with the Environmental Master Plan, they did some public engagement, and the environment, our river and our trees came up very high in the priorities,” Brenneis said. “We know we want to keep our river strong and we want to be able to make sure the banks are strong and we encourage growth along there.”
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One St. Albert city councillor is getting a real taste of what people living in extreme poverty in developing countries go through every day.
This week, Cathy Heron is taking part in the Live Below the Line Challenge, a fundraiser put on by the Global Poverty Project that challenges people to eat and drink on a budget of just $1.75 a day, the amount that some 1.2 billion people in the world must survive on every day.
A day or two into the challenge, Heron said she was coping well, although she was starting to miss fresh fruit already.
“Yesterday at council was kind of hard because they had lasagna and garlic bread, and I couldn’t even have a Coke,” Heron said on Tuesday. “But it’s not that bad, and after five days, I’m sure it will be fine, because the realization is that people have
to live more than five days on just $1.75 a day, so I can handle that.”
Heron said she wanted to participate in the challenge because she had heard about the Global Poverty Project through her work with the St. Albert Rotary Club. Both the Global Poverty Project and Rotary
International also work to eradicate polio in developing nations.
“As a Rotarian, I found it a very easy transition to jump on this and try to raise awareness,” Heron said.
Dominic Mishio is the Canada country director for the Global Poverty Project, and he said that seeing public officials like Heron take up the challenge is very encouraging.
“Having a councillor who understands the core things that need
to be created in terms of delivery of water infrastructure, wastewater infrastructure, schools and community halls and places to congregate — having a municipal councillor come on board and participate in the challenge raises the profile that much
more. We really appreciate it,” Mishio said from Toronto.
Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson is also taking part in the Live Below the Line challenge.
The challenge itself is meant to open people’s eyes to just how poor people in developing countries are. In fact, Mishio points out, those taking the challenge even have things a little easier than those living in extreme poverty.
“If you were actually a person living in the developing world, ($1.75 a day) would be your whole entire household income,” he explained. “That would be the money you’d have to spend on transportation, education, health care, shelter, food and water. ... At day five, you start to feel this ongoing hunger, and you start to get anxious to get to that finish line. But a lot of people living in extreme poverty, that’s the reality all the time.”
This is the second year for the Live Below the Line
Challenge. Mishio said that, last year, it raised more than $110,000 for their charity partners, but the number of participants is up dramatically this year, and organizers hope the fundraising total will be up as well.
Mishio added that some participants teamed up last year to buy food in bulk, and celebrity chefs came up with inexpensive recipe ideas to help out.
The Global Poverty Project is an organization that currently operates
office in five countries — Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom,
Australia, New Zealand — and works to put an end to extreme poverty.
“There are a lot of groups that are doing good on-the-ground work, and we’re helping their message reach
a wider audience,” Mishio said. “... There’s 1.2 billion people for whom this challenge doesn’t end in
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ne night, while on a walk near Heritage Lake, I saw what
looked like a small and very fat dog scurrying along the side of the road. I was headed the same direction, so I followed the waddling creature by moonlight until it reached the lake. Once it had slid into the water, I realized that I had been tailing a muskrat, a creature I’d only ever seen swimming before.
Around twilight, along the city’s bike trails, I’ve seen what looked like small birds f lying from tree to tree above my head as I walked. By chance, when one of them f lew between me and the lamppost, I caught a glimpse of its skin-covered wings; it was a bat. I sat on a park bench
until after sunset watching the bats cartwheel around, feeding on summer’s insect swarms.
I learned about a fox’s distinctive tripping gait first-hand when I saw something that moved like an approaching cat, only to be surprised when it got close enough to see its red face.
None of these things happened out in the bush, or on the city’s outskirts. St. Albert is just that kind of city. Meaningful encounters with nature can be surprisingly easy
to come by at night in a wooded city.
Even though we live in a suburban environment, it doesn’t take much to get us back to nature. We can take a picnic lunch out to Big Lake, or even just to the park behind St. Albert Place. We can take a camera with us on an evening walk and see what we run into. We can learn to identify birds and see who exactly is visiting our backyard bird feeders, or take up fishing in the Sturgeon River or Big Lake.
Enjoying nature is not just for people with free time and top-of-the-line equipment, nor is it just for people fit enough to climb mountains or wealthy enough to afford regular camping trips. We’re lucky
enough to live in a city where enjoying nature is often a matter of a five-minute walk, or even of sitting at home with a hot drink and the Big Lake Environmental Support Society (BLESS) webcam open.
The environment we’re working to protect isn’t just faraway mountains and coral reefs. It’s cartwheeling bats, too, and those river sturgeon still living in the watershed. It’s magpies and waxwings and chickadees and the occasional out-of-place pheasant.
St. Albert is the kind of city where it’s easy to get in touch with nature, and we at BLESS love that about it. We love it so much that we want to keep it that way.
ne bad apple, as the old saying goes, spoils the bunch. It’s a good theory, but whether that’s true in practice
depends on the individual circumstances. As we’ve seen in recent weeks and months,
there are some bad apples in Canada when it comes to the federal government’s temporary foreign worker program. There have been plenty of accusations thrown around of paperwork not being done properly and workers being taken advantage of. Those accusations have led to a moratorium on fast food restaurants accessing the TFW program.
And while it’s a good idea to take a close look at the program — to pick through the rest of the apples, if you will — and see what changes need to be made, it’s not terribly fair for the federal government to shut it down and punish those who are following the rules of the program and who truly need it, like some of the fast-food restaurant operators in St. Albert and the rest of Alberta.
There’s no question that the TFW program needs tweaking, if not a complete overhaul. If abuses of the program can happen in a sleepy little mountain town like Fernie, B.C., then they can happen anywhere. But, knowing the folks who run the local McDonald’s franchises and knowing the stellar reputation for philanthropy that the Jenkins family has in St. Albert, they should have the benefit of the doubt that they are treating their employees fairly.
Unfortunately, federal Employment Minister Jason Kenney doesn’t see it that way. When questioned in the House of Commons on the topic by Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber Monday, Kenney glibly suggested that “some of the member’s business constituents should be increasing wage rates, improving working conditions, investing more in training, and doing more to hire Canadians first.” They have exhausted all the avenues they can, and the TFW program is a necessity for them.
While one bad apple might spoil the bunch, it’s poor form to presume the rest of the bunch is bad and throw them out without picking through them first.
The Northern Alberta International Children’s Festival relies heavily on volunteers each year, and organizers are hoping to find a few more at a pair of upcoming orientation sessions.
The sessions will take place on Wednesday, May 7, at the Arden Theatre and Monday, May 12, at Cornerstone Hall (6 Taché St.).
Festival volunteer manager Elizabeth Wilkie said that, while they are on pace with previous years for volunteers, these orientation session will be key to putting them over the top.
“We count on a good percentage of our volunteers to come to the orientation and actually sign up on the spot there — a
good 25 per cent of our volunteer force comes from that event,” said Wilkie, who is in her first year with the festival and with the City of St. Albert.
“I think it’s because the sun comes out, and people start to get excited about the festival. They see information about the orientations coming up, and it’s that last little bit of a catalyst to say, ‘Oh yeah, I should do this.’”
This is the first year the City has held two
orientation sessions, after just one in the past.
“It doesn’t matter how many emails or letters or phone calls or website updates you do, people hear about it afterward and go, ‘I wish I would have known!’ So this year, we gave them a place to go after they realize they wish they had known,” Wilkie said.
It is also the first year that the festival will require criminal records checks for every single volunteer, a policy that will be carried forward into future years.
Kids as young as 12 years old can apply to volunteer for the festival in a wide range of roles and responsibilities.
“They can help out with site activities, on stages, in hospitality. We have people that work in the information tents and people that meet and help escort buses, because there is an amazing number of people who travel huge distances to come during the week,” Wilkie said. “Pretty much, if you have an interest in something associated with entertainment and the arts, there’s a place for you to volunteer.”
The orientation sessions will have several information booths set up to let volunteers know about things like the different site activities, security and radio procedures, and the youth ambassador program.
Wilkie said that the festival couldn’t happen without the more than 800 volunteers who come back year after year.
“When you look at St. Albert being the number one city (in Canada) to live in, one of the reason cited in that (MoneySense magazine) article was the Children’s Festival. And with the volunteer base being the most integral part that makes the festival happen, there’s an amazing connection between that volunteer involvement and what we get to celebrate as a community,” she said.
The International Children’s Festival takes place May 27-31 in downtown St. Albert.
Organizers of this year’s Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition are hoping to hear some sweet sounds from their rock lineup.
The St. Albert Kinsmen announced last week that the annual festival’s rock concert will be headlined by Canadian reggae-blues-rock veterans Big Sugar on Friday, May 23, under the big tent at their rodeo grounds on Riel Drive.
They’ll be joined on the bill by fellow Canadian rockers Wide Mouth Mason.
Big Sugar has had a number of members rotate through their lineup since they released their first album in 1991, but the core of the band has remained lead singer/guitarist Gordie
Johnson, bassist Garry Lowe and harmonica/saxophone player Kelly “Mr. Chill” Hoppe. Together, they have gained a reputation for being an outstanding live band.
Their breakthrough came in 1995 when they released their album Hemi-Vision, which included such hits as “Diggin’ A Hole,” “Open Up Baby,” and “If I Had My Way.” They followed that up with 1996’s Heated, which included “Better Get Used to It,” “The Scene,” and “Turn the Lights On.”
In 2001, the band released Brothers and Sisters, Are You Ready?, which included “Nicotina,” “All Hell for a Basement,” and a blistering guitar version of “O Canada.” The band also recorded a track-for-track French version of the album for sale in Quebec.
Big Sugar decided to split up and played their last show at the Shaw Conference Centre in Edmonton on New Year’s Eve 2003. But they reunited in 2010, and released a new studio album, Revolution Per Minute, in 2011. Currently, they are promoting an acoustic album, YardStyle.
Meanwhile, Wide Mouth Mason is a blues-rock band that started in Saskatoon, Sask., in 1995. They are best known for sings like “Midnight Rain,” “Sugarcane,” and “Smile.” Big Sugar’s Johnson started pulling double duty as Wide Mouth Mason’s full-time bassist in March 2011, and also produced their last album, No Bad Days, which was released in July 2011.
Tickets for the rock show are $39.99 each plus fees and taxes, and are available through Ticketmaster. This is an 18-plus show.
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There are plenty of options available to St. Albertans looking for a little bit of the farm life right here in the city.
St. Albert is home to at least four community gardens, where gardening enthusiasts who don’t have enough space on their own property — or perhaps live in an apartment or condominium with no space at all to garden — can rent out space and plant their own crops.
One of those gardens is situated on Meadowview Lane, in the shadow of St. Albert’s grain elevators. There, on his own property, John Grylls has opened up Blackspruce Lane Gardens, turning the backyard on his his own five-acre property into 22 plots measuring 30 feet by 20 feet each that gardeners can rent for $25 a season and have to supply their own water.
“(The demand for space) surprised me, because I guess we’ve gotten used to going to the grocery stores and buying all our stuff. Especially young kids, they think it’s made in the back of the store,” he said.
Grylls has lived on Meadowview Lane since 1990, and about 15 years ago, he started the garden so the gardening club at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church had
somewhere to work.“There were four or five people, and I
marked it up. Those four or five became six or seven just by word of mouth,” he said. “... It was good for me, because I would have had to plant grass and mow it myself and look after the weeds. I thought maybe other
people can look after the weeds.”
Last year, Grylls had just two empty plots, and he’s already close to full for this year as the growing season is just beginning.
Meanwhile, it’s a similar scene at the St. Albert Catholic Parish, where the St. Albert and District Garden Club operates the St. Albert Heritage Garden, which was opened in 2011 as part
of the city’s 150th anniversary celebrations.Since then, they’ve seen a lot of demand
for space.“It has gone really well,” said Dolores
Andressen with the garden club. “We’ve had a lot of support from the parish and also from the City (of St. Albert) ... they helped us start up and said, ‘These are some of the things to watch for, and these are some of the things that work really well in community gardens.’ And they were also helpful in allowing us to use mulch from the compost area.”
At the parish, plots are available in two sizes — 20 feet by 10 feet and 10 feet by 10 feet — along some small raised beds for
perennials and flowers. The club has also added benches and picnic tables so the whole community can enjoy the garden, not just gardeners.
“We’re trying to make it into a little bit of a park, so that it’s a welcoming place to come and visit, even if you don’t have a plot,” Andressen said.
She added that another advantage of including flowers is companion planting. For example, “marigolds and tomatoes go really well together, because the scent of marigolds keeps some pests away.”
Other community gardens in St. Albert are located at the Christian Reformed Church on Gate Avenue and at 17 Riel Dr., between LBH Building Supplies and Westcon Precast.
Grylls has seen everything from squash and potatoes to tomatoes and corn planted in the garden, as well as broccoli and cabbage. He said there’s a real community spirit among the gardeners sharing crops and advice throughout the year.
Anything left over after the harvest at his garden and many others in the city is donated to the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village, including about 1,000 pounds of potatoes one year. At the parish garden, one plot is set aside to grow produce for the food bank.
But more important than charity, Grylls said, is giving people a chance to see exactly where their food comes from.
“I was raised on a farm, so I knew where it came from,” he said with a laugh. “I think it’s important from that point of view that people keep a hand in it. The other part is that people seems to enjoy being in the garden. It’s a little bit of quiet.”
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Drivers of electric vehicles are getting a real charge out of an environmentally conscious feature at a City of St. Albert building.
Around the back of the City’s business development centre, located in the old CIBC building at 29 Sir Winston Churchill Ave., sits an electric vehicle charging station, allowing eco-friendly a place to recharge their batteries for the road ahead.
The station was installed in September 2013, says Meghan Myers, community environmental co-ordinator with the City.
“It was initiated by a local businessman in the community; he donated it to the City, specifically to economic development,” Myers explained. “That’s where it started. It was a combined cost — he donated the electric vehicle station, and we put together the cost to install it.”
The location was chosen not only because that particular building is home to the City’s economic development department, but also because of its centrality.
“It’s right downtown, and a lot of people that own cars like this have a GPS and plan out their routes where they can fill up,” she said. “So the thought is, when planning out their routes, they’ll stop in St. Albert, park, fill up, and walk around and go into our stores
and shops and so forth. It just brings people our downtown area.”
So far, Myers can’t really say how much the station is being used, but the City hopes to have a new monitoring system up and running soon.
“Anybody who has come by to use it, it’s typically been during the day,” she said.
While electric vehicles haven’t quite broken into the mainstream just yet, Myers said they very well could in the future if the technology continues to advance.
“It’s a little bit pricey to get it right now, but it definitely could be (more popular) sometime in the future,” she said.
And that could lead to more charging stations like this one popping up in St. Albert.
“We just produced our greenhouse gas local action plan, and something like encouraging electric vehicle (charging stations) at maybe our transit stations would definitely be something we’d look into in the future, for sure,” Myers said.
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He may have been knocked down, but Sheldon Westcott is ready to get back up and keep fighting.
Westcott, a 29-year-old graduate of Paul Kane High School, was stopped short in his bid to become the middleweight champion of The Ultimate Fighter Nations: Canada vs. Australia on Wednesday, April 16, when he lost to Toronto’s Elias Theodorou in the live series finale in Quebec City.
But, back at Complete Fitness and Martial Arts — the gym he co-owns in Campbell Business Park — last week, Westcott wasn’t dwelling on the loss, instead choosing to focus on the road ahead.
“It was the first fight I’ve lost in seven years. The onus is on me,” Westcott said. “I need to go back to the drawing board a little bit and change the result for the next time out.”
The Ultimate Fighter is a reality television show produced by the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the world’s biggest mixed martial arts promotion. Winners earn a
contract with the UFC that could potentially be worth six figures.
Despite the rush of being on the show and the notoriety that came with it, Westcott felt a disconnect between taping The Ultimate Fighter and having it air on TV.
“It’s almost like you never really got to be in the moment,” he said. “... When you’re going through it the first time, everything’s all surreal; you can’t believe you’re on the Ultimate Fighter, and everything’s a little different than you thought it would be. But once you start watching the show, you’ve already lived it, so you already know what happens. You almost didn’t get to live the show once, but you lived it twice.”
Westcott became the first Ultimate Fighter contestant to reach the finals by finishing both his opponents in under a minute. He only spent an average of 50 seconds in the Octagon over those two fights. In his semifinal against Australia’s Vik Grujic, he also executed the first-ever Von Flue shoulder choke on The Ultimate Fighter and only the third in UFC history. He was the first UFC fighter to ever execute the hold from a half-guard position.
But when the bell rang in Quebec City, Westcott — despite a strong opening few minutes — found himself on the wrong end of Theodorou’s punches and elbows, forcing the referee to stop the bout.
“I made more mistakes in that fight than I’ve made in my entire career up to that night — which sucks, especially on the biggest stage you could possibly be on,” Westcott said. “But there are no excuses. It wasn’t my trainer’s fault how I performed. It wasn’t all my other coaches or training partners ... It was 100 per cent, completely on me.”
Of course, preparing for the bout was complicated by the fact that he couldn’t talk about the show and possibly let it slip that he would be in the finale.
“But all the other guys in our gym had fights coming up, so I was in there pushing the pace with them, and they were in fight shape. I had a ton of guys who were in great physical shape and pushed me through every single training session I had,” he said.
Now back in St. Albert, he is using his experience to inspire others at his gym.
“Now that I actually get to talk about it, it’s awesome,” Westcott said. “We have guys who are coming up who are like, ‘I wanna do this; this is my career.’ If I can help them get through any part of it or lead them in a direction to make their lives a little easier, I love it.”
But Westcott is focused on his own future, too, as he hopes to get back in the Octagon later this year, possibly in August, and return to the welterweight division.
“Now I’m going to go down to 170 (lbs.), my normal weight class, where I’m going to have the physical advantages, which is going to be nice. And I’ll be fighting my next fight in the UFC, which is perfect for me,” he said. “Hopefully it’ll be sooner rather than later.”
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An annual exhibit is entering a new dimension this month at the Art Gallery of St. Albert.
Starting tonight (Thursday) at the gallery is the 19th annual High Energy exhibit, which features works collected over the past year from students at Bellerose Composite High School, St. Albert Catholic High School, Paul Kane High School, École Secondaire Sainte Marguerite d’Youville and the St. Albert Public Schools Outreach high school.
Each year, the gallery gives the schools a special challenge project to work on; this time, it was to take famous paintings and reinterpret in three-dimensional works. For example, ESSMY students took elements of surrealist René Magritte’s paintings and fashioned them in clay, while students at SACHS took famous portraits, like Andy Warhol’s painting of Marilyn Monroe, and recreated them in 3D.
“It’s a really nice link to contemporary art history for the students,” said Jenny Willson-McGrath, the AGSA’s curator of exhibitions. “And it’s a really nice complement to the high school curriculum.”
Of course, there are plenty of other works in the show, spanning a wide range of mediums, from pastel drawings to a painted chair
with legs made to look like those of a deer.
One of the works in the show is a watercolour painting by Bellerose Grade 11 student Melissa L’Hirondelle, featuring a phoenix perched atop a pile of skulls.
This is L’Hirondelle’s first time being featured in the High Energy exhibit, and she’s still sort of floored to have her work on display in such a high-profile venue.
“It just sort of happened. I don’t know how I feel about it yet. Maybe when I see it on display, I’ll be like, ‘Oh my God!’” she said.
However, the chance to be included in the show is “really awesome.”
“Before coming to Bellerose, I was never really involved in (art). I do (a painting) and maybe it would hang up in the hallways or stay in the back room,” she said. “But now that I’m at Bellerose and in Miss (Judy) Smallwood’s class, it’s the first year I’m in it, and she’s getting me involved in all these things. Things are happening with my art.”
Meanwhile, Christine Samson, art teacher at SACHS, said she has more than 40 students with work in the show, and it means a lot to them to be included.
“This is an amazing experience. As a high school student, I never had that kind of opportunity to be able to professionally show my work. And the earlier they have the chance to actually have their work
in a show, it builds confidence and they feel good about their artwork.”
Samson added that she has been collecting work from both first and second semester classes and from all three levels — Art 10, 20 and 30 — to put in the show, trying to show the students’ development over the year and “make it a little bit eclectic.”
New this year, the gallery is turning the vault in the exhibition space into a photobooth, allowing people to go in throughout the month and pose with various props for circulation on social media sites. The exhibit is also being sponsored by a community member, long-time Arts and Heritage Foundation of St. Albert chair Dr. Alan Murdock, for the first time.
Willson-McGrath said the High Energy show is a lot of work each year, but it’s also one of the exhibits the gallery always looks forward to most.
“We call it a ‘fan-favourite’ exhibition,” she said. “We get huge numbers at the opening reception. And throughout the month, it’s a very well-attended show. We just love it.”
High Energy 19 runs at the Art Gallery of St. Albert (19 Perron St.) until May 24. An opening reception, sponsored by ATB Financial, will be held tonight (Thursday) in conjunction with the first ArtWalk of the season.
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Lorenz is the new conductor of the Edmonton Schoolboys’ Alumni Band, and she’ll be in charge of her first concert with the band this Sunday evening at the St. Albert United Church (20 Green Grove Dr.).
She is taking over the baton from former conductor Armand Baril, who headed up the band from 2000 to 2013, and she knows that’s a tough act to follow, but she’s excited to give it a shot.
“It’s like a dream come true. It’s absolutely awesome,” Lorenz said.
“Armand is such an icon. He’s such a strong musician and so well-respected,” she added. “And he was in the position for 13 years. As a person and as a musician, those are definitely big shoes to fill.”
Gerry Buccini is a St. Albert resident and plays clarinet in the band. He said that Lorenz is fitting very well with the group.
“She definitely brings a different kind of leadership style, but the same level of music and same love of concert band identity … she’s a very big believer in music for the audience,” said the former president of the St. Albert Community Band.
Lorenz holds a bachelor of education degree majoring in music education from the University of Alberta, as well as a master’s degree in wind conducting from the University of Alberta. She studied under St. Albert Community Band conductor Dr. Angela Schroeder and has taught private trumpet lessons and in the Edmonton Catholic Schools system for many years.
While parts of the ESAB’s
repertoire has remained the same under Lorenz, she has also introduced a few newer, more contemporary pieces.
“Because I’m young, I guess, I’ve brought sort of a youthful energy and a different set of ears, a different approach to
rehearsing,” she said. “... We’re staying with the standard, classic repertoire, but adding in new compositions that are just really solid music.”
At Sunday’s concert, Lorenz said those who come out can
expect a nice blend of the old standards and some new pieces.
“They’re going to hear the Schoolboys in their absolute top form,” she said.
The Edmonton Schoolboys’ Alumni Band was formed in 1996
when more than 400 members of the Edmonton Schoolboys’ Band — which was formed in 1935 and disbanded in 1969 when Edmonton Public Schools placed music instruction in the hands of individual schools — got together for a reunion and some decided to keep on playing.
These days, the band boasts about 70 members, some 10 or 15 of which live in St. Albert, according to Buccini. They rehearse Thursday mornings at the Central Lions Seniors Recreation Centre in Edmonton.
Buccini said it’s incredibly important for band members to keep music in their lives in some fashion as they enter their golden years.
“For 55 years, I’ve had a clarinet in my hand. I don’t know what I would have done had I not brought my clarinet to university,” he said. “... Music is for life, and the proof is in the pudding in that group. We’ve got guys who are in their 80s who are still playing.”
The Edmonton Schoolboys’ Alumni Band takes the stage at
the St. Albert United Church Sunday at 7 p.m. Admission is $10 per person, or free for children under 18 when accompanied by paying parents or grandparents. Tickets are available through band members, the St. Albert United Church office or at the door.
Comic book fans from across St. Albert and beyond will be celebrating Saturday with the popular and growing Free Comic Book Day event.
They’re not the only ones celebrating, though, as organizers of the upcoming Eek! Comic and Pop Culture Festival in St. Albert are also looking forward to the event.
Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) has run across North America since 2002 and has been growing each year. This year, more than 60 comic titles will be given away for free at comic retailers across North America. In the greater region, the biggest
celebration of the genre will be at Edmonton comic book shop Happy Harbor, located downtown on 104 Avenue and 107 Street.
Co-owner Jay Bardyla says the day is about more just giving away free comic books.
“We try and make (the day) what it should be, a celebration,” he said.
Bardyla’s store hosts an event that features live entertainment, fans in costume and a carnival-type atmosphere that encourages fans to truly embrace comics as an entertainment medium.
“It’s been growing by leaps and bounds,”
said Bardyla, who expects as many as 2,000 fans at his store on Saturday.
For local organizers with the upcoming Eek! Comic and Pop Culture Festival, running May 31 and June 1 at Servus Place, the day is a natural fit.
“We love comics. Half of today’s pop culture wouldn’t exist without comic books,” said Rob LeLacheur, director of Eek! and publisher of the St. Albert Leader. “We want to help spread the word about the event. Reading comic books is not only fun but a great way to encourage literacy in children.”
In addition to hosting a fun day
celebrating comics, Bardyla said he tries to keep a focus on charity and also promoting local artists. Several artists will be creating original art work of various sizes to give to customers making food bank donations.
FCBD features more than just comics about heroes in tights, there are industry staples such as Archie to give away but also titles featuring genre’s like steampunk, horror, Japanese manga and more.
To learn more about FCBD visit www.freecomicbookday.com and www.happyharborcomics.com.
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A very different spin is being put on an old tale this weekend at Fort Edmonton Park thanks to a theatre company founded by a St. Albertan.
Fable Entertainment, in conjunction with Calgary company Le Cirque de la Nuit, are putting on The Music Box in the Capitol Theatre at Fort Edmonton Park, with three shows Friday and Saturday.
Dancer, fire spinner and Fable Entertainment founder Marissa Puff, who was born and raised in St. Albert, said The Music Box is a retelling of a story that’s familiar to just about everyone.
“It’s really a circus interpretation of The Wizard of Oz,” she explained. “We have this lovely female lead who we follow into a circus land, where she meets a lot of different characters Instead of ruby slippers, she has a music box, and she goes on a quest to get it back from an evil ringmaster.”
Le Cirque de la Nuit and Fable Entertainment worked together on another production, Arniko, in February that received rave reviews, so they decided to do it all over again with The
Music Box.“We wanted to do a storyline show
for a nightclub-type event,” Puff said. “So we had started working on it back (in February), and we wanted to flesh out the story more, the characters, and make it bigger and better if we could.”
Aside from those two companies, though, a lot of other Edmonton talent is being brought in for guest performances in this show, including all-female dance company BBM, hoop gymnasts Stephanie Gruson and Luna, and belly dancer Amy Senecal, Dahila and Tsaida Springfield.
“A lot of the talent comes from the talent within Fable,” Puff said. “One of our girls also dances with BBM, so we thought, ‘You work with these girls, you’re insanely talented and we all support each other — why don’t we come together for a show?’ ... It’s a big community that we wanted to draw together into one show.”
And being able to stage the production at historic Fort Edmonton Park is a big thrill.
“The Capitol Theatre is an extremely beautiful theatre — very vintage, classic. It feels very elegant,” Puff said. “To be able to put on a production there automatically raises our level
of performance and what we want to deliver to the audience.”
Growing up a dancer in St. Albert, Puff always loved the stage, and added the fire-spinning element to her performance about five years ago. She founded Fable Entertainment in January 2013, and the group has performed at several festivals and conferences in the Capital Region since, including a performance at last year’s Canadian Finals Rodeo.
“This is kind of the next step for us. We haven’t done a theatre production yet, so this is like dipping our toes in the water,” Puff said.
Puff also appeared on the reality series Canada’s Got Talent in 2012, making to the semifinals before bowing out.
The two companies are hopeful they can reprise the show later this year and perform some shows in Calgary and other Alberta cities.
The Music Box hits the stage at the Capitol Theatre Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., with a matinée performance Saturday at 2 p.m. General admission tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for kids 12 and under in advance ($5 more at the door). Tickets are available online at www.cirquenuit.com.
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A show in St. Albert last October felt like a homecoming for the band Current Swell — even the members who aren’t from the city.
The Victoria, B.C.-based band — whose new album, Ulysses, hits store shelves this Tuesday, May 6 — features two members, Scott Stanton and Dave Lang, who originally hail from St. Albert, and they were in their hometown just seven months ago to take the stage at the Arden Theatre.
But even for the band’s bassist, Ghosty Boy, who isn’t from St. Albert, seeing his bandmates playing for family and friends in the audience was a special experience.
“If you go to Alberta, you’re going to typically play Edmonton and Calgary, so (it was cool) to be able to actually play in St. Albert because people have family there and it’s their legitimate hometown,” said Ghosty, who hails from just outside Toronto. “And because it’s a theatre, and you have that theatre show vibe — it seems like more of a show and less of a club rock kind of thing, it’s really exciting.”
Current Swell also includes Chris Pedersen on drums. The band first formed on Vancouver Island in the early 2000s, and they were already established when the original bass player decided to go back to school and Ghosty joined their ranks.
“I shot them a Myspace message or something, and then Scotty left me a message on my phone. But I didn’t check it for a couple of weeks and kind of forgot about it,” he said. “One day, I was sitting on my porch, and I was like, ‘I wonder if those guys ever found somebody?’ I randomly called him two or three weeks later, and Scotty was like, ‘Oh yeah, we have a tour coming up, but we don’t have a guy yet. What are you doing?’ And I was like, ‘Let’s do this.’”
Together, the band continued to steadily gain popularity, both in North America and in Brazil, where they headlined shows in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo in 2012.
Still, Ghosty said it’s a surreal feeling to hear one of their songs on the radio alongside some of their idols.
“I was in a random store one day, and they’re just playing the radio, and one of our songs comes on. I was looking around, thinking, ‘Should I just tell everybody?’ Like, ‘Hey, this is me on the radio!’” he laughed.
One song off Ulysses, “Keys to the Kingdom,” has been getting regular airplay on local radio stations, while the band recently released a video for another song, “Rollin’.”
Ulysses marks a departure for Current Swell in terms of songwriting. Whereas those responsibilities fell mainly to Stanton and Lang
on prior albums, this time around, it was truly a collaborative effort between all four of them.
“It’s been a massive leap,” Ghosty said. “The big difference is that we had something we didn’t have on any of the previous records, which is time and resources. We were at a point where we know we can get into a real studio and that we can track down a really great producer and fly him in from wherever he hangs his hat. And we can actually take a month off work and rent out a house and spend full days trying out as many different songs with as many different possible arrangements (as we can) and every idea gets addressed until we really find something that fits well.”
Also helping in that aspect was the band winning the Peak Performance Project in Vancouver in 2011. While that prize worth was more than $100,000, Ghosty said the publicity they got out of it might be more valuable.
“I think it’s been two or three years, and people are still like, ‘Wow, that’s quite a big jump,’” he said. “It really created a bit of a whirlwind and a bit of buzz, and it really gave us something to say we worked hard and accomplished something.”
Current Swell has tour dates scheduled across North America, with a few festival stops in Europe, between now and August.
Keep up with Current Swell online at www.currentswell.com, facebook.com/currentswell or @currentswell on Twitter.
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Labour Minister Thomas Lukaszuk says the federal government’s suspension of temporary foreign worker (TFW) access for Canada’s food services industry is unfair to Alberta’s tight labour market.
Last week, the federal government launched a review into the use of TFWs in the food services sector after several Canadian businesses, including three McDonald’s restaurants in Victoria, B.C., were accused of giving TFWs priority work status or more hours.
Employment Minister Jason Kenney announced an immediate moratorium on TFW applications from the food services industry pending the outcome of the review, saying abuse of the program “will not be tolerated.”
On Friday, Lukaszuk called Kenney’s decision a “knee-jerk reaction,” saying the federal government should work
with provinces to pursue action against individual companies and “not an entire industry.”
“Alberta feels it is unfair to freeze an entire sector because there are problems with a few players,” he said.
Alberta’s labour market is tight, Lukaszuk argues, with employers unable to find workers and workers unable to find jobs. Food services companies participate in provincial programs like job fairs, he said, yet positions remain open.
“It’s the reality of Alberta’s labour market: when jobs remain unfilled, workers are recruited from other sectors, customer service declines, or Canadians already on staff lose shifts or jobs when restaurants close or reduce their hours,” he said.
“We encourage the federal government to clarify the timelines of its review, so that Albertans can continue to get
the food services they need.”The Alberta Federation of Labour
(AFL), however, released documents Friday that they say shows TFW program abuse in several Alberta industries that give them “unlawful permits” to hire TFWs below the prevailing wage.
The AFL says the 351 unlawful permits issued between 2009 and 2013 include nine for gas stations and convenience stores, 22 at hotels, casinos and truck stops, five at ski lifts
and bars, and 29 at restaurants outside Edmonton and Calgary.
“Targeting food services is not enough,” said AFL president Gil McGowan.
“The government needs to immediately scrap all low-wage streams of the TFW program and put a moratorium on medium and high-skilled streams pending an open and transparent investigation.”
The AFL will ask the federal Auditor General for a full investigation.
The call often arrives in the middle of the night. “Grandma?” the emotional voice on the other end of the phone asks. “I’m in trouble and I need your help right away.” Before long, you’re transferring money to what you believe to be a lawyer or police station to get your grandson or granddaughter out of a bind.
That’s but one of countless examples of “grandparent scams” designed to prey on trusting seniors, warns Jennifer Fiddian-Green, an investigative forensic accountant who has worked extensively with police forces to track down identity thieves and money launderers.
Scams that target seniors — including the lottery scam and the Microsoft tech-support scam — are a growing trend, Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Canada warn in the newly released e-book Protecting You and Your Money: A Guide to Avoiding Identity Theft and Fraud.
Seniors — many of whom are single and lonely — are also the most common victims of romance fraud.
There are several reasons why seniors are more vulnerable, CPA warns. For starters, they tend to have more money and less debt, and chronic health issues make them dependent on others. Many seniors are isolated and trusting and tend not to report scams — a fact fraudsters count on.
Also, con artists often use technology to gather data and know seniors are less tech savvy than others.
“Seniors may have more time to pay a bit of attention to (phone calls and e-mails) and get caught into this complicated web,” says Fiddian-Green.
“The objective of the fraudster is to make that
person feel really great or needed in order to get money out of them. They do it again and again and again and all those bits of money add up.”
She offers this advice to seniors and others: When you receive an unsolicited request asking for money or for you to do something — by phone, e-mail or traditional mail — you have permission to hang up, delete it or throw it out.
“Organized crime is sophisticated. These calls are coming from people in rooms on the other side of the world. They go through lists of phone numbers and as soon as someone picks up they know exactly what to — hook this fish and reel it in,” says Fiddian-Green.
Of course, that doesn’t mean you can’t help a loved
one, she says, pointing to the grandparent scam as an example. “Hang up the phone and call back using a number, your family and resources you’re accustomed to.”
If you are a victim of fraud, report it. “So often people feel guilt or shame and don’t want to report it but know that some of these fraud groups targeting us are really sophisticated. A lot of people are being targeted and a lot of people are responding. That’s why (fraudsters) keep doing it,” Fiddian-Green says.
“Come forward and share your story. Do it because you want to help others be more aware so we can shut this down and say, ‘No, not on my watch. You don’t get to steal money from me or my parents.’”
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Under intense political and legal pressure, the provincial government has struck a new labour deal with the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE).
Announced Monday, AUPE President Guy Smith said details of the four-year wage agreement will be released after it’s ratified by their members but stands as an agreement where “we can hold our heads high that we managed to reach with the government.”
“This has undoubtedly been the most challenging round of negotiations that AUPE has ever been engaged in,” said Smith, thanking the AUPE’s negotiators, staff and membership.
“Getting a negotiated agreement has always been our focus and desired outcome. Despite the many roadblocks and twists and turns, we are able to say that we achieved what we set out to do.”
Smith said the highlights of the deal would first be released Tuesday to their 22,000 members, but said AUPE saw improvement in “significant areas” of
bargaining “that have not been touched for many, many years.” The union was fighting against a wage freeze in the first two
years of the four-year period.
The deal is a step towards repairing the provincial government’s strained relationship with the AUPE’s front-line workers, said Smith.
Premier Dave Hancock said he was “pleased” to reach a deal and thanked Smith for meeting with him last week to discuss the state of
negotiations.“It was important that we were
able to have that dialogue and that our negotiating teams were able to move forward. Our preferred option has always been to find a solution at the bargaining table and we’ve been able to do that,” he said.
Hancock said he will be recommending the deal to cabinet.
The government also dropped an appeal of a court
injunction against Bill 46, the Public Service Salary Restraint Act, that would have forced an agreement on the union and removed their right to binding arbitration. The legislation will likely be repealed once the deal with AUPE is fully ratified.
On Tuesday, the Northern Alberta Business Incubator hosted a group of NAIT Business students to pitch their business plans in front of staff, business coaches, and NAIT Business faculty members. On the line were three prizes for the top plans, based on the viability and originality of the plans.
The businesses we saw proposed included high-quality dog treats marketed guerilla-style using food trucks in dog parks, and a niche lawn care and snow removal business targeted in Slave Lake. The competing students presented their three year financial forecasts, listed their competitive advantages, and spoke passionately about what made their (hypothetical) businesses unique.
It was quite inspiring to witness the business pitches. Not only were these students fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, but they had gone above and beyond to compete for the available prizes. It was clear that these business plans were practice for the real world businesses they’ll surely be starting up when they graduate.
It’s not often that we get to hear young adults present on their passion for business. Their experience in business may be limited, but the next generation has some new insight into business. Here are four things we learned from listening to young entrepreneurs:
They’re collaborative. Most pitches were done in pairs, and they coordinated both the presentation and their roles within the company. One team touched on the contrasting strengths each brought to the
team.They’re not afraid to try
new things. The dog treat company chose to skip third-party distribution entirely, which throws traditional thinking out the window.
They know their customer, and they care about them. One Edmonton-based doggie daycare business proposed to cater to busy single professionals, who are too tired for a dog walk after work.
They understand the value of good publicity. From community-wide dog walks to sponsoring local sports teams, these students were thinking outside the box when it came to gaining the right kind of attention.
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