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LOOKING AHEAD: Blackfalds Mayor Melodie Stol predicts steady growth in 2015 – PG 3
COUNTRY SOUNDS: Singer Chad Brownlee is heading to a Red Deer stage this spring – PG 15
www.lacombeexpress.com THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015
BUILDING BRIDGES: Community program brings both young and elderly together – PG 6
STAYING FOCUSED – Brent Flewelling of Lacombe gets ready to release his fi nal rock during the Farmers & Farmerettes Bonspiel that is taking place at the Lacombe Sports and Leisure Complex through to Jan. 10th. Kalisha Mendonsa/Lacombe Express
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VISION – Mayor Melodie Stol poses in the play centre room of the Abbey Master Builder Centre, a huge project that came together for Blackfalds in 2014. Young residents of the Town designed the tiles behind her. Kalisha Mendonsa/Lacombe Express
2014 was a big year for the Blackfalds communityMayor Melodie Stol looks forward to continued growth this year
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ON A MISSION – Pictured here is Larry Quintilio of Red Deer with a photograph of his wife June, who passed away last spring from Alzheimer’s disease. Larry is working to raise awareness about those affected by early onset of Alzheimer’s. Jenna Swan/Lacombe Express
Local man working to build awareness about early onset Alzheimer’s Larry Quintilio knows the pain of dealing with the disease fi rsthand
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WINTER PLAYGROUND - Lennox Rawn, left, and Aspen Bowie, right, enjoy a snowy af-ternoon slipping and sliding down the snow hill located at the Lacombe Memorial Centre on Tuesday. Sarah Maetche/Lacombe Express
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DEVELOPMENT PERMITSCurrent to January 2, 2015
DATE PERMIT# LOCATION DEVELOPMENT January 2 61/252.90 49 Erica Drive Single Family Dwelling
January 2 61/252.91 5319 49 Avenue Freestanding Sign
January 2 61/252.92 5464 54 Avenue Freestanding Sign
January 2 61/252.93 5452 55 Avenue Freestanding Sign
Documents pertaining to the development permits may be inspected at City Hall, 5432-56 Avenue, during
regular business hours.
Anyone claiming to be aff ected by the approval of the Permitted Uses with Variances or Discretionary
Uses may submit an objection within 14 days from the date of notice. The appeal must be in writing,
accompanied with a $50.00 fee and be directed to: Lacombe Subdivision and Development Appeal Board,
Attn: Secretary to the SDAB, 5432 - 56 Avenue Lacombe, AB T4L 1E9
HAPPY TIMES – Young Raya Thompson, 1, was happy to be enjoying time with seniors such as Jacqueline Ball who was visiting the Lacombe Hospital and Care Centre recently. photo submitted
Bridging the generation gap is benefi cial for all
munity choir based in Lacombe is looking for more members. Rehearsals are held on Thurs-days from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Wolf Creek Community Church. For more information call Carolyn at 403-782-7365.
Join the Red Deer River Water-shed Alliance in Lacombe Jan. 16th from 8 to 9:30 a.m. for our Ambassador Program ‘RDRWA on Tour’. This month we will be hosting our breakfast at the La-combe Composite High School (5628 56 Ave.) Winners of the Central Alberta 2014 Caring For Our Watershed Competition Michaela Reitsma, Ava Funk-houser, Tizita Hill and Sofi a Ca-pettini will present their award winning stewardship action L.E.A.F.S along with a tour of the geodesic greenhouse home to Eco-visions aquaponic set-up. This is a chance to see some of our stewards of the future taking positive steps towards water conservation. This is a free event but please RSVP by Jan. 14th by registering online or calling Kelly at 403-340-7379 or e-mailing [email protected]
The MS Whisky Festival runs Jan. 13th - the Red Deer Whisky Fes-tival, in support of the MS Soci-ety of Central Alberta, will take you on a world journey of dis-tilleries! The event takes place at the Red Deer Golf & Country Club. This is a unique chance to taste whiskies from afar and meet/talk directly to distillery representatives. With already over 14 distilleries confi rmed, there is something for every-one! Funds raised at the event help us provide much needed services in the community for those affected by MS, as well as help fund ground-breaking research dedicated to fi nding a cure. Book your tickets now, and travel the world with us…in a ‘spirited’ way! Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are available at the Black Knight Inn Ticket Centre.
Central Alberta Historical Society Meeting runs Jan. 21st at 7 p.m. at Red Deer Museum 4525 47A Ave. Topic: History of Lindsay Thurber High School.
Speaker: Paul Gowans. Everyone welcome. For further information contact Faye 403-343-1881.
Red Deer Justice Film Festival runs Jan. 23-25th. The seventh annual Red Deer Justice Film Festival will host 12 documentary fi lms over three days in January at the Red Deer College Margaret Parsons Theatre. These power-ful stories will foster awareness of injustices and indignities suffered around the world and promote an understanding of what is possible when positive actions are taken, big or small. Each fi lm will be followed by a post-fi lm discussion and the opportunity to connect with a
variety of associated organiza-tions that will have their displays in the NGO village. The Hearts of Women have once again taken on the organizing of the fi lm festival as part of their own desire to advocate the under-standing of social justice issues in a way that may inspire taking responsibility and positive action. Check out www.justicefi lmfes-tival.ca for more information.
Lacombe Walking Group Wednes-days from 12 to 12:30 p.m. at Medcombe Walk-In-Clinic. No registration required.
Kozy Korner Tuesday Din-ners every week at noon.
Lacombe Legion breakfasts third Sunday of every month from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Lacombe Dance Lessons – social and choreographed ballroom dancing. Traditional Two-step or Cha Cha/Jive. For details phone Cliff at 403-782-4094.
St. Andrew’s United Church Jr. Choir for ages fi ve to 18. Meets Thursdays 5:30-6:30 p.m. Con-tact Jessica at 403-352-5486.
St. Andrew’s United Church Adult Choir for those 18 and older. Practices on Wednesdays from 7:15 – 8:30 p.m. Contact St. Andrew’s United Church of-fi ce at 403-782-3148 for more details about the choir.
Real Men Sing Barbershop! The Wild Rose Harmonizers Barbershop Chorus is a chorus for males of all ages who love to sing four-part a cappella harmony. We are a proud member of the Barbershop Harmony society providing enter-
tainment at seniors’ lodges, hos-pitals and numerous community and private functions throughout the year. No experience is re-quired, just a love to sing. Join us on Tuesday evening, rehearsals from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Davenport Church of Christ (#68 Donlevy Ave.) in Red Deer. For informa-tion, call David at 403-342-1318 or email [email protected]. Visit www.harmonizers.ca.
The Red Deer Legion Pipe Band is actively recruiting experienced and inexperienced people from the Central Alberta area, who are interested in joining the Band. Anyone with piping or drumming experience, or if you would like to learn piping or drumming, are asked to please contact us at 403-782-7183 or by email at [email protected]. Prac-tices are held at the Red Deer Legion on Tuesdays at 7 p.m.
Quilting and crafts held at Black-falds United Church on Mon-days at 9:30a.m. Help make quilts or bring your own quilt/
craft to work on. Check out our web site at blackfaldsunited-church.com or call 403-885-4780 for more information.
The Lacombe Legion has bingo on Mondays at 7 p.m. in the upstairs hall. Coffee time runs Wednesdays from 9:30-11 a.m. ($2 for coffee, tea and cook-ies). On Fridays, there are four meat draws and tickets are $2/set of three tickets. Draw starts at 6:30 p.m. On Saturdays, there are four meat draws which start at 4:30 p.m. Chase the ace starts after meat draws.
New to Lacombe? Contact La-combe Welcome Wagon at
403-348-9567 for free maps, information about the City & area, as well as free gifts from local businesses. New baby in the family? Contact Lacombe Welcome Wagon at 403-348-9567 for free information, baby product samples as well as free gifts from local businesses.
Youth Unlimited Drop-in Activities New schedule! Drop-in activi-ties now run every Tuesday from 6 – 9 p.m. with ball hockey on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 – 9 p.m. Girls only drop-in is also Wednesdays from 6 – 9 p.m. Thursdays Grade 3-6 drop-in program runs from 3:30 – 5:30 p.m. and Grade 4 and up program from 6 – 9 p.m. Cost is 2$ for drop-in and ball hockey with drop-in 10 passes at $10 and ball hockey season pass at $50.
Taoist Tai Chi a relaxing, low impact exercise; continuing classes year round, for those who have completed beginners or have learned Taoist Tai Chi before. Par-ticipate in classes of your choice.
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Coffee Time at the Lacombe Legion runs every Wednes-day morning. Come join us for coffee. $2. Gatherings run from 9:30-11:30 a.m. at the Lacombe Legion.
Affi rm – providing safe and confi -dential support to people of all sexual orientation and identity, their families and friends. We meet in Lacombe. For more in-formation, call Marg at 403-782-1887 or Ross at 403-782-3671.
Imperial Daughters of the Empire is a non-profi t women’s volun-teer program that raises money in support of numerous initia-tives supporting educations. Meetings are held on the fourth Tuesday of every month and be-gin at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew’s United Church. For more infor-mation about the group, feel free to contact 403-782-3923.
Lacombe Art Guild – the guild meets regularly on the sec-ond and third Tuesday of each month. A variety of workshops are provided for developing art-ists. Membership is $15 per year. Contact Betty Peers at 403-782-9968 or blog lacombeart-clubwordpress.com. Meetings run in LMC Credit Union Room at 5214 50 Ave. in Lacombe.
Writers’ Ink, The Red Deer & District Writers Club has weekly meetings (every Tuesday) in the old farmhouse at Sunnybrook Farm (4701 30 St.) from 7 to 9 p.m. We meet, share our writing, and offer constructive criticism to one another. We also do our utmost to improve our craft by Skyping professionals, by inviting guest speakers to our Spring Workshop and to the oc-casional meeting. Our library is increasing as is our knowledge gained from members who are constantly seeking new chal-lenges and sharing successes and failures with the group.
Clive TOPS – Take Off Pounds Sensibly. Every Thursday at the Clive Christian Fellow-ship Church 9-10:30 a.m.
Clive Seniors’ Drop-In – 1:30 p.m. every Monday at the Clive Meeting Room. For more, call 403-314-2244.
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Helpful tips to conquer ‘the winter blues’
10 Lacombe Express Thursday, January 8, 2015
Horoscope
Unexpected news excites you,
Aries. Even though you’re not
yet sure if the news is good
or bad, you have high hopes
that positive information is on
the way.
Taurus, you have an
abundance of energy and you
have to fi nd a way to harness it
for the greater good.
Find a new hobby or volunteer
for a local project.
ARIESMar 21/Apr 20
TAURUSApr 21/May 21
Now is not a good time to
make signifi cant fi nancial
decisions, Gemini. You have
to make changes when the
time is right, and you will know
when that day arrives.
Cancer, your mood is uplifting
to those around you. Maintain
this optimistic outlook in
the weeks ahead, and good
fortune is bound to
come your way.
GEMINIMay 22/Jun 21
CANCERJun 22/Jul 22
Leo, don’t be afraid to accept
a helping hand at work. Seek
help from others if no offers
are immediately forthcoming.
Explore all of your networking
possibilities.
Keep an extra-sharp mind
this week, Virgo, as there
isn’t anything you cannot
accomplish if you put your
mind to it. Try tackling those
big projects that you have
been avoiding.
LEOJul 23/Aug 23
VIRGOAug 24/Sept 22
Libra, a problem with no
obvious solution has you
seeing both sides of the
argument. Dwell on things for
a little while longer, and the
solution will eventually
come to you.
Scorpio, you are planning
some big moves and you are
bound to have a number of
supporters behind you. Others
want you to succeed so take
an opportunity and run with it.
LIBRASept 23/Oct 23
SCORPIOOct 24/Nov 22
Take extra care with projects
at work, Sagittarius. A diffi cult
problem may arise, and a
careful approach to the tasks
at hand can help you nip that
problem in the bud.
Capricorn, you will forge a new
relationship this week, and it
may lead to a solid friendship
that lasts a number of years.
Feelings are bound to get
more intense.
SAGITTARIUSNov 23/Dec 21
CAPRICORNDec 22/Jan 20
This is a great week for
brainstorming, Aquarius. Once
you have a few solid ideas, put
your plans into motion. At least
one should pan out quite well.
Someone is trying to steer
you in one direction, Pisces.
Politely decline if that direction
is the opposite of what you
want to do.
AQUARIUSJan 21/Feb 18
PISCESFeb 19/Mar 20
CLUES ACROSS 1. Mandela’s party 4. Gives up territory 9. Yellow edible Indian fruit 11. Storefront coverings 14. King of Huns 15. Atomic #18 16. Jive talk for ignored 18. D. Tartt’s third novel 23. Three-toed sloth 24. Gained through effort 25. Macaw’s genus 26. Helps little fi rms 27. A large group of pheasants
28. Baby bed 29. English dictionary (abbr.) 30. Yellow-fever mosquitos 32. Liquify 34. Add a supplement 38. Insistence on traditional correctness 39. Milk, butter & cheese 40. = to 10 amperes 43. Mined mineral 44. Greek god of war 45. Don’t know when yet 48. Fellow 49. Detailed criteria for a piece of work
50. Special Spanish dish 53. Atomic #46 54. CBS This Morning hostess 56. Rubber tree genus 58. Pa’s partner 59. A tiny bubble in glass 60. Lost light 63. Surface boundary 64. Islands 65. = to 1/100 yen
CLUES DOWN 1. Subside in intensity 2. __ Hale, Am.
revolutionary 3. Leafstalk herbaceous
plant 4. Price of a ride 5. 1/2 an em 6. Execute or perform 7. Narrative poems 8. Breathe deeply and
heavily 10. 1/40 inch button measure 11. Morally reprehensible
person
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12. For instance 13. Members of U.S. Navy 17. Crown 19. Old English 20. Libyan dinar 21. Goddess of the rainbow 22. Catch 26. Fern spore mass clusters 28. Music disc 30. All without specifi cation 31. -__, denotes past 32. A young canine 33. Biblical Sumerian city 34. __ Hitler 35. Marched in a procession 36. Patchy in color 37. Trauma center 38. Time after midday 40. The expanse of a surface 41. Develops into 42. Equally 44. 4th month (abbr.) 45. Nervous & taut 46. Emits blood 47. Assert without proof 49. Saturates in liquid 50. No. Italian river 51. Article 52. Mayfl ower cooper John 54. Filippo __, Saint 55. Begetter 57. Old Dominion state 61. Raised railroad track 62. Point midway between N and E
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Thursday, January 8, 2015 Lacombe Express 11
Readers tell me they of-
ten discuss my column at
dinner parties.
But I doubt that will hap-
pen with this column.
Today, it’s Course 101
on poop. So, why would
you want to look into the
toilet before fl ushing it? It
could save your life. But it
might also scare you half-
to-death.
A look into the bowl after
a bowel movement has this
advantage.
Eventually, you learn
that a normal stool is gen-
erally brown, usually the
shape of a banana, and soft.
This means you’re eating
the right amount of fi ber.
Stools are about 75% water.
And fi ber, by holding onto
water, makes stools as soft
as toothpaste.
But suppose the colour
changes? A black tarry
stool may mean there’s
been bleeding into the
bowel. But before a series
of tests are done, ask your-
self whether you’ve been
eating blueberries or beets.
Or, is the dark colour due
to medicine containing
bismuth, such as Pepto-
Bismol, for an upset stom-
ach. But if the black stool
actually contains blood,
prompt treatment can save
your life.
If the colour of a BM is
pale clay, this is more of
a problem. Bile produced
by the liver and stored in
the gallbladder causes the
brown colour of the stool.
A clay colour indicates a
blockage due to a stone in
the common bile duct that
carries bile to the intestine.
Or, it can be due to cancer
of the pancreas.
Many patients have
asked me why their stools
have changed in thickness.
If the stool is thin now and
then, this is normally not a
problem.
But, if there are repeated
pencil-thin stools, there
may be a blockage in the
rectal area due to malig-
nancy, previous radiation
treatments or colitis.
The composition of stool
is also dependent on the
amount of fat consumed.
Normal stool contains
about 1% fat. Passing stools
that have more fat creates
a condition called, ‘steat-
orrhea’. These stools are
soft, smelly and stick to the
sides of the toilet bowl. If
the condition is chronic,
it’s due to a lack of enzymes
produced by the pancreas.
It can also occur if you‘re
taking Xenical, a prescrip-
tion drug for weight loss.
Or, if you have eaten an ex-
tremely fat meal.
In the event you notice a
small amount of mucous in
the stool, this is not a prob-
lem and is due to the jelly-
like substance found in the
bowel.
But if there are large
amounts, it could be due
to infl ammatory bowel dis-
ease, such as colitis. Or, to
a mucous secreting intesti-
nal polyp.
Let’s hope you don’t have
frequent watery, mushy
stools and a fever after tak-
ing a long course of anti-
biotics. This may have up-
set the normal balance of
bacteria in the intestines
allowing a bacteria, Clos-
tridium Diffi cile, to fl our-
ish. Such patients can have
up to 40 bowel movements
a day and sometimes a fatal
outcome. Treatment by al-
ternate antibiotics may be
helpful.
But as I reported in an
earlier column, fecal en-
emas from another person
may be used in desperate
situations. A quick gaze in
the toilet bowl may scare
some people to death.
That’s when they notice
Ascaris lumbricoides,
which has the appearance
of a garden worm. Today,
we live in a wormy world
and you don’t have to visit
underdeveloped countries
to pick up this infection.
Millions of dogs, cats
and other animals are
now sharing quarters with
North American families.
Animals have to defecate
and it’s often in the back-
yard or playground.
One study showed that
of 229 family dogs, 189 had
roundworm, hookworm,
tapeworm or other para-
sites.
See the web site at www.docgiff.com. For comments, [email protected].
Take a look before you fl ush the toilet
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Neuropathy can progress to extreme levels. It can ruin your life! I can still remember the day, like it was yesterday. Bob, a patient of mine, looked up at me and cried: “Dr. Waddell, what did I do to deserve this?” My eyes welled up. I strained to hold the tears back. I also remember Mel. The day before I met him, a surgeon had to cut off one of his toes. An anesthetic wasn’t necessary. Mel didn’t feel a thing. Can you imagine? It’s as if he had leprosy!
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Why do I understand what you are going through? How do I know your suffering?
I know because I suffer with neu-ropathy nerve damage too. You see, I had a kidney transplant seven years ago and now take a palm full of anti-rejection drugs every day. These drugs are slowly killing my nerves.
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Education is a luxury that many young people around
the world are unable to take part in. Red Deerian Zainab
Mohamoud wants to offer this opportunity to students in
Somalia and is seeking help to fi nance the project through
a fundraiser this month.
The fundraiser will take place at Festival Hall in Red
Deer on Jan. 30th from 6 until 9 p.m. Tickets are priced at
$35 per person, or a table of eight for $240. These funds col-
lected will go towards the $20,000 goal that covers building
expenses, furniture, books, supplies and months of staff
salaries. “I am from Somalia, and when I had just fi nished
elementary school my country began a war. That really
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“Kids are growing up without the experience of school
and I want to give something back to them and give them
a future.”
She escaped Somalia as a refugee and went to Ethiopia
for three years until she received a visa to Canada. Mo-
hamoud has a heart for children and worked as a day-home
provider before she settled into her position at the Central
Alberta Immigrant Women’s Association (CAIWA).
“At the event, we will have international foods, a few
kinds of dances and two keynote speakers. We will also
have a bingo hour, a silent auction and some door prizes
available.” Tickets can be purchased through the web site
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Job Description: The Tourism Marketing & Event Coordinator is a contract position that reports to the Executive Director of Lacombe Regional Tourism. The Tourism Marketing & Event
Coordinator shall work an average of 21 hours per week to coordinate the marketing activities of the Lacombe Regional
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Position: Field Operator, Central AreaReporting to: Production Foreman
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ARTS & LEISURECanadian country singer Chad Brown-
lee joins forces with Bobby Wills and Jess
Moskaluke on the ‘When The Lights Go
Down Tour’ which arrives in Red Deer
March 24th at Cowboys. “It is a huge privi-
lege to be going across this great country,
headlining this tour,” explains Brownlee.
“Jess Moskaluke and Bobby Wills are two
of Canada’s fi nest musical talents, both
are taking the country world by storm and
I am so honoured they can join me on this
tour.
“The crowd can expect a show you’ve
never seen from me before, a show that peo-
ple will remember for a long time. I can’t
wait to hit the road and see all my amaz-
ing fans that have been such a huge part
of my success.” A singer, songwriter, phi-
lanthropist and one-time NHL draft pick,
the Vancouver-based Brownlee is indeed a
man of many talents. He also received his
fi rst Juno Award nomination for the 2013
Country Album of the Year. His latest disc,
The Fighters, was released last June.
Brownlee’s love for music stretches back
to his youth. His parents had him in piano
lessons early on, and he later picked up the
tenor sax and then opted for guitar. He was
well into hockey at this point as well.
When he began university at 19, a gift for
songwriting started to emerge.
But as his hockey career progressed,
(Brownlee was a sixth round NHL draft
pick for the Vancouver Canucks in 2003)
repeated shoulder injuries proved an ob-
stacle and he came to a kind of crossroads.
“That’s when I had the revelation of ‘why
am I doing this?’ All I wanted to do was
hit the showers and go home. I knew that
life is too short to do something you don’t
enjoy. So I made the conscious decision to
change that.”
His gift for songwriting was fi rst ac-
knowledged when he was nominated for
the NCAA Hockey Humanitarian Award
for his song The Hero I See in his fourth
year at Minnesota State University. His de-
but CD was released in 2010.
Meanwhile, 2013 kicked off with a bang
for Jess Moskaluke when she released
her single Hit N’ Run to Canadian radio.
The single eventually hit #48 on the BDS
radio charts for country radio in Canada
in two short weeks. A small town gal from
Langenburg, SK, she celebrated her fi rst
Saskatchewan Country Music Association
Award for Female Vocalist of the Year.
Wearing her signature stilettos and
sporting her long dark rocker-chic hair,
she released the title track and video Catch
Me If You Can on June 4, 2012, and the
eight-track EP on Sept. 4th of that year as
well.
Of German/Ukrainian heritage, she is
a Saskatchewan native, born and raised in
the town of Langenburg. When she is not
on the road touring, she splits her time
between her home base in Saskatchewan,
Canada and the U.S. writing in Nashville
alongside the Identical Entertainment
team.
And last but certainly not least, Bobby
Wills’s last CD Crazy Enough is an intense
mixture of rock-inspired country tracks
featuring a musical attack of the senses
with percussion, electric and acoustic gui-
tars, balanced with his signature melodic
harmonies and lyrical story-telling. As he
spent countless hours in studio completing
his new album, Wills enjoyed a memorable
year winning the 2013 Canadian Coun-
try Music Award Rising Star title and the
Alberta Country Music Associations Male
Artist of the Year award, topping off the
year signing with MDM Recordings Inc.
(Universal Music).
Some people are born with a special tal-
ent, perhaps even a musical soul; adopted
as a baby to a family in Calgary, no one
knew what an impact his biological DNA
would have on his life path. “My dad was
a huge country music fan,” he says of the
man who raised him, “So that’s where I get
my love of it from, but no one ever played
music in my family when I was growing
up.”
Following a dare while traveling in Aus-
tralia, and an unexpected phone call, the
course of Wills life would literally change
forever.
“We were at an open mic night and my
buddy bet me $20 that I wouldn’t get up and
sing with the band, so I did,” Wills says of
the Australian trip. “I sang The Dance by
Garth Brooks and there was a reaction
from the crowd that I didn’t anticipate. It
was amazing. I’d always poked around mu-
sic but I’d never put any real effort into it,
so I started to learn to play guitar while I
was over there.”
Returning from his travels, he received
a call from the adoption registry learning
his biological mother had registered to re-
quest contact (as had he), resulting in their
fi rst meeting.
Wills could not have anticipated the ar-
tistic genealogy he was about to discov-
er, including fi ve siblings and a musical
streak a mile wide that ran throughout his
biological family. “The fi rst night I visited
my biological father, we sat up all night lis-
tening to records. We both shared an affi n-
ity for a great lyric, and it was then that I
realized ‘This is real. This is in my blood.
This isn’t just a crazy dream I had; this is
part of who I am.’ It really crystallized for
me then.”
Falling in love with music he invested
years in perfecting his craft, releasing his
debut album Man With No Past yielded the
Billboard Country Top 40 single A Little
More Time (a major feat for a completely
independent artist), with his second al-
bum If It Was That Easy receiving acclaim
throughout the 2013 awards season.
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Central Alberta fashionista explores coming trends
This is the time of year for planning a
Sunday afternoon to cozy up with your-
self and make some cabbage rolls.
You can freeze the leftovers for a busy
day when you need something fast. This
is my family’s version of Russian/ Ger-
man style cabbage rolls. Read the recipe
fi rst then decide.
1 medium - large cabbage
2 - 3 pounds of extra lean ground beef
1 large onion, chopped
5 cloves ,garlic minced
1 720 ml strained tomatoes, you may
want a second jar if your family likes
them with lots of sauce
1 1/2 cups of cooked white rice
2 tbsp red pepper fl akes....optional. If
you want some added kick!
In a large pot add enough water to boil
the cabbage without spilling over.
Continue to boil, with forks turn the
cabbage over a few times during boiling.
On a clean towel add the cabbage and
as it cools , remove the leaves carefully.
Let sit to cool on the towel.
As you get down in layers and the cab-
bage seems stiff, add it back to the large
pot and boil again.
Remove again and peel apart any us-
able leaves.
In a large 13 x 9 pan add tomato sauce
to cover the bottom.
Meanwhile, scramble fry the ground
beef, add chopped onion and minced gar-
lic, stir. This is where I add the red pepper
fl akes for some heat ( not traditional) add
more or less. Add the rice and scramble
the rice into the meat mixture.
I cut in a triangle in the tuff stem
part out at the bottom of the leaves to
remove.
Grasp a cabbage leaf in your left hand
and add enough ground beef mixture to
roll it up, tucking in the corners.
Don’t worry if they are not perfect or
rolled up tight, add tooth picks to secure
if needed. They are fi ne if laid gently on
their backs into the large pan of sauce to
bake.
Add the remainder of tomato sauce
over the rolls as needed.
Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Let cool. En-
joy with perogies.
Delicious cabbage rolls Marina
C O L D W E L L
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At the fi nish of every year we are ava-
lanched with the top 10 lists from the year,
an easy to digest recap of the ‘greatest mo-
ments of’ which allows us to reminisce
the past year or decade. Last year was
defi nitely one for the history books when it
comes to fashion and interior design. This
has been a year of rebirth for many retro-
inspired trends and colours; here is my top
10 list for 2014:
1. Thin brick – making a dramatic
comeback from 1973, the must-have look of
2014 has been the ‘exposed’ brick wall. For
those of you who dream of living in a Soho
walk-up you will be right at home with
your faux brick walls designed to look like
an age old structural design.
2. Chevron pattern – zig or zag you are
always in fashion with this hip pattern!
Charlie Brown was the trend setter in the
60’s boldly wearing this up and coming
pattern in his trademark yellow and black.
Although grey is the predominant colour,
you can fi nd Chevron in a multitude of
shades.
3. Striped tile – tile has come a long way
in the past few years and a linear pattern
is emerging! Who would have thought that
we would be putting a striped or wood look
banding on fl oor tile when for so many
years it was all about the stone look. Tile
is now streamlined, long and lean – kind of
like it has been doing Pilates for the past
few years.
4. Super soft carpet – with the evolu-
tion of corn-based fi bre, carpet has never
been cozier. For years it was all about the
hard twist of nylon as this type of carpet
meant long wearing product.
Now the fi bre is super soft and gorgeous
to the touch, the ‘cashmere’ revolution is
evident in everything from sweaters to car-
pet to toilet paper. We like it soft!
5. Wide, wide wood – on fl oors, decora-
tive walls and ceilings wide is wonderful.
The engineered wood and laminate mar-
ket has taken off like a rocket and is allow-
ing us (even in dry Alberta) to have a wide
format plank in our homes.
The look is stunning and rustic and ev-
erybody wants a piece of this tremendous
looking material.
6. A whiter shade of pale – pale walls
are in folks! It is very common now for de-
signers to choose white or shades of white
for main wall colours in homes. The rich
dark reds and browns are behind us and
we are entering a new phase of museum
white walls combined with other shades of
white or pale grey. As a designer it seems
odd for me to choose white as a colour for
clients but the cool clean results are very
inspiring.
Here we go into 2015, it will be exciting
and entertaining to see what new trends
emerge this spring and I am very inter-
ested to experience new materials and new
colour palettes.
There will be fun new products released
after February’s home and furniture
shows and we will see what is making the
cut on the catwalks during fashion week.
Keep your eyes peeled for the latest and
greatest and get ready to combine your
own top 10 lists for 2015.
Kim Meckler is an interior designer with Car-pet Colour Centre in Red Deer.
A look at the top 10 décor trends in 2014 Kim
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