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It Shouldn’t HurtFrom hydrotherapy and graston technique to radial shockwave andintramuscular stimulation, Leading Edge Physiotherapy has today’sinnovations and advanced treatments that will give you the edge onyour pain and injuries. We want you to heal faster and perform better.No matter what sport you play, and even though pain is sometimes apart of playing it hard, we believe it shouldn’t hurt to perform your best.
who were the targets of the St. Albert Cash Mob averaged in sales in one hour during the monthly mobs from September to June. Cash Mob organizer Heidi Fedoruk says sheis proud of the movement she has started on page 7.
Rylin Curial (left), a 16-year-old Bellerose Composite High School student, and Cole Vankonkelenberg, 13, who goes to Vincent J. Maloney Junior High, have a board meeting as they get ready for the second annual Canada Day Longboard Competition coming up on Monday in St. Albert. The longboard competition is just one of many activities going on in the city to mark Canada’s 146th birthday. See story, page 19.
GLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader
He may not get his name on the Stanley Cup, but Ryan Stanton can call himself a champion.
Stanton, a 23-year-old St. Albert native, took a trip around the TD Garden ice in Boston on Monday evening with hockey’s holy grail after his Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Boston Bruins 3-2 in Game 6 of the 2013 Stanley Cup Final.
The six-foot-two, 196-pound defenceman was one of the Blackhawks’ “black aces,” who took to the ice in practice throughout the playoffs to help the regular players prepare, but did not see any ice time himself during the postseason.
However, his hard work was rewarded Monday night as he joined in the celebration with his teammates and was one of the last to hoist the Cup before the traditional team photo was taken.
Stanton won’t be eligible to have his name engraved on the Stanley Cup, though; that honour is bestowed only on players who have played in at least half the winning team’s regular season games — 24 in this lockout-
shortened season — or one game in the Stanley Cup Final.
Stanton only dressed for the Blackhawks in one regular season game this year, on April 27 on the road against the St. Louis Blues. Chicago lost that game 3-1, but Stanton wound up with a plus-one rating, one shot and one hit, as well
as two penalty minutes.
Stanton spent the rest of the 2012-2013 with the
Rockford IceHogs of the
American Hockey League, racking
up three goals and 22 assists in 73 games, to
go along with 126 penalty minutes and a plus-16 rating.
Stanton was signed by the Blackhawks as a free agent on March 12, 2010. Prior to that, he played major junior hockey with the Moose Jaw Warriors of the Western Hockey League, collecting 19 goals and 83 assists over four full seasons.
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City hires new GMGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader
There’s a new captain at the helm of the City of St. Albert’s planning and engineering departments.
The City announced on Thursday, June 20, that it had hired David L. Hales as the new general manager of planning and engineering, starting on July 15.
“I look forward to joining St. Albert as it starts a critical phase in its evolution as a city,” Hales said in a press release. “Opportunities to work with a beautiful community like this and staff as skilled as those with the City are why people get into my profession.”
Hales replaces Curtis Cundy, who left the City as of March 1 after 14 years to take over the position of director of land services (corporate) with the City of Edmonton.
City manager Patrick Draper said he was very pleased with the hiring.
“We are very pleased to have David join the City as we pursue growth and renewal,” Draper said in the same press release. “David brings significant executive experience in municipal government to
the planning and engineering portfolio — notably, having built constructive and positive relationships with the land development industry, establishment of a sustainability framework and sourcing external funding for major capital projects.
His accomplishments in these areas will benefit St. Albert as we head down a similar path. He also has a balance of experience with both planning and engineering which serve the City well.”
Hales comes to St. Albert from the City of Spruce Grove, where he served as the general manager of planning and infrastructure for the past 12 years and as the manager of planning and development for two years prior to that.
Before joining the City of Spruce Grove, Hales was also the director of planning engineering for the City of Fort Saskatchewan for four years, and an area planner with the Battle River Regional Planning Commission for four years.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and urban geography from the University of Alberta, as well as a civil engineering technology diploma from the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology.
David L.HalesNew GM
Photo: andrew macleod, Special to the leaderA First Nations dancer entertains the crowd at the National Aboriginal Day Festival on Sunday in Lions Park. The festival also celebrated Inuit and Métis culture.
As flood waters have ravaged southern Alberta this week and put the rest of the province on edge, officials with the City of St. Albert say there’s little chance of the same thing happening here — this year or any other.
Torrential rainfalls have caused rising water levels and devastation in places like Canmore, Medicine Hat and Calgary, but Leah Kongsrude, manager of the City’s office of community sustainability, said Monday that the level of the Sturgeon River has been steadily declining over the past few weeks.
“It has been decreasing nice and slowly, which is nice to see,” Kongsrude said.
The measured depth of the Sturgeon River on May 24 was 1.6 metres and, aside from some rainfalls causing minor spikes, it has gone done steadily since then and had stabilized near one metre over the past week.
Normally, the Sturgeon measures between half a metre and one metre deep, with peak levels occurring between April 15 and May 15 that depend mostly on the amount of snow that fell over the previous winter. Last year, though, after the water
level dropped to one metre in July, it rose to two metres in August due to significant rainfall throughout its watershed, but that still wasn’t close to flood levels.
While rivers that have risen like the Bow and the North Saskatchewan originate and have their basins in the Rocky Mountains, the Sturgeon actually originates from Hoople Lake, near Entwistle, only about 100 kilometres west of St. Albert. It then meets up with the North Saskatchewan River just northwest of Fort Saskatchewan.
“It flows through Isle Lake and Lac Ste Anne, then down to Onoway and through Big Lake to St. Albert,” Kongsrude said. “Then it goes up through Gibbons and heads north, then makes a right-hand turn and connects with the North Saaskatchewan. It’s about 250 kilometres long.”
She added, though, that there are a number of tributaries and lakes that drain into the Sturgeon along the way.
Because the Sturgeon doesn’t start in the mountains and isn’t very long, the chances of it rising so rapidly as to cause the same sort of destruction seen in southern Alberta are “extremely limited.”
“Once the snow has fallen and is melted; that’s our peak and it’s done,” Kongsrude said.
No flood danger for Sturgeon
Photo: glenn cook,St. Albert leader
École Father Jan Grade 4 student Jacob Wing asks a question of Dave Maskell from Kindness In Action during the school’s Mini We Day on Tuesday morning in the school gymnasium.
The event was inspired by the We Day event several Grade 6 students attended back in October, and they invited representatives from different service organizations and charities in to talk about what they do for people around the world.
Maskell and Kindness in Action travel to developing countries like Nicaragua and Guatemala to provide dental work free of charge to those who can’t afford it.
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6 Thursday, June 27, 2013
BLESS Summer Nature Centre
ready to go wildGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader
Kids in St. Albert will have a chance this summer to learn about the birds and the bees — and lots of other plants and animals too.
For the 16th year, the Big Lake Environmental Support Society (BLESS) is running its Summer Nature Centre out of its log cabin near the Sturgeon River, giving young naturalists the chance to learn about everything from birds and insects to the weather and trees.
“Basically, we teach kids about the environment and expose them to what lies just beyond their backyard,” said Bettina Breau, co-ordinator of the summer nature program for this year.
The program runs for nine weeks starting on July 2, with a different theme each week taught through crafts, games and hands-on demonstrations. Children who participate in at least six
different themes can earn a Young Naturalist certificate.
Breau hopes, whether they come for one week or all nine, the kids come away from the program with “a heightened curiosity toward the environment.”
“Later on down the road, it can lead to something else — an appreciation, or they’re talking to their parents about it when they go for a walk,” she said. “It’s a peaked awareness and interest, even if they don’t understand all the nitty-gritty details.”
Breau herself is no stranger to the Summer Nature Centre. A 23-year-old St. Albert native in the fourth year of the environmental studies program at The King’s University College in Edmonton, she put in 50 volunteer hours at the cabin last year, and she’s thrilled to be back.
“I’ve always been passionate about the environment. When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a marine biologist,” she said. “As I
got older, I decided that I wanted to be more involved in sustainability and children’s education. … This centre gives me the opportunity to basically combine all my loves.”
Breau has been busy preparing for the summer programs for the past couple of weeks, putting her creativity to the test in coming up with games and activities for kids.
“I have tons and tons of leeway. … I’m applying some of the same
games, some of the same crafts [as last year], but at the same time, switching some of the crafts and games out and developing some of my own,” she said.
While Breau hopes to meet or exceed last year’s total of 1,500 participants over the course of the summer, she said she has bigger goals in mind.
“The numbers are important, but at the same time, I feel it’s
the quality that matters, and not necessarily the quantity,” she said.
The BLESS Summer Nature Centre is open from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (except statutory holidays) until Aug. 30. Programs are free of charge, although donations to BLESS are gratefully accepted.
For more information on the program, call Breau at 780-984-7949.
GLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader
A number of non-profit groups in St. Albert are coming together to change the conversation around affordable housing.
The Temporary Residential Services (TRS) committee — which is made of representatives from 10 different local agencies and non-profits — has been running an awareness campaign for the past couple of months about the benefits of affordable housing to the entire community, using posters and newspaper advertisements to spread the word.
“Affordable housing — those two words have been met with some angst. So what we’re trying to do is take affordable housing and make it a normal part of speaking here in St. Albert,” said Suzan Krecsy, executive director of the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village, one of the members of the TRS committee.
“The more you talk about it, the more normal it sounds, and the more OK it sounds,” she added.
The TRS committee also includes:• the St. Albert Salvation Army;• the Society of St. Vincent de Paul;• the St. Albert Housing Society;• Habitat for Humanity;• the Sturgeon Foundation;• the St. Albert Ministerial Association;• the St. Albert Family Resource
Centre;• Transitions; and• the City of St. Albert’s Family
and Community Support Services department.
“We want to demystify some of that fear about who needs affordable housing,” said Linda Knoblauch, community development co-ordinator with FCSS. “We really sometimes have a misconception when we start talking about affordable housing as to who that looks like.
“They think it’s going to bring in people
who are going to cause some issues in their neighbourhoods, whether it be crime or drugs. And they do not.”
One of the ads that ran in last week’s St. Albert Leader featured a photo of a graduate hitchhiking out of St. Albert with the caption: “Leaving the nest shouldn’t mean leaving St. Albert.”
Other posters target affordable housing issues faced by seniors and employees in the service and child care industries.
Each ad also has the tagline: “Affordable housing benefits everyone.”
The posters first went up in the windows of local businesses in April, and they recently expanded the campaign to paid newspaper advertising.
So far, Knoblauch said it’s hard to quantify the response to the campaign, but given the negative feedback to some affordable housing projects in St. Albert in the past, perhaps no news is good news.
“Last time those two words were put together in a sentence, there was quite a backlash,” Krecsy said. “We’re not getting
anything back, so that could be good.”“We just want people to think about it,”
Knoblauch added.Krecsy added that, although many on
the current city council are big advocates of affordable housing, being so close to Edmonton can be “a blessing and a curse” in dealing with the situation.
“If we have to send somebody into Edmonton, it’s not that far. But being this close, we don’t get anything [in terms of funding],” she said.
The campaign is being paid for through grant money from higher levels of government, but when the TRS committee has to write their final report back to them on the campaign, they hope they can say that the conversation around affordable housing has at least been jumpstarted.
“We’re giving people permission to talk about affordable housing, on whatever level that is,” Krecsy said. “Even if they’re dead set against it, come and sit down, and let’s talk about that.”
Committee looks to change up conversation on housing
Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderBLESS Summer Nature Centre co-ordinator Bettina Breau holds one of the feathered friends that kids can learn about at the centre during its nine weeks of programming, which starts up on Tuesday, July 2.
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Cash Mob wraps up successful first yearGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader
Hundreds of mobbers and thousands of $20 bills later, Heidi Fedoruk has good reason to be proud of what she has done over the past 10 months.
Fedoruk is the organizer of the St. Albert Cash Mob, which started last September. Over that time, she and her army of local shopping enthusiasts have “mobbed” nine businesses — while giving plenty of others exposure through door prizes or acting as meeting points — resulting in thousands of dollars being pumped into the local economy.
“It was awesome. St. Albert came out in full force as usual to support something and get behind it. I was overwhelmed actually,” Fedoruk said, noting that the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce got on board, and there was one mobber with perfect attendance at all nine events.
A cash mob involves customers finding out a location
and time one week prior via social media and in the St. Albert Leader, and descending upon that business at the same time, each committed to spending $20 there. Fedoruk has involved more businesses by
having one serve as a meeting point before heading to another.
Talking to the business owners after the mobs, Fedoruk knows how much it means to them.
“One lady said she felt it was like winning the jackpot to be
chosen,” she said, noting that some businesses have had people who couldn’t make the formal cash mob event come in a week or two later to check them out, and others have become recurring customers.
Those are exactly the sorts of stories Fedoruk hoped to hear when she started organizing cash mobs.
“Some people look at it as a fun night with friends, but many of them have put on Facebook or emailed me personally that they never really thought hard about it before, but when they can ... now they think about it,” she said. “For me, that’s the thing I’m really trying to achieve.”
The St. Albert Cash Mob is taking the summer off, but it will be back in September, and Fedoruk said she’ll keep an eye on Twitter and Facebook to get some ideas on which businesses to hit next.
“I’m sure there’s still lots in the area, lots to explore,” she said. “For me personally, I had never shopped at six out of the nine businesses [that were mobbed].”
Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderCash mobbers check out the selection at Sublime Swim and Sunwear during the ‘season finale’ of the event on Thursday, June 20.
Businesses mobbed:
9Total businesses
mobbed, used as a meeting point or who
donated prizes:
27Average number
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70Highest number of
mobbers (December):
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Average sales per hour:
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8 Thursday, June 27, 2013
The one real problem with politics is that the bar is set so low, you
can’t help but achieve it. In any normal job, a success rate above 95 per cent is required to keep one’s job; in baseball, if you are batting .300, you are an all-star. In politics, if you’re batting 10 per cent, you’re doing a pretty good job.
This has been the one source of frustration that I have had since being elected as, in my personal and professional life, I have always strived for 100 per cent success and have not been satisfied with anything less.
I believe that this tolerance for poor performance is created as your boss (the public) only gets one chance to evaluate your performance every few years, and often many issues are long forgotten come time for a performance evaluation.
The other factor involved is that, in many cases the issues are complex and interconnected, and as a result, it becomes difficult to discern the solution — or, in many cases, even what the problem is. Making things even more difficult is the fact that many of the big issues are not interesting until they become a problem.
Ten years ago, we signed a site allocation agreement with local school boards that pre-allocated land to each board rather than transferring the land at the time a school is announced. As a result, school boards chose school sites 20
years before a school will be built. Then they are reticent to give the land up for other public uses when no school arrives.
Also, the allocation decisions are not made by an elected body, but by an unelected committee. Six years ago, we cancelled our municipal planning commission, which tried to outline long-term planning needs for the future of our city. Three years ago, we took the highly unusual step of permitting a school board to sell a site in Akinsdale as, at the time, we must have thought we had a surplus of school sites.
Today, we have to allocate schools — one site is OK and one site is small, poorly situated, and suffers from a perpetual lack of parking. It’s hardly a great location for a school; however, there are no obvious alternatives.
This ends up being nobody’s fault specifically, but everyone can share the blame for a succession of poor land use planning decisions. Some people will be negatively affected; however, life will go on. They will forget and likely the same poor decisions will further planning problems.
We need to modify the school site selection agreement so that residents are represented when school sites are allocated. We need to resurrect the planning commission so that residents have a say in all land use planning decisions. Most importantly, we need to hold politicians accountable for these big picture issues.
When someone says a deal is done, but the deal is not a good one, it’s time to demand solutions and to set the bar higher for politicians.
Time to set the bar higher on school sites
Heroes shine through floodSometimes, only when it is darkest do
the brightest heroes emerge among us. Such is the case when it comes
to the flooding that has ravaged southern Alberta, and Calgary in particular, over the past week.
Things have admittedly seemed pretty bleak at times; we have all stared slack-jawed at our computer screens over the past seven days, looking at videos of a creek swelling to many times its normal volume in Canmore or at photos of the Scotiabank Saddledome in Calgary covered in muddy water up to the 10th row. We have shaken our heads, wondering how we would cope if such a tragedy were ever to befall us.
Honestly, though, if it did, we would all do well to take a page from the playbook of our neighbours to the south. The outpouring of support for their neighbours and the way they have all pitched in — some doing the heavy lifting, others merely being there to support the lifters — has been truly inspiring.
Should such a tragedy happen here, though, we should also hope the provincial government is ready to lend as big of a hand as they have in southern Alberta. The more than $1 billion in committed flood relief is a staggering figure that puts into perspective how widespread the damage was.
Of course, such an extraordinary expense in extraordinary times means that the government won’t be able to balance its budget for a few more years. But no one seems to be complaining; this is a time to put the calculators away, a time to make sure everyone is back on their feet and worry about the costs later. You’ll notice that not even the Wildrose has said boo about the extra expenditures, surely due in part to the fact that one of the hardest-hit areas of the province is their own leader’s riding of High River-Okotoks.
As bleak as the situation in southern Alberta may have seemed, we have reached the light at the end of the tunnel. And, in our resilience and resolve, Albertans will shine even brighter than we did before.
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ENTERTAINMENTLibrary games take readers around globeGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader
Young patrons of the St. Albert Public Library will have the chance this summer to see just how far reading can take them.
The library is once again putting the finishing touches on its annual summer reading games, the most involved of which is entitled iSpy: Around the World and takes kids from Grades 1 to 6 on a journey across the globe to collect clues and thwart a villain’s plan.
“We wanted to do a mystery, and we wanted to do something about travelling the world. And it sort of just starting evolving into a spy game,” said Drew Thomas, who works in the library’s children’s section. “We do a spring break mystery game every year, and this year it was about a spy agency called Bibliopol, and the more we thought about, the more we thought it would be cool to keep the story going.”
In the game, kids work for the spy organization Bibliopol, working to foil the plans of the Society of Nasty and Rotten Lowlifes — or S.N.A.R.L., for short — to take over the world. Each stop of the game is a different location across the globe, and they’ll have to read two books to move on to the next stop: one of a specific genre, like fantasy or mystery, and one of their own choice.
“The idea is that kids can discover their favourite book series over the summer, or discover a whole new genre of
books they’ve never tried, that they were reluctant to try,” Thomas said. “That’s always our goal, that they remember the library as a good place to come — not just for books.”
The game has taken over Forsyth Hall in the library with an elaborate maze of cities, continents and even jellyfish.
Thomas said it’s a lot of work in a short amount of time to put it all together.
“The entire first month is coming up with the story, coming up with all the adventures the kids are going to do,” he said. “... Once the Children’s Festival ends, we get that room back, and it’s
just build, build, build for four straight weeks.”
But, he added, it’s all worth it in the end.
“The kids have been in that room for lots of different programs, but when they come in for the summer game, it looks like nothing else,” he said.
The library doesn’t have any
set goal as far as participation, instead focusing on bringing in new patrons.
“We want to see kids who have never come before,” Thomas said. “We’re getting lots of families that are moving into St. Albert, parents asking, ‘What’s this reading game I’ve heard about?’ We’re hoping to get those kids started, and we hope the kids who played last year will come back.”
Meanwhile, there are other geography-themed reading games for all ages at the library this summer. For preschoolers, there’s It’s a Big World, where participants have suddenly grown in size and have to travel the world to find a magic spell to return them to normal size.
For teens, Book It Around the World gives them the chance to conquer technological challenges and race around the world for weekly prizes and even a grand prize of an iPod Nano.
And adults can spin the globe to discover a new genre in their own game, and even win a Kobo Glo e-reader along the way.
All the summer reading games at the library start today (Thursday) and run until Monday, Aug. 19.
Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderMarcie Marciglio (left) and Caralyn Ludwig take a break from building the St. Albert Public Library’s summer reading game in Forsyth Hall to hang out with some jellyfish in the Great Barrier Reef.
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Photos: Sun Media News ServicesSlash (above) and the newly reunited Headstones (left) headline the Boonstock Music and Arts Festival this weekend just outside Gibbons.
GLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader
This is an exciting time of year for Colin Kobza.
Kobza is the CEO of Boonstock Productions, the company that is just putting the finishing touches on the ninth annual Boonstock Music and Arts Festival, taking place this weekend just outside Gibbons.
And with artists and bands like Slash, Knife Party, Headstones, Sublime with Rome, Eric Prydz, Dropkick Murphys and Godsmack headlining this year’s bill, he has plenty of reason to be excited.
“It’s excitement and nervousness, I guess,” Kobza said. “We’re growing every year. We have a great crew this year, and we’re just excited to get rockin’ and rollin’.”
With all those big-name bands descending on the festival grounds, it’s understandable that Kobza is having a hard time figuring out which one he’s most excited about.
“I don’t really have a favourite. Godsmack, Dropkick [Murphys], Knife Party, Eric Prydz — even some of the smaller acts I’m looking forward to,” he said.
The road to Boonstock wasn’t without a few bumps, though, this year. Rap-metal band Limp Bizkit was originally slated to headline Saturday night’s lineup, but they pulled out due to scheduling conflicts.
However, organizers more than made up for that by bringing in both Slash — formerly of Guns N’ Roses — and Canadian rock legends Headstones, who recently got back together after an eight-year hiatus.
“We definutely don’t want to lose artists,” Kobza said. “But picking up Slash and Headstones was, I think, a good fit for the bill. And the response to
it was really awesome.”While rain fell earlier in the week
during the lead-up to Boonstock, Kobza wasn’t fazed by the storms.
“We’re doing a lot of our production load-in, and it’s kind of sloppy,” he said on Tuesday, “but it’s got to get done. I’d rather have it on the days of load-in than on the festival days, that’s for sure.”
And that should contribute to a great atmosphere, just like it has every year so far.
“It’s a good vibe; I think that’s why we’re growing every year,” he said. “It’s the experience that people are enjoying; it’s not just the artists.”
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The days are longer,the air is warmer and– for Shaun Hicks– themenu is lighter.Hicks is the head chef
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Pixar going strong with Monsters UniversityJORDAN RIEFESun Media News Services
In its 34-year history, Pixar Animation has had an unprecedented string of hits including 11 Oscars for movies like Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Ratatouille, not to mention dozens of nominations.
But is their latest, Monsters University, which revisits characters originated in 2001’s Monster’s Inc., a cause for concern — or a sign that the studio is abandoning originality for brand-name franchises?
“It’s trickier when a company gets bigger to keep the exact same culture,” Monsters University director Dan Scanlon tells journalists gathered at Pixar Animation.
“With that said, I think the company goes to great efforts to hold onto the culture, that sense of us being able to just talk to each other very casually, just being able to spend time together.”
Upon graduating Cal Arts in the early 1980s, Pixar godfather John Lasseter went to work at Disney animation but was fired a few years later and joined the fledgling digital animators at Pixar.
In time, the company usurped Disney as the first name in animated film.
In response, Disney purchased Pixar
in 2006, naming Lasseter head of animation.
Since the transition, Pixar has delivered exemplary movies like Ratatouille, WALL*E, Up and Toy Story 3, but in recent years has started to slip with the critically-trashed Cars 2 and last year’s Brave which, despite winning the Oscar, received lukewarm reviews.
In coming years, fans can expect more sequels with Finding Dory, (a follow-up to Finding Nemo), and a Cars spin-off, Planes, (to be produced at Disney), as well as a fourth installment of Toy Story.
“We had done so many films and had so many beloved characters that there were places to go to, places to go back to, characters to revisit after we built up such a great library of film,” says producer Kori Rae. “We really wanted to go back and meet Mike and Sully again and find out something new about them because they’re really great characters and it’s such a great world.”
Pixar’s secret weapon has always been its brain trust, which mentors writers and directors on films in production. Principles in the trust include Lasseter,
WALL*E director Andrew Stanton, and Ratatouille director Brad Bird.
But in recent years, the studio has undergone what you could call a brain
drain with Lasseter spending more time in Burbank than at Pixar’s home in Emeryville, Calif.; Andrew Stanton stepping disastrously into live action with last year’s bomb, John Carter; and Brad Bird’s more auspicious live-action debut, Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol.
“The brain trust is really comprised of all the directors at the studio cause we want the directors collaborating and we
want them looking at each other’s work and giving feedback,” assures Rae. “It also changes on the needs of each film and kind of what a film is struggling with and who has an area of expertise that they might lend more to.”
“I think that the culture here has stayed as much the same as it can,” adds director Scanlon. “I don’t know that it’s in any way Disney-related. I think the biggest change is just that we’ve gotten bigger over the years. We’re lucky that people like the movies and therefore we can grow.”
Dan ScanlonDirector
Photo: Sun Media News ServicesMascots of Mike and Sully attend the world premiere of Monsters University in Hollywood.
*The above area market averages represent the trailing 3-month averages, except where otherwise indicated, of single-family homes only as of the Friday prior to publication week. Data is provided by CRAIG PILGRIM of RE/MAX Real Estate (St. Albert), member of the Real Estate Association of Edmonton.Data does not include condos, townhomes or apartments, and does not differentiate between styles of homes. All efforts are made to ensure data is accurate for information purposes, but please consult a licensed real estate agent for additional market information.*Did you know source: City of St. Albert website, St. Albert 2012 Census
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Canada Day celebrates our great nation’s unity, diversity and shared culture,making us truly proud to be Canadians!As you celebrate with your loved ones, have a safe and happy Canada Day!Please join me in Lions Park on Canada Day from 11:00-12:30 for free ice cream.
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Full slate for Canada Day in St. AlbertGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader
Canada is turning 146 this year, and St. Albert is hosting the party.
Monday marks Canada Day, and the City of St. Albert once again has a full slate of activities planned to mark our country’s birthday.
The day will actually get off to an early start thanks to the Heritage Lakes Community Association, which will once again host its annual Canada Day Pancake Breakfast starting at 9 a.m. at École La Mission (46 Heritage Dr.). The cost for breakfast is $3 if you bring your own plate and cutlery; $4 if you don’t.
At 11 a.m., the City takes over the festivities at Lions Park until 3 p.m. with a ton of activities going on, including bouncy castles, wagon rides, face painting, a f light simulator, displays, entertainment and even birthday cake.
There will also be street hockey sponsored by the St. Albert Minor Hockey Association, a petting zoo sponsored by Realty Executives, and a roller derby demonstration from the St. Albert Heavenly Rollers. Food vendors will be set up in the park, and that can be washed down with ice cream
courtesy of Edmonton-St. Albert MP Brent Rathgeber.
Celebrations will also be going on at other venues throughout the city. Step back in time with tours, games and demonstrations at the St. Albert Grain Elevator Park, the Little White School House and Father Lacombe Chapel from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Or you can beat the heat at Grosvenor Pool from noon to 2 p.m. or at the Woodlands Water Play Park from 1 to 4 p.m.
If you’re feeling the need for speed,
you can sign up for the second annual Canada Day Longboard Competition, put on by the City’s BAM! (Building Assets and Memories) youth group. Competitors can sign up for both downhill and push races, which start at noon at the Kingswood Day Use Park (385 Sturgeon Rd.).
If you’re looking for something at a slower pace, though, visit the St. Albert Botanic Park for their annual Canada Day strawberry tea from 1 to 4 p.m. Strawberries, cake and ice cream are
available for a donation to the park, and children’s activities will be scattered throughout the park while adults stroll through and appreciate its roses, f lowers, shrubs and trees.
Back downtown, what used to be the Battle of the Bands has morphed this year into the Youth Music Showcase, which starts at 3:30 p.m. in front of St. Albert Place. Local bands will take centre stage during this event, including Celery and Sidewalks, DRT, The Northmen, Negation and All Else Fails.
Then, at 7 p.m., they’ll be dancing in the streets as the Family Street Dance takes over St. Anne Street. The band 5AM will provide the live music, while Life Church provides a kids’ carnival from 5 to 8 p.m.
And, of course, the day will be capped off with fireworks put on by the St. Albert Kinsmen at Seven Hills just after 11 p.m.
The City is also running a free park-and-ride service between St. Albert Centre and the downtown core from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Donations will also be collected all day for the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village.
For more information, visit www.stalbert.ca/canada-day.
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DID YOUKNOW?
JUNE 27, 1968Elvis Presley begins taping his famous “Comeback Special,” which would later air on NBC.
JUNE 28, 1997Boxer “Iron” Mike Tyson bites the ear of Evander Holyfield
during their heavyweight title bout in Las Vegas, marking one of the most bizarre and
gruesome chapters of his career.
JUNE 30, 1936Gone With the Wind, author Margaret Mitchell’s tale of a
Southern belle during the Civil War, is published.
JULY 1, 1997After 99 years of British rule,
Hong Kong reverts back to Chinese rule, contingent on a
pledge to maintain Hong Kong’s capitalist system.
JULY 2, 1937The Lockheed aircraft carrying
pilot Amelia Earhart and her navigator goes missing near Howland Island in the Pacific
Ocean as they attempted to fly around the world.
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Photo: CODIE McLACHLAN, Sun Media News ServicesCanadians (L-R) Ellen Pennock, Amelie Kretz and Kirsten Sweetland sweep the podium at the ITU Edmonton Triathlon on Sunday.
JUNE 29, 2003 Actress Katharine Hepburn — who
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Before he was the owner of a successful sawmill west of Edmonton, Bob Sawatzky was an immigrant from Paraguay who joined his father in pursuing a better life by finding work in Alberta.
Now, over 40 years later, Sawatzky hopes his staff will have the same opportunity after Alberta announced changes to the Alberta Immigrant Nominee Program (AINP) to allow temporary foreign workers to stay in Canada permanently.
From Sawatzky’s Spruceland Millworks Inc. sawmill near Acheson on Thursday, June 20, deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk announced temporary foreign workers who have worked in Alberta for at least two years can now self-nominate to stay and work in Alberta permanently.
“We’ve been working with the government on this file for a couple of years now and we’re very pleased with the announcement today,” said Sawatzky, thanking his foreign workers for the sacrifices they’ve made to come to Canada.
“This announcement brings you one step closer to gaining permanent residency in this great country as it did for me 40 years ago. The new skills you’re acquiring are needed here, giving more of you a chance to one day call this great province your home.”
Previously, employers had to choose which temporary foreign workers on their staff they would nominate for the program.
Lukaszuk said the AINP changes
will combat the province’s labour shortage as temporary foreign workers receiving training for positions in Alberta won’t be forced to return to their country of origin.
“Our policy always has and always will be to train and employ Canadians first, but there simply aren’t enough Canadians to keep our labour force moving,” explained Lukaszuk.
There are currently approximately 70,000 temporary foreign workers in the province.
Lukaszuk said the new program will bring stability to Alberta’s “revolving-door” system of foreign workers; previously a fully-trained worker would be forced to return home after four years only to be replaced by an unskilled worker who requires training.
The changes have already been made, said Lukaszuk, with some employees at Spruceland Millworks already asking to start filling out the paperwork.
“There is no guarantee that every worker that applies for this program will be nominated because we still have a federal cap of how many workers can stay per annum. However, this will make the process simpler and transfer the decision to the employee.”
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Lynn Carolei wants to put some fashion deals on wheels, and she’s turning to a new website to help do that.
Carolei is the owner of Sublime Swim and Sunwear in St. Albert’s Village Landing shopping centre, but she is looking to take her show on the road and start up a fashion truck, selling her wares all across the Capital Region.
“I have inventory already; it’s just getting the idea out there,” she said. “Now I need help with some of it, and that’s where the crowdfunding comes into it.”
To fund her new venture, Carolei has turned to Alberta Boostr, a new crowdfunding website developed by ATB Financial. Much like Kickstarter or Indiegogo, but exclusively for Alberta businesses, Alberta Boostr allows visitors to donate to projects like Carolei’s and get great perks in return.
“It’s the community supporting local businesses,” said Gladys Molly, a business advisor with the ATB Financial branch in Tudor Glen Market in St. Albert. “Whether it’s a startup business or an existing business and they need some money for something — a new sign or a pizza place needs to buy a new pizza oven … this is another option.”
Carolei was inspired to look at a fashion truck after conducting a number of pop-up sales throughout the region to clear out inventory over the past year or so.
“But it’s a bit of a hassle, packing everything up, taking the racking, moving in and moving out,” she said. “I ran across this idea — I’m not sure where it came up, but it just showed up one day, as these things do when you’re looking for solutions to [problems].”
Carolei is looking to raise $7,500 on Alberta Boostr to help with both the truck and an e-commerce platform to go along with it, and said she likes the idea of the site being exclusively for Alberta businesses.
“It’s Alberta-based; it’s home. I’m a local businessperson, and this is a local initiative. I like that,” she said. “It’s very tough to find Canadian crowdfunding.”
For Molly, it’s especially exciting to have a St. Albert project be among the first to be featured on the site.
“It’s awesome,” she said. “There are another four [initial projects], and I think they’re from Edmonton. It’s just great.”
Alberta Boostr has been conducting some pilot test projects in the Grande Prairie area. One of them raised $9,500 for 19-year-old country singer Tenille Nadkrynechny — who recently played in St. Albert at a volunteer appreciation luncheon put on by the Community Information and Volunteer Centre — and her Play It Forward tour.
“It all depends on what their social network is like,” Molly said, noting the importance of Twitter and Facebook in getting the word out about projects needing funds.
For more information, visit www.albertaboostr.ca.
Photo: PERRY MAH, Sun Media News ServicesDeputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk chats with some new workers after helping with their work application forms in Edmonton last week.
Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderSublime’s Lynn Carolei welcomes customers to her store during the Cash Mob last week.
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Creating a smart budget is essential to managing your expenses, paying off debt and preparing for the future.
“One of the biggest tips we can give new graduates is to harness that enthusiasm and learn self control,” says Crystal Wong, senior regional manager of TD Waterhouse Financial Planning. “If you’re lucky, your parents taught you those skills ... If not, you have to learn how to delay the gratification of buying something you absolutely want, but don’t necessarily need.”
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Perhaps you’ll need to live at home to save enough for first and last month’s rent or find a roommate or a cheaper location. If thinking about buying a car, don’t forget to forecast the cost of gas, insurance and maintenance. If you absolutely need a car, will a used vehicle suffice? Remember, some cars cost considerably more to insure than others, so do your homework before buying, says Ezer.
2• create a budget
A budget will serve as a roadmap for managing your personal finances successfully and help you choose where to spend your money
before you spend it. Categorize expenses by “needs” (such as rent, insurance, utilities, groceries, transportation, phone and entertainment), “wants” and perhaps even “nice
to have,” suggests Wong. Revisit it regularly and, if you’re in the red at the end of the month, readjust your spending accordingly.
3• pay oFF debts
Focus on paying back the loans that charge the highest interest rates as fast as possible, says Ezer. “Pay
them off as quickly as possible because all that money you’re spending on interest can be used toward the next debt or expense.”
4• build a credit rating
If you haven’t already developed a credit rating, now’s the time to do so by getting a credit card,
small line of credit and/or phone contract and making payments on time, says Wong. “When they one day apply for a mortgage, a young adult will have built into that process a credit rating that will allow them to get approved sooner — and at a more favourable interest rate.”
5• guard your wealth
Even if renting an apartment, invest in insurance to protect your
valuables from possible damage or theft, says Wong.
6• pay yourselF First
Set aside some money to save for a future house and to create an
emergency fund. Once you have some discretionary income available, start a Registered Retirement Savings Plan or Tax-Free Savings Account. “It’s about remembering to pay yourself first,” Wong says. Consider speaking to an accredited advisor at your financial institution for advice on creating a financial plan for the next five and 10 years.
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