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— equivalent to 1,552.64 kilograms — of the world’s largest popcorn ball, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. The popcorn ball was constructed on Sept. 29, 2006, by employees at The Popcorn Factory in Lake Charles, Ill.

Devon Dobchuk, a Grade 6 student at École Father Jan, piles bags of pink popcorn on a table during recess Tuesday morning. Students combined business lessons they learned through Junior Achievement with their passion for social justice to raise some money to help those less fortunate both at home and abroad. See story, page 3.

Philanthropy pops at Father JanGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Sweet treats met with social justice this week at a local elementary school.

Grade 6 students at École Father Jan got to work on Tuesday, combining business skills they learned through a Junior Achievement course with the ideals of Free the Children and We Day to raise money for those less fortunate both at home and abroad.

“The beauty of this project is that it’s so interconnected,” said their teacher, Juliette Inglis, adding that she was hoping to make $400. “It’s got Junior Achievement and making a business, it’s riding on the wave of We Day ... It’s a series of fortunate events.”

The students were selling bags of pink popcorn at recess Tuesday for $1 each, most of which were snapped up in a presale. The profits from that venture would be used to shop for people in third world countries through Plan Canada’s Gifts of Hope program.

“Popcorn was easy and light, and easy to package,” said Evalina Javorsky, a student on the promotion committee for the sale. “And pretty much everyone likes it.”

The kids wanted to put the money toward Plan Canada to help achieve the millennium development goals put forward by Free the Children, which they learned about when some of them attended We Day celebrations earlier this year. Those goals include:

• eradicating extreme poverty and hunger;• achieving universal primary education;• promoting gender equality and

empowering women;• reducing child mortality;• improving maternal health;• combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other

diseases;• ensuring environmental sustainability;

and• building global partnerships for

development.“Some of it can be buying nets against

malaria, and (promoting) stuff like girls’ rights,” said Riley Waples, another students on the promotion committee.

Inglis added that Plan Canada was a good investment because many of the gifts available are matched to provide even more value, and promote multiple development goals.

“The $75 AIDS treatment for a child is matched 17-to-1,” she said,

making it a $1,200 value.As well, Inglis’s Grade 6 class participated

in the Treats for Toys program run by Kellogg’s, where the company would donate $20 to the Salvation Army for every photo of a toy-shaped Rice Krispies treat uploaded to their website. As of Tuesday, the class had made 30 treats for a total of $600 in donations.

The Rice Krispies treat were also being raffled off in the school, with proceeds added to the amount going to the Plan Canada program.

All in all, though, Inglis wants her students to start seeing Christmas in a different way.

“We’re trying to teach them that Christmas should be a time of memories, not stuff.”

“The beauty of this project is that it’s

so interconnected.”Juliette Inglis

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Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderÉcole Father Jan Grade 6 students (L-R) Paige Skogstad, Riley Waples and Evalina Javorsky pile up the popcorn at recess on Tuesday morning.

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Residents chime in on Erin Ridge trafficGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Residents of Erin Ridge had more questions than answers after an open house on a traffic study in their neighbourhood this week.

More than 40 people turned out to King of Kings Lutheran Church on Monday evening to give their feedback on the draft version of the study, which the City of St. Albert commissioned from Bunt and Associates Engineering to figure out the impact that a new francophone junior/senior high school in Eldorado Park would have on traffic and parking in the area.

The report found that the added trips due to the school would be well within current standards for Erin Ridge Drive and that intersections in the area would still be able to function at acceptable levels, but it did acknowledge the concerns of residents around traffic and parking, and recommended a number of possible mitigation strategies, like lower speed limits and tighter parking restrictions.

But residents who turned out Monday said that, even though the counts were only done a couple of months, the traffic situation has worsened in the neighbourhood since the new Costco location opened in Erin Ridge North in late October and Stage 3 of Ray Gibbon Drive opened in November.

“I know for a fact that, since that Costco went in, the traffic is way, way more than it was before. ... It’s a disaster. Something terrible is going to happen there,” said Sandy Scott, who lives in the area and crosses Erin Ridge

Drive to work at the Sturgeon Community Hospital every day.

Scott also mentioned that the hospital was recently involved in future planning sessions, and expansion plans could make the parking and traffic situations even worse.

“There’s going to be a two-storey structure going up where the helicopter pad is, and the helicopter pad is going to go on top of it,” she told the open house.

“It’s just a matter of when they get the money. ... You’re going to force more traffic on that road, because there are going to be more employees. And that road cannot handle it.”

Representatives from Bunt and Associates said they weren’t aware of such plans when the study was done.

Other residents pointed out that the study didn’t take into account important factors, like a small

close just off Erin Ridge Drive that is directly across from the school site and is used by many cars as a place to turn around.

“We already have issues waiting to get in or out of our close — major issues getting out of our close,” said Laurine Sanderson, who lives in one of the six houses on that close. “In the winter, it’s even worse.”

Questions were also raised about the study’s assumption that

90 per cent of students would be bussed to the school, with many residents believing more students would drive to school instead and parking would spill out onto residential streets.

Some also weren’t confident that any changes or restrictions implemented would be properly enforced based on their current experience.

Conseil Scolaire du Centre-Nord superintendent Henri Lemire was in attendance Monday, though, and said that, for the past three years, well over 90 per cent of students attending École Alexandre-Taché were taking buses to school.

For other residents, though, the refrain was the same as it was when they brought their concerns to the previous city council in August.

“I’m not against a francophone school being in St. Albert, but I think it’s the wrong site,” said Erwin Simon, who has lived on Essex Close for 23 years. “All this study shows us is that this traffic issue is not going to get better. We want those students to be safe.”

The team from Bunt and Associates will take the feedback they gathered Monday, as well as from emails from citizens, and work on a new version of the report, which they expect to have ready sometime in January.

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderErin Ridge resident Bill Van Hoof addresses the crowd of about 40 people that attended an open house on a traffic and parking study in the neighbourhood, which was held at King of Kings Lutheran Church on Monday evening.

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RCMP corral truck thiefGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

St. Albert RCMP have laid five criminal charges against one man after they helped track down a stolen vehicle last week.

At around 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 4, local RCMP were asked by the Edmonton Police Service to assist in the pursuit of a stolen truck that been involved in incidents in Edmonton throughout the day. Unmarked EPS vehicles were tracking the truck with the assistance of the Air-1 helicopter when the truck began travelling at dangerous speeds.

Eventually, the truck left the road and crashed into a backyard fence near Grosvenor Boulevard and Gordon Crescent. Air-1 crews directed St. Albert RCMP to the scene of the crash, where the male driver and a female passenger

had fled on foot in opposite directions.

The man was arrested as he was exiting a nearby home that he had just broken into. Nobody was home at the time of the break-in.

The woman was located and arrested a few blocks from the

crash. She was released from custody and charges

against her are still pending.

Meanwhile, St. Albert RCMP charged

the male driver, 29-year-old Cole

Symons of Whitecourt:

• possession of stolen property;

• dangerous operation of a motor vehicle;

• flight from police;

• break and enter; and• failing to stop at the scene of

an accident.Symons was held in custody

and made his first appearance in St. Albert provincial court on Monday.

Giving back(packs)Members of St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre’s SOARing youth volunteer program sort winter clothes for their Giving Back(Packs) program that were donated from local schools. In total, they collected and filled 55 backpacks, half of which will go toward Youth Empowerment and Support Services (YESS) in Edmonton and half to the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village.

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City councillors got out their knives on Tuesday, and a major heritage project was one of the biggest items on the chopping block.

After hearing presentations from various City of St. Albert departments and outside agencies over the past couple of weeks, council began debating motions and making decisions on the 2014 municipal budget on Tuesday afternoon.

And one big-ticket item to get the axe was a proposed $2.5-million expansion of the Musée Heritage Museum, which was moved from funded to unfunded in the municipal capital budget by a vote of 4-3.

“The museum is already 5,000 square feet. It’s substantial; it’s a lot of open space, which could be redistributed … For a city our

size, a 5,000 square-foot museum with free admission is a very large demonstration of our commitment to culture, the arts and our heritage,” said Coun. Sheena Hughes, who put forward the motion to unfund the expansion. “This is an unnecessary expansion.”

“During the (election) campaign, we all had an opportunity to hear from residents about what was important to them, and I’ll be honest, I didn’t hear anyone talk about a museum expansion,” added Coun. Tim Osborne.

Councillors Wes Brodhead and Gilles Prefontaine, along with Mayor Nolan Crouse, voted to keep the project in the budget.

“I think this is a killshot, and I’m not prepared to go there,” Crouse said. “What we need to be able to do is demonstrate in some fashion that the history of our community is important and should be showcased.”

Another project that was unfunded Tuesday was the proposed community support centre, which would have housed a new facility for the St. Albert 50+ Club and other community groups.

However, since the 50+ Club has since been taken out of the project, councillors felt there wasn’t enough merit to moving forward.

“It’s become kind of a dog’s breakfast. Everyone’s put their two cents in as to what they want this building to be … I don’t think this project is manageable at all anymore,” Coun. Cam MacKay said.

Meanwhile, council also voted 4-3 to move funding for transit SmartCards ahead one year into 2014, with one-third of the $1.8-million project coming from the City and the other two-thirds coming from provincial GreenTrip grants.

Crouse — who made the motion — said that, although the City

hasn’t locked down the GreenTrip funding yet, this move would demonstrate to the City of Edmonton and to Strathcona County that St. Albert is serious about moving ahead with a regional SmartCard fare system.

“It’s a leap of faith,” the mayor said about the GreenTrip funding.

As most of the items council dealt with Tuesday were in the municipal capital budget, they did not affect the proposed residential property tax increase of 2.1 per cent — they only affected how much of the City’s capital

envelope would be spent.

Museum expansion axed in budget debate

RCMP on lookout for sexual assault suspectGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

St. Albert RCMP are sounding the alarm after an alleged sexual assault in the city.

At approximately 10 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 6, police say that a woman who works at Fountain Park Recreation Centre on Cunningham Road was walking toward her car after work, which was parked in the complex’s parking lot when she was assaulted.

A male suspect grabbed the woman, pulled her against a car and started kissing her. She was able to struggle free of the man’s grip, get in her car and drive away.

The suspect is described as a Caucasian male in his late 20s, about six feet tall, with green eyes, brown hair and a full beard.

Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call the St. Albert RCMP

detachment at 780-458-7700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

RCMP are also reminding residents to practice personal safety techniques, no matter the time of day. They encourage employees to walk to their cars in groups of two or more, and to be vigilant about people who are seen loitering around vehicles. If there are suspicious people loitering around parking lots, don’t hesitate to call the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 780-458-7700.

BAR ASSAULTMeanwhile, St. Albert RCMP are also on

the lookout for a suspect in an assault at a local bar.

At around 1:30 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 1, police were called to The Beer Hunter on St. Albert Trail after a report of an altercation between two men.

A 26-year-old Edmonton resident was getting ready to leave the bar and approached a woman he knew to see if she wanted a ride home. However, a man who was sitting with the woman proceeded to hit the first man in the face with a glass, cutting his face and requiring him to receive several stitches.

The male suspect and two friends left the bar right after the incident happened. The man who was assaulted told police he didn’t know any of the three in this group and had never interacted with them before.

The suspect is described as a young Asian man with a small build and tattoos on his right arm. He was wearing a black cap at the time. His friends were both Caucasian males, tall and with a medium build.

Anyone with any information on this crime is asked to call the St. Albert RCMP detachment at 780-458-7700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.

Courtesy St. Albert RCMPSt. Albert RCMP are looking for the man depicted in this composite sketch in relation to an alleged sexual assault near Fountain Park Recreation Centre on Nov. 6.

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Cold weather over the weekend put the freeze on donations for the St. Albert Kinettes’ annual Christmas hamper campaign, but organizers are hoping people will still come through and warm the hearts of less fortunate families this holiday season.

The campaign’s biggest event — Fill-A-Bus, which is put on by St. Albert Transit drivers at grocery and department stores across the city — took place on Saturday, but with temperatures hovering around –30 C all day, donations came in slower than molasses in that kind of weather.

“It was so cold, and we were only there until 5 p.m., and we started seeing people coming out of their homes and show up at the (stores) more around the 3 p.m. range,” said campaign co-ordinator Kim Bedry. “I think that’s why it was so down.”

As of Monday, the Kinettes already had 186 referrals for hampers, and Bedry

expected another 50 to 70 to come in this week, but donations are down

almost 20 per cent compared to 2012.

The biggest needs right now, she added, are gifts for kids aged 13 to 17, as well as some of

the basics.“Chunky soup, peanut butter,

canned meats, hot cereals, cold cereals — those seem to be the big ones,” Bedry said.

Cash donations can be made at Fire Hall No. 3 on Giroux

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are delivered, as that’s where the sorting and packing of hampers is taking place.

Delivery of the hampers is scheduled for Dec. 14 and 15.A bit of good news

for the campaign, though, is that they have plenty of

volunteers to help with sorting and packing at the Enjoy Centre.

But Bedry said they do need drivers to help deliver hampers this weekend.

“We don’t really schedule for them. They can just show up and we’ll give you

a family to deliver to,” she said.Anyone who wants to help out with

driving can call Bedry at 780-340-8076 or email [email protected].

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Photo: JESSE KUSHNERYK, St. Albert Leader(L-R) Cathie Borle of PW Transit, St. Albert Kinettes vice-president Kathy Van Vulpen, general member Ben Van Vulpen and transit driver Richard Roscoe show off a few of the donations made during the Fill-A-Bus event on Saturday. The Kinettes could use a few more donations, though, for their annual Christmas hamper campaign.


The St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village is so fortunate to enjoy

such generous community support. We thank you for the ongoing assistance and donations throughout the year, but we are always amazed and so grateful for that special support at Christmas. We would not be where or who we are without you, and our more than 100 dedicated volunteers.

The Christmas season is always busier than usual. We will be preparing and distributing upwards of 150 Christmas hampers with the help of our partners the St. Albert Rotary Club and Salvation Army. The Salvation Army Toy Store provides our clients the opportunity to pick out appropriate gifts for their children. On Dec. 19, we will hold the third annual

Community Christmas Banquet at the Village site for the first time, and we look forward to hosting more than 90 clients.

The St. Albert Food Bank is marking its 30th anniversary in 2014! From humble beginnings in the basement of the St. Albert Parish, it has grown with the community and now annually serves more than 600 local families. Introduced in 2009, the Community Village changed the way we do business by supporting our vulnerable clients with a ‘hand-up’ rather than a ‘hand-out.’ This approach

seeks to address the underlying issues that brought them to our door, and encourages them to find solutions, regain their independence and achieve a brighter future for their families. The stories are touching. Direct referrals to other agencies and groups in the area ensures our clients receive the right ‘package’ of services needed.

Through local partnerships, and completion of the CV renovation, 16 programs have evolved and operate on site. The Community Village also offer shower and laundry facilities for local homeless clients.

Our Community Kitchen, under the direction of a dedicated group of volunteers, teaches safe cooking practices and general cooking skills. A new neighbourhood initiative with FCSS created the Cultural

Kitchen, which brought recent immigrants and contract workers into the kitchen to share recipes and cooking from their native country. The evenings have fostered a sense of community and support for people who had previously felt isolated. In January, a chef will begin a series of special cooking events that will be open to the general public.

All donations are gratefully appreciated, and can be dropped off at the Food Bank (50 Bellerose Dr.) on Monday, Wednesday and Friday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., or any St. Albert grocery store. Our wish list can be found on our Food Bank website at www.stalbertfb.com

From all of us to all of you, thank you so much. We wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Food Bank thankful for all your support

A tough pill to swallow

For those who were actually interested in providing information and constructive feedback, Monday’s

open house on the traffic and parking study in Erin Ridge subdivision was an excellent, well-run exercise.

But for those who were only interested in simply railing against having a school in their backyard yet again, they likely got little out of it. And they will likely get little out of the rest of the process going forward.

About 40 people were at King of Kings Lutheran Church on Monday evening as the engineering firm Bunt and Associates came out to hear what people had to say on the study they had conducted — what they liked, what they didn’t like, how they could make it better.

For the most part, it was a very productive evening. The engineers gave a lot of insight into how the study was put together. And the residents gave the engineers a lot to think about as they went back to the drawing board, information about how much worse they felt the situation had become since the Costco location in Erin Ridge North had opened.

Of course, though, there were those folks who are still dead set against the school at all, the folks who — no matter how many figures are thrown at them — still say things like, “We’re not against a francophone school in St. Albert; we just don’t want it at this site!”

Unfortunately, the reality is that the school site is pretty much set in stone. The provincial government has sent out the request for proposals, and they can’t go changing it now. To do so could delay the francophone school and, along with it, the new elementary school for which St. Albert Public Schools has fought long and hard. Things may change a little — plans may shift slightly or a few parking stalls may be added — but a school is almost certain to be built there, like it or not.

It’s a tough pill to swallow, but the sooner people accept this, the sooner we can move on to making some productive changes in the area that will benefit everyone.

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Middleweights Luke Harris and Sheldon Westcott, both of whom fight out of St. Albert, have been included in the cast for the new season of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF), a reality TV show that helps find the newest stars for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the biggest MMA promotion in the world.

There is another twist, though, as Harris, Westcott and the other fighters on the show will also have national pride on the line. The new season of TUF is pitting a team of athletes from Canada against fighters from Australia.

“If guys thought fighting in the toughest tournament on television was hard, imagine how they feel doing it with a whole country on their shoulders,” UFC president Dana White said in a press release. “These country vs. country seasons of The Ultimate Fighter are awesome because not only do these guys deal with living in a house with other fighters, training twice a day and putting everything on the line for their dream opportunity, but now it’s even more personal — it’s patriotic.”

The Canadian team will be coached by UFC veteran Patrick “The Predator” Côté, who is originally from Rimouski, Que., and was runner-up on the fourth season of TUF in 2006. He has a professional MMA record of 20-8.

Côté has trained in St. Albert before at the Hayabusa Training Centre in Campbell Business Park, which is owned by Harris.

The Aussie contingent is led by Kyle Noke, a fighter out of Dubbo, New South Wales, with a pro record of 20-6-1. The two coaches will square off in the Octagon once the season has finished airing on TV.

Harris is the elder statesman of the

Canadian team at 36 years old. At six-foot-two and 185 pounds, he has a professional MMA record of 10-2, with the latest win coming over Jasom Zentgraf at MFC 37: True Grit in Edmonton.

Meanwhile, Westcott, 29, stands six-foot-one and 185 pounds, and has a record of 8-1. His only loss came in his first pro MMA bout, and his latest win came by knockout over Aaron Smhyr at Fivestar Fight League 5 in Yellowknife this past April.

TUF Nations: Canada vs. Australia debuts on Fox Sports 1 in the United States and on Sportsnet 360 in Canada on Wednesday, Jan. 15.

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Fitzgerald’s star shines at awards lunchGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Katie Fitzgerald’s star was shining bright last weekend.

The Grade 11 student at Paul Kane High School was one of six outstanding volunteers from across the province recognized by the Alberta government during the 2013 Stars of Alberta awards ceremony, held at the Chateau Lacombe hotel in downtown Edmonton the afternoon of Thursday, Dec. 5, which was also International Volunteer Day.

“It’s such an honour,” said Fitzgerald, 16. “And to be grouped with these amazing people is so cool. It’s so awesome to get this award, to be recognized.”

Meanwhile, her mother Alberta was overwhelmed with pride.

“It’s the most incredible thing to have a daughter who does these incredible things,” she said. “And then to have her receive this award, it’s just — oh my goodness. Honestly, there’s just no words to describe it.”

Fitzgerald has been instrumental in establishing the St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre’s SOARing program for youth volunteers, and has been involved in initiatives through the BAM (Building Assets and Memories) youth group in St. Albert, Me to We, Free the Children Canada, the Second Chance Animal Rescue Society, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation and Special Olympics, among others.

“Just seeing the reaction on people’s faces when you go and help them, and the feeling you get when you volunteer, it’s really awesome. That’s what keeps me going,” she said.

In fact, through Free the Children, Fitzgerald is currently fundraising for a trip to India next summer that will combine her

passions for volunteering and for travel.“In the past two weeks, we finally booked

the trip, so now I’m just fundraising for it,” she said, noting she currently only has a few hundred of the $6,000 she’ll need.

Fitzgerald found out that she had won the award last month, and said it was a shock for her. And seeing the accomplishments of the other award recipients was humbling.

“They’re all really inspiring, too,” she said. “It’s really awesome to be grouped together with people like them.”

Another of Thursday’s recipients was Dr. David Hubert, who founded Habitat for Humanity Edmonton in 1990 — an

organization that has since spread its wings across the Capital Region and built several homes for families in St. Albert.

In typical volunteer fashion, though, Hubert deflected attention away from himself and onto his wife, Martha.

“I’d like to recognize her enormously gracious support when I left a senior job with (Alberta) Advanced Education 28 years ago to chase dreams of trying to make the world a better place,” he said. “It was Martha who did without. But she supported me fully and never once complained.”

Other recipients of Stars of Alberta awards Thursday included:

• Sheliza Kassam of Calgary;• Al Jones of Airdrie;• Theresa Nuthall of Wanham, a

hamlet of less than 200 people about 100 kilometres north of Grande Prairie; and

• Idrees Khan of Calgary.Premier Alison Redford was at the

awards ceremony, saying that the credit extends beyond the award recipients to the families who support them.

“We are a network of people. That’s why we are successful as Albertans — because we care about each other and we want each other to succeed,” the premier said.

“It’s so awesome to get this award, to be recognized.”

Katie FitzgeraldAward winner

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderKatie Fitzgerald addresses the audience at the Chateau Lacombe hotel in downtown Edmonton during the 2013 Stars of Alberta awards ceremony on Thursday, Dec. 5.

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Redford shuffles cabinetALLISON SALZSun Media News Services

Premier Alison Redford’s cabinet looked a bit different on Monday morning.

Friday afternoon the premier announced a major shakeup of her ministerial team, and there were some notable moves in both directions.

Dave Hancock has taken over the deputy premier post from Thomas Lukaszuk along with the Ministry of Innovation and Advanced Education.

Lukaszuk will now take on the Ministry of Jobs, Skills, Training and Labour.

Diana McQueen will oversee Environment and Sustainable Resource Development, moving on from her post as Energy Minister.

Robin Campbell will take over Energy and will also be the Government House leader.

Verlyn Olsen will remain the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, but he’s been awarded the added

responsibility of deputy House leader.

Wayne Drysdale and Ric McIver did a direct swap — Drysdale will become Minister of Transportation and McIver will now be the Minister of Infrastructure.

And despite tumultuous years in finance, education and health, Doug Horner, Jeff Johnson and Fred Horne will remain at their respective posts.

Redford said the announcement shows a “strengthened ministerial team that will drive the next phase of the Building Alberta Plan.”

“The next phase (will) focus on expanding our economy, driving innovation and working every day to create an even better quality of life for Albertans.”

The last cabinet shakeup was last February, and critics thumbed their nose at the move, with Alberta Liberal leader Raj Sherman calling it a huge step back for women and visible minorities.

Opposition slams Tory cabinet movesCATHERINE GRIWKOWSKYSun Media News Services

Alberta opposition members are slamming most of the government’s cabinet shuffle, but offering a small bit of praise.

Premier Alison Redford made changes to the cabinet, leaving more MLAs in cabinet than private members.

Wildrose leader Danielle Smith said the shuffle was a chance to change, but the premier stuck with the status quo.

“The premier has decided to stick with her finance minister, despite presiding over a budget that he can’t balance, and her health minister, despite running system that he can’t fix,” Smith said.

“The premier should have taken this opportunity to replace these ministers and appoint fresh faces with new perspectives to these important posts. By keeping the status quo in these positions, the premier has signalled that debt will continue to mount and wait times will continue to grow.”

Smith, however, welcomed some change.“I am optimistic that the new deputy premier

will bring some much-needed experience and professionalism to that position of leadership and I’m hopeful the new municipal affairs minister will strike a more co-operative, less combative tone with our towns, cities and municipal districts,” she said.

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A 500 per cent increase in identified human trafficking victims is putting a strain on ACT Alberta.

Five times more victims were referred to the anti-trafficking coalition in 2012 versus 2011, according to executive director Andrea Burkhart.

She says the statistic is not necessarily a negative one, however, but that it speaks to a major increase in awareness.

“I wouldn’t analyze that as we have more victims now than we’ve ever had. I would analyze that as in, we have more awareness, we have more shared understanding of what this issue is,” she said.

ACT (The Action Coalition on Human Trafficking Alberta Association) received a $200,000 grant from the federal government Saturday to fund its Community Planning to Prevent and Reduce Sex Trafficking in Edmonton project over two years.

Burkhart said the “hugely significant” grant will help ACT create a community action plan, starting with a safety audit that will examine who is impacted by sex trafficking in Edmonton.

“Prostitution, sexual exploitation, homelessness, poverty, etc., there are a number of interconnected issues, as you would find in any work related to violence against women,” she said, adding labour and migration issues tie in as well. Some ACT clients have been trafficked via the Internet, through dating or escort websites.

“The tentacles of human trafficking reach far out into many other phenomenon.”

ACT helps about 4,000 people each year who require “tremendously complex” services that can include psychological help, shelter, food and medicine, and sometimes flights back home.

Burkhart says Alberta is leading Canada’s response to human trafficking as the first province to have a co-ordinated non-governmental response to the issue. ACT works with nonprofit organizations like CEASE (the Centre to End All Sexual Exploitation), as well as law enforcement and policy makers.

Edmonton is one of three cities to receive the grant, and the only one in Western

Canada.“The whole country

is learning how to do this work, and we are frequently looked at as a replicable model,” Burkhart said.

She hopes the funds will help streamline services for trafficking

victims and ultimately contribute to eliminating the problem altogether.

“Decades in the future, or perhaps even sooner, we’re anticipating that Edmonton will be a city free of sex trafficking,” she said.

The grant comes as the federal government marks 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence from Nov. 25 to Dec. 10, which started with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. It also includes Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women (Dec. 6) and International Human Rights Day (Dec. 10).

“The tentacles of human trafficking

reach far out.”Andrea Burkhart

ACT Alberta

Spike in human trafficking speaks to awareness: expert

Photo: PERRY MAH, Sun Media News ServicesJacqueline Foord, YWCA Edmonton executive director, announces government support for a new project to address the trafficking of women and girls in the Edmonton area on Saturday.

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It’s time to recognize the best the St. Albert arts community has to offer.

The City of St. Albert has put out the call for nominations for the 2014 Mayor’s Arts Awards, recognizing some of the individuals, groups and businesses that have helped raise the community’s profile in Canada’s arts scene.

“St. Albert, as the Botanical Arts City, is a community that embodies the passion and creativity of the arts,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said in a press release. “These awards showcase artists who have a strong connection to our community, who share their creative expression, and help ensure the long-term vibrancy and sustainability of St. Albert’s arts and culture heritage.”

The awards will be handed out during the 2014 Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts Gala, scheduled for March 14, with eight categories:

• Emerging Artist;• Excellence in Arts Teaching;• Community Arts Group;• Corporate Patron of the Arts;• Youth Artist;• Established Artist;• Arts Leadership; and • Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.A complete description of each category can

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by a local artists and — except for Corporate Patron of the Arts — a $1,000 cash prize.

Any individual, organization, business or family member may submit a nomination; artists can also nominate themselves. Nominees must have a significant connection to St. Albert.

Deadline for nominations is Friday, Jan. 17.

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Libraries lit the fuse to Margaret Macpherson’s literary career, and now she’s hoping to create that same creative spark in other aspiring writers.

It was announced last week that Macpherson would be the 2014 regional writer-in-residence for the Metro Foundation — a consortium of libraries across the Capital Region — meaning she would be spending from mid-August to the end of 2014 at the St. Albert Public Library, helping local writers polish their stories while working on her own.

Macpherson grew up in the Northwest Territories in the 1960s and ’70s, where there was no television, so she turned to books to feed her creativity.

“Libraries saved my life,” she said.“Growing up in a place of real

darkness, it was the library that was my lifeline to the rest of the world,” she added. “I was an avid reader, and I read voraciously; I consumed all the books in that little library all the time. I believe that libraries — particularly for people who feel isolated — I see them as little burning fires in the darkness.”

Macpherson will also spend time based out of the Sherwood Park and Fort Saskatchewan libraries. Jason Lee Norman was named the writer-in-residence for the Edmonton Public Library for the entire year.

The pair are representative of so many other writers and creative people in the Edmonton area, and Macpherson has a theory about why the city is a hub for creativity.

“It’s winter, man. I’m quite serious,” she said. “When we are cocooned and in that hibernation mode, we have to go inside ourselves. And from that plumbing of our own depths, our stories,

our memories, out of that often come plays and novels and all kinds of creative (works).”

Macpherson started her career in radio and print journalism, and eventually earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of British Columbia before settling in Edmonton, adding the titles of instructor, lecturer and community facilitator to her resumé.

She has written both fiction and non-fiction titles over her career. Her non-fiction titles include Outlaws and Lawmen of the West — Volume 1, Outlaws of the Canadian West, Silk Spices and Glory: In Search of the Northwest Passage and Nellie McClung: Voice for the Voiceless. Her fiction works include Perilous Departures, Released and Body Trade.

But Macpherson said that she’s very excited to take on her new role.

“It’s a challenge and an affirmation for me,” he said. “It’s a very exciting opportunity for me, not only to focus

on some of my own work, but more importantly — and I honestly believe it’s more important — to get out into the community and invite people to bring their stuff. You often learn so much more from others, from helping other people, from reading and looking at their work.”

This is the second year of the writers-in-residence program for the Metro Foundation, and Macpherson is following in the footsteps of Natasha Deen, who served as the regional writer-in-residence in 2013.

“Natasha is a vibrant and awesome communicator, but possibly more up-to-speed on social media than I am, but I’ve published more than she has,” Macpherson said. “We bring different things to the role. I seriously believe the library’s been very careful about picking people who offer different gifts to St. Albert and environs. Natasha was a great first writer-in-residence, and I hope to be a great second writer-in-residence.”

Although she now lives in south Edmonton, Macpherson used to work at a newspaper in St. Albert, and is familiar with Morinville and other communities in the area.

“It’s a wonderful venue to work out of because it’s central. I think, working in the region, I’ll be dealing possibly more with people who are more suburban and don’t have much contact with the larger writing community,” she said.

“The most important thing for me,” she added, “is to be really accessible. I’m not some la-de-da person; I’ve really learned the trade from the ground up.”

The new writers-in-residence were officially welcomed at a celebration on Tuesday evening at the Stanley A. Milner Library in Edmonton.

For more information on the writers-in-residence program, visit www.metrowir.com.

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A local ensemble is hoping their upcoming Christmas concert is a ding-dong-dandy.

This Saturday evening, the Mission Hill Brass Band presents “A Ding-Dong Christmas” at the St. Albert United Church, bringing the rich tradition of a full British brass band to the stage with a little bit of help from vocalist Ellen Doty.

The featured piece will be a performance of “Ding Dong Merrily on High,” from which the theme of the concert was taken.

“It has more of a modern upbeat feeling to it,” said the band’s musical director, A. Daniel Skepple, Jr. “And that’s what I could up with the title (of the show).”

Other selections for the concert include both traditional and contemporary Christmas favourites like “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” “Sleigh Ride,” and “Carol of the Bells.”

This is the band’s ninth season, and Skepple said he has been trying to keep things fresh over the four concerts they’ve played this year.

“We now have an executive in place, which has taken a lot of my administrative responsibilities away — thank goodness. Now I can just concentrate on music,” he said. “This year, I wouldn’t say there’s been more pressure on the band, but we’re tyring to facilitate some improvement. The band plays really well, but ... we’re trying to come up with fresh music for every concert.”

“The thought is that we want to keep things fresh so that our loyal people who come and listen to us aren’t hearing the same pieces.”

Meanwhile, Doty and her band join the Mission Hill Brass from Calgary, bringing

jazz stylings influenced the likes of Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald with her.

Skepple has known Doty for six or seven years, when she played on the women’s basketball team at The King’s University College in Edmonton and Skepple was the men’s coach.

“It’s exciting because she’s established herself. She’s up and coming,” he said. “She’s just new on the scene, but she’s trying to make a career for herself.”

Doty released her latest seven-song EP, That’s Love, in April, which followed up her first full-length CD that was relased in August 2012.

“It’s a fresh sound, a little more jazzy than we do,” Skepple said, adding that guests like Doty let the band take a little break during the show and lets them soak in the music.

The Mission Hill Brass Band was first formed in 2005 by Skepple and Dr. Gordon Russell. Since then, it has grown from 12 members — “Three of the 12 were my kids,” Skepple said — to a full complement of 28.

“We made a commitment, Gordon and I, to having as many young faces in the band at key positions (as possible),” Skepple said. “We have a philosophy of having a young person per section, and that’s sometimes a challenge in terms of the lower end of the band. ... But we’re trying to maintain that dynamic of young players.”

“A Ding-Dong Christmas” takes place on Saturday at 7 p.m. at St. Albert United Church (20 Green Grove Dr.). Tickets are $12 for adults and $8 for youth in advance from band members, or $15 for adults and $10 for youth at the door. Kids under 10 get in free.

For more information on the Mission Hill Brass Band, visit www.missionhillbrass.ca.

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Lilly back with a bangJIM SLOTEKSun Media News Services

When Evangeline Lilly wants off the grid, she really goes off the grid.

Publicly retired, the former Lost star has been living quietly in Hawaii with her boyfriend, film crewmember Norman Kali and their son, when director Peter Jackson went looking for her to play an elf in the latest Hobbit instalment The Desolation of Smaug.

“It had been at least five years since I’d even taken a meeting,” the actress says. “When Peter was trying to find me, he couldn’t. Someone on the production team coincidentally used to work with my partner. So he got a text saying, ‘Peter Jackson’s trying to get ahold of Evangeline. Could you get her to pick up the phone?’”

A childhood fan of The Hobbit, she was excited at the call, but nervous at the notion of playing a character not from any of the Tolkien books — Tauriel, a wood elf and lethal leader of the Elvin guard.

“And I was like, ‘Maybe it’s a bad idea. The fans will have my head.’”

And sure enough, “There are forums that are rife with angry discussion,” she says on a promotional visit to Toronto. “I kind of like it. It’s fun that people are so passionate about Tolkien’s work, that there’s great controversy over this small addition.”

Her rationale, that a strong female character in The Hobbit was needed, “is actually in Tolkien’s defence. He was writing at a time when it wasn’t wrong to exclude women from your stories. Today it is. So I think Peter made the right choice.”

Lilly did have one stipulation — no love triangles (after years being the woman in the middle between Sawyer and Jack on Lost).

That turned into a broken promise. In The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, Tauriel finds herself attracted to Kili (Aidan Turner), part of the company of dwarves that has set out with Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) to reclaim the Kingdom of Erebor from the dragon Smaug.

This ticks off fellow archer Legolas (Orlando Bloom), who has a thing for her as well.

Lilly reports they’d filmed the second and third films in the Hobbit trilogy (part three comes out next Christmas), “without a hint of a love triangle.

“But the studio had watched the films cut together and everybody decided the ambiguous nature of Tauriel’s relationship to Legolas was not as impactful as it needed to be.”

Lilly says she was used to criticism even before she crossed the Tolkien fans. For some reason, she says, her retirement rubbed people the wrong way.

“A lot of people were like, ‘I don’t understand why this young woman who has this opportunity handed to her would turn her nose up to it. But just because something appears to be ideal from the outside that doesn’t mean it is from the inside.

“Lost was an incredible slog. I am proud as hell to have been a part of it, but it was not a labour of love, it was just a labour. And fame

wasn’t the end goal for me. It came to a person who wasn’t necessarily looking for it.”

Lilly is in talks for a drama that could film in the spring, but isn’t ready to declare her “retirement” over. She’s been putting her

energies into a children’s book series The Squickerwonkers.

Lilly, who grew up in Abbotsford, B.C., sold her first 1,000 copies at this year’s Comic-Con, and is close to signing a publishing deal.

Already pretty good numbers for a book by a Canadian, we tell her. “I’m a best-selling Canadian author now,” she says with a laugh.

“(Lost) was not a labour of love; it

was just a labour.”Evangeline Lilly

Actor

Photo: Sun Media News ServicesPeter Jackson, director of The Hobbit trilogy, managed to coax Evangeline Lilly (above) out of retirement by offering her a strong female character in The Desolation of Smaug.

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Frozen sold $31.6 million worth of tickets from Friday through Sunday during its second weekend in theaters to top domestic movie charts, while Catching Fire earned $27 million, according to studio estimates from Rentrak.

The weekend’s only new nationwide release, crime thriller Out of the Furnace,

took a distant third place with $5.3 million.Global sales for Frozen, a solid holiday

season hit, climbed to $190 million through Sunday, Disney said. The 3D movie, inspired by The Snow Queen fairytale, features the voice of Kristen Bell as a Scandinavian princess intent on finding her sister, the Queen, who has the power to freeze anything with a touch and accidentally sets off a long winter that is destroying their kingdom.

Catching Fire, the second of the Hunger Games films based on novels by Suzanne Collins, brought its global total to a massive

$673.4 million, according to distributor Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. The movie stars Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen, a skilled archer who provides hope for an oppressed society on the edge of rebellion.

Lions Gate noted that the U.S. weather in recent days, with several winter storm systems in play, likely had an impact on box office results.

Third-place film Out of the Furnace stars Christian Bale and Casey Affleck as brothers in a working-class Pennsylvania steel town. When one of the brothers disappears, the

other sets out to find him and enact revenge.Out of the Furnace was distributed by

privately held Relativity Media and cost $22 million to make. Critics were split on the film. As of Saturday, the movie scored a 51 per cent positive rating among reviews collected on the Rotten Tomatoes website.

Rounding out the charts, Marvel superhero sequel Thor: The Dark World, which stars Chris Hemsworth as the god of thunder, earned $4.7 million. Delivery Man, featuring Vince Vaughn as a sperm donor who fathers more than 500 children, finished fifth, grossing $3.8 million.


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Transplant blitz at U of ACATHERINE GRIWKOWSKYSun Media News Services

Surgeons were busy saving lives in a organ transplantation blitz earlier this year.

The University of Alberta hospital broke its record, with 30 organ transplants performed between Sept. 29 and Oct. 8 — more than is normally done in a month.

One of those lives was Vern Foreman’s. The 58-year-old man was in dire need of a new liver after contracting hepatitis C in his youth and going through liver cancer twice.

While Foreman could take care of responsibilities day to day, he had no energy left over for things he loved.

“I was tired all the time,” Foreman said.

He got the call on a Saturday that he was on the list and in the early hours of Oct. 1, he was undergoing surgery.

He’s thankful for the gift the donor gave and encourages others to save lives.

“I feel like I have to live for two now,” he said with a smile.

In a typical month, the hospital will do 20 and 25 organ transplants in a month at the University hospital and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute. But in the 10-day stretch teams worked on three lung, two heart, eight liver, five islet, one kidney/pancreas and 11 kidney transplants from nine dead donors and three living donors.

Three years ago, while Sandy Walsh-Schuurman’s husband Ron Schuurman was on the elliptical, he fell backwards due to a cerebral aneurism and died. His uncle had a liver transplant 20 years ago and a friend who died of a brain injury was also an organ donor. Given the type of person Ron was, it made sense.

Schuurman said her husband was a family man, who coached soccer on his son’s team.

The family received letters from the woman who got his lungs and a man who got his liver.

“It was breathtaking,” she said. “It’s wonderful and I would encourage recipients to do that.”

The Human Organ Procurement Exchange program walked the family through the process.

Karen Elgert, HOPE co-ordinator, said HOPE is there to answer questions and learn more about the family member.

An important aspect is ensuring the family is aware that once a person no longer has blood flowing to the brain they have no chance of recovery. The idea can be difficult when the family member may appear to be alive.

“Because of House and ER (TV shows) and all of that, they are really wanting to be sure that everything that can been done has been done,” Elgert said.

Families are told general details about who benefited from the donation.

Loved ones who haven’t had a conversation about organ and tissue donation are fearful of making a choice they might regret, she said.

“When they know, that gives the family so much peace and they are so fired up and so gung ho and so excited,” Elgert said.

The excitement helps Dr. Norman Kneteman who is a liver transplant surgeon and the zone clinical section chief for transplant services with Alberta Health Services.

While a decreased number of strokes and traumatic brain injuries is good news, it makes the message of organ donation more important, he said. For kidneys and livers, AHS has worked to increase living donations.

“It’s been a challenge for donations; our donor numbers have fallen,” Kneteman said. “It means we have to be especially vigilant not to miss any opportunities.”

After consent is given by the family, transplant services is notified. Then suitability of organs after testing is determined.

Then a list of donors is prioritized by sickest and by antigen match. Once priority is established, the operation must be booked, staff must be made available, lab tests must be completed and then the operation occurs. Following the surgery there is aftercare ranging from five days to three weeks on average.

Kneteman said Bill 207, the Human Tissue and Organ Donation Amendment Act, will have a single agency to help co-ordinate donations and make consenting for donation available when drivers renew their licence.

Photo: PERRY MAH, Sun Media News ServicesKaren Elgert with Human Organ Procurement Exchange (HOPE) looks out over the University of Alberta Hospital as it announced a record 10 days for organ transplants.

PAMELA ROTHSun Media News Services

When Cathy Crowell and her husband Greg look at their six-year-old daughter Hosanna, it’s hard to believe she was once on the brink of death.

The couple had been living in southwest China doing humanitarian work for only 10 days when they found out about Hosanna at an orphanage through a friend. She was 13 months old and weighed less than eight pounds.

“She was just skin and bones. It just tore my heart out,” said Cathy, who brought the girl home to their apartment in China and began the quest to find out what was wrong.

The couple sent photos of Hosanna to doctors they knew around the world, hoping somebody would be able to help.

A Chinese doctor responded and conducted special blood tests, which revealed the little girl had Beta Thalassemia Major (BTM) — a condition where red blood cells can’t adequately carry oxygen molecules through the body, leaving her oxygen starved with no will to live.

Hosanna started undergoing blood transfusions that essentially brought her back to life and turned her into the energetic young girl she is today.

So far she’s had 126 transfusions and will need them every three weeks for the rest of her life — which is why her parents and Canadian Blood Services are asking Canadians to roll up their sleeves.

“I’m really amazed at how some blood donations and blood transfusions can change someone’s life like that. I don’t really know how to put it into words,” said Greg, who moved back to Edmonton with his family after two-and-a-half years in China.

“It’s very fulfilling to see the difference in her life from day one to now. She’s really a normal little girl.”

This week, Canadian Blood Services is launching its annual holiday miracle campaign. The goal is to collect 75,000 blood donations nationally, including more than 11,000 donations in Alberta.

Karen Tolonen began donating blood regularly after 1990 when her husband needed a blood donation.

With the help of corporate challenges at work, it’s now become a part of her routine.

“It’s something I needed to do,” she said. “I’ve seen the need with family and friends. We’ve been on the receiving end, now I have to give back.”

Family thankful for blood donors

“I feel like I have to live for two now.”

Vern ForemanOrgan recipient


CARY CASTAGNASun Media News Services

Sidney Crosby was already a highly touted prospect when Andy O’Brien met him 13 years ago at an elite hockey school in P.E.I.

“He was introduced to me as the best 13-year-old hockey player in the world,” O’Brien recalls in a one-on-one interview during a recent Reebok media event in Toronto.

“A lot of people were rolling their eyes back then because it’s like, ‘Oh, we’ve heard this before.’”

But O’Brien, just starting out as a strength and conditioning coach at the time and a guest presenter at the hockey school that Crosby just happened to be attending, was immediately impressed with the kid from Cole Harbour, N.S.

“What was interesting for me is he was a guy that saw the ice really well, but he wasn’t a guy that tried to use his hands to make a lot of plays — like he used his body and he was physical and he was aggressive and he kinda had this alpha male characteristic,” he explains, noting Crosby’s physical play was a bit of a departure from that of past hockey superstars.

“Typically, when you think of a skilled player, you think of guys with just really good hands, like a good shot. … It’s like you’re either skilled or you’re a hard-working, grinder-type guy. That was the tradition.”

But Crosby was a mix of both. And that’s what amazed O’Brien.

Perhaps more amazing, however, was that the teen sensation had already accurately pinpointed his weaknesses — and he was more than willing to work on them.

Among them, Crosby was a “lumbering” skater, O’Brien remembers.

“He was this bright young kid that recognized at a young age that speed didn’t come naturally

to him and that his skating and speed were what he needed to work on because that was the direction the game was going in. I thought he had tremendous foresight as a young guy to make that recognition.”

The teacher and student, whose philosophies jived perfectly, ended up hitting it off at the hockey school. Crosby told his parents about O’Brien. And a short time later, Crosby signed on as the strength and conditioning coach’s sole client.

Their first summer together, they trained three times a day in six-hour chunks.

Crosby’s working-class parents would drop him off at O’Brien’s Halifax residence at 8 a.m. His mom would pick him up around 2 p.m., after she was finished work.

“We spent quite a bit of time together,” O’Brien says. “It was really fortunate. I wish I had that much time with every young athlete that I start with nowadays.”

During his training sessions with Crosby, the focus was on proper technique in order to minimize the risk of injury.

“And during breaks, we would eat together and I would teach him all about physiology, the names of the muscles and the philosophy behind what we were doing,” O’Brien notes.

“It was an opportunity for me when I was younger to really key

in on one young

guy that had a lot of talent and was very motivated.”

Building on that solid foundation, the two have continued to work together — mostly during the summer months — while rising to the tops of their respective professions.

These days, O’Brien, 35, is considered a world-class strength and conditioning coach. His stable of high-performance athletes includes American swimmer Dara Torres, Canadian hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser and Canadian figure skater Patrick Chan.

Now based in Calgary with a training business in Toronto, O’Brien has also worked with players with the Florida Panthers, Miami Dolphins and New York Yankees.

On his LinkedIn profile, O’Brien dubs himself as a “human performance specialist.” And on his Twitter account, along with the title of “strength and conditioning coach,” O’Brien lists himself as a “sport science expert.”

It’s no exaggeration. The business of training athletes has evolved into a science. And O’Brien has certainly helped lead that.

“Philosophically, I always try to be really specific,” he says. “It’s not just about getting them fit. It’s about trying to figure out what makes them perform.”

The man behind Sid the KidPhoto: Sun Media

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Alberta boys to get HPV vaccineCATHERINE GRIWKOWSKYSt. Albert Leader

Boys will now play catch-up in getting a cancer-preventing shot.

While girls in Grade 5 have had the HPV-fighting vaccine Gardasil since 2008 in a school-wide immunization program, boys will start to be included next fall.

Boys from Grade 5 to 9 will receive the vaccine in September — 32,000 Grade 5 students and 15,000 Grade 9 boys.

Gardasil, a vaccine touting protection against four strains of human papilloma virus — including two which account for 70 per cent of cervical cancer — was approved in 2006.

At the time, it was given the green light for females ages nine to 26.

“Research suggests that immunizing both boys and girls against HPV will mean better protection for everyone,” said Dr. Joan Robinson, infectious diseases pediatrician with the University of Alberta.

“Pediatric infectious disease physicians

support the inclusion of boys in the HPV immunization program, a move that will help prevent cancers, symptoms and, ultimately, deaths. We commend the Government of Alberta on its decision.”

HPV has also been blamed for anal, nasal and oral cancer, with 100 per cent of oropharyngeal head and neck cancers in men under 40 caused by HPV.

In 2012, males were recommended to get the vaccine.

The cancer-preventing vaccine hasn’t been without controversy.

In 2006 when the shot was approved, critics questioned why the vaccine was pushed through without long-term studies.

Those getting the vaccine are still low in

numbers. For the free in school program, 61 per cent have received the voluntary vaccine, which requires parental consent.

Several Catholic school districts in Alberta refused the vaccine. Edmonton Catholic Schools said the vaccine is a health issue, not a faith issue and welcomed the vaccine, leaving the decision up to parents and guardians.

“(This) will mean better protection

for everyone.”Dr. Joan Robinson

University of Alberta

Photo: PERRY MAH, Sun Media News ServicesDr. John Talbot, chief medical officer of health for Alberta Health Services, speaks to reporters at the Cross Cancer Institute last week to announce boys will soon receive the HPV vaccine.

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DEC. 13, 1983The Detroit Pistons beat the

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Policy changes give boost to breweries


A trio of ladies from a St. Albert boutique are making the shift from sellers to designers with the launch of their own clothing line.

Kelsey Bulmer and her mother Jill, owners of Cerulean Boutique on St. Joseph Street, have teamed up with one of their employees, Julia Shore, to launch Prairie, their new line of tank tops and other wardrobe staples designed with St. Albert’s climate in mind.

“It’s what Cerulean felt was missing in the market,” Kelsey said.

Right now, Prairie is only offering tank tops, which are offered in seasonal colours and are made out of a nylon-spandex blend. But Kelsey hopes to see their line expand in the future.

“We often find that the brands that we buy are too light for our winters, as well as for our summers,” she said. “We are designing with the prairie lifestyle in mind.”

Offering their own clothes was

something Kelsey said she and her mom had in mind from the time they opened their doors.

“It was always in the back of our minds from when we got started,” Kelsey said. “When we started to buy, we realized there was a bit of a need in the market. And the fact that Julia jumped onboard with us, we were inspired to, sooner rather than later, create our own collection.”

The clothes are manufactured in Los Angeles, and Kelsey said they’ve built a great relationship with their manufacturer.

“We came back here, drew up what we wanted, and sent them our desires. Then they create a sample, and we move forward

after we choose the colour and the fabric type,” she said.

And they plan to take that relationship forward into the future as they expand the line.

“We hope to be able to expand into more great-fitting basic pieces that are able to bind your wardrobe together,” Kelsey said, adding that they may also look at expanding into other stores, but for now, the line is exclusive to their store.

Cerulean Boutique is located at 12 St. Joseph St. and can be reached by phone at 780-459-2583, or visit www.ceruleanboutique.com.

“We are designing with the prairie

lifestyle in mind.”Kelsey Bulmer

Cerulean Boutique

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderJill Bulmer (left) and daughter Kelsey, owners of Cerulean Boutique in downtown St. Albert, has made the shift from sellers to designers with the launch of their own clothing line, Prairie.

KATIE SCHNEIDERSun Media News Services

Alberta beer lovers have reason to toast new booze policy in the province, a local craft brewer says.

Thanks to changes to policies, it will be easier for licensed manufacturers such as breweries, wineries and distilleries to get up and running in the province, which could spark the trend of nano-brewing in Alberta.

Following a review and consultation with stakeholders, the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission (AGLC) is, effective immediately, eliminating the minimum production capacity requirements to make it easier to begin a manufacturing business.

Until now, manufacturers had to produce a minimum capacity — 5,000 hectolitres a year for brewers and 2,500 hectolitres a year for wineries and distilleries, said AGLC spokeswoman Tatjana Laskovic.

“The AGLC did hear from quite a few stakeholders that this is actually making it hard to start a business ... and eliminating minimum production capacity requirements would allow Albertans to start up a manufacturing business or would allow current manufacturers to pursue other business opportunities,” she said.

The moved was welcomed by some in Alberta’s craft beer industry, including Graham Sherman, co-founder of Calgary’s Tool Shed Brewing Company.

“I never would have guessed they would have done it, but they have,” he said.

“It shows the AGLC is thinking about breweries like Tool Shed.”

Sherman and his co-founder Jeff Orr had to partner with B.C.’s Dead Frog Brewery to get their beer to market and were looking at a significant financial investment, potentially millions of dollars, to start operations in Alberta.

While they will have to continue the partnership with Dead Frog while they get operations up and running in Calgary, Sherman said he was excited at the prospect of having “total control over new products and research and development.”

“It’s tough to do from a province away,” he said.With the minimum requirements removed, Sherman

says Albertans can expect a host of homebrewers turning pro.

“I can think of at least five guys who have talked extensively about going down that road but stopped because of the cost involved,” he said.

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Protect yourself online Decloaking your sales pitchKURIAN THARAKANSpecial to the Leader

Fans of Star Trek know that when the star ship Enterprise is threatened, Captain Kirk’s first response is to raise shields. It’s exactly the same response your clients have when you pitch them on purchasing a new product or service.

On some level, your prospects view you as a threat, at least at the beginning of a relationship. Their defense shields are raised, and the key messages of your pitch, if they can get through at all, are filtered through a thick screen of suspicion. When someone is faced with doing something new, whose risks of execution and outcome are unknown, the safest course of action is to say “no.” By saying “no,” they remain protected in the status quo.

How can you penetrate your client’s defense shields to ensure your message gets through? Use the Disrupt Then Reframe (DTR) technique.

A paper published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in 1999 detailed a study conducted by psychologists Barbara Price Davis and Eric S. Knowles. Two research assistants were sent door-to-door to sell Christmas cards in several neighborhoods in a small city. The people they approached were told that the profits from the cards were to benefit a local home for developmentally challenged children and adults, whose residents actually drew the pictures for the package of eight holiday cards.

When the homeowner answered the door the researchers would use the following script:

“I would like to show you some cards made by clients of the Richardson Center. Are you familiar with the Richardson Center? Then you know that it is a

non-profit organization that has great programs for developmentally disabled children and adults. These cards are made by clients at the center and come eight to a package. Would you like to know the

price?”The script then diverged

to one of the following three scripts, on a random assignment:

• Script 1 – Disrupt then Re-Frame: The researcher would say: “This package of cards sells for 300 pennies.” After a two-second pause, she would continue, “That’s $3. It’s a bargain.”

• Script 2 – Price Only: The researcher simply stated that the price of the package was $3.

• Script 3 – Re-frame Only: The researcher stated that the price of the package was $3, and then, after a two- second pause added, “It’s a bargain.”

The results speak to the enormous power of such techniques as disruption and reframing. With Script 1, 65 per cent of prospects bought the cards, while with Scripts 2 and 3, only 35 per cent of prospects chose to buy.

In Script 1, by stating the price in terms of pennies the researcher was able to slightly disrupt the prospect’s thought pattern. They then went on to re-frame the price as “a bargain.” Taken together, this produced an outcome almost twice as powerful as any other offer.

Your prospect’s defense shields are always present. By crafting a message that gets them out of their established thought patterns you will have a greater ability to influence them.

Kurian Tharakan is a sales and marketing consultant, speaker and

facilitator, and a senior member of the business strategy firm Acton Consulting.

Kurian TharakanConsultant

LINDA WHITESun Media News Services

For many Canadian shoppers, the convenience, safety and security of online shopping is an attractive alternative to busy malls and packed parking lots.

Cyber scrooges are well aware of the increase in online shopping, underscoring the importance of protecting money and personal data.

“Fraud can take many forms, such as identity theft, fake e-mails or websites that trick consumers into providing personal financial information and anyone can be a victim,” says Julie Hauser, spokesman for the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (fcac-acfc.gc.ca).

Before clicking ‘purchase,’ shoppers should take a few steps to protect their personal information and guard against online fraud, beginning with secure Internet rather than public Wi-Fi.

“When consumers use unsecured public Wi-Fi hotspots, it’s like leaving your car doors unlocked,” says Hauser. “You make yourself an easier target for thieves.” You may involuntarily give cybercriminals access to your personal information, including e-mails and passwords, and provide fraudsters with an easy way to access your financial information, including card numbers and passwords.

Keep the season merry with these tips:1. Guard any files on your computer that

contain financial information by protecting them with passwords.

2. Always check for the lock symbol in the browser window and for the “https” at the beginning of the web address (the ‘s’ stands for ‘secured’).

3. Don’t save passwords on your computer or create an online profile with your credit card information.

4. Turn on your firewall and run up-to-date anti-virus software and anti-adware before entering banking information on your computer.

5. Turn off file sharing and printer sharing.6. Don’t allow cookies or pop-ups and set

your browser to block dangerous sites or warn you if a site is considered a high risk.

7. Turn on enhanced security on your Internet browser, personal e-mail and social networking sites. Within the program or site, search for the term ‘enhanced security’ for help in adjusting your security settings.

8. When logging into a network access point, make sure the name is correct to avoid getting tricked into visiting a fake site set up to steal your information.

9. Change your passwords as soon as you’re on a secure Internet connection. It’s a good habit to change your passwords on a regular basis and to have different passwords for different applications such as e-mail, online banking and social networking sites.

10. If you are using a public or shared computer, be sure to erase the history and temporary Internet files before you leave.

“Because people share or expose their personal information online on a daily basis — sometimes on purpose but other times without meaning to — and since it is far easier for hackers to access information on the Internet, consumers need to be mindful of the risks associated with online shopping to ensure that they take the appropriate measures to protect their personal information,” Hauser says.

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