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Sludge monsters from the planet Zygon are set to touch down at the Arden Theatre during this year’s International Children’s Festival — which begins on Tuesday — thanks to Jason Neulander and his production of The Intergalactic Nemesis, a mash-up of a comic book and a radio play that’s sure to thrill audiences of all ages. See story, page 14.

That’s how many volunteers the International Children’s Festival needs every year to make sure the festival and all its activities go smoothly. The festival runs in downtown St. Albert May 27-31.

Rob Chiasson is going the distance to raise money for cancer research.

Chiasson — who, along with his wife Karen, owns the four McDonald’s franchises in St. Albert — is putting his pedals to the metal next month as he takes part in the 10th annual Ride 2 Survive, a one-day, 400-kilometre bike ride from Kelowna to Delta, B.C., on June 21.

While it’s a gruelling task — riders leave Kelowna at 3:30 a.m. and arrive in Delta by 11 p.m., with elevations ranging from 44 to 1,728 metres above sea level — Chiasson says he’s trying to keep it all in perspective.

“As hard as the ride is, it’s nothing compared to cancer treatment for a day,” Chiasson said Monday after completing his third straight day of training rides on hills.

Chiasson will be taking part in the ride alongside his brother Michel and about 120 other riders, all to raise money for the Canadian Cancer Society.

The brothers have done the ride once before, a couple of years ago, and it has special meaning as cancer has hit close to home for them.

“It’s a great personal challenge, for starters, and it’s a very worthy cause. My brother and I lost our mother to colon cancer when she was 56 years old,” Chiasson said. “We’ve had a lot of family members, friends and relatives that have been touched by cancer, as a lot of people have been nowadays. So it’s an important cause for us, and we’re pretty passionate about it.”

While there are plenty of fundraising bike rides out there — some of which Chiasson and his brother have also participated in — the Ride 2 Survive has a couple of unique attributes going for it. First off, it is not a race; all the riders start together, and they cross the finish line together.

That kind of mentality makes for some special moments along the way.

“The first powerful experience is when you realize somewhere along the ride that you might have another 10 hours ahead of you ... and you feel like you’ve given everything you’ve got,

you’re completely exhausted. And somebody puts their hand on your back and says, ‘Come on, you can do this,’” Chiasson said. “That’s exactly what happened on my first ride. And I know that’s not uncommon.”

“And when you arrive at the finish line,” he added, “the sense of accomplishment is really hard to articulate. It’s a very overwhelming feeling. These people that you just spent 18 hours with, you talk along the way about why they’re there, how they got involved; you hear everybody’s story.

Plus, 100 per cent of the money raised goes to cancer research; none of the money is spent on administrative fees or advertising.

“And each rider has the ability to direct their money to the particular area of cancer research

they feel is most important,” Chiasson said.

In preparation for the ride, Chiasson has been training hard, starting at Sturgeon Valley Athletic Club back in February, and eventually getting on the bike in British Columbia as the weather has turned warmer.

“Our focus is on both distance and hill riding,” he said. “There are some hills coming right out of Kelowna. ... There’s nothing more valuable than logging hours sitting on the bicycle.”

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A celebration of inclusive employment was once again on the menu for the third annual Mayor’s Luncheon.

The annual event took place on Wednesday at the St. Albert Inn and Suites as the City of St. Albert and the Gateway Association for Community Living came together to recognize employers in the community who provide opportunities for people with developmental disabilities and to encourage others to do the same.

“All people in society (should have) an opportunity to work. In many ways, it’s a social responsibility we have as a society to make sure people that don’t have the skills to work in some of the mainstream jobs have skills enough to work in other areas,” Mayor Nolan Crouse said. “We have an obligation to make sure we celebrate employers who do provide those opportunities, and encourage other employers to grow their workforce through this.”

Cindy de Bruijn, executive director of the Gateway Association for Community Living, said the luncheon has become an event that her organization looks forward to every year.

“It’s exciting to be able to get up there with one of our key partners in the City of St. Albert and sort of showcase some of the neat and innovative things our community,” she said.

This year, the keynote speaker for the luncheon was Margot Ross Graham, vice-president of integration for Williams Engineering in Edmonton and workplace columnist for the local CBC Radio station. Graham will speak on creating and maintaining a powerful workplace culture.

The master of ceremonies was Diane Bergeron, the national director of government relations and advocacy for the Canadian National Institute for the Blind.

De Bruijn said, from her perspective, it’s “very important”

to recognize employers’ efforts to be inclusive.“A lot of the employers that already do

it have been doing it innately for a really long time,” she said. “What’s really exciting about the luncheon is that we have the opportunity to inspire other businesses and partners to get over any fears, or realize there are a lot of myths and misconceptions that act as additional barriers to (employing) people living with disabilities. This is a great opportunity to hopefully inspire other

business to say, ‘This is possible. I can do this.’”Over the past three years that the Mayor’s

Luncheon has been held, she has seen a lot of headway made in getting more developmentally disabled people into the workforce.

“As employers network and communicate with each other, they say, ‘This has been my experience and this is what I needed to do, and as a result, I ended up with this great staff,’” she said. “And others are saying, ‘I want to try this.’”

And she added that there are economic benefits for those employers who bring on people with disabilities.

“People with disabilities represent large segment of the population. Even if they don’t live with a disability first-hand, somebody you know and love might live with one. And when you have a diverse staff, it reflects to the consumers you’re pitching your business or service to,” she said. “There’s a ton of research that says people like buying from someone who represents them.”

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A group of local churches are once again looking to spread a little sunshine on the final day of this year’s Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition.

The second annual Sunday Morning Wake-Up, a free pancake breakfast and inspirational concert, will take place on Sunday, May 25, starting at 9 a.m. on the Kinsmen rodeo grounds in Riel Park.

And organizers have brought out the big guns this year, lining up Canadian country music star George Canyon as their headliner.

“We are just blown away. We’re just delighted that George Canyon is coming,” said event co-ordinator Brian Siewert. “We just can’t say enough about how excited we are. He’s a great match for the rodeo event, and a great match for the churches putting this on.”

The first edition of the Sunday Morning Wake-Up was held last year, with Alberta gospel group High Valley as the main attraction and about 1,500 people showing up.

“We started it last year with a

hope and a prayer that we’d get a good response from people around St. Albert,” he said. “Last year was pretty much word of mouth.”

But with a recognizable name like Canyon’s attached to this year’s event, organizers are hoping for even bigger things.

“Trying to build on last year’s success, we wanted to get someone who was well-known and recognized across Alberta,” Siewert said. “When we first approached George Canyon, it was with hopeful hearts. He said yes, and we’re so excited. We’re trying to build this; our goal is to fill the tent and get out about

2,500 people in there.”The organization of the Sunday

Morning Wake-Up is a joint effort between Sturgeon Valley

Baptist Church, St. Albert Alliance Church, Grace

Family Church and Life Church, with the additional support of the St. Albert Salvation Army and Christ

Community Church.Siewert said the event is

a great fit with the rest of the festivities taking place in the city

that weekend.“We’re just trying to create something

that contributes to all the great things that are taking place in the city of St. Albert. And we want to demonstrate how churches can work together, and we want

to bring the positive message about the love of God to St. Albert,” he

said.While the event is free, people are encouraged to

reserve seats through the event’s website at www.rodeobreakfast.com.

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Travis Vader was denied bail on Friday.

The 42-year-old — who had first-degree murder charges stayed against him on March 19 in connection with the disappearance and presumed deaths of seniors Lyle and Marie McCann — had been seeking release on unrelated charges that he is facing a retrial on in September.

Justice David Gates denied Vader’s application for judicial release. However, his reasons and the

evidence heard during Monday’s bail hearing fall under a court-ordered publication ban.

Outside court, chief Crown prosecutor Michelle Doyle said the next step would be the Sept. 8 retrial relating to a June 2010 incident near Barrhead for which Vader is accused of stealing a truck, possessing a stolen truck, and trafficking in methamphetamines.

Vader had been convicted on some of the nine charges, but the judge ordered a new trial as a result of some witness statements relating to the case being found in files concerning the McCann

investigation.Doyle was asked about the

recently stayed charges, but would only say they remain stayed and the Crown has one year to reactivate them. She added she could not comment on whether the case is still being investigated.

The McCanns — Lyle, 78, and Marie, 72 — were last seen fuelling up their motorhome in St. Albert, Alta., on July 3, 2010, while en route to Chilliwack, B.C., for a vacation.

Two days later, their RV was found engulfed in flames near the Minnow Lake campground, 20 km east of Edson, Alta.

The SUV they were towing was discovered six days later in a remote wooded area near Carrot Creek, Alta., 30 km east of Edson. Their bodies have yet to be recovered, although police declared them dead and presumed murdered.

Meanwhile, Vader has also filed a $1-million lawsuit, alleging RCMP misconduct, malicious prosecution by the Crown and abusive mistreatment by correctional officers.

In an April 22 statement of claim, Vader alleges the conduct of the 58 defendants constitutes an “abuse of the criminal justice process” and

a “flagrant abuse of their authority which was high-handed and malicious” and warrants an award of aggravated and punitive damages.

Vader also alleges the RCMP had a “long-standing animus” toward him and says they quickly focused their attention on him in the McCann investigation, allowing it to “become tainted by tunnel vision.”

Vader claims Mounties then maliciously embarked on a concerted campaign to imprison him and persuade the public that he was a dangerous person who was responsible for the disappearance and homicides of the McCanns.

Shilah the arctic wolf has a new playmate at the Edmonton Valley Zoo, nearly one year after her six-year-old sister, Kayok, died last summer.

The zoo gave the public, and the media, a peek at the newest addition to their modest wolfpack Friday afternoon.

Two-year-old Tundra arrived in Edmonton in January, shipped from a zoo facility in Amsterdam, said Wade Krasnow, animal care team leader.

The new wolf is said to be very “curious” about his new surroundings, and his new pen-mate.

He also proved to be very curious about all of the cameras pointed at him Friday — even grabbing a microphone cover off a CBC unit. Tundra threw and tossed it in the air, but the fun ended when Shilah snatched it up when he wasn’t looking.

While she chewed on it, he didn’t dare approach — and zoo officials say so far, this display is indicative of their relationship.

At least for now, she’s the dominant one, and has made sure Tundra knows it.

“They’re getting on fairly well. I think she’s a bit of a boss,” said Krasnow.

“He came near her just a little while ago and she gave him a look and he just backed off.”

Krasnow said the zoo chose a male roommate for Shilah because they feared bringing in a strange female wolf might make for too much competition. They would likely fight, he said.

Krasnow says Shilah and Tundra were introduced to each other through mesh netting, a few weeks after he arrived from Amsterdam, allowing them to get a sense of each other.

Zookeepers gradually integrated them together, Krasnow said.

For now, the pair are still getting used to one another, so zoo officials aren’t too sure if they will end up mating, but say that it could happen next year.

“We may have babies in the future. But we’re not crossing our fingers,” he said.

“She’s seven years old, so she’s a bit older. But wolves in captivity tend to live longer than those in the wild so if she has pups, that would be a bonus for us.”

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ne in five Albertans will experience a mental illness. The

rest will know somebody — a friend, colleague, or family member — whose life is directly touched by mental illness.

An additional one in 10 Albertans over the age of 15 may become dependent on alcohol or drugs at any given time in their lives — with enormous personal costs to them, their employers and the health care system.

That’s why the Alberta government has promised to invest in families and communities, which includes programs and services to build mental health capacity in children and to help Albertans stay healthy and free from

addiction. Budget 2014 has invested

$48 million to support the continued implementation of Alberta’s Addiction and Mental Health Strategy. This is a $28 million increase over last year.

Earlier this month, the Alberta government committed over $17 million to replace the 60-year old CASA Centre building in Edmonton. The new government-owned facility will provide an additional 10,000 square feet, expanding services for children, adolescents

and their families. The new facility will expand support for children and families in central and northern Alberta, helping to support CASA in living up to their mission statement in the face of a growing population in Alberta: “To advance the mental health of infants, children and adolescents through family-centered clinical services, education, research, and advocacy.”

Other funding is targeted in many key areas, including: mental health capacity building in schools; continued mental health services for children and families such as counselling; and new treatment beds for children with complex mental health needs.

These efforts have given

over 315,000 students access to capacity building tools and more than 370,000 children and families access to mental health services.

Further, these initiatives are being continued and expanded to ensure that children and youth remain an important focus.

They will complement this government’s ongoing efforts to improve access to primary health care services and will ensure that Albertans have the tools they need to maintain good physical and mental health.

As MLA for St. Albert, I am proud to be part of such a successful budget and initiative.

To learn more about what Budget 2014 means for you and your family, visit budget.alberta.ca.

ake a deep breath, St. Albert — it’s about to get a little bit crazy in the city.

Every year, at the end of May, comes the one week that both families and photographers love and dread simultaneously. Let’s hope everyone rested up well over the Victoria Day weekend, because things are going to be hectic over the next 10 days or so.

First up is the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition, which runs from Friday to Sunday, with families cramming in as much bull-bustin’ action, cotton candy and midway rides as they possibly can while hoping the event doesn’t live up to its name. Last year, though, saw the advent of a new event the same weekend — the Road Rage Street Hockey Tournament, which, at the very least, gives them the chance to work off some of that cotton candy sugar rush.

Also wedged into that weekend is Autorama, the St. Albert Cruisers Car Club’s annual show-and-shine that continues to raise money for the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society, even though they had to find a new home in the Perron District this year.

Monday is a one-day reprieve, but then it starts all over again on Tuesday as the International Children’s Festival kicks off for another year, running until Saturday, May 31. It’s a great learning experience for kids, but it’s also a great excuse for people who work downtown to run and grab a bag of mini donuts on their coffee breaks.

And then, new this year, comes the Eek! Comic and Pop Culture Festival, taking place May 31 and June 1 at Servus Place. This festival is a great overlap with the children’s festival, and will hopefully entice a few families to stick around and see what else St. Albert has to offer.

And then — nothing. No real major festivals of note in St. Albert until Rock’n August rolls around. Is it too much excitement to cram into a 10-day period? Quite possibly. But the more things we can offer tourists at once, the better the chances of them pouring a few bucks into the local economy. And maybe they’ll want to see what happens in October when the Dig In and Amplify festivals roll around.

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A police pilot project is about to take off — literally.

Mounties have been using camera-equipped drones, which resemble a sophisticated toy helicopter, for the past two years, giving officers a bird’s-eye view of crash scenes.

Now the Edmonton Police Service is set to jump on board, with one ‘copter waiting in the wings, set to lift off the ground in just a few weeks.

Acting Staff Sgt. Gary Lamont, with Edmonton city police traffic, says the mini-chopper will help officers piece together collision scenes.

“We’ll take the vehicles that have collided and separated and we’ll tow them back to where they collided. We like to take pictures of that,” he said.

“Up until now we’ve been calling the fire department to come in with their ladder trucks but this will show everything how it happened.”

The copters are compact and efficient, and can climb up to 8,000 feet high.

However they are regulated by Transport Canada, and require licences called Special Flight Operations Certificates (SFOCs), which prevent them from flying higher than 500 feet in the air.

The RCMP used their device Thursday afternoon during pedestrian collision training at the Edmonton Soccer Centre South, attended by dozens of officers from agencies across Western Canada.

There are currently 10 RCMP UAVS — unmanned aerial vehicles — in the province, one for each traffic investigation unit.

The full kit — including the unit itself, batteries, carrying case, and a live-stream viewer, cost about $12,000 — although, with

additional tools, the cost can surge much higher.

RCMP say they’ve become vital tools for officers in search-and-rescue missions as well, helping locate missing persons in rugged or difficult terrain.

Late last year, RCMP in Saskatchewan used their device to locate a man who had rolled his car off the road near Saskatoon and wandered in a wooded area.

Infrared technology on the chopper helped locate the man, who was only wearing a t-shirt, no match for winter conditions.

Edmonton police have their chopper ready, Lamont said, with the force in the process of training and getting the necessary licensing

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An economic report card handed to Alberta from the Conference Board of Canada last week shows “good government does matter,” Premier Dave Hancock says.

The economic report shows Alberta’s resource-driven economy ranks first in Canada followed closely by Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador. The board calls Alberta the “class leader,” scoring an “A+” grade for an income per

capita in 2013 that was $10,000 higher than that of Norway, the top-ranked peer country.

Hancock said the report confirms that Alberta leads Canada in economic growth but a “C” grade in labour productivity growth — with less than one per cent annual growth between 2008 and 2012 — shows the government needs to do more to tackle its labour crunch.

“It indicates that we need to continue to work hard to make sure that every Albertan has the opportunity to participate and that

we need to bring in people to assist because the labour shortage is one of the things that holds us back,” he said, adding innovation is also important in the long term.

Hancock said that while Alberta has deep resource reserves, there are still many resource-driven jurisdictions that don’t match its prosperity.

“I do have to say that good government does matter. That economic policies that encourage businesses to invest do matter,” he said. “The tax structure does matter and focusing on quality of life, because it does

matter where people want to live.”Alberta also scored “A+” grades on GDP

growth and employment growth, and “A” grades on the unemployment rate and inflation. Alberta scores “B” grades on the inward and outward greenfield Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) performance indexes.

The Conference Board of Canada measures quality of life for Canada, its provinces and other nations by measuring income per capita, unemployment rates, GDP growth and inflation.

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Visitors to this year’s International Children’s Festival are about to have a close encounter of the comic book kind.

For the first time, The Intergalactic Nemesis is coming to St. Albert, a mash-up of a radio play and a comic book that will be featured on the Arden Theatre stage for the entirety of the festival from May 27 to 31.

The Intergalactic Nemesis is set in the 1930s and tells the tale of reporter Molly Sloan and her assistant Timmy Mendez as they travel to Arizona and team up with a local librarian investigate the possibility of an alien invasion of Earth.

The story is told through three live voice actors, a sound effects artist, live music and more than 1,000 hand-drawn comic book images projected on a giant screen, all combining to make for a unique theatre experience.

It’s a concept that creator and producer Jason Neulander first “threw together on a lark” as strictly a radio play 18 years ago. They put it on in a coffeehouse in downtown Austin, where it proved hugely popular.

Every few years, Neulander would make some revisions and bring the show back. But it wasn’t until he was invited to put it on in a 2,400-seat theatre in Austin that it started to

evolve into what it is today.“Kind of in a flash, the image came to me

of comic-book artwork projected on a screen … to create a spectacle that could fill a space that big,” he said from his own mothership in Austin, Texas. “It literally was a flash of inspiration.”

It took 15 months to get the artwork together for that first show, and getting the images to synch up with the actors’ lines, the sound effects and the music was simpler than it might seem.

“Every cue, including the visuals, is cued by something auditory,” he said. “The visuals

are actually probably the fanciest PowerPoint in the history of the world. Each image is a slide; it’s 1,250 individual slide cues over the course of the show. And each one of the slides is cued by a line or sound effect or music cue or the audience’s response. For the performers, they’re not looking at the visual imagery at all to cue them; they’re listening to each other.”

Neulander stresses, though, that The Intergalactic Nemesis was never really envisioned as a children’s show as it was being developed.

“We kind of backed into it. The reason for that is, when we created the radio version originally, we wanted to be able to broadcast it, so that meant it had to be totally clean, so

we kind of embraced that,” he said. “Since families kind of stumbled upon the show — which is really what happened back when it was a radio play — I really embraced that and realized that, of course kids are into this. This is me tapping into my own personal inner 12-year-old.”

And seeing the reactions of kids in the audience, the looks of wonder on their faces during the show, makes it all worthwhile.

“What still blows me away and makes me really happy, actually, is when they respond to it (by saying) … ‘Wow, that’s one of the coolest movies I’ve ever seen!’” Neulander said.

He added that the International Children’s Festival’s stellar reputation precedes it.

“It’s considered the biggest of those types of festivals in Canada, and it’s a huge honour to be a part of the acts that are being presented this year, for sure,” Neulander said.

Last year, The Intergalactic Nemesis was featured on late night talk show Conan, with host Conan O’Brien and sidekick Andy Richter joining in and reading some lines.

While Neulander calls the experience “one of the single coolest things I’ve ever had the opportunity to do in my whole life,” it unfortunately didn’t light up his phone line with folks wanting to book the show.

“The reality is that TV is split up and you only get so many viewers,” he said. “Back in the days when 40 million people would watch a single television show, I’m sure that would have happened. But it’s cool to have done it, and extremely cool to have Conan O’Brien himself put his stamp on it by performing in a scene from it, and it is an awesome calling card when we draw people’s attention to it.”

Book one of The Intergalactic Nemesis will be on the stage in St. Albert, while the second book is also currently on tour. Neulander is hoping to premiere the third book sometime in September.

The Intergalactic Nemesis has two shows daily — three on Friday, May 30 — at the Arden Theatre. Tickets are $10 each plus fees and taxes and are available through Ticketmaster or the Arden box office.

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Between driving his kids to school and his upcoming gig in St. Albert, there’s a lot of proof that George Canyon is a morning person.

The Canadian country music star will be in St. Albert bright and early on Sunday, May 25, to play at the second annual Sunday Morning Wake-Up, a pancake breakfast and inspirational concert being put on by local churches as part of this year’s Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition.

“I love being up before the sun, just love it,” Canyon said early one morning last week as he did interviews while dropping his kids off and taking his vehicle in for an oil change. “Everything’s just fresh and new. I’ve always been that way, ever since I was a kid.”

While Canyon’s spirituality hasn’t been heavily publicized in his music so far in his career, it is a driving force in his life. He has played contemporary Christian concerts throughout North America over the past three years, and recently became the new worship pastor at his southern Alberta church.

“I’ve been a Christian my whole life; I sang at church and did all that growing up. But country music was just where it was at for me — and, of course, it still is; I still do country concerts. But a lot of my music crosses over into the worship side, the Christian side, so it works out,” Canyon said. “It’s almost as if He has had this planned and has been waiting for me to be in a mature enough place for me to step into these shoes.”

Compared to a regular country music concert, Canyon said he breaks out a lot more worship — including old standards like “How Great Thou Art” — and shares a lot more personal stories about the impact Christianity has had on his life.

“I’m not whacking people upside the head with the Bible; that’s not what it’s about for me,” he said. “It’s about sharing my

experiences and giving testimony to how God has worked in my life, and how He has saved my rear end so many times.”

It has been 10 years since Canyon first broke into the country music scene by winning the reality show Nashville Star.

But while a decade may seem like a long time, Canyon said it has “gone by in a heartbeat.”

“My children have grown up through this; my son’s 15 and my daughter’s 14. I saw pictures the other day of when I was coming back from Nashville Star carrying my (daughter), because she was still a toddler, and it’s unbelievable how much time has passed,” he said.

St. Albert is one of only a handful of tour dates Canyon has scheduled this summer, but he’s keeping busy producing albums and mentoring young musicians.

“It’s very important to me to share the mistakes I’ve made in the business, and to sit down with others and write with them and produce them,” he said, adding that he recently opened up a studio on his ranch in southern Alberta to work out of.

But, with a greatest hits compilation due out this fall, he’ll be heading back on the road for about six weeks later this year.

Canyon was also planning to keep busy by running for the Conservative Party of Canada nomination in his home riding of Bow River, with an eye on winning a seat in the House of Commons in the 2015 federal election. However, a health scare earlier this year convinced him to drop out of the race and focus on music.

“For four weeks, I didn’t know if I had cancer,” Canyon said. “I went through all the testing and, by the grace of God, I didn’t have cancer. But I really, truly believe He used that as a little wake-up (call) to say, ‘You’re spreading yourself too thin.’”

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After more than 20 years in the country music business, Michelle Wright is proving that she’s stronger than ever.

The Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame inductee will be in St. Albert on Saturday, May 24, to entertain the crowds under the big top at the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition as she tours to support her latest album, Strong, which was released in July 2013.

While she’s had a long, illustrious career in country music, Wright said she wasn’t about to sit back and rest on her laurels, and felt the need to get back in the studio.

“I just started writing and recording, and it sort evolved organically, as they generally do,” Wright said. “The bottom line is that’s what I do. It was time to get a new CD out. Over the last five or six years, I put out a 16-song live acoustic CD, which has really turned out wonderful and I’m really proud of it … It was definitely time for a new original record.”

Looking back over those two decades, though, Wright said some things have changed, but some things have stayed the same.

“When we re-released my very first album, which I put out in 1987, I listened to it and I thought, ‘I’ll be ding-danged if I still am just that,’” she said. “Production-wise, things have changed; my gosh, the evolution of sonics in country music is

massive. … But as far as subject matter, I feel like I sing a lot about the same subject: love. It’s about love, it’s about life. That doesn’t really change.”

Wright was inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2011, an honour she said she’s glad to be able to enjoy while she still can.

“I still am really high-energy, still fit and feisty and all those things. So it came at a great time, I think, because it’s usually given much later in a career,” she said. “... It has created a great honour for me and a great opportunity to continue to break the rules.”

St. Albert — where she’ll share the stage with Tim Hicks, Jake Mathews and Sarah Beth Keeley — is one of only a handful of gigs Wright has booked this summer in smaller towns across Canada, like Dauphin, Man.; Calabogie, Ont.; and Havelock, Ont. But she said there are big plans in the works, including a string of theatre shows for 2015.

And while she’s still very involved in promoting Strong, Wright is working hard

to get the ball rolling on new music.“I’m always writing … I would love to do a soul R&B

record,” she said. “I was raised on Motown and Merle Haggard. It doesn’t get any more soul than ol’ Merle.”

Tickets for the country concert at the Rainmaker Music Festival are $49.99 plus fees and taxes and are available through Ticketmaster or at the Crown and Tower Pub or The Beer Hunter.

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A big-name television star is shooting straight for St. Albert.

Organizers of the Eek! Comic and Pop Culture Festival announced on Wednesday that they have secured Stephen Amell, star of Arrow on the CW Network and CTV, as the headliner for the show, which takes place on May 31 and June 1 at Servus Credit Union Place.

Amell, who plays main character Oliver Queen on the show, will be available for autographs and photos (with purchase) on Saturday, May 31, and will be interviewed on the festival’s main stage later that day.

“We are thrilled to have Stephen Amell coming to St. Albert to headline the first year of Eek!” show organizer Rob LeLacheur said in a press release. “But even beyond him, we’re focused on making our show a really fun, experiential event and we’re looking forward to seeing

all variation of geeks (from full to part time) sharing their passion for all things pop culture.”

Amell, 33, was born in Toronto, and appeared on shows such as Heartland, Rent-A-Goalie, Hung, New Girl and Private Practice before landing his role on Arrow.

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Tom Smyth may not be the man leading the St. Albert Community Band’s jazz band for much longer, but he’ll still be a familiar figure among the band’s ranks.

After overseeing the startup of the jazz band and serving as its conductor on and off for nearly 30 years, Smyth is hanging up his baton after the band’s spring concert on June 11 at the Arden Theatre and handing over the reins to J.F. Picard.

However, he doesn’t plan to be a stranger to the band’s weekly rehearsals at Paul Kane High School, still picking up the trumpet and joining in next year.

“It’s a certain sense of relief,” Smyth said prior to a rehearsal on Thursday, May 15. “My wife and I want more time for travel and things like that, and this will give more time. It is quite a commitment being the conductor; you can’t take a month off.”

Smyth was the jazz band’s first conductor when it was formed in 1985, and he’s very pleased to see just how far it has come in that time.

“The music we played back in 1985-1986 … (compared) to a concert today,

it was so simple,” he said. “The level has come up, and it’s been amazing.”

But it was as much of a learning experience for Smyth as it was for the rest of the band.

“It’s one of the better adult jazz bands in the Edmonton area. We’ve been challenging (ourselves),” he said.

SACB president Colleen Dec said Smyth is leaving some awfully big shoes to fill.

“Tom has been such an inspirational member of our community band … The big band would not be where they are, at the level they are, without Tom,” she said. “He’s just been an amazing team player, an amazing leader.”

Picard is no stranger to the SACB jazz band, having taken over as conductor for spells while Smyth was away, most notably for three years while Smyth and his wife travelled to China to set up a music program at an international school there.

“I’m excited. It’s a good group; everybody is very eager,” Picard said.

“I always like to look forward and push the group further. I’m looking forward to that.”

Dec said she’s extremely confident that the jazz band will be left in good hands and is excited to see what Picard

will bring to the table.“He has the same values and vision

that Tom has, so it’s going to be such an easy transition,” she said. “J.F., his whole attitude is, we’re here to have fun and enjoy music. That’s been Tom’s philosophy as well.”

To send Smyth off, the jazz band has selected a number of classic big band selections for their half of the spring concert, including one — “Feels So Good” by Chuck Mangione — with a feature trumpet solo for Smyth.

“It’s great music. Fifty years from now, people will still listen to it and still be attracted to it,” he said.

Meanwhile, the concert band has prepared a number of selections from movies, musicals and Broadway for the audience’s enjoyment — including from The Wizard of Oz, which is Dec’s favourite.

“I’ve loved that movie since I was a kid,” she said with a laugh, “so I was all excited when we got to read that piece. That’s my personal highlight, and I know the members enjoy playing that piece as well.”

Tickets for the St. Albert Community Band’s spring concert are $15 each and are available through Ticketmaster or the Arden Theatre box office.

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In the Jerry Maguire-meets-Slumdog Millionaire true story that is Million Dollar Arm, Jon Hamm plays the role of J.B. Bernstein, a struggling sports agent who comes up with an attention-getting scheme to find the next great major league pitcher among India’s cricket bowlers.

He returns to America with a pair of 18-year-old potential prospects named Rinku (Life of Pi’s Suraj Sharma) and Dinesh (Slumdog Millionaire’s Madhur Mittal), but turning the boys into contenders proves to be tricky for underdog Bernstein and his fish-out-of-water houseguests.

It’s a terrific Hamm performance—loose, assured and utterly charming, an ideal choice for making the transition to big screen leading man after seven acclaimed seasons playing suave, hard-drinking, chain-smoking advertising executive Don Draper on Mad Men.

“You know, it’s not difficult to draw a parallel between an agent’s life and an actor’s life in many ways,” relates Hamm, 43, looking Don Draper dapper in a jacket, open-collared oxford shirt and dark jeans. “You have to sort of

project this sort of charisma and charm and everything, and then it all falls apart and that’s exactly every audition I’ve ever been on for the first three years of my career in Los Angeles.”

Prior to hitting the big time with Mad Men, Hamm was a just another struggling actor, landing minor roles on shows like CSI: Miami, Numb3rs and The Division and in films like Space Cowboys and We Were Soldiers.

“It’s such a capricious, strange existence,” reflects Hamm, on those early days. “Basing your life on the whims of others and basing your ebbs and flows of confidence … on the fact that people either choose you or don’t.”

While the Draper and Bernstein roles would at first glance appear to be 180 degrees apart, truth is, the sports agent isn’t exactly portrayed as a pillar of virtue in the Craig Gillespie-directed film.

There’s something admittedly self-serving and exploitative about his motivations in staging that Million Dollar Arm competition.

But, no spoiler alert required — this is a Disney movie after all — he ultimately learns to be a better, more considerate person, forming an unconventional family unit with Rinku, Dinesh and his

nurturing neighbour Brenda (the smart/sexy/funny Lake Bell).

Despite the oddball grouping, it was a dynamic with which Hamm could find a very personal connection.

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After playing more than his share of darker, edgier characters, Hamm says he’s delighted that with Million Dollar Arm he’s finally starring in something that he can finally tell his friends they can take their children to see.

“It’s affirming and it’s uplifting and it’s heartwarming and it’s emotional and it’s not a ‘sports’ movie so much as a movie that moves you,” declares Hamm. “It’s nice when the lights come up at the end of the movie, to not be, like, ‘What did I just watch? Who was the bad guy and why did the things crash and what blew up and why is the President mad?’

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�e Alberta government is pulling out of the World Petroleum Congress event in Moscow next month due to the ongoing tensions between Russia and Ukraine.

Premier Dave Hancock said last week the decision “was very di�cult to make” because the congress — scheduled from June 15 to 19 — is important to Alberta’s energy sector.

“�e government has been very concerned about escalating tensions in Ukraine,” Hancock said.

“So today, in face of the ongoing violence and the violations of Ukraine’s sovereign territory, we have made the decision to withdraw

all provincial support for the World Petroleum Congress to be held in Moscow next month.”

International and Intergovernmental Relations Minister Cal Dallas said one Alberta company pulled out of the event earlier this week, with 13 companies now facing the decision of whether or not to attend the international event without provincial help.

Hancock said companies that choose to go will be encouraged not to attend

government-sponsored events.�e federal government has

also encouraged businesses to not attend high-pro�le events in Russia, including the

Petroleum Congress.“Canada is determined to support

Ukraine and will continue to work with our allies and like-minded countries to apply pressure that will further isolate Russia economically and politically, until the Putin regime clearly demonstrates its respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” said Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade.

As of last week, the Edmonton International Airport (EIA) and

Suncor Energy also pulled out of the event. Suncor cited the “uncertainty” in the area. EIA spokesperson Heather Hamilton said will also withdraw from the event because of the government’s decision.

�e government spent $100,000 in 2012 to secure space for the event and will now lose that investment, said Hancock.

Dallas said it would have spent at least another $80,000 if the government did attend.

�e Road Rage Street Hockey Tournament is coming back to Servus Credit Union Place in St. Albert this weekend, and it’s up to the team at Canadian Arena Products to contain all the excitement.

A gold sponsor of the tournament since its inception, Canadian Arena Products will be providing boards for the main rink that kids will be playing on in Servus Place’s south parking lot, just as they have done for numerous tournaments and municipalities across the country.

“�e board sections that will be used at Road Rage are e�ectively a lighter-duty version of our professional hockey dasher board system,” said Rene Hebers, president of Canadian Arena Products. “It’s meant to be portable; it’s meant to be easily assembled and disassembled. But it still looks and plays like an actual professional board system.”

Canadian Arena Products was started about 14 years ago. �eir sister company, Special Metal Fabricating, used to make hockey rink products for a company called Cadillac Plastics, which was bought by General Electric. GE didn’t want the hockey part of the business, and sold it to Hebers and his wife.

Since then, they have supplied and installed approximately 150 full-size indoor and outdoor rinks throughout Western Canada, along with a few indoor soccer pitches.

“We’ve got probably 40 outdoor rinks in the Edmonton area alone,” Hebers said. “Communities are a big target market.”

In 2012, the company also introduced backyard arena packages, allowing customers to buy professional-looking boards for their home rinks. �ey

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“It can be a year-round system,” Hebers added, “because, with a little bit of �ooring in there, you can play ball hockey, tennis, lacrosse (and) basketball. ... You actually have a four-season facility and playing surface.”

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Last week was the final meeting of the Northern Alberta Business Incubator’s Venture Lab workshop. The eight-week course, which ran every Thursday at NABI’s Mission Avenue location, and led several local businesses through the paces of launching their enterprises.

The NABI Venture Lab is based on Wendy Kennedy’s So what? who cares? why you? series, which has been adopted in nine countries and is used by more than 10,000 entrepreneurs, inventors, and scientists.

The businesses that participated in this round of the Venture Lab were extraordinarily diverse, and included a greenhouse, online retailing software, and theatre performance venue.

Week after week, these dedicated entrepreneurs showed up to class with workbooks in hand. They were ready to apply the principles taught in each lesson to their own unique business. We investigated each entrepreneur’s competitive landscape, target market, and financial model to prepare them for the “real world” of business.

After seven weeks of hands-on business learning and hours of one-on-one time with our NABI business coaches, the Venture Lab wrapped up on Thursday with pitches from each of the participating businesses. Imagine Dragons’ Den with fewer cameras, but

just as much feedback.After weeks of the preparation, I

imagine the presentations simply flew by for the entrepreneurs. Some of the pitches were nearly Dragons’ Den-ready, with a few minor tweaks. Other presenters encountered a few more stumbling blocks, and it was a great lesson to witness.

Whether it’s starting a profitable business or losing 100 pounds, it seems like we’re all looking for the “Magic Bullet” for success. We’ve all seen advertisements that promise steady income for little-to-no effort and no

risk. Sounds like the dream, doesn’t it?

After weeks of hard work, we saw massive improvements

among all of the NABI Venture Lab participants. But not all of those

participants came out of the Venture Lab fully prepared to launch their business, or to start pitching it to investors. And some of our past participants have taken the course twice through.

When the Venture Lab (or sales workshop, or MBA program) finishes, it doesn’t mean that the learning and hard work will as well. The most successful business owners will tell you that it’s a marathon, not a sprint – and hard work is required along the entire journey.

Brittany Kustra is the Communications and Leasing Co-ordinator for the Northern

Alberta Business Incubator.

Move over, Bud. Craft beers are seizing the taps at local bars.

Suds from local microbreweries are all the buzz in the city centre, though giant brewers like Budweiser still reign supreme on the outskirts.

Craft beers have spiked in popularity across North America the last five years, and Hudsons Canadian Tap House marketing director Karli Anderson said bars need to keep up with the trend if they want to survive.

“The landscape sure has changed,” she said, noting that just three years ago, craft beers were only on tap at a few select spots in Edmonton.

“We have to go crafty to stay in the beer game.”

Anderson said craft beers, especially house brews from Henry Hudson’s Brewing Co., are No. 1 at locations throughout Edmonton and most popular at Hudsons’ Whyte and downtown bars.

Sports fans, however, buck the trend.“If hockey season’s on, people are not always

going for the craft beers,” she said. “We notice our sales change from craft to the Buds and Canadians.”

Liquor Depot spokesman Ryan Engen said Budweiser is the King of Beers in Edmonton, as the No. 1 seller at each of the store’s locations by a fair margin. It’s followed by Kokanee, Molson Canadian and Coors Light.

He said craft beers make up about 10 per cent of overall sales at Liquor Depot, though that number is “certainly growing,” especially on Whyte Avenue and downtown.

“Definitely, craft beer is stronger in the areas where it’s closer to a university,” Engen said.

“Also, in higher-income demographics, craft beer does better.”

Jordan Beatty said imports rule the roost at the downtown Sherlock Holmes pub he manages, with craft beers also out-selling macro breweries. Guinness is the pub’s top seller, though people switch to lighter beers like Blanche de Chambly and Shock Top when the patio opens for summer.

It’s a stark contrast from his former job at the bar’s east-side location.

“I spent a fair amount of time in the Capilano area and you’ve got piles of guys that are coming in and they want their Bud pint or they want their Coors Light pint or they want their Canadian pint,” he said.

Neil Herbst, spokesman for popular local brewer Alley Kat, said local beer drinkers have far more awareness of craft beers than they did five years ago.

“We’ve seen a big change,” he said, adding it’s partly due to Molson shutting down its Edmonton brewery and Labbatt — which still brews here — being bought out.

“When we first started up, there was a lot of loyalty in this city to Molson and Labbatt.”

Most Alley Kat is sold on Whyte and downtown, while sales in east and north Edmonton are not so strong. Alley Kat is starting to sell more elsewhere, though, with sales rising significantly into rural Alberta.

Herbst said the craft beer revolution is linked to a wider variety of styles and flavour profiles. Small brewers can afford to experiment more with recipes, whereas it’s risky for major corporations that are brewing for a mass audience.

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