MOUSH SARA JOHN

Weekender reporterOn a quiet street at the

heart of Stettler is a quaint house where Alexis Lawlor moved in with her family a few months back.

Originally from Edmon-ton, Lawlor came to live in Stettler in 2012 and set up a studio, a minimalist one.

With just a table, a light-box on the top and a lamp fixture in one corner, it is stacked with Q-Tip boxes, and other cleanings buds, of different types.

“I don’t see the point in using a blender, when a Q-Tip does the job fine,” said Lawlor, smiling humbly. “I also tend to use a lot of tis-sues.”

A consummate storytell-er, Lawlor is a local artist, specializing in realism.

It is easy to see from her work, how she can engage the viewer with her candid sketching of people’s nu-ances through portraits, or more tangible interpreta-tions of perfume or nail co-lour bottles.

“I’ve always admired photorealistic artists and strived to achieve simi-lar results,” said Lawlor, speaking of realism and why she expresses herself in that medium. “I enjoy the small details, the way the light reflects off a surface or the depth behind shadows, I find the little details are what brings a piece to life.”

She says the style has stuck with her, and allowed

her to progress and try new things with each new work she creates.

As an artist, Lawlor says she tries to draw inspiration from “everything and ev-eryone around” her.

Although influenced and inspired by various artists, many doing similar work, she says she was “blown away” by the Vancouver-based artist, Mandy Tsung.

“I came across her work a few years ago on Instagram and I was blown away by her incredible talent,” said Lawlor. “To make life-like images from whatever me-dium she uses while still maintaining her own unique style is commendable and it really inspired me to learn more about realism.”

Born and raised in Ed-monton, Lawlor was drawn to art from a young age. Growing up, she liked to work on canvas and would occasionally make art, often abstract, although she never thought it was something she could pursue more seri-ously.

“Art has always been something that I’ve en-joyed dabbling in since childhood,” said Lawlor. “I have always admired all the different styles of art, but only ever thought that I could achieve something on a canvas, I have never ever dreamed of having the set of skills that I have now with realism.”

Speaking about how she arrived at realism, Lawlor

describes vividly how one day while experimenting with colored pencils, she felt deeply connected and fell into the art world, real-izing for the first time that she could actually make a career of it.

“I’ve always loved com-ic books and so one day I picked up some pencils and did a few drawings of comic book characters just for fun,” she recalled. “I instantly fell in love with the control that the pencil allowed me to have, it was something that I was never

able to grasp with a paint-brush.”

That experience opened up for Lawlor a new world of art and an avenue for ex-pression.

With each drawing she did since, she would experi-ment with ways and replace what she knew about comic art with more realistic and intricate details.

“Eventually I came into a style that allowed me to combine my curiosity for both the comic and realism art world together,” said Lawlor. “If you look at one

of my drawings, you will definitely not be looking at a comic, but I also don’t be-lieve that you will be look-ing at photo realism.”

It was at a young age that Lawlor said she had real-

ized that she would have to create her own niche, which helped her to fuel her passion and discover her identity.

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“It doesn’t matter what I

look like or how shy I am or awkward I can be, my work becomes my voice and I think I’m incredibly fortunate to have found that level of individual-

ism.”What Lawlor has

achieved is no small suc-cess, considering that she started out seriously only a couple of years back, in 2013.

With a steady online presence, clients have commissioned her artwork

from across the globe.“I seem to have found a

happy in-between where my drawings have touch of both worlds,” said Law-lor. “My outlines are done with the influence of bold comic art but if you look at what’s filled in between the lines, its everything

I’ve learnt about the soft-ness and depth of realism, and I’m personally in love with the combination.”

Lawlor’s ability to in-tegrate realistic details into works of fiction, and sometimes the other way round, keeps her artwork in a different realm.

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From CNWMany Canadians didn’t seem to let eco-

nomic uncertainty and concerns about an-other recession spoil their summer fun. As summer comes to an end, almost one third of Canadians (29 per cent) are carrying more debt than they did in May, according to an Ipsos Reid poll conducted on behalf of BDO Canada Limited. And this may not come as a surprise to some, since 22 per cent admit they exceeded their summer spending bud-get, while 32 per cent didn’t set a summer budget to begin with.

Despite warnings from government and financial experts about high personal debt levels, one in three (33 per cent) Canadians admit that they spent more on summer ac-tivities this summer than last year, while 24 per cent say they spent less. 43 per cent say they spent about the same amount.

“For many Canadians, summer is time to get away from the realities of life, to relax and enjoy a vacation,” says Blair Davidson,

President, BDO Canada Limited. “But this year, Canadians returned from vacation to a big drop in oil prices, stock market turmoil and indications of another recession, with some having spending more than they ex-pected this summer.”

Davidson adds, “With the possibility of tough economic times ahead, now is the time for Canadians to take action and reduce their debt, especially those who saw their debt rise along with the temperature this summer.”Half of Canadians stuck to budget

Nearly one half (46 per cent) of Canadians say they met their summer spending budget. Those most likely to stick to their budget were Quebecers (51 per cent), followed closely by residents of Ontario (48 per cent) and Atlantic Canada (48 per cent). Residents of Saskatchewan and Manitoba (42 per cent), B.C. (41 per cent) and Alberta (39 per cent) were less likely to meet their budget.

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Spending sees Canadians deeper in debt

By Danielle Martinand Ryan MeiliTroy Media columnists

What makes people sick? Infectious agents like bacte-ria and viruses and personal factors like smoking, eating poorly and living a sedentary lifestyle are factors.

But none of these factors compare to the way that pov-erty makes us sick. Prescrib-ing medications and lifestyle changes for our patients who suffer from income deficiency isn’t enough; we need to start prescribing healthy incomes.

Decades of studies have shown that healthcare ac-counts for less than 25 per cent of health outcomes. The upstream factors that affect health such as income, educa-tion, employment, housing, and food security  have a far greater impact on whether we will be ill or well. Of these, income has the most pow-erful influence, as it shapes access to the other health de-terminants. Low-income Ca-nadians are more likely to die earlier and suffer from more illnesses than Canadians with higher incomes, regardless of

age, sex, race or place of resi-dence.

No wonder doctors and policy-makers are beginning to line up behind the notion of a basic income guarantee.

Basic income is an ap-proach to poverty reduction that is much simpler and more streamlined than existing pro-grams. Every year, Canadians file taxes. With basic income, if their incomes fall below a certain level, they get topped up to an amount sufficient to meet basic needs. Basic in-come is a smart alternative to costly social assistance pro-grams, helping overcome the ‘welfare wall’ that traps too many people in the cycle of poverty.

Earlier this month, 194 physicians in Ontario signed a letter calling for a basic in-come pilot program. Deliv-ered to Minister of Health, Eric Hoskins (also a physi-cian), the letter outlines how poverty leads to higher rates of heart disease, depression, diabetes and scores of other illnesses.

In the same month, a new report has brought forth the

most official look at basic in-come in Canada in a genera-tion. The Government of Sas-katchewan Advisory Group on Poverty Reduction, which included community mem-bers and high-level public ser-vants, reviewed the evidence and consulted key groups that work with people experienc-ing poverty.

Their recommendations included the ambitious goal of reducing poverty in Sas-katchewan by 50 per cent by the end of 2020. To reach such a goal requires putting in place a policy with the power to do so, and the group came to the consensus that a Basic Income pilot project would be an effective and achievable means of doing so.

Recommendations in-cluded the ambitious goal of reducing poverty in Saskatch-ewan by 50 per cent by the end of 2020. To reach such a goal requires putting in place a policy with the power to do so, and the group came to the consensus that a basic income pilot project would be an ef-fective and achievable means of doing so.

A growing body of evi-dence shows that allowing poverty to continue is far more expensive than invest-ing to help improve people’s

economic well-being. Cur-rently $3.8 billion dollars - 5 per cent of GDP - is lost from the Saskatchewan economy each year due to increased health and social costs and decreased economic opportu-nities. In Ontario, this cost of poverty has been calculated to be upwards of $30 billion per year.

Where more extensive ba-sic income pilots have been tried, both internationally and in Canada, the results have been impressive. The Min-come experiment in Dauphin, Manitoba in the 1970s result-ed in higher school comple-tion rates, and a reduction in hospitalization of 8.5 per cent largely due to fewer ac-cidents, injuries and mental health admissions. Accord-ing to the Canadian Institute for Health Information, Ca-nadians spent $63.6 billion on hospital services in 2014, meaning a decrease of 8.5 per cent would result in savings of $5.4 billion. This is just one of the many areas where the return on social investment saves public funds, and im-proves the lives of Canadians in the bargain.

Some policy changes hap-pen slowly, with incremental movements in public opinion. But every once in a while, an

idea that had seemed outside the realm of possibility quite suddenly gathers momentum. The concept of basic income is on course from the margins to the mainstream. If political leaders have the health of Ca-nadians as their first priority, they’ll turn advice into action and implement basic income.

Danielle Martin is a fam-ily physician and Senior Fel-low at the Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health System Solutions and Virtual Care. Ryan Meili is a fam-ily physician, founder of Up-stream: Institute for A Healthy Society and an expert advisor with the Evidence Network. 

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Millennials and parents more likely to overspend

While 22 per cent of Ca-nadians exceeded their sum-mer spending budget, the numbers were higher among Millennials and parents. For young adults aged 18 to 34, 28 per cent said they exceed-ed their budget. Respondents with kids (34 per cent) were nearly twice as likely as those without (18 per cent) to ex-ceed their budget.Set limits on summer spending

The average Canadian spent $701 on vacations and day trips, $770 on food, drink and entertainment and $1,422 on home renovations and improvements this sum-mer. But some far surpassed those numbers; in B.C., re-spondents spent $2,961 on home renovations, while Al-bertans spent $1,488 on din-ing and entertainment.

Davidson says it’s impor-tant to stick to your budget. “While you receive instant gratification from taking a trip or buying a big-ticket item, you could run into debt problems if you can’t pay for it right away. Canadians cur-rently owe $1.63 in debt for every dollar they earn—we need to keep a closer eye on our budgets and start paying

down our personal debt.”

For this survey, a sample of 1,004 adults from Ipsos’ Ca-nadian online panel was in-terviewed online. Weighting was then employed to bal-ance demographics to ensure that the sample’s composi-tion reflects that of the adult population according to Cen-sus data and to provide re-sults intended to approximate the sample universe. The pre-cision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within +/ - 3.5 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Canadian adults been polled. The cred-ibility interval will be wider among subsets of the popula-tion. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to cover-age error, and measurement error.

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bum that catapulted Bruce Springsteen into the nation-al spotlight, celebrated its 40th anniversary last week.

Springsteen fanatics love sharing the story behind the album. The Boss released two records in 1973, and al-though critics praised both, they flopped. So Springs-teen’s third effort was, quite literally, his last chance. As Springsteen biographer Peter Ames Carlin once explained, “Columbia [Re-cords] gave Bruce and the band just enough money to produce one song to show he could make great singles and prove the next album would be worth making. That’s why [the band] took six months on ‘Born to Run.’ Every single note had to be perfect, otherwise they knew they would be going back to Asbury Park empty-handed.”

When Columbia execu-tives heard Springsteen’s recording, they signed up for a third album. They knew that the 26-year-old Garden Stater was going to be a superstar.

Similarly, many of his-tory’s greatest wines almost never made it.

Consider the wines that emerged victorious at the “Judgment of Paris,” the 1976 wine competition that pitted California against France. Everyone assumed that France would win, but the winners -- Chateau Montelena’s 1973 Chardon-nay and Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars’ 1973 Cabernet Sauvignon -- hailed from California. The perfor-mance transformed Ameri-ca’s wine industry, yet both wines almost didn’t happen.

The story of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars begins in 1969. That year, former Robert Mondavi winemaker Warren Winiarski tasted a homemade Cabernet Sauvi-gnon from winegrowing pi-oneer Nathan Fay. The wine was an epiphany for Winiar-ski; it captured everything he loved about Napa Valley. So he promptly purchased 44 acres of land next door to Fay, ripped out most of the prune, cherry, and walnut trees that covered the prop-erty, and planted Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot.

If Winiarski hadn’t tasted Fay’s homemade wine -- and been able to purchase the adjoining property -- Chateau Mouton-Roth-schild would have won the Judgment of Paris.

At Chateau Montelena, winemaker Mike Grgich feared for his job after fin-ishing his 1972 Chardon-nay. Grgich had exposed the wine to so little oxygen dur-ing production that a natural browning enzyme remained in the wine for two months

after bottling. Had the wine remained brown -- and had Grgich lost his job -- he wouldn’t have finished the 1973 Chardonnay, so Do-maine Roulot’s Meursault-Charmes would have won the Paris contest.

The list of inadvertent su-perstars goes on.

John Shafer is sometimes credited with creating Napa Valley’s modern style with his 1978 “Hillside Select.” But that wine was an acci-dent. Shafer had just moved

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Screaming Eagle, Napa Valley’s most famous “cult” Cabernet, traces its origins to a trash can.

In 1986, former real es-tate agent Jean Phillips pur-chased 57 acres in Oakville, California. Most of her land was planted to white variet-ies that were sold. But one acre consisted of Cabernet Sauvignon, from which she made wine in a plastic trashcan. Curious about her homemade wine’s poten-tial, Phillips brought some to the team at Robert Mon-davi Winery, who promptly encouraged her to produce commercially. So in 1992, Phillips hired well-known consultant Richard Peterson and his daughter, Heidi Bar-rett. The inaugural release was awarded 99 points by Robert Parker and sold out instantly.

One of Bordeaux’s top properties, Château Cheval Blanc, describes its 1947

cuvee as a “happy accident of nature.” The weather was extreme that year; by harvest, most grapes had roasted on the vine. Air conditioning and temper-ature-controlled fermenta-tion tanks didn’t yet exist, so the excessive heat con-tinued through production. As a result, many wines -- including the Cheval Blanc -- didn’t finish fermenta-tion, so were bottled with significant residual sugar and volatile acidity. Yet, as wine writer Mike Stein-berger once explained, “the ‘47 Cheval is probably the most celebrated wine of the 20th century.”

It’s hard to imagine that Bruce Springsteen would have forever gone unno-ticed -- or that any of these wines would have forever failed to capture oeno-philes’ imaginations. But it’s certainly possible. In wine, as in art, accidental superstars abound.

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Bashaw’s Majestic Theatre celebrates its centennialMUSTAFA ERIC

Weekender reporter

Majestic Theatre, Bashaw’s source of pride, “a wonderful little jewel of Alberta’s history”, marked its centennial with a ceremony under bright sunshine on Saturday, Aug. 22 with the participation of several dignitaries, including Alberta’s Lt. Governor Lois Mitchell, Crowfoot MP Kevin Sorenson and several mayors from neighbouring communities.

Before the speakers took to the podium to give their speeches, Fraser Bebe and Laura Graham staged a short comedy sketch by Monty Pythons, “The Bookshop”, to loud applause, making sure that live theatre, what kept the spirit of Majestic Theatre alive for a century, would not be absent from the celebration.

Once the play was over, guests and dignitaries left the theatre hall to enjoy the sunshine while listening to a brief history of the building that houses the Majestic Theatre as it was delivered by Trevor Thomas, a member of the Friends of the Majestic Theatre Society.

Thomas, in his speech, at times interrupted with emotional sobs, started back in 1915 when the building was fi rst erected and then went through the various stages, when the building was used as a church between 1928 and 1940, and then how it was operated as Dixie theatre by the Dixie family and later as a movie theatre by Clarence Schneider and his family and how it came to brink of being demolished by the town in 1997 after staying idle for years.

It was thanks to the Friends of the Majestic

Theatre Society under the leadership of Mary Kinsella and Diane Carl, whom Thomas singled out for particular praise, that the building was not only saved from destruction, but revitalized to become a showcase as a boomtown architecture tradition, and most importantly, the home of the Majestic Theatre as it was originally intended.

Lt. Governor Lois Mitchell had lots of praise for everybody who were involved in rescuing the Majestic Theatre from getting lost in town’s history.

“Places like Majestic Theatre are essential to keep alive,” Mitchell said. “They are much more than simply a place to entertain…they are places for people to connect.”

Describing Majestic Theatre as “a wonderful little jewel of Alberta history,” she said places like these had been “incubators for creativity” within small

communities for decades…Crowfoot MP Kevin

Sorenson, staying true to the reputation of a campaigning politician, struck a highly nationalistic tone making a lengthy reference to 1915 as the time of World War I and he gave statistics of how many Canadians were mobilized to fi ght the war. He said places like Majestic Theatre were the points of connection for the communities at the time of war.

Bashaw Mayor Penny Shantz expressed gratitude to the members of the society for their vision and courage in saving the building from demolition and leading the efforts to revive the majestic Theatre as an institution.

“Thank you for making this place a charming, unique, working and live theatre,” Shantz told the members of the Friends of the Majestic Society members.

The fi nal speaker to take to the podium was

Andrea Newton, the great granddaughter of Eugene Bashaw, the founder of the town.

She joined the speakers before her in thanking the society and received extensive applause when she announced a $2,100 donation to the society, collected from the families

of descendants of Eugene Bashaw, for construction of dressing rooms for actors within the theatre building.

Then it was the time for the cutting of the anniversary cake and it was up to the three ladies, Mary Kinsella, Diane Carl and Dell Thomas, who worked hardest to revive the theatre, to do the honors.

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Three ladies singled out for their devoted work for the Majestic Theatre, (l-r) Mary Kinsella, Diane Carl and Dell Thomas cut the 100th anniversary cake during the celebrations marking the centennial of the theatre on Saturday, Aug. 22.

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Fraser Bebe (left) and Laura Graham staging Monty Python’s “Bookshop” sketch in front of an audience, including Alberta Lt. Governor Lois Mitchell, to mark the centennial of the Majestic Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 22.

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Arts & Crafts Shows ..................50Class Registrations....................51Coming Events ..........................52Lost ............................................54Found ........................................56Companions ..............................58Personals...................................60Bingos........................................64Fitness & Sports ........................66Happy Ads .................................70

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CAMERON BAY HOLDINGS INC.

o/a McDonalds’s in Ponokaand Red Deer (Gasoline Alley East and West) is now hiring full time and part time Food Service

Supervisors. Wages are between $13.75 to $16.00

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Jensen Contract Flooringin Big Valley, AB is currently looking for a

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Project CoordinatorSpecifi c Duties include:

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• Experience will be considered an asset • Ability to interpret specifi cations and drawings is an asset. • Background in construction is an asset. • Highly organized, achievement oriented with strong multi-tasking abilities. • Be able to work with little to no supervision. • Strong Administrative skills and profi ciency in Microsoft Office products. • Abilitiy to communicate effectively with all employees within our organization and our customers and vendors.

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Central Alberta Co-op Ltd.

is a diverse co-operative retailing organization with over 65,000 members in the Central Alberta area. We are currently recruiting for:

Agro Site Manager @ Stettler

Working at our Stettler Agro site, this position is responsible to: • Prepare, administer and be responsible for the sales, margins, expenses, inventory and SPEH of the

location. • Ensure adherence to company standards for all aspects of Health & Safety, Loss Prevention and

environmental due diligence. • Customer sales and service. • Oversee maintenance of facilities and equipment. • Recruitment, development and employee performance management.Required: • Knowledge of fertilizer, seed and agricultural chemicals. • Knowledge of the Health & Safety and Environmental aspects of handling chemicals • Management or supervisory experience • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) • Competency in Microsoft Office (Work, Excel) and OutlookCentral Alberta Co-op offers: • Competitive salary, excellent benefi ts including: Extended Health and Vision Care, Dental, Long Term

Disability, Group and Dependent Life Insurance, Pension, and personal development opportunities.Human Resources Manager

Central Alberta Co-op Ltd6201-46 Avenue

Red Deer, AB T4N 6Z1Fax: 403-406-1605

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We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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September 20, 2015. For questions, please call 403-740-5223.

Tirecraft is seeking an individual for the position of:

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One man’s trash.That’s what they say

you’ll get at the thrift store, but you know the rest of the old saying: it’s another man’s treasure, which is what you usu-ally find. Jeans barely worn, shirts so old they’re in style again, vintage games like you once played. Trash? No. Trea-sure? Maybe, or as in the new book “Secondhand Souls” by Christopher Moore, it’s more like trouble.

Retired Detective Al-phonse Rivera didn’t re-ally exactly know what to do when the Great Big Book of Death arrived at his doorstep. There were instructions, of course – something about “duty to retrieve soul vessels” and “Darkness will cover the world” – but it otherwise didn’t make much sense. Still, as instructed, Rivera bought some Number Two pencils and a calendar, and he waited.

The banshee that visited his used bookstore and stole his stun gun was the first sign of trouble. The second sign was the large black man who came af-terward, and started ask-ing questions about why Rivera hadn’t done his job.

In twelve years of work-ing as a painter on the Golden Gate Bridge, Mike Sullivan had seen a few suicides but zero ghosts. So when a beautiful, ethe-real woman appeared to him and explained that there were others on the bridge and they needed him to find the “ghost thief,” Mike was under-standably intrigued. He promised to help, though he had no idea how, or even who, to ask.

Charlie Asher wasn’t at all happy being a meat puppet, but he had no choice. When his former-

Buddhist-nun girlfriend, Audrey, found him dying from Morrigan venom, she’d had to put his soul somewhere; leftover ham and alligator parts were handy. He’d have a real body again, once Audrey figured out how to find someone not quite dead.

It was a learning curve for her, life was compli-cated, and it was getting worse: Charlie’s seven-year-old daughter, Sophie, who was the Luminatus, was without her hell-hounds and nobody knew where they were. Souls went uncollected, vessels were missing, and a tall man wearing yellow was spotted around town in an old yellow car. Ugh.

For Charlie Asher, cur-rent meat puppet, former Underground warrior, it was going to be a long week…

One thing’s for certain: “Secondhand Souls” is dark, messy, and weird. Reading it is like looking through a foggy wind-shield: you’re quickly lost, nothing is clear but pretty soon, you start to at least kinda-sorta see where you’re going.

And yet, despite that murky story-blindness, author Christopher

Moore’s peculiar San Francisco underworld is a place I didn’t want to leave. I was in the midst of a tornado of oddity but I stayed anyhow, and I laughed – which is a big appeal of this novel: its five-steps-beyond-quirki-ness is really darn funny.

Keep in mind that this is a sequel to a previous book, but it can be read alone. It’s wildly fun, but it may be the freakiest book I’ve read this year. Are you the perfect audi-ence for that? Then “Sec-ondhand Souls” is a real find.

“Secondhand Souls: A Novel” by Christopher Moorec.2015, William Mor-row $26.99 / $33.50 Canada 339 pages

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