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at’s the number of days in between two children in separate pregnancies for Jayne Bleackley, the shortest interval ever recorded. She gave birth to Joseph Robert on Sept. 3, 1999, and then had Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000. e longest interval between two births belongs to Elizabeth Ann Buttle, who gave birth to a daughter on May 19, 1956, and a son on Nov. 20, 1997 — 41 years and 185 days apart — when she was 60 years old.

St. Albert Impact goalkeeper Jordan om is hoping to backstop a team made up of some of the best young soccer players in Western Canada to a prestigious tournament in London, England, later this summer. See story, page 4.

An 18-year-old man from St. Albert was one of two people killed in a collision that occurred Saturday aernoon on Highway 16 near Wildwood, Alta..

Evansburg RCMP were called to the scene of the crash around 4:50 p.m. on Saturday, in the eastbound lanes of Highway 16 at the intersection with Highway 753, about 120 kilometres west of Edmonton.

Police determined that a pickup truck carrying two men that was southbound on Highway 753 had entered the eastbound lanes of Highway 16 and been lodged under a tractor trailer unit that was heading east on Highway 16. Both vehicles came to a stop on that road.

e pickup truck was carrying a 77-year-old man from Morinville and an 18-year-old man from St. Albert. One occupant was pronounced dead at the scene, although RCMP were not clear as to which one that was. e other occupant of the truck was transported to hospital but later succumbed to his injuries. Families of both men were notied and their names were not released.

e driver of the tractor trailer unit was not injured. RCMP are still investigating, but no charges had been laid as of Monday morning.

A pair of high school students are lacing up their shoes to walk in support of victims of human tracking.

e Social Justice League at Paul Kane High School is putting on their rst-ever Free2Walk event on Saturday, May 18, starting at 9:30 a.m., through which they hope to raise awareness of human tracking and its devastating eects on people — some of which are felt much closer to home than many may think.

“A lot of people think human tracking only happens in foreign countries, but it’s happening in our backyards,” said Andrea Payne, who, along with fellow Grade 10 student Corissa Tymachuk, is one of the principal organizers of the event. “ere have been at least ve reported cases in Edmonton, and there was one — I heard about a case of human tracking in St. Albert about 10 years ago. It is happening in our country, but not a lot of people hear about it.

e two-kilometre walk will start and end at Lions Park, with a free barbecue following the walk.

Payne and Tymachuk hope the walk — and the walkers wearing orange — will help bring awareness to the problem across the entire community.

“We thought people who weren’t participating in the walk would be driving by and see us,” Tymachuk said. “We’re hoping to have this big mass of orange and hopefully get inquiries about it.”

Pledges from the walk will benet the Not For Sale campaign, which works directly with the victims of human tracking.

“ey provide education for the victims, as well as for people in ‘vulnerable communities,’ as they call them,” Tymachuk said. “ey let them know how to get information about it so hopefully they can avoid it. ey also provide shelter for those who have come out of human tracking so hopefully they won’t be pushed into the cycle again.”

e pair said they rst learned about human tracking in Grade 8, and had wanted to do

something about it ever since.“[Not For Sale] had videos you

could watch, and those videos really impacted us,” Payne said. “at was part of it, that they had good promotional materials that we could use as tools. And we also liked the fact that, not only do they work with victims who have gotten out of [human tracking], but also in preventing it.”

Tymachuk and Payne have also made presentations to other classes at Paul Kane, and they hope to raise $1,000 through Free2Walk and get about 200 people out.

But they’ve already received a big boost before a shoe has hit the pavement. Organizers of the Taste of Kane festival at the high school last week donated their proceeds to the cause, a total of almost $2,000.

“[e response so far] has been really surprising, how much everyone has been jumping to help us and support in this,” Payne said.

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A St. Albert soccer player is hoping his steady hands will backstop his team all the way to a berth in a prestigious international tournament.

Goalkeeper Jordan om, 12, is one of 11 kids from Alberta and British Columbia who will make up Team Western Canada in a soccer showdown against Eastern Canada coming up on June 22 at Saputo Stadium in Montreal. e winner of that game will get the chance to travel to London, England, for the Danone Nations Cup, the biggest and most prestigious youth soccer tournament in the world.

“I’m very excited,” said om, who attends J.J. Nearing Catholic Elementary School and plays his club soccer with the St. Albert Impact. “[I’m looking forward to] playing lots of soccer.”

A total of 32 countries will be represented in England.

But, before that, Jordan had to make the western team, starting with a camp of nearly 300 kids in Edmonton before heading to Calgary and then to the nal selection camp in Vancouver.

“It was pretty intense,” Jordan said, adding that the camp started with about 30 goalkeepers, which was whittled down to

ve or six at the second camp in Calgary.Team Canada coach Dean Howie said

that he was impressed by Jordan’s work ethic, commitment to training, attention to detail and coachability.

“When we arrived in Calgary, he was the rst one on the eld. He and his dad were knocking balls around, and that speaks to his commitment and excitement, wanting to play and his dedication to working hard,” Howie said.

ose are qualities that Jordan’s parents, Alan and Susan, would love to take credit for, but — in Susan’s words — “that’s just Jordan.”

“He just loves it,” she said. “His keeper training, he’s never once said, ‘I just want to stay home.’”

Aside from his regular team practices, Jordan attends specialized goalkeeper training in Edmonton two times a week, and he and his dad do some extra work on diving and goal kicks on the side.

“I’m proud of him regardless of what the turnout would have been,” Susan said. “He works extremely hard at his position, and he’s dedicated to the sport.”

He tried out for Team Western Canada last year, and said that getting cut served as motivation to do better this year.

Jordan has been playing soccer for years, Alan added, but it wasn’t until he joined the

under-10 division that he started taking it seriously.

“at’s when he started doing the keeper work, and from there, it just took o,” he said.

He wound up between the goalposts quite by accident, though.

“Back in U-8, our goalie was sick, so I tried it out,” Jordan recalls. “From there, I just loved it.”

While his team still has to beat Eastern Canada rst, Jordan — a fan of Chelsea in the English Premier League — admitted to thinking ahead a little bit to the chance to play in London, home to some of the top professional soccer teams in the world.

But his coach gures that, should they make it to jolly old England, Jordan and the rest of the western squad would represent Canada well.

“e last three of four years, we’ve done well and moved up, nished in the top 12,” Howie said. “Considering there are [32] countries, that’s a really good result for Canada, to nish in the top 12. We have a sixth and an eighth, two years ago and three years ago; last year was 12th. From what we’ve seen now, with the west and the east, I think we have a balance of speed, size, technical ability and youthful exuberance, which you hope every 12-year-old has.”

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader

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It has certainly been an eventful year for Patrick Draper.

St. Albert’s city manager recently celebrated his rst year on the job, having taken over his position on April 23, 2012.

In that time, city council and City of St. Albert sta have tackled a number of prickly issues, but Draper said he feels a lot of good work has been done, and that ought to continue into the future.

“ere’s been interesting progress, and there are some ideas on the horizon to help move the community forward,” he said.

One of those issues was the new animal bylaw, but Draper said that went smoother than it could have because the City invested a lot of time in it.

“You get into trouble in this business if you make changes that aect the way people live their lives if you do so very quickly,” he said, citing the language laws that came into eect in Quebec while he grew up in Montreal as an example. “... ere was a lot of opportunity for people to comment. ere were online surveys, and sta answered the tons of emails coming in with specic questions, what-if types of questions. I hope residents feel they had a chance to share their point of view.”

Over the year, Draper said he has found St. Albert to be a very “balanced” community, which was a bit of a surprise.

“It’s not [a community] that’s just about trees and parks or just about business or just about arts and sports. It is really a complete, well-balanced community for the size it is,” he said.

He added that he has found St. Albert to be a “well-designed” community, with the bulk of the commercial development along one major corridor — St. Albert Trail — that branches o into tree-lined arterial roadways, which lead into residential neighbourhoods.

“You drive along the Trail, and people are in a rush — go go go. But when you turn o the Trail, the speed goes down, and everyone calms down and kind of meanders along to wherever they turn o to their street,” Draper said. “It creates a really nice neighbourhood feel.”

However, the feel inside St. Albert Place wasn’t so neighbourly when Draper

arrived, as he described the preceding year to 18 months as “challenging,” with “a lot of strain.”

But Draper led a reorganization of several City departments last September, and between that and other initiatives, morale and relationships have improved at

city hall.“[It’s about] getting

people to think positively, be positive, work in teams,” he said. “In dicult times, people naturally stay within their own functional areas and don’t co-operate or collaborate across departments as well. So we’ve really been talking a lot about working together, meeting with dierent groups and dierent levels, and sharing information. I think that’s helped to improve

the morale within the organization.”Of course, one of the most important

relationships Draper has to maintain is that with city council, and he said, so far, that relationship has been very fruitful.

“ey’ve invested as much time in

making it work and making it better. ey were probably frustrated with where it was before, and I think they like where it is now,” he said. “I’m a very positive-oriented person; conict doesn’t get you anywhere. at doesn’t mean you can’t disagree on things. But dierent people have dierent points of view, and you need to understand that when you make a choice, but then let’s move on.”

But, while Draper is looking back, he’s also looking ahead, with several more thorny issues on the horizon in the year to come.

“We don’t necessarily have signicant gaps, but we can certainly make improvements,” he said, noting that one area where such improvements can be made is in the environment, with water conservation and greenhouse gas matters coming before council in the near future.

But Draper is also looking further down the road at what St. Albert will look like in three to 10 years.

“If we’re going to have growth, how do we think we’re going to grow?” he said. “... We really need to start thinking about that and how it’s going to be integrated, and when it’s going to start happening, because it’s not 15 years from now or even 10 years from now. We’re likely to start seeing next year some of these plans come to fruition.”

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A new policy proposed by administration combines two existing policies and

provides a consistent framework for naming municipal buildings,

signicant infrastructure, neighbourhoods, roadways

and parks in St. Albert.

e proposed land transactions policy

claries guiding principles and solidies

the City’s approach for both buying and

selling land as St. Albert continues to grow.

e City has been looking at a new home for the St.

Albert 50+ Club and other community groups. Council was asked Monday to accept

a report as information and give administration guidance on next steps.

A nal concept plan is due back before council by September 2014, with the scope expanded to

possibly include a St. Albert Public Library branch and residential condos on upper oors.

e new policy will be put into use immediately

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e nished dead last out of 379 entrants. And we couldn’t be

prouder of it.It was a beautiful, bright

Sunday morning when my girlfriend and I set out to conquer the 10-kilometre course at the RunWild Marathon in St. Albert. Eschewing the pink T-shirt that handed out with the race package, I instead pinned my grey bib — number 3097 — to a blue shirt proclaiming “Will Walk for Beer” that she had bought for me a while back. is was the rst time I had ever attempted a 10K walk, and I was worried about a few things.

First and foremost, I was worried about being able to nish the race. Despite our best intentions, we had trained very little in advance

of Sunday, usually welching out on walks due to terrible weather and instead opting for marathons of Chopped on the couch.

I was worried that the new shoes I had bought weren’t broken in. I was worried that the anti-blister socks I had bought wouldn’t work. I was worried that the two of those together looked particularly un-stylish, particularly paired with my grey track pants.

But, in the end, it all worked out. e socks worked, the shoes didn’t cause too much discomfort, and no one really seemed to care how dorky they

looked as an ensemble.In fact, the experience of

being out on the course was a particularly positive one. Although we were bringing up the rear end of the 10K eld, making chit-chat with the sweepers on their bikes behind us, there was nothing but encouragement from other runners on the course. Several of those who were running the race and were heading in the opposite direction still breathlessly oered up their encouragement as they went by. I wanted to do the same when we met up with some of those running the full marathon at one point, but somehow it might have seemed a bit hollow. Aer all, they were two-thirds done, but still had further to go than I would walk all day.

Aer just under two

hours, we crossed the nish line with little fanfare — we came in at the same time as number of people running the half marathon — and congratulated each other with a high-ve, a hug and a declaration that “We did it!” en we had to walk our weary bones back to where I had parked the car.

On Monday morning, I logged on to the race results website. I clicked on “10K” and scrolled down — way, waaaaaaaay down. And there we were, in 378th and 379th place.

But those words from the nish line still rang true: “We did it!” And it was still a source of pride knowing that we had. Even though we had nished dead last, at least we had made the journey, and we are certainly stronger for it.

he fact that a pair of hospitals in the Capital Region have installed Angel Cradles is heartbreaking in and of

itself. But the alternatives, the consequences of not installing them, may be even more heartbreaking.

On Monday, Covenant Health — the body that oversees Catholic health care in the Capital Region, including Youville Home in St. Albert — showed the media the new Angel Cradles located at the Misericordia Community Hospital in Edmonton’s west end and at the Grey Nuns Community Hospital in the city’s southeast.

ey are designed to allow mothers to drop o babies that they don’t want or can’t care for anonymously and safely, to be looked aer and turned over to social services.

e heart sinks a little bit when hearing news like this; it’s dicult to think that there are so many young women out there in such dire situations that they would have to even consider giving up their children in such a manner. One also can’t help but think how that young soul who was dropped o is going to deal with that reality when he or she is older.

But, frankly, not having the Angel Cradles could result in even more tragic circumstances. ose dire situations will still be there whether the Angel Cradles are there or not, and it’s horrifying to think what has happened in those cases in the time before they were installed. Babies have been found abandoned in dumpsters and in hotels in Edmonton before; knowing they could immediately go into safe and caring hands is a measure of comfort.

And it’s not as though the mere presence of the Angel Cradles will set o an epidemic of babies being abandoned. ose in Edmonton are modelled aer one at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, which was installed in 2010 and — according to an albeit rudimentary Google search — appears to have been used only once.

Honestly, though, if the Angel Cradles save even one young boy or girl, and give that baby a better chance at life, it will all be worth it.

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As the WHL championship between the Edmonton Oil Kings and the Portland Winterhawks continues this week, the league got a little closer for some homegrown talent. St. Albert’s Joshua Mahura was draed in the second round of the WHL Bantam Dra on ursday, May 2, by the Red Deer Rebels, who also selected Max Salpeter in the seventh round. Brayden Chizen was selected in the ninth round by the Kelowna Rockets. St. Albert-born Tyson Jost was taken in the rst round (7th overall) by the Everett Silvertips.

It doesn’t get much better than the St. Albert Cash Mob when it comes to supporting local business. e staging point for the next mob is at Unwined (#2, 512 St.Albert Tr.) on ursday, May 16, at 7 p.m. Show up there and the secret location for the local Cash Mob will be revealed. Bring your friends and $20 to buy something at the mob. It is a fun hour of meeting new people and supporting local business.

e Torneo delle Nazioni took place in Italy from May 1 to 4, and representing St. Albert was Vancouver Whitecaps prospect Aymar Sigue. e 11-day camp featured players born exclusively in 1997 is part of Canada’s long-term preparations for the 2017 round of Men’s U-20 competition. e Canada U16 Men nished 2-2 with wins over Norway and Chile.

St. Albert Public Schools continues to grow, with a new school announced for Erin Ridge and the recognition of the great teachers who work for the district. Mary Ann Paradis was recently awarded La Médaille d’Or Marie-Louise Brugeyroux for attaining the highest general prociency in the nal two years of a bachelor of education at Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta. She currently teaches French immersion

kindergarten at Leo Nickerson Elementary School and was recently nominated for the Edwin Parr Award, which is given to rst-year teachers.

Youth entrepreneurship is thriving in St. Albert as the Junior Achievement company Epiphany proudly presented their wares at this week’s Junior Achievement Alberta Business Hall of Fame Dinner. e St. Albert students from Grades 9 to 12 start and run their own company, including producing and selling product, from February until May every year. More information on how to be involved as a student entrepreneur or a volunteer can be found online at www.janorthalberta.org.

“Maybe we should start a marathon in St. Albert” was the thought that was oated one day by the great folks at Leading Edge Physiotherapy. Grant and Heidi Fedoruk, Anita Cassidy and their team put together the RunWild Marathon that took place this past weekend. It was a beautiful and successful day and a tremendous community gathering. Lots of hard work in their third year has grown this event to include almost 2,000 runners. It’s a great grow-an-event story — from zero to 2,000 runners and a lot of money raised for the Zebra Child Protection Centre and the St. Albert 50+ Club.

Last week, Lynda Moat, the president and CEO of the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce, put out the call to members for their assistance in dealing with “the nasty little vacant lot right on the St. Albert Trail (East side), just across from Gate Avenue.” A browneld site, the Chamber has been provided the opportunity from Imperial Oil to make aesthetic improvements. ey are looking for donations of product, time, and/or cash. If you can help or have some ideas, drop Lynda a note at [email protected].

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e St. Albert Community Information and Volunteer Centre doubled down on their annual Volunteer Citizen of the Year award on Saturday.

For the rst time since 2001, the CIVC named co-winners of the prestigious award, with both Helen Kieran and Violet Oko taking home the honours.

“I’m totally shocked, I really am,” Kieran said aer receiving her award. “It was a great honour just to be nominated.”

Kieran and Oko are good friends, with each of their lengthy volunteering resumés including duties with the St. Albert Retired Teachers Association.

Sharing the award was a thrill for both of them.

“Helen’s adorable; I know her very well. It was fun,” said Oko, who added that she was “humbled” by the award aer 40 years of volunteer service in St. Albert.

“It’s wonderful to share it with somebody else,” Kieran added.

Kieran also volunteers with the

Arden eatre, Friendship Force of Edmonton and Area, the Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

Oko’s other volunteer eorts have beneted the St. Albert Botanical Park, the St. Albert United Church, the Breakfast for Learning programs in local schools and several local minor sports organizations.

CIVC executive director Glynis omas said that, although naming co-winners is rare, it can happen when the selection committee sits down to hash it out.

“When that occurs, [it means] a couple of individuals are so similar in their attributes as far as what they contribute to volunteerism in the community — how they volunteer is dierent, but the impact of what they do is considerable,” she said.

But she added that the ceremony is a great chance to celebrate all the volunteers in the community, not just those who win awards.

“We are recognizing a few here today,” omas said, “but we are celebrating them all.”

Other nalists for the Volunteer Citizen of the Year award included Margaret Davison, Clayton Schafers

and Jennifer Smid.e awards brunch, held at the

St. Albert Alliance Church, also saw a special Youth Philanthropy Award given out to students and sta at Bellerose Composite High School in recognition of the annual Bike-A-on event, which has raised nearly $1 million over the past 10 years for the Alberta Cancer Foundation and the Kids With Cancer Society, including almost $270,000 in 2013

alone.e CIVC also handed out its

Leaders of Tomorrow awards, which went to:

Magyar is a rep for the CIVC’s SOARing youth program, a Girl

Guides leader in St. Albert and was chosen to be the nal medal bearer in last year’s Rick Hansen Relay, getting the chance to meet the Canadian legend himself in Vancouver.

But she said the Leaders of Tomorrow award ranked right up there with those accomplishments.

“Rick Hansen was number one, and this is number two,” she said with a laugh. “is is up there, top 10 for sure. It’s lots of fun, and denitely sums up the year for volunteering — and it’s a great kicko for more.”

Indeed, Magyar is not one to rest on her laurels, and she’s always looking for another volunteer opportunity.

“I’ve got momentum. I can’t stop now, or else I’ll stop forever,” she said.

e same goes for Oko and Kieran, who still get as much out of volunteering their time as the organizations who benet from their generosity do.

“I so much enjoy meeting people ... It renews me,” said Kieran, who “can’t wait” to volunteer at the International Children’s Festival in St. Albert at the end of May.


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One tiny show in Kingston, Ont., has turned into so much more for Splash’N Boots.

e children’s entertainment duo of Teas Leavitt and Nick Adams, who now make their home base just outside Toronto, are heading back to St. Albert at the end of May for one of their favourite gigs at the International Children’s Festival.

But Leavitt said that, aer their rst show — on a street corner in Kingston — they never thought they’d be where they are today.

“I think my dad was the only person who came,” Leavitt said. “But it’s funny; I think that helps you get good at it. e more shows we did the more comfortable we got, even if there was nobody there.”

e duo got started Queen’s University in Kingston — “Nick was all set to become a high school teacher, and I distracted him from his goal,” Leavitt said with a laugh — and were hooked aer their rst show, which she described as “more of a play with music.”

“From there, we just decided we couldn’t do anything else,” she said. “at was it; we were on track.”

Aside from touring children’s festivals around the world, Splash’N Boots have released six CDs, two DVDs and 12 music videos, and are currently working on new songs as part of a partnership with Treehouse TV.

“Nick does a lot of the music writing, because he plays guitar, and I’ll come up with a lot of ideas and lyrics. We kind of do stu separately, then come together and do things together,” Leavitt said. “We don’t really sit down together and start o; we usually start o separately and work at it.”

But they’re happy to take a break from songwriting to come back to St. Albert for a spot as one of the International Children’s Festival’s featured main stage performers.

“It’s absolutely our favourite children’s festival and event that we ever do,” she said. “It’s got such a sense of community, I think, that makes it dierent. e volunteers, the social events — everyone really cares and is invested in it.”

During their rst couple of visits to St. Albert, Splash’N Boots played the

Enmax Outdoor Stage, but moving indoors over the past few years has been exciting.

“It’s nice to be a ticketed event that people choose to go see,” Leavitt said. “A lot of the times, they’re families that we know already.”

Performing for kids is a real treat, she added, no matter which stage it’s on.

“I love that they’re so spontaneous. You never know what they’re going to do,” Leavitt said. “And just the amount of energy they give back to you during a show is amazing. Our show is so interactive — I actually feel that most of our show isn’t about us at all. It’s totally about what the kids are doing.”

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You might nd Rick Jackett in the stands at the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition at the end of this month, but you won’t nd him in the chutes with the bulls anytime soon.

Jackett plays guitar with Finger Eleven, the Canadian hard rock veterans who are slated to play under the big top at the Rainmaker Music Festival on Friday, May 24, along with Bleeker Ridge, Naked Beauty and Dead City Dolls.

And while he admires the skill of the cowboys who enter the rodeo ring, he said he’s in no rush to jump in there himself.

“I value my limbs too much,” Jackett said. “I depend on my hands. I try to stay away from anything that would maim me or harm me. ... It’s amazing the ability it takes to do that.”

But you might nd Jackett and his bandmates — including singer Scott Anderson, guitarist James Black, bassist Sean Anderson and drummer Rich Beddoe — on some of the midway rides, as shows at summer fairs oer up some

welcome diversions from life on the road.

“It’s pretty common to see us out on the midway at some point, either during the day or aer the show,” he said. “We usually end up on the midway. Depending on how I’m feeling that day, I may take some rides in, but I usually end up in the beer gardens.”

“ere’s something about those outdoor fairs, those festivals — there’s just an energy, a vibe there,” he added. “e people there are excited and they’re having a fun time all day, and when the show happens, there’s a real excitement.”

Finger Eleven was formed in Burlington, Ont., in 1989, and since then have released six studio albums, which have spawned hit songs like “One ing,” “Paralyzer,” “Good Times,” “Bones and Joints” and “Living in a Dream.”

Looking back, Jackett admitted that, when they started out as high school friends, he never thought Finger Eleven would ever make it to where they are today, with their music taking them all over the world.

“Not even a chance,” he said. “On

one hand, we were naïve young kids who believed we could be the next Beatles. But then, once we started the journey, reality kicked in — this isn’t just like, grab some guitars and you’re famous. It’s a long, hard road. We saw so many great bands not succeed, and we saw some mediocre ones hit the roof, and you realize it’s not up to you anymore; it’s up to luck and the people listening. You don’t have as much control as you thought you had.

“I think there was denitely a point in our career where we looked at each other and said, ‘Who cares if this gets huge or doesn’t, as long as we love doing it.’ And we really, truly love doing it.”

e band has been hard at work writing songs for a new album for nearly a year and a half now, and

are almost ready to get into the studio and lay down those tracks.

“ere are a lot of similarities to the way we wrote our second record, e Greyest of Blue Skies,” Jackett said. “ere’s a lot of good jamming in the room, not demoing everything right away. We got in the habit of writing with a computer beside us and recording everything we wrote, so our brains and our souls didn’t have to remember the parts. is time around, we’re not documenting every jam and every change we make, so when we get back together in the room, we have to own the song, remember what we were doing and not just listen to a tape. ... If we wake up the next morning and none of us can remember it, it obviously wasn’t a very good ri.”

However, Jackett added, fans won’t hear any of those songs in St. Albert, and for good reason.

“It’s a rule of thumb with the band: We don’t play new songs until they’re recorded and mixed, because we’ve learned that, even in the mix, they can change drastically,” he said. “Nowadays, when everyone has a camera and

being captured in the moment — which is great; I love that — we don’t want a false representation of something we’ve worked really hard on.”

Both the band and their label hope a new record will on shelves by this fall, but Jackett conceded that it might not happen until early next year.

Even though they have so many hits in their repertoire, Jackett said the band doesn’t feel any pressure to match those successes.

“When a few [songs] jumped out, it wasn’t because of any eort to make them jump out; it was just because we got lucky and wrote songs that had more immediate power than other songs,” he said. “Once that happened, there was a bit of us thinking we might have gured the magic code, but we didn’t. You can’t force anything like that and you can’t predict it, so why bother trying?”

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What happened in Vegas certainly stayed in Vegas for Jennifer McCurdy.

Since this past Christmas, McCurdy, the member services director at the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce, has been attempting to do as much of her shopping in St. Albert as possible, and documenting the results on a blog on the Chamber’s website.

Recently, though, her family went on a vacation to Las Vegas, but the temptation to splurge at the outlet shops wasn’t enough to break her will.

“I went down, and my whole way of thinking was totally dierent,” McCurdy said. “e customs guys wouldn’t believe that I had less than $100 [worth of goods] in my bag.

“ey were like, ‘How long were you down there for?’ And my husband was like, ‘Don’t even ask her,’” she added with a laugh. “It’s something I think I’ll carry on.”

About ve months into her experiment, McCurdy said things are going well, and she has received quite a bit of feedback, both online and o.

“I’m not getting as much feedback as I was in the beginning, and that’s probably just because I’m not sending out to my friends and getting it out there as much,” she said. “But I get a lot of people who say they are changing the way they’re shopping and giving second thought to things, which is nice.”

In that time, though, she has been surprised to nd that “shopping local” can extend far beyond retail and into entertainment.

“It’s going to concerts; it’s going to shows. I went to the local dinner theatre and just recently went to a [local] chamber music concert,” she said.

Meanwhile, as spring kicks into high gear, McCurdy is getting ready to plant her garden, which means buying plants — something that could take her

into Edmonton.“It’s not that I’m not shopping

in [Edmonton]; it’s that I’m making sure I’m shopping in St. Albert rst,” she said. “But I really haven’t ventured out of St. Albert. ere are some things where I’ve thought, ‘I really don’t need that, so I’m not going to go outside St. Albert if I can’t nd it.’”

Aside from the economic benets of keeping her money in the community, shopping locally also has its share of environmental benets, as shoppers don’t have to burn as much gas heading into Edmonton.

e Chamber is also enlisting the help of St. Albert’s own Seriously Green as they work to “go green” in their oce.

McCurdy is committed to keeping the experiment going, and she’s excited to write about what else St. Albert’s business community has to oer.

“It’s making me really look at St. Albert and things I normally wouldn’t have done, like entertainment,” she said. “I’m learning a lot more about things in St. Albert that I didn’t even know were available, which is great.”

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e name may have changed, but the goal of cleaning up the banks of the Sturgeon River has remained the same.

e City of St. Albert and the Big Lake Environmental Support Society are teaming up once agian to put on the Clean and Green RiverFest — formerly known as Clean Up the Sturgeon — on Sunday, May 12, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

e event will see folks head up to clean up litter that has accumulated along the river over the winter, as well as plant trees and shrubs as part of the River Edge Enhancement Project and take part in an environmental fair with displays on the river valley itself and other ongoing environmental initiatives in St. Albert.

“is fun-lled event gives residents an opportunity to connect with each other while doing something positive for the environment here at home,” said City director of recreation services Monique St. Louis in a press release. “Our trail system, parks, green spaces and natural areas are the envy of many communities, and with

the help of residents, we are able to keep them clean and looking beautiful.”

Volunteers who come out to help with the cleanup will be supplied with gloves, garbage bags and recycling bags, and they’ll also get T-shirts and a free barbecue lunch. e tree planting will take place northeast of St. Albert Centre to enhance bird and animal habitats.

e environment fair will take place in the adjacent St. Albert Centre parking lot, and will also give kids the chance to make a Mother’s Day cra.

Residents of all ages can volunteer to help out by registering online in advance at www.stalbert.ca/spruce-up-st-albert or by calling the City’s recreation services department at 780-459-1600. Registrations will also be taken on the day of the event at the plaza behind St. Albert Place or in the east parking lot of St. Albert Centre.

e Clean and Green RiverFest is part of the City’s year-round Spruce Up St. Albert initiative, which also includes the City-Wide Clean Up, the Partners in Parks program, natural area and neighbourhood cleanups, schoolyard cleanups and Arbor Day celebrations.

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Cathy Carlson is closing her doors, but hoping to open up new horizons online.

Carlson is the owner of Seriously Green, a store that specializes in environmentally friendly products that has been operating on St. Anne Street in downtown St. Albert for nearly the past three years.

e doors will close at that location on May 31, but Carlson isn’t going away — she’s taking Seriously Green completely online at www.seriouslygreenweb.ca, hopefully getting things rolling by the middle of June.

“I’m excited about it,” Carlson said. “Obviously, it was a hard decision. is is our heart. It’s not just a business that we decided was a great business idea; this is what we believe in. at’s why we couldn’t just close our doors and not do something online, because we truly believe in what we’re doing. We just have to meet more people who believe in what we’re doing, and maybe the Internet will allow that.”

She said the move was prompted by protability and the type of trac she was getting in the store.

“It was a move toward me having more time with my family, and lots of people are shopping online, so why not join the masses?” Carlson said.

Going online means that there are some products the store won’t be able to carry anymore, but other new ones it can sell.

“It remains to be seen with time in terms of new products,” Carlson said, “but some of the stu I have here, I will be discontinuing and not putting on the website, more because of the fact of, say a toy — it’s hard to ship because it’s bigger. Or a purse — when I’m looking at a purse, I want to feel it, touch it, look at it a little closer.”

Carlson will be oering free delivery to customers in St. Albert, and possibly other pickup dates in surrounding communities like Morinville.

But she does also hope to start attracting

customers from all over the world as well.“People are shopping online a lot, so my

website guy seems to think I can get a lot of dierent people viewing it,” she said. “I think denitely my customer base becomes bigger, because this is a unique product you’re selling and it’s a niche store. Not everyone in St. Albert is interested, but I’m sure there are lots of people who are, and when they can see you online, there’s more accessibility.”

Overall, though, she said downtown St. Albert is a good place to do business, but there is more that could be done to improve things.

“What they’re thinking, with retail only on the ground level, is a very important thing. … is location, because we’re a bit o the beaten track, I don’t know if that was the right place to have it,” she said. “But I have great people beside me, so that has

helped.”Items that will no longer be oered once

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e St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce is putting the call out to local businesses to help give drivers a great rst impression when entering St. Albert.

e Chamber sent out an email to members on ursday, May 2, asking to the local business community to donate time, money or product toward turning the empty lot along St. Albert Trail near Gate Avenue into a new passive park that shows o the City of St. Albert’s Botanical Arts City brand.

“For years, we’ve been talking with the City about how to make that [lot] better, but the City wasn’t able to get a lease on the land from Imperial Oil,” said Chamber president and CEO Lynda Moat. “Imperial Oil didn’t want to do that, I guess. So I gured, we’ll try.”

“Of course, I’ve been sitting on the St. Albert Trail Committee too,” she added, “where we’re really focused on the trail and how it looks to people rst coming into St. Albert — not necessarily living here, but getting their rst impression.”

And, even shortly aer the email was sent out, businesses were on board, oering up what they could make the plan a reality, including a landscape designer oering up his services.

However, there are quite a few restrictions on what the Chamber can do with the land, which they are leasing from Imperial Oil and and still contaminated.

As such, nothing can be planted in the ground; any owers or shrubs would have to be in planters that would not obstruct crews from monitoring wells that are still there. e park will also be fenced o from the public.

“Anything that goes on there has to be able to be taken o in case anything happens or something happens with our lease,” she said. “at means anything we put there has to be portable, but sturdy enough that it can’t be knocked over.”

e Chamber’s lease runs for two years, but Moat is condent it can be extended another ve and beyond.

But she is hoping to have the park ready to go in the near future.

“I’d like to see something by this summer, for sure,” Moat said. “Maybe sooner.”


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So you’re keen to transform your body into a lean, mean calorie-burning machine by summer? en perhaps it’s time to spring clean your diet. Tosca Reno, well-known Canadian tness guru and New York Times bestselling author of the popular Eat-Clean Diet series, oers readers the following 10 timely nutrition tips and tricks:

In his bodybuilding heyday, Arnold Schwarzenegger wisely referred to the sweet, granulated substance as “white death.” Reno, widow of MuscleMag founder and publishing magnate Robert Kennedy, acknowledges that shirking sugar is no easy task — especially for anyone with a sweet tooth. But the 53-year-old resident of Caledon Hills, Ont., says that she doesn’t allow herself any “wiggle room” when it comes to sugar and its many impersonators.

“Sugar and sugar-like foods — including processed foods, which act like sugar in the body — have been linked to a variety of diseases and health issues, including inammation, diabetes, immune suppression, liver fatigue and even some cancers,” she says. “Once you learn to avoid sugar, your cravings will stop and you will be well on your way to

optimum health.”

at amounts to eating every three hours or so, which, Reno explains, stimulates metabolism while staving o hunger pangs. “Just make sure these meals are comprised of clean foods and contain a combination of lean protein and complex carbohydrates,” she notes.

And that segues nicely into the next tip.

Excellent sources of protein include chicken, salmon and beans, while whole grains, fresh fruits and veggies are rich in complex carbs. For more examples, check out Reno’s book e Eat-Clean Diet Recharged, or visit EatCleanDiet.com.

at goes especially for breakfast. Skipping meals not only leads to binging, warns Reno, but it also slows down

metabolism.And cut the excuses.

“Don’t tell me you’re in a hurry!” she notes. “Even when I have a 5:30 a.m. call time, I just throw

a few items in my NutriBullet (blender) and I’ve got a healthy smoothie that I can drink on the go.”

Avoid foods that are processed,

chemically charged and loaded with articial ingredients or preservatives.

Chemicals aren’t

nutrition, says Reno. “ey’re addictive,” she notes, “they don’t satisfy your hunger and they will eventually make you sick.”

Good ol’ H2O comes with a laundry list of benets. Water, according to Reno, ushes out toxins and waste, increases your metabolism, helps your body assimilate vitamins, minerals and macronutrients, and it keeps you full and less likely to reach for calorie-laden juices and sodas. “I recently discovered the SodaStream, which I love because I can make carbonated water and clean drinks in minutes,” she adds.

A good rule of thumb is to use your hands as measuring tools, Reno says.

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servings of healthy fats per day, Reno advises. Sources include nut butters and avocado, as well as coconut, olive, axseed and pumpkin oils.

“Healthy fats ll you up, keep your hormones owing, help stoke your metabolic rate and keep your brain functioning properly,” adds Reno.

is is all about setting yourself up for success. “Packing a day’s worth of healthy eats and having them within arm’s reach is the best way to ensure that you will be sticking to your plan,” Reno explains. “In other words, you won’t be making impromptu trips to the drive-thru to quell hunger pangs.”

Pick a day — Sunday is a good one — to plan and prepare batches of food to eat during the week. “is means slicing up veggies, cooking hardboiled eggs and roasting chicken or making a big batch of chili. ere are some really exciting gadgets out there that make it very easy to make healthy food. I love cooking up a batch of sweet potato fries in the ActiFry, a healthy ‘frying’ gadget that you can nd at Canadian Tire,” she says. “With a good attitude and the right tools, preparing healthy foods can be a fun process the whole family can get involved in!”

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper is doling out more than $80 million to the folks in lab coats and goggles in the hopes they’ll come up with workable “green” technologies.

“We’re talking here about electric cars, wind energy and such things as community energy projects,” said Harper in Quebec City.

Earlier in his political career, Harper was a frequent critic of government support for job-creation projects.

Still, he embraced the concept Friday, announcing that taxpayers would subsidize jobs through their support of 55 projects across the country to develop environmental technologies.

“We have a practical approach based on Canada’s best interests — an approach that reconciles our environmental goals with job creation,” he said.

So, Canadian companies working on tidal power, charging stations for electric cars and even a project to create electricity by trapping the Earth’s heat all get a nancial jolt from taxpayers.

Several projects also deal with nding more environmentally friendly ways to exploit the oilsands in Alberta, including a key partnership with CO2 Solutions Inc.

e Quebec-based company will research ways to prevent the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere during oilsands extraction.

Harper highlighted the project

in an oilsands so sell aimed at a Quebec that’s oen sceptical of Alberta’s approach to natural resource development.

“is truly shows that the wealth created some 3,000 kilometres away can also contribute to economic growth of a business right here,” said Harper. “e Canadian economic union is very real and its benets are felt in all of our communities.”

CO2 Solutions president and CEO Glenn Kelly joined Harper for the announcement.

Kelly says he hopes the funding for his company’s project will help improve public perception of the oilsands and increase opportunities for export — possibly a veiled reference to the delayed approval in the United States of the Keystone XL pipeline project.

Harper’s announcement on funding for scientic research also ts into the broader political battle with the NDP over issues related to global warming.

e New Democrats have accused the Conservatives of being anti-science.

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Fieen of the projects getting federal funding are meant to demonstrate the practicality of various “green” technologies, while the rest are research and development projects.

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Skilled trades are in demand and experts say students need to get educated about this worthy career path.

“e stigma still remains because our society sees more value in a university education, even though only 35 per cent of students go to university,” says Edie Kaus, educational counsellor and high school career planner.

But some of the best and the brightest do get a trade. It’s a valuable educational investment considering the high number of unemployed university grads.

ere’s no shortage of traditional skilled-trades jobs unlled and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce warns that it’s hampering Canada’s competitiveness.

A Skills Canada study found that 40 per cent of new jobs in the coming decade will be in skilled trades or technology, yet only 26 per cent of students aged 13-24 are considering taking a skilled trade. e study also found that 59 per cent of youth say there is no encouragement from parents to pursue trades.

“Trades are oen seen as manual-labour jobs rather than technology jobs and that leads people to think of them as having low pay and/or limited job security. e reality is that these skills are in such high demand that we can’t meet it domestically and that demand leads to high salaries,” says John Rose, student recruitment ocer at Humber College in Toronto.

According to Janine Carmichael, Manitoba Director for the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB), “the good news is that our research clearly shows there is employer demand in the trades. ere are loads of terric, high-paying jobs available. We’re also excited because many students who study trades like plumbing, carpentry and baking end up being entrepreneurs too.”

But experts agree more skilled trades opportunities are needed for students.

“We need to ensure we have enough capacity at training institutions to meet employer demand, as well as ensure provincial regulations, like the ratio of apprentices to journeypersons, are not a barrier for employers to take on more apprentices,” says Carmichael, a participant at a recent skills summit held in Winnipeg.

Students are going into the trades, just not nearly in great enough numbers, says Carmichael. “ere does seem to be a bias among many Canadian families to steer their children — and educators to steer students — into the professions and traditional ‘white collar’ jobs. But quite frankly, not everyone can or should be a doctor, lawyer, or accountant.”

She adds that policy-makers need to focus on strategies that better align the skills, qualications, and training of students and young workers with the needs of employers.

Kaus, of educationaldirections.ca, says that the biggest diculty faced is nding job placements for the students, and employers who will take them on as apprentices.

According to Rose, “most licensed tradespeople run their own small business and they need apprentices to be able to do paying work for clients right away. ey don’t have time to teach someone from scratch.”

High school students will be soon able to get a jump start on their career, thanks to an $11-million investment by the provincial government.

Premier Alison Redford told students at St. Joseph Catholic High School that the province is injecting the cash over three years to add courses that will allow teens to earn high school credits and post secondary credits at the same time.

“It’s blurring the lines between K-12 and post-secondary. So what we’ve seen in the past is some dual credit courses, but they were happening in spite of the system not because of the system,” said Education Minister Je Johnson on Monday.

“Now we’re really formalizing an application process for school boards to make an application to develop dual crediting programs with their post-secondary and

industry in their area that’s relevant to them.”

e province said currently, such programs are oered from programs ranging from culinary arts to pre-engineering and health services.

Redford, who was joined by three of her cabinet ministers, took a tour of the school, which included a stop at the welding class.

Grade 12 student Mikhaila Currie showed Redford how to punch letters onto a metal tag, the premier chose “Sarah” for her daughter.

Currie said she was “ecstatic” when she rst learned of the dual credit program, her goal to one day own her own custom welding shop.

“It’s helping me get the education that I need a lot sooner,” she said. “It’ll help me get into the work world a lot sooner.”

Currie took welding in all three years of her high school career, and notes that she loves the artistic opportunities that the trade oers.

She agrees with Redford’s notion that the dual credit programs will give students a “leg up” on their careers.

“I would just be coming to school just to go to school. I would be stressing out about what I wanted to do,” she said.

“is is denitely helped me realize that this is what I want to do.”

Dual credit programming “allows us to ensure that people what they want to do can start on that path well before they graduate high school,” Redford said.

e College of Alberta School Superintendents will manage the grant process and a steering committee will oversee the process.

Once dual credit programs are established, information will be posted online.

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