St. Albert Leader June 19, 2014

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National women’s hockey team members and Olympic gold medallists Natalie Spooner (left) and Meaghan Mikkelson — who hails from St. Albert — are set to compete for a different title when the new season of The Amazing Race Canada debuts on CTV on Tuesday, July 8. See story, page 3.

That’s how many athletes — including Mikkelson and Spooner — that Canada sent to Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, the largest Canadian contingent in the Winter Olympics’ history. Those athletes won a total of 25 medals, making it the most successful Winter Games ever for Canada on foreign soil.

Meaghan Mikkelson has two Olympic gold medals, but now she’s going after a new title: The Amazing Race Canada champion.

Mikkelson announced via her Twitter account on Tuesday morning that she and Olympic teammate

Natalie Spooner are one of the first three teams to be unveiled for the second season of the reality

show, which premieres July 8 on CTV.“It was such a high being at the

Games (in Sochi), and when you come home, there’s a bit of a lull,

a bit of a drop from that high,” Mikkelson told the Leader

Tuesday afternoon. “I knew that from Vancouver in

2010. So coming home and having another

challenge waiting for me when I got home was something that

I was excited about. It was a great transition

away from the Olympics.”The Amazing Race Canada is a

homegrown spin on the highly successful The Amazing Race series that sees teams race to destinations across the country, with the last team to arrive at each week’s

pit stop risking elimination. The team that reaches the finish line first will win the grand prize of $250,000

cash, gas for life from Petro-Canada, the chance to fly free for a year anywhere Air Canada flies across the world, and

two Chevrolet pickup trucks. There are also other prizes to be won at different pit stops along the way.

The Amazing Race Canada is hosted by Jon Montgomery, himself an Olympic gold medallist

in skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

The casting call was first put out around November. While Mikkelson was interested, she didn’t think any of her teammates would be, so she was surprised when Spooner approached her about teaming up.

“She’s definitely one of my best friends on the team,” Mikkelson said, describing herself as a “perfectionist” while Spooner is a bit more spontaneous. “We had a good relationship going into this, but coming out of it, we’re closer than we’ve ever been before.”

While the roadblocks and detours along the way are challenging, Mikkelson’s challenges are compounded by the fact that the hand she broke in Sochi, Russia, during the Winter Olympics this year had not healed quite right when filming for The Amazing Race Canada began.

“It was a bit of a challenge for us, but I played in the gold-medal game

with a broken hand,” she said.

Still, she’s anxious to see how the race plays out on TV and seeing her family and friends react to the experience for the first time.

“It’s tough to keep it quiet because there are things I do every single day that remind me of what we had to do,” she said. “I’ll be doing something

and I’ll just bust out laughing. My husband will say to me, ‘What’s so funny?’ And I’ll just say, ‘You have to wait until the show airs.’”

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St. Albert’s mayor took a little time during a recent trip to brush up on ideas to make our city safer.

During a recent trip to Niagara Falls, Ont., for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ annual conference, St. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse took a side trip to Caledon, Ont., the municipality that topped Maclean’s magazine’s ranking of Canada’s safest cities from 2008 to 2012, while St. Albert tumbled out of the top 10 during the same period.

While Caledon has a significantly larger rural component among its population of nearly 60,000 than St. Albert does, Crouse said, overall, there were still a lot of things he could take away from the visit.

“Everything about what they do seemed to be about strong community involvement. ... I came away with this ‘wow’ feeling. There are so many things that they do that were true community involvement in community safety over and above what we’ve been doing,” he said.

In fact, one of the things that

made the biggest impression on Crouse was the Police Advisory Council of Caledon (PACC), which he said similar in nature to St. Albert’s RCMP Community Advisory Committee (CAC), but is much more powerful and encourages its volunteer members to attend conferences, even footing the bill sometimes.

“It was the committee structure. The leads of all those organizations all come together as one — they’re a committee of committees. That made we go ‘wow,’” he said. “Our CAC is more ad hoc, and not as much a committee of societies.”

He likened the PACC’s structure to the City of St. Albert’s Strategy and Mobilization Committee, which sees representatives from various organizations come together to talk about social needs.

As well, Crouse noted that Caledon has a strong police liaison program in its schools — believed to be one of the strongest in Ontario — a police station in their local recreation complex and a squad of 10 Road Watch volunteers, who watch for traffic violations at intersections

and forward their list to local police, who send out warning letters.

The focus on public safety began in Caledon after a car crash involving a drunk driver killed eight young adults on Mother’s Day, 1993.

Meanwhile, during his visit, Crouse also saw that St. Albert was already doing a few things that Caledon was doing, which reassured him that our city is heading down the right path.

One of those things was Citizens’ Patrol, which has been strong in St. Albert for many years.

“It’s kind of a mirror of what we do, with the exception that they have a councillor on each of their (crime prevention committees). If you’re on council ... you’ve got to go out on Neighbourhood Watch or Citizens’ Patrol. That’s part of being a councillor,” Crouse said.

While Crouse has plenty of new ideas in his pocket now, he said it might take some time to put them into practice.

“It’ll take a little while to move through this, but it’s a job I have ahead of me. It’s on my to-do list now.”

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Council voted Monday to accept as information a review of Blue

Bag and Organics curbside collection, which found that cost

reductions would be minimal with proposed changes and that there would be some operational risks.

The new contract will be awarded to the collection services under the

same schedule of collecting organics weekly in the summer months and

bi-weekly in the winter months and collecting blue bags weekly

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City council reviewed the in-development Urban Forest

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Now, the other two drainage creeks need the same restoration.

A plan to repair and renovate the other two storm creeks in Heritage Lakes will be drafted and will be discussed as part

of the next budget.

This policy ensures the operation and management of all public works

sites, including the Public Works Jack Kraft Facility and 17 Riel Dr., are guided through industry best

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arlier this week, city council met to discuss a range of

issues related to transit. In my eight months on council, I’ve quickly learned that transit is a topic that most everyone has an opinion on. Whether it’s a concern about the cost recovery of the service, suggestions on improving local routes or a desire to see a regional transit service, there is no shortage of feedback on transit.

Part of council’s discussion this week was on the pressures facing our current system. Did you know that a one-cent increase in the price of fuel costs St. Albert Transit (StAT) $12,300? An aging population is also impacting demand for specialized service. Handibus clientele has grown an average of 47

per cent per year for the last three years with the number of trips provided increasing 19 per cent per year over the same period.

There are a number of exciting new initiatives on the horizon for StAT. In August and November, the City will be piloting the use of a new electric bus. In addition to being an environmentally responsible choice, there are also substantial cost savings that can come from the use of electric buses. Over the course of its life, an electric bus will return a 40 per cent savings on energy costs, 75

per cent on maintenance costs and 73 per cent on overall lifecycle costs.

Perhaps the piece of news that local transit riders will be most happy about is that a local route restructuring project is underway. It’s no secret to those who ride StAT that there are opportunities to enhance the routes and make it more efficient to get around the city. Revamping of the local network is no small undertaking and it will take some time to ensure that proposed changes represent the greatest efficiency for citizens.

Enhancements are also in store for the Handibus program. In the fall of 2013, weekday mid-day service was launched to 13 locations in Edmonton. This fall, we will see the expansion of the

Handibus service to include weekday peak periods (from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.). To facilitate this increase in service, an additional two buses will be added to the Handibus fleet.

Park-and-ride remains an issue that needs to be addressed. Work is still underway with respect to the development of a Campbell Road Transit Station and Park-and-Ride, but that may still be several years away. In the interim, administration will be investigating some short-term options that might relieve some of the pressure on our current Park-and-Ride locations.

Through a continued to commitment to service improvement, my hope is that transit will remain a valued service to our community in the years to come.

s the end of June approaches, so too do the lazy days of summer (even though the rain and chilly

temperatures we’ve had thus far this year seem to suggest otherwise). Students and teachers are wrapping up their lessons, waiting for that final bell to ring and set them free for two months of exploration and relaxed responsibilities.

But, along with school, something else is wrapping up for another year: Cash Mob St. Albert. Like students, the monthly event that can see up 100 people descend on a local business in one evening takes the summer off too, only to come back re-energized and raring to go in September.

Although it has only been around for two years now, the Cash Mob has certainly established itself as an institution in St. Albert. It has built up a very loyal following, including one person who hasn’t missed a single one yet (although there have been close calls, as she recounts in our story on page 14 of this edition). Plenty of people show up and spend far more than the obligatory $20 — and they are happy to do so, knowing they are getting quality products from a local business.

The impact that the Cash Mob has had on local businesses is undeniable. Organizer Heidi Fedoruk has said that, for businesses, getting the call to host a Cash Mob is like winning the lottery. The feeling is understandable when you see the statistics: an average of 69 people coming into your store on an evening when you may have only seen three or four, and an average of $2,200 in sales. So far, Fedoruk estimates that the Cash Mob has injected almost $60,000 into the local economy.

Shopping local does come at a premium, so it might not be practical for everyday items or big purchases. But, where we can, we need to support local businesses, because then we’re also supporting our friends, our neighbours and even our city’s character. And the Cash Mob has done an amazing job of drawing awareness to that need.

The time off is well-deserved for Fedoruk and her merry band of mobbers. But, come September, we can only hope the mob — and the ideals it represents — grows even stronger.

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The organizer of a local 3-on-3 basketball tournament is hoping it will be another slam dunk this year.

The second annual J.R. Patrick Classic 3-on-3 Basketball Tournament will be held Aug. 9 and 10 in the south parking lot at Servus Credit Union Place, and its namesake organizer is hoping to keep the momentum the event gathered in its first year going.

“The (tournament) I used to run before, our first year, we had only 18 teams. And last year (in St. Albert), we almost doubled that and had 33 teams, so I was really happy,” said J.R. Patrick, a former captain of the Edmonton Energy who has played professional basketball in places like China, France, Mexico and Saudi Arabia. “This year, I’m looking to improve on that and get another 15 to 20 teams, and just keep going every single year.”

Like last year, the tournament will feature divisions for boys and

girls 10 to 12 years old, 13 to 15 years old and 16 and 17 years old, plus divisions for players 18 and older, as well as slam dunk and three-point shooting competitions, a barbecue, prizes and a live DJ.

But it will be about a week earlier on the calendar based on feedback Patrick received.

“A lot of people (had said), ‘I wish it was a week earlier, because I’m out of town that weekend,’ so

I moved it up, and we should get a lot more teams out this year just because of that alone,” he said.

Still, he expects the high level of competition to carry forward despite the scheduling change.

“It was a great turnout last year as far as the amount of quality players,” Patrick said. “We had teams from Fort McMurray, a team from Vancouver. I’m looking forward to having a few more out-

of-province teams and growing this thing as big as possible.”

A portion of the proceeds from the tournament will go to the Boys and Girls Clubs and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton, a cause that’s very dear to Patrick’s heart.

“A lot of friends I had growing up came from single-parent families, and it’s a place they can actually go to after school. It’s a different outlet as far as being able to do something constructive and something positive for their community, for themselves,” he said.

Although the Capital Region is a hockey hotbed in the winter and leans toward baseball in the summertime, Patrick said that, with Canadians having more success in the U.S. college and pro ranks, he is seeing basketball carve out its own little niche in the area, and he’s very encouraged by that.

“Kids are getting better. With the players they’re watching on TV, in college and in the NBA ... they’re working on their game, and there’s a strong passion for basketball in Edmonton now that I haven’t seen

since I was a kid,” he said. “I’m really happy for the way things are looking for the future.”

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Officials with St. Albert’s new Dig In! festival are cooking up something special.

The festival, which will be held at the Enjoy Centre on Oct. 10 and 11, held its official media launch on Monday, showcasing the chefs and the workshops that will be part of its inaugural edition.

“It’s all about growing and eating,” said Dawn Fedorvich, an economic development officer with the City of St. Albert. “We’ve planned a weekend of culinary adventure that’s going to empower people to both eat local and grow local themselves.”

It’s an event that fits perfectly into St. Albert’s botanical arts brand, said Mayor Nolan Crouse.

“This kind of event this fall is linking all of what you do into the St. Albert brand, and at the end of the day, over a period of 10 or 20 years, we’re hoping to keep that brand of culinary arts, literary arts and botanical arts, and have this brand of a green and cultivated community in all kinds of arts,” he said.

The festival is being co-ordinated by the City’s economic development department along with the Alberta Culinary Tourism Alliance (ACTA).

“We all need to eat, but the next thing is, some of us really love to eat,” said ACTA executive director Tannis Baker. “This is about taking that experience beyond the consumption to actually appreciating it.”

The first event on the festival’s agenda is a gala dinner on Friday, Oct. 10, where nine chefs from across Alberta will come together to collaborate on dishes that feature ingredients grown and raised in the province. Guests will also have a hand in their dishes, with interactive elements — like picking your own salad herbs — planned.

Many of the chefs taking part in the

gala are well-known in culinary circles, including Karine Moulin from Hotel Arts in Calgary, who recently competed on Top Chef Canada.

“We have to support our local farmers and producers. We try to do that our clients, and it has been awesome,” Moulin said.

Edmonton Petroleum Club chef Doreen Prei, who was recently featured on an episode of Chopped Canada on the Food Network, is also taking part in the gala. She said that, while it’s important for people to buy local, it’s also important to show people what they can do with local products once they get them in the door.

“Then they get passionate about what they can do at home. We’re not creating a haute cuisine event; we’re making it nice and easy, things you can make in your home and be very inspired,” Prei said.

The following day, there will be free presentations on the main stage in the Enjoy Centre’s Moonflower Room, as well as pre-registered sessions taking place at the Enjoy Centre, Bellerose Composite High School and other locations that will deal with topics like container gardening, extending your growing season, baking, jam making and wine tasting. Registration for these sessions is $20 each or three for $50.

There will also be a series of retro-inspired events, like competitions for the best pickles and pies, as well as a hot pepper-eating contest.

Enjoy Centre co-owner Jim Hole has taken charge of growing the peppers for the contest, including the Trinidad Moruga Scorpion pepper, currently recognized as the second-hottest variety in the world.

“It’ll require some very brave people to take on this enormously hot, mouth-burning pepper,” Hole said.

For more information, for tickets to the gala dinner or to register for the Saturday sessions, visit the festival website at www.diginstalbert.ca.

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Students and staff at Leo Nickerson Elementary School are getting set to celebrate a big milestone.

On Tuesday, current and former staff and students will be at the school to mark its 50th anniversary with a special assembly and the unveiling of a new outdoor mural.

“It’s very exciting for the staff in particular right now; lots of us have been here for quite a long time,” said Andrea Daly, who teaches art and language arts at the school. “I’ve been here since 1998, and our vice-principal has been here since ’98, so there’s quite a number of us that have been here for 15 years and have been part of the school culture for a really long time. And as we get closer to the date, the staff and students are getting more and more excited about it.”

Daly said that almost half the school’s staff have been involved in the planning of Tuesday’s festivities, whether that’s tracking down former staff or putting together a time capsule, which has

a clear top and will be built into a bench in the school’s foyer, not to be opened for another 50 years.

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drowning in Lake Wabamun in 1961 — will be at Tuesday’s assembly.

The mural will take up most of an exterior wall of the school facing Cunningham Drive, near the bus lane where students are picked up and dropped off every day.

It was created by students with the help of artist Stan Phelps during his residency at the school earlier this year.

“A lot of the students were invited down a few at a time to come and participate and add elements to the mural,” Daly said. “We have not seen the completed,

assembled mural yet — even myself, I haven’t seen it yet. But we’re all excited to see what it’s going to look like.”

Phelps also worked with students to create graphic novels and comic strips, which were published as eBooks.

With so many young kids attending the school, Daly said 50 years is a period of time some of them can’t quite grasp, but with the anniversary events ramping up, they’re beginning to understand how big a deal it is.

“Fifty years is a really long time in their minds; sometimes a year is hard to grasp for the little guys,” she said.

But, when she looks ahead to the next 50 years, Daly hopes to see Leo Nickerson continue to grow but still stay the close-knit community she has come to know and love.

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With another season of the Cash Mob St. Albert under her belt, Heidi Fedoruk is confident she’s making a difference.

The cash mob wrapped up its second year on Thursday, June 12, as a crowd of 92 people descended on D’Arcy’s Meats in Campbell Business Park following a barbecue to raise money for the nearby LoSeCa Foundation.

Fedoruk said that, between the cash mob and social media, the awareness of the importance of shopping local is growing by leaps and bounds.

“For the people that show up at the mobs, they’re often surprised by the statistics I give about shopping locally, and it does stimulate that conversation,” she said. “How much overflow does that bring in? I hope it’s lots. I hope people are thinking about

it before they go shopping, and not just thinking about it once a month when it’s a social outing.”

During a cash mob, shoppers meet up and converge on a local business, with each committed to spending $20 there.

Since starting up in September 2012, the mob has hit 17 local businesses, with another 17 getting exposure as the meeting points for participants. Each event has averaged 69 participants, and businesses are averaging $2,200 in sales over the hour those participants are there.

“We are just under $60,000 that the Cash Mob has contributed to the local economy,” Fedoruk added.

“It makes me very grateful. People say, ‘How long are you going to do it for?’ And I say, ‘As long as people keep showing up.’”

That day is likely a long way off, as the cash mob has built up quite a following of regular

participants.“We really have a lot of

regulars for whom this is something they look forward to; they bring a friend and enjoy it. I’ve gotten to know everybody by name,” Fedoruk said.

Of course, they always welcome new mobbers, and this month had their youngest-ever mobber at just 15 days old.

After taking the summer off, Fedoruk said she’ll be raring to go once again in September with lots of new ideas and new businesses to hit.

“There are still lots of businesses we haven’t done, and there are businesses we can go back to because they always have new products and we have new mobbers every month,” she said. “I’m going to keep doing it as long as people keep showing up.”

The third Thursday of every month, it’s easy to find Gidget Dusza — just look for the crowd at a local business.

After two years and 17 events, Dusza is the only person among those participating in the Cash Mob St. Albert with perfect attendance, a string that has stretched from Modern Eyes Gallery and Gift to Mission Fun and Games to the Enjoy Centre and all points in between.

“I’ve lived in St. Albert for close to 40 years, and out of all those cash mobs, there were three or four stores that I’d never been in,” she said. “It takes you out of your comfort zone and makes you go into a store

you normally wouldn’t think of going into.”Cash mobs are

designed to support local businesses. Participants gather in one spot, then make their way to a local business, committing to spend at least $20 each there.

Shopping local is something Dusza holds very dear to her heart.

“It’s very important to shop local, because if we don’t, businesses won’t survive. Especially the small businesses — not the big box stores so much, but the small

businesses.”Dusza first heard

about the cash mob while getting physiotherapy for injuries she had suffered in a car accident through Leading Edge Physiotherapy, which is co-owned by Cash Mob St. Albert organizer Heidi Fedoruk.

“She ended up doing physio on me, and that’s how I got involved,” she said.

There was a close call one time, though, when the cash mob was

held at Seasons Gift Shop on McKenney Avenue on a Saturday afternoon in November 2013 rather than the customary Thursday.

“I was doing something with my husband and completely forgot about it until 10 (minutes) to 5 (o’clock),” Dusza said with a laugh. “I just zoomed down there, and I was like, ‘I still made it!’”

Unfortunately, her husband doesn’t often accompany her to the cash mobs.

“If it doesn’t have tools, it’s no fun,” Dusza joked.

Still, she won’t let that break her perfect attendance streak when the mobs resume in September.

“As long as I’ve got money, I’ll go,” Dusza said.

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First Nations culture and dance will once again be in the spotlight as St. Albert officially rings in summer for another year.

This year’s summer solstice falls on Saturday, and a day later, National Aboriginal Day festivities will take over Lions Park, with First Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures all represented.

Celebrating aboriginal culture is “absolutely a must” in St. Albert, said Libby Szarka, president of the St. Albert National Aboriginal Day

organizing committee.“It’s a great way to improve the relationship

between aboriginal and non-aboriginal people, and an opportunity to learn their culture,” Szarka said.

Plus, she added, even though St. Albert’s history is more closely associated with Catholic missionaries who traveled west from what is now Quebec, it is very much intertwined with aboriginal people as well, especially the Métis.

“That’s a part of Aboriginal Day, highlighting the Inuit, Métis and First Nations,” she said.

The festivities got a bit of a kickstart this past Saturday as elders and dancers from

Poundmaker Lodge helped officially open the St. Albert and District Chamber of Commerce’s outdoor farmers’ market downtown, leading a procession of dignitaries to the ribbon cutting ceremony in front of St. Albert Place.

Entertainment will be provided by singer Tim Harwill, the band Cross Country, musicians Alfie and Byron Myhre, Inuit throat singers and the Métis Child and Family Jiggers, among many others.

Last year’s festivities were very well-attended, Szarka said, with almost 1,000 people coming out. This is the sixth year that celebrations have taken place in St. Albert.


If you’re planning on attending this year’s Taste of Edmonton Festival, you might want to bring a bigger spoon.

Entering it’s 30th year, the annual food-tasting festival is expanding like a yeast pack in the sun — growing by 30 per cent to include an additional 17 restaurants and food trucks and 53 new dishes for the 2014 lineup.

“It’s really grown leaps and bounds over the past four years, and saw a tremendous leap last year,” said Taste of Edmonton general manager Paul Lucas, who estimates that roughly 480,000 people attended last year’s festival over the 10-day event. “We have a very strong, loyal downtown-core crowd that comes out on a regular basis and in the evenings we get an entirely different clientele coming out — the place is just jam-packed from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.”

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Knights, cowboys, pirates — each are great adventurers on their own. But put them together and you have the biggest adventure in St. Albert this summer: the St. Albert Public Library’s summer reading game.

The annual reading game for kids in Grade 1 and up starts June 26 and runs through August in Forsyth Hall in the library, located at St. Albert Place. Entitled The Great Museum Escape, kids must work their way through different adventures and different genres of books before getting to the final room.

“This is the best part of the best job. … To see the kids enjoy the game after we’ve made it makes it incredibly satisfying,” said Drew Thomas, who works in the library’s children’s department.

“We just want to keep kids reading,” he added.

The idea for the multi-faceted museum theme was born last year when the game had a spy theme.

“We talked about all the things we couldn’t bring to the (spy theme). It was very specific to spy stuff,” Thomas said, noting that most of the volunteers building

this year’s game also worked on it last year. “But then we had the idea of a museum. We could bring all sorts of stuff in.”

One room puts kids on a pirate ship, while another puts them in the middle of an Egyptian pyramid. Another room focuses on Canada’s First Nations heritage, while another plunks them down in the middle of the Old West.

Kids have to read two books to advance past each room, one of

which is their choice and one of which is a genre recommended by staff.

“The idea is that it’s the last day of school, and a school field trip brings them to the museum. It’s going fine until a lightning bolt strikes the museum, locks every door, locks every window and brings the museum to life,” Thomas explained. “So they have to go from room to room … and in every room they have to do

something to get a clue to getting out.”

Younger visitors to the library have their own reading game, Lost on Dino Island, which is aimed at preschool kids.

“It’s just a way to make reading fun, even for younger ages,” Thomas said, noting that some of the game’s tasks including reading with a parent and then telling a member of the library staff all about the book.

Meanwhile, older readers aren’t being left out either. Both the teen and adult summer reading games are also returning this year, giving patrons the chance to explore new genres and possibly win prizes.

“I think what’s the most fun is that people end up reading books they never would have normally read,” said adult programming librarian Michelle Papineau-Couture.

Last year, the game was a huge success with adults, with participation numbers rising by 23 per cent. That includes some members of the library staff, who play along with the patrons.

At the end of the summer, adults have a chance to win a Kobo Touch eReader, while the grand prize winner in the teen game will have the choice of an iPod Nano, a Kobo Aura eReader of $150 in Chapters gift cards.

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With 2014 marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, some local artists are remembering in their own special way.

Members of the St. Albert Quilters’ Guild took up the challenge this year of creating quilts with poppies incorporated into the designs to commemorate those who died in the war, which lasted from 1914 to 1918. The quilts were on display Thursday, June 12, as the guild held its annual summer potluck dinner at the Grandin Clubhouse on Grenfell Avenue.

“(It’s neat to) see how everyone had an idea that came to them when they were just given ‘poppy fabric,’” said guild member Carly Simon. “We’ve got yellow poppies, violet poppies, red poppies. They’re so neat.”

For fellow guild member Valerie Briscoe, the poppy challenge holds special meaning. She had three great uncles who fought in the First World War with the 49th Battalion (Edmonton Regiment) of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Only one of them returned, though, but he had been badly gassed while in Europe and never talked about his experiences on the front lines.

“I was just a little girl when I knew him,” Briscoe said. “I used to go out to the farm, and he was so nice. You know how kids love to go for a hay ride, so

he’d say, ‘I’m going down to the fields. Would you like to come with me and go for a hay ride?’ He was a sweetie.”

Briscoe’s quilt has three white crosses running down each side for her great uncles. It also includes a copy of the last Christmas card her great uncle sent her family.

“(The quilts) mean so much to all of us,” she said, “to think they laid down their lives for us, so we have the freedoms we have today.”

Another quilt in the guild’s collection incorporates the famous wartime poem “In Flanders Fields,” written during the First World War by Canadian soldier Lt.-Col. John McCrae.

“It’s everyone’s personal preference; there’s no limitation to what you can do with a quilt,” Simon said.

One of the biggest hurdles in the challenge, though, was not coming up with designs or

dealing with emotion; it was finding fabric with poppy designs on it.

“When we got this challenge in December, there were no poppies to be found,” Simon said. “But now that summer’s coming and Remembrance Day is coming in November, you might see a little more.”

“All of us tried everywhere,” Briscoe added with a laugh. “My brother was going down to the States, so I said to him, ‘I don’t like to ask, but could you go to a quilting store and find some poppy fabric?’”


In Grade 7, Kara Lindsay nervously wobbled onto a school stage to sing a song from the Broadway show George M.

As Kara, now starring as the good witch Glinda in the upcoming production of Wicked, remembers it, “I was a shy girl but here I was doing something that really put me out there — being vulnerable in front of hundreds of people. That kind of experience could go either way. Fortunately for me, I loved it. I still remember it vividly and the positive effect it had on my life.”

Well, for one thing, it changed her forever. And it would be repeated in 2012 when, as the female lead in Disney’s Newsies, she walked onto a Broadway stage for the first time. Talking to the upbeat, effervescent actress on the phone from Vancouver, it is obvious that she loves the theatre. One of the main reasons is the family feel it generates. Newsies had been on the road for sometime as Disney gauged the chances of its success on Broadway. It went to the Great White Way in 2012 and is still playing. “Your Broadway debut is something you never

forget,” says the actress. “It’s a story I’ll tell my grandchildren someday.” Like many a production on the road, the company of Newsies had forged into a close, familial unit. Disney decided that if it ain’t broke, they wouldn’t fix it, and transferred most of the cast to Broadway. “I got to share that night with half the cast and so we all made our debuts together,” says the winsome Ms. Lindsay.

The actress comes to Edmonton scattering a comet’s tail of great reviews across the country. (Burbled one Vancouver reviewer, “She has a lovely voice combined with sublime comic gifts.”) She finds that being on the road is what keeps the production fresh. “They keep bringing in new people from New York or Los Angeles. It brings a new energy each time. Also audiences react differently everywhere we play. On Broadway it’s the same show every night because nothing changes. On the road, the new audiences demand a kind of constant renewal.”

Wicked opened to bad notices from most of Gotham’s heavy-hitting critics (“Overproduced,” “Confusingly Dark,” “Does not speak hopefully for the future of the Broadway musical”) in 2003. But audiences knew better and it has become

one of the most beloved and successful shows ever. For nine straight years on Broadway, it was the top grossing musical. Still playing, it has conquered the world, making some $3 billion to date.

Wicked is a revisionist take on what happens before the familiar 1930 Judy Garland movie. Glinda (Lindsay) is ditzy, self-oriented and very blonde. Her roommate and favourite hate object is Elphaba (Laurel Harris) who has emerald bright green skin, is lost and hurting and is destined to become the Wicked Witch. The two reluctantly strike up an unlikely friendship that endures and becomes the beating heart of the show.

According to those who have seen this particular road show, Lindsay and Harris generate a remarkable stage chemistry.

Glinda is a tough role because she comes on as your essentially dumb blonde. But as the show progresses she shows that she is a lot more. “She’s very young,” offers Lindsay. “She may bubble but she’s not bubble-headed. There are a lot of layers there and she grows into them during the show.” She tries to teach Elphaba how to be a seductive young woman (in the hit song “Popular”) but learns more from her friend than she knows. The Glinda who descends

in that big bubble (see the movie The Wizard of Oz for details) is very different from the one at the end of the play.

Wicked is visually dazzling and dramatically intriguing from beginning to end. The music is complex (you won’t go home humming any of the tunes) but the music (lyrics and music by Stephen Schwartz) works wonderfully in supporting the intricacies of the plot. Wicked is an outstanding example of the best Broadway has to offer.

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McRae is one of three partners in Evoolution, a specialty olive oil and balsamic vinegar store that started on 104 Street in downtown Edmonton but just recently opened up a second location in the Enjoy Centre in St. Albert.

“We’re really excited,” McRae said at the store’s grand opening celebrations Saturday a�ernoon. “We’ve been working with the Holes and everyone at the Enjoy Centre for probably about nine months, �guring out how we would �t in here. �e build took a little longer than we were hoping, but we’re excited that we’re open now.”

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together — and his wife saw similar stores in New York City and Halifax.

“A�er seeing the success of the one in Halifax, we all got chatting and thought, we’re all from here and there’s been a great movement in the food scene in the last 10 years with the whole ‘shop local’ initiative, so this could potentially do really well in Edmonton,” McRae said.

Since then, the store has gained a loyal following, and thrives alongside complementary business and the farmers’ market along 104 Street every Saturday over the summer.

Many of those customers were from St. Albert, so expanding north made a lot of sense.

“�ey would always come in and say, ‘You guys should really open a store out here,’” McRae said. “We had been looking for quite some time, looking for the right spot, and really settled on the Enjoy Centre.”

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A U.S. federal judge said LinkedIn Corp must face a lawsuit by customers who claimed it violated their privacy by accessing their external email accounts, downloading their contacts’ email addresses and soliciting business from those contacts.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, Calif., found that while customers consented to LinkedIn’s sending an initial “endorsement email” to recruit contacts, they did not agree to let the professional networking website operator send two reminder emails when the initial email is ignored.

This practice “could injure users’ reputations by allowing contacts to think that the users are the types of people who spam their contacts or are unable to take the hint that their contacts do not want to join their LinkedIn network,” Koh wrote in a 39-page decision released last week.

“In fact,” she added, “by stating a mere three screens before the disclosure regarding the first invitation that ‘We will not ... email anyone without your permission,’ LinkedIn may have actively led users astray.”

Koh said customers may pursue claims that LinkedIn violated their right of publicity, which protects them from unauthorized use of their names and likenesses for commercial

purposes, and violated a California unfair competition law.

She dismissed other claims, including a claim that LinkedIn violated a federal wiretap law, and said customers may file an amended lawsuit.

Crystal Braswell, a LinkedIn spokeswoman, said the company is pleased that some claims were dismissed, and “will continue to contest the remaining claims, as we believe they have no merit.”

LinkedIn is based in Mountain View, Calif., and had about 300 million users at the end of March.

Larry Russ, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The lawsuit seeks class action status, a halt to the alleged improper email harvesting and marketing, and money damages.

It is among a series of cases challenging the extent to which Internet companies can mine user data to boost profits.

Last September, in a separate decision critical of some of Google Inc’s practices, Koh let Internet users, some with Gmail accounts and some without, pursue a lawsuit challenging the search engine company’s practice of scanning emails to provide targeted advertisements.

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