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WAVES OF FEST FUN

SUPER TIME: Organizers wowedby turnout and reaction to weekend /3

Clash on DVD /7 Fest in pictures /4-5

If participation is a measure of town spirit, Chestermere came away a win-ner at Saturday’s Water Festival.It’s obvious family orientated entertain-

ment is paramount in this community and the festival is a refl ection of that.

Chestermere is very much about the lake and the event rolled out wave after wave of entertainment for a crowd that has been steadily growing year after year.

Organizers were rightly beside themselves over this year’s success that went off with-out an obvious glitch.

Water festival’s success, however, brings its own set of problems — is there room for growth? Is a bigger show better?

If that’s the case, the festival will have to fi nd a larger venue other than John Peake Park, somewhere to stretch out.

Now committed to sharing the week-end with the Chestermere Show and Shine means expansion can’t take over space at the community centre.

Other than John Peake Park, there really isn’t any room besides the lake.

It would be nice to see some park space built that would include a sandy beach. Here all sorts of kid games could become part of the festival.

Chestermere Lake has so much to offer, but why do we send our kids jumping off the wall to enjoy it?

A sandy beach makes lots of sense.A beach volleyball tournament during the

festival would be a huge hit but can’t hap-pen unless the sand hits the shore.

There seems to be a few obvious loca-tions appropriate for a municipal beach and would be enjoyed by all ages.

Coupled with picnic sites, such a place would quickly become a town favourite.

EDITORIALIt’s time toprognosticateon festival

Dear Editor: I was glad to hear that the

gazebo is still a matter of interest to the community and council, ACE (Active Creative Engaged Community) in par-ticular (July 23 Chestermere Laker).

What a surprise to me that ACE consulted with “numerous” user groups for feedback, but neither were two of Chestermere’s fi nest, hard-working, driven and dedicated volunteer groups: The Lions Club and the Knights of Co-lumbus.

In fact, the Lions Club was asked several years ago to help

fund this gazebo and was, at that time in a position to do so.

Perhaps it was an oversight on Aces’ behalf, but I urge you, as a fairly new committee, to include the community as a whole when seeking help or feedback.

I believe this is what ACE strives for.

Also, $10,000 dollars to change a drawing!

What up with that? Patrick Watson

Chestermere

Dear Editor:Thank you so much for put-

ting in the request for a copy of Saddles, Sleighs and Sadirons.

Thanks to Larry and Linda Graham, and Elaine Peake, the library will now have two cop-ies of this valuable history of early days in the Chestermere area.

Jen PeddlesdenChestermere Historical

Foundation

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Thousands of sun-kissed revelers of all ages took

in this year’s Water Festival that defined community spirit, par-ticipation and fun on land and in the water.

From record partici-pation in the boat pa-rade, an expanded live music menu and even vendor displays, the festival saw increased action in John Peake park.

“We are just wowed,” said festival volunteer chairman Patrick Watson.

After serving in that capacity for three years, Watson said there has been a steady increase in all aspects of the Water Festival over the past five years.

“It has been very motivating watching it grow from year-to-year,” said Watson, who noted success with the annual boat parade has been a long time coming.

What would seem to be a natural event for success here has suffered attendance through the years.

This year 16 entrants

decorated their water-craft — a record.

The Bucks For Ducks YELL fundraiser sold out for the first time and helped raise al-most $1,000 for Youth Encouraging Lasting Leadership group and the Lions’ raised just more than $200 with its 50-50 draw at the beer gardens.

“It was really cool to see so many people come out and get in-volved,” said Watson.

Online registration

may have been the deciding factor in the increased boater par-ticipation.

In past years com-mittee members went door-to-door trying to drum up support and even went as far as placing reminders at all homes where they saw a boat.

“This year we had some advertising, but mainly we put small signs out on the road. This was the first year we had online registra-

tion,” said Watson. It didn’t hurt that

organizers offered a prize to those who went online to register.

“I think after this year we can get this to grow and grow.”

The car show is not part of the Water Festi-val, but it will be held in conjunction from now on.

“We get a lot of traf-fic from the car show and I’m sure it works both ways,” said Wat-son. “It’s the second

year in a row we have held it on the same weekend.”

Hyperactive Wa-tersports’ wakeboard competition held interest the longest at the park. The Hyperac-tive sponsored event has become an integral part of the festival and featured categories for wake boarders of all skill levels.

“We’re always trying to make it a little bit bigger, a little bit better and keep it family and community orientat-ed,” said Watson.

“We’re at a size now

where it is something that we can handle with the amount of volunteers we can put together.”

Watson said Chester-mere is a town without motels or hotels so it’s difficult to make it a larger public event or to advertise in Calgary months in advance.

“The park is only so big,” he said.

“We only have a cer-tain amount of people we can entertain.”

More photos and re-sults on Pages 4 and 5.

Sun-kissed fest a successNEWSFriday, July 30, 2010 Chestermere Laker 3

VENUE TOPS OUT: Crowd size a perfect match for the volunteer staffing of Water Festival

FLIP, FLOP ‘N’ FLY: Brett Ireland, of Calgary, does a flip move during open competition of Saturday’s wakeboarding contest.

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Crowd-pleaser Marissa Kittler, 9, provided entertainment between competitions during Saturday’s wakeboarding contest.

Photo by Mickey Dumont, Laker

ON OUR COVER

AND OUR WINNERS ARE:Boat Parade: Amy McBride won bronze for

the black submarine boat; Stu Hutchison’s Stu’s Ark garnered second-place and first place was awarded to the White Cappers for its “Hippies of the 60s” decorated houseboat.

Fishing Derby: The tagged fish for a $5,000 prize was not caught this year. Prize money from the youth category of $140.00 went to six-year-old Liam Bringos-Kewlet of Calgary. Also in the youth category, two draws for fishing rods went to David Bradly of Chestermere and Duncan

Grainer of Calgary. Ken Millard of Chestermere won in the adult

category and was awarded prize money of $140.

Lions’ 50-50 Draw: Winner of $225 was Brian Potts.

Wakeboard Open: 1) Justin Gratzfeld; 2) Rylan Siggelkow, 3) Shawn Gratzfeld, 4) Del Holder, 5) Cody Ganske, 6) Brett Ireland

Wakeboard Advanced: 1) Brian Esaw; 2) Logan

Biberdorf, 3) Scott Barrie, 4) Jeffrey Blanchard, 5)

Kye Smith, 6) Owen Klassen Wakeboard Intermediate: 1) Lanny Schmidt; 2)

Jason Bennett, 3) Dustin Logan, 4) Mitch Rowat, 5) Justin Queiroga

Wakeboard Beginner: 1) Reagan Biberdorf; 2)

Jordan Steinbrenner, 3) Sean Rinkel, 4) Eric Van-derheyden

Wakeboard Women: 1) Stef Hillier; 2) Taylor

Kraft

Weekendjust madefor a party


Photos by Mickey Dumont, Laker

CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: Part of the audio system in a F-250 built by Custom By Dave — which claims the Ford is the "Loudest Truk (sic) in Calgary — at the Show and Shine. Rylan Siggelkow does some high-flyin' wakeboarding to earn him second in the open class. Traci Dagg, along with other members of the Chestermere Art Guild, were painting live at John Peake Park during the Water Festival. Captain Jack Sparrow of Pirates of the Carribean fame dropped by to parlay with revelers. Patricia Rodriguez holds 11-month-old daughter Alana who was poooped after a long day enjoying the festival. The Hippie Boat team (from left to right): Margaret and Fred Farch, Betty Clarke, Jeff Badyk, Marilyn Conrad and Vern Berge.

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News

Mike D’AmourChestermere Laker

Two young boys were injured after falling about 20-feet from a second-storey window of a Park-

mere Green home.“It’s the fi rst time in my career

I’ve seen this,” said Chestermere RCMP Staff Sgt. Glenn Henry.

The incident happened about 4 p.m. Tuesday when Mounties and paramedics were called to the home where Chestermere Fire Services was already on scene treating the injured boys, ages two and four.

Police said the boys were momen-tarily left unattended in an upstairs bedroom and it appears the chil-dren leaned against the window screen, which gave way causing the pair to fall to the lawn below.

Henry said it’s unclear if the win-dow was left open.

Small handprints on the glass portion of the window suggest the window was moved and cops noted furniture was situated near

the window.The children were both trans-

ported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

One was treated for a broken leg, the other suffered minor abrasions.

The Chestermere RCMP is con-ducting an investigation, but said no charges are being contemplated.

Police say the incident is a warn-ing to parents and caregivers about the dangers of open, upper fl oor windows and how quickly young-sters can place themselves at risk.

Tikes injured infall from window


TWO-STOREY TUMBLE: Warning to parentshow quickly kids can place themselves at risk

MORE MEAL OPTIONS: Deputy Mayor Kelsey Johnson shares the scis-sors with Mayor Patricia Matthews during a ceremonial ribbon cutting at Chestermere’s newest business, M&M Meats. Owner Robin Impey (on the mayor’s left) and his wife Brenda own the M&M in Strathmore and say they’re excited to open the new store in Chestermere.

Staff Sgt. Glenn Henry

NEW STORE, ONE AISLE

DVD brings quality options to bland fl ick

I’ll be honest with you. The 2010 remake of CLASH OF THE TITANS (106 mins. 14A) is a crock. But then the original was no Oscar winner either. (Crock of the Titans?)

What makes the 1981 original a classic of its type is Ray Harryhau-sen’s singularly thrill-ing movie monsters.

Maybe he didn’t invent stop motion animation, but in his hands the vintage tech-nique became a cin-ematic art form. Titans is his masterwork.

In a way that’s what the 2010 version is all about too.

Screenwriters Phil Hay and Matt Man-fredi tell us on the DVD that they are both fans of the 1981

fl ick and couldn’t help wondering what it would look like with today’s advances in computer-generated technology. When Transporter 1 & 2 director Louis Leter-rier heard there was a remake in the works he pushed for the job.

So we’re back in ancient Greece. Zeus (Liam Neeson) and his black sheep brother Hades (Ralph Fi-ennes) are still major players in the deity universe although they are beginning to lose the respect of their mortal subjects.

When Hades sinks a fi shing boat with half-man, half-god Perseus (Sam Worthington) and his adopted family onboard, our hybrid hero swears revenge

and we’re off on a mythological quest involving giant scor-pions, fl ying horses, a humungous sea beast called the Kraken and, of course, Medusa, a half woman half snake who has been having a really bad hair day for several centuries now.

Director Desmond

Davis’ original had a certain creaky cheese ball charm.

The Leterrier ver-sion is curiously bland. But it is not for lack of trying.

Thanks to a feature called Maximum Mov-ie Mode (exclusive to Blu-Ray) I learned there was much more

thought put into this movie that may be apparent on fi rst view-ing. Thanks to picture-within-picture technol-ogy, viewers are able to watch the drama unfold onscreen while viewing the computer animation, storyboards and building con-struction that goes on

behind the scenes and all accompanied by ex-planatory commentary by director, cast and crew. (Which is why I always encourage folks to rent or buy the video version of a fi lm even if you have seen it in the theatre.)

However, when it comes to acting there is enough ham here to stock a deli.

Worthington, to be fair, is basically cast because he is ath-letic and looks good in ancient armor. There doesn’t seem any excuse for Neeson and Fiennes.

However, if you can ignore the overly earnest performances and a lack of any heart or soul whatsoever in the direction there are some special effects that a 12-year-old video game fanatic would probably call “cool.”

Popcorn Rating: 2 Kernels out of fi ve..

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