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GLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

The bloodsucking scourge of summer picnics — mosquitoes — are set to make their annual appearance, and while the City of St. Albert is ready for them, officials say they aren’t doing anything special to swat the problem away.

Leah Kongsrude, manager of the City’s office of community sustainability, said that, with only two large mosquito hatches every year, usually in July and August, it’s really not worthwhile for the City to do any spraying or take extraordinary measures.

“For those weeks, it’s a real pain. It’s not fun to go out at dusk or if you have a soccer game ... you feel sorry for people. But it’s not worth the effort for us,” she said, also noting that the mosquito species prevalent in northern Alberta does not carry the West Nile virus.

While Kongsrude said it’s uncommon for most Canadian municipalities to have mosquito control programs anymore, Edmonton is a bit of a holdover, but they target shallow ponds and some ditches.

“They don’t spray. They drop pellets, and actually it’s not an insecticide — it’s a bacteria,” she said. “The bacteria mixes in the water and latches onto the larvae and kills them.”

Kongsrude said that the City did try out some of these bacteria pellets in 2004 and 2005, but, while effective, the shallow

puddles and ponds that are prime breeding grounds usually disappeared within three days.

Plus, she added, it’s impossible to stop mosquitoes that have bred in other municipalities from finding their way into St. Albert.

“It’s not like you can say, ‘OK, where’s your passport?’” she laughed.

So far, Kongsrude said 2013 has been an “average year” for mosquitoes, but they’ll be keeping a close eye on things as the big hatches approach and as thunderstorms can make the situation worse.

“Last year, we had quite a bit of rain at the beginning of June, and then we had a big

hatch then, because I got a lot of calls

from the schools ... [because] the kids were finding it hard to go out and play,” she said.

While the level of the Sturgeon River has been high for several weeks now due to spring

runoff, Kongsrude said that shouldn’t have any bearing on the mosquito population this year, as the bugs tend to prefer small, shallow puddles of standing water for hatching their larvae.

In fact, the City did a study on mosquito populations in 2004 and 2005 — at the height of the

West Nile virus scare — and where they were laying eggs, and they found almost none in the Sturgeon River itself.

“We tested the Sturgeon River, we tested all our storm ponds, Lacombe Lake, Grandin

Pond. And the mosquito larvae do not like that,” she said. “It’s too cold, and the larvae do not like the wind movement.”

That same study found the most larvae in puddles only as deep as six inches, with one or two inches being the optimal depth. Those puddles were also very temporary, most only lasting about three days before draining off or evaporating.

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$480MThat’s how much the new

downtown Edmonton arena will cost now that Edmonton city council has approved a funding model. $80 million will come from a $2.5-million-a-year subsidy transferred from Northlands; $125 million from a $7-per-ticket user fee; $115 million from a lease of $6 million a year; $17 million from the Katz Group; and $120 million from an ongoing Community Revitalization Levy. An additional $25 million is anticipated from the province through a regional collaboration grant.

Dallas Smith — the former singer of alternative rock group Default — has gone country and isn’t looking back, having just put out his first country music album and hitting the stage at the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition Friday along with Doc Walker. See story, P. 17.

No special mosquito measures

Photo: Sun Media News ServicesMosquito numbers are growing as we get

further into the summer months, and while City of St. Albert officials feel for those who find them a nuisance, they say it’s not big enough of a problem to take any sort of extraordinary measures.

“It’s a real pain. ... But it’s not worth the effort for us.”

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Crouse ready to get back on campaign trail


Nolan Crouse is hoping the third time will once again be a charm.

Crouse announced on Thursday, May 16, that he will run for a third term as mayor of St. Albert, although he said the decision has been brewing for some time.

“After the New Year, when I came back from Russia, I had decided that, unless there was a health issue that popped up in the next three, four, five months, I would run,” he said. “I’m healthy. I’m in good shape mentally, physically and spiritually. I’m in a good spot in my life. Everything was coming together to say, you know something, there’s no reason not to.”

But, he added, he waited until now to make the announcement so that his candidacy didn’t influence the way he or others on council were dealing with important matters before them.

“The community needs to know whether their mayor is in it for the long run or not. I didn’t want to be surprising anybody,” Crouse added. “Also, people were asking me quite a bit in the last four or five weeks, and I kept saying yes, so I thought I need to formally say yes rather than have it feel like a secret.”

Crouse launched his campaign website last week at www.nolancrouse.com. There, he gives a brief outline of his platform and the challenges he thinks St. Albert will face over the next four years, paying particular attention to social, environmental and economic development issues.

“There is so much that is going to be development-related in the council. We’re

going to face some real challenging issues on development,” he said. “We’ve got a significant amount of residential land coming on … That’s all good, but each one is going to require a council commitment to area structure plans, densities, school sites — all those things that are complex.”

Of course, there will also be plenty of non-residential development to deal with, particularly in Erin Ridge North, where Costco is expected to open this fall.

“I think it’s going to require some tough decisions on a few things,” Crouse said.

Crouse also pointed out two “big-dollar items” — a new community centre and the Campbell Road park-and-ride — that he feels will be hot topics during the campaign. He expects to add more details of his platform to the site in September.

Over his last three years as mayor, Crouse said he heard loud and clear from residents that property taxes are a priority.

“[I’ve heard,] ‘I can handle a modest tax increase, but please don’t let this get out of hand,’” he said. “And I have demonstrated through dozens and dozens of motions at budget time, and even as late as Monday night, that I have provided that leadership to be in that 2.8 to 2.9 per cent range on a regular basis.”

Prior to being elected mayor in 2007, Crouse served one term as a city councillor. In 2010, he received 67.8 per cent of the votes cast, outpacing his only challenger, Shelley Biermanski. In 2007, he bested both former mayor Richard Plain and former St. Albert Economic Development Advisory Committee chair Garry Woo.

Municipal elections across Alberta will take place on Monday, Oct. 21.

Leader file photoSt. Albert Mayor Nolan Crouse is ready to hit the campaign trail and run for a third term as mayor when municipal elections take place across Alberta in October.

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With one run at the mayor’s chair under her belt, Shelley Biermanski is back for more.

Biermanski, who ran for mayor in 2010 and lost, announced Tuesday that she would take another run at unseating incumbent Nolan Crouse when voters head to the polls this October.

“Voter apathy is a big issue; people think nobody can ever change anything. Everybody doesn’t vote and doesn’t make a stand,” she said. “So if somebody doesn’t do something, nobody will. That’s why I’m doing it.”

While she only garnered 32.2 per cent of the votes cast in 2010, Biermanski — who has lived in St. Albert for 24 years and works at David Morris Fine Cars in west Edmonton — said she learned a lot in that campaign and is better prepared this time around.

“I learned from the last time around is how competitive it can be,” she said. “I’m very confident in what I do; I deal with people all the time. You just have to be strong, and I am a strong person. I learned that you have to keep your cards close, because they can be stolen in some senses, and be honest and straightforward.”

For Biermanski, the big issues in the campaign revolve around large capital projects that she thinks the city just can’t afford right now, as well as building a better relationship with Sturgeon County.

“I would like to see people secure in wanting to live in St. Albert,” she said. “I’ve lived here for 24 years, and everyone I know that has lived here as long, or some even longer, they love St. Albert and want to understand they’ll be able to afford to live here and the city will stay strong.”

She added that she has been keeping a close eye on city council over the last term, and felt that too much time has spent wrestling with minor issues and bylaws.

“Rather than arguing all the time, there should be more of a focus on what we can do positively for the city,” she said.

Biermanski hadn’t intended to declare her candidacy so early, but when Mayor Nolan Crouse did so on Thursday, May 16, she figured she should get her name out there as soon as possible.

“Once he declared, I had people phoning me [asking] ‘Why aren’t you going to run?’ I didn’t want people to speculate or think they have to throw their name out there because nobody else is running,” she said.

Biermanski takes another runJones looks to regain seatGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

St. Albert is on the verge of great things, and Gareth Jones wants to be part of it again.

Jones — who served one term on St. Albert city council from 2007 to 2010 — announced Monday morning that he will try to regain his seat in this October’s municipal election.

“The city right now, really we’re on the threshold of doing some good things, if we want to do them,” he said. “But we have to change our method of doing things, our processes, and streamlining them somewhat.”

Most important to Jones is the building of relationships, especially with businesses and industries.

“The past 26 years, that’s what I’ve been doing — building relationships and partnerships with groups and Asia, North America and Europe,” he said. “Hurdles have been thrown in front of me that have been quite difficult sometimes, because you have to cross both language and cultural barriers, so I’ve learned a lot from that.”

But relationships must also be nurtured, he said, with Sturgeon County as they grow south and St. Albert grows north.

“It [shouldn’t be] just administration, but members of both councils involved as we move forward and bring a really good partnership forward in the development in the north,” Jones said.

As well, Jones wants to see council members held more accountable and fiscally responsible for what they do. He plans to release a more detailed platform in the coming months.

He added that he wants to get his name out there early and start talking about issues.

“About six months ago, we decided to announce at the end of May,” he said. “I want to get out there and talk to a lot of people between now and the election.”

Jones came up about 300 votes short in his bid for re-election in 2010, but he said he wasn’t in top shape then.

“A month before the last election, I had surgery on my shoulder, and I’ll be honest, I wasn’t up to doing the door-knocking and the other things I should have either, so I blame myself,” he said. “But now, I’m all ready to go. I’m fit and gung-ho, as you might say.”

In December 2011, Jones was one of the recipients of a Stars of Alberta Volunteer Award for his work with the St. Albert Rugby Football Club, St. Albert Victim Services, Special Olympics and other groups.

Gareth JonesCouncil candidate

Photo SuppliedAlthough she couldn’t win the mayor’s seat in 2010, Shelley Biermanski will be back to challenge for St. Albert’s top job once again this October.

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Everyone needs more teammates in life. Of that, I am sure.

As they say, there is no ‘I’ in team — unless, of course, you are looking at the ‘i’ created by the negative space inside a capital A. But I digress.

Being teammates is a tie that binds and one that, for me, was reinforced with a special group of guys this past weekend in Saskatoon at the Memorial Cup.

Almost (ahem) 25 years ago, I played with a great team that came within an overtime loss of being champions. It is funny how that much time has separated us all, but as we walked into the room for our weekend reunion, we were teammates again like we did not skip a beat.

Some of us only played one year together, while with

others, it was a few years. But regardless the term, the meaning of “teammate” knows little definition of time.

Many had enjoyed exciting careers while some had faced great challenges. As we gathered as teammates again, we were all there to offer our support and congratulations for each other.

In our case, it was a sports team, but there are many great examples of team: At work, your family, our partners and more.

Sometimes you never know when you’re going to find your next teammate.

Albeit briefly, our team and 10,000 others ended up supporting someone at a moment’s notice on Saturday. Not an official teammate per se, but someone who was quickly in need of help.

I had not had the pleasure of being in the middle of a moment that was about to go viral on YouTube, but there we were for the singing of the American national anthem and a poor singer who blanked on the lyrics on national TV. She struggled to regain her composure and remember the words that had slipped away, to no avail.

The crowd could have given her a much tougher time, but instead, her 10,000 newly found teammates jumped in and loudly sang the balance of the anthem with the words she had totally forgotten. It was a

pretty cool moment, one that was memorable to be a part of.

I’m very thankful for the teams I’ve been on in the past, the ones in the present and I’m sure the teams of the future. Being a good teammate is something I encourage with not only my kids but others as well, knowing that to be a teammate means you are involved, you are supportive, you are playing an important role and doing all you can to work towards your team’s goals — all of which are great things.

I place great emphasis on teamwork, and I will never forget one of my old coach’s famous rants as it echoes in my brain all these years later. Every once in a while, he would yell at us to make his point: “If you don’t like being on a team, go play ping pong!”

Teamwork ties still bind many years later

Optics of LRT motion terrible

There’s no question that the silencing of train whistles within St. Albert city limits is a very important issue for

some residents. There’s also no question that light rail transit is also a very important issue for others.

On the surface, aside from the fact both deal with trains, the two have very little in common — or at least they did until Tuesday.

That’s when Coun. Cam MacKay brought forward to city council a motion to postpone the planned LRT functional alignment study — which would cost $500,000 — until 2040, and use $400,000 of that money to fund train whistle cessation programs.

MacKay’s intentions may have been good, but the optics of his motion were just terrible. He was — as another councillor put it — pitting the two issues against one another. A vote for the LRT study automatically became a vote against train whistle cessation and the suffering souls who told council about their chronic earaches and all the sleep they’ve lost over the years.

Eventually, council defeated MacKay’s motion, and that’s the only decision they could have made. Firstly, that’s because the $500,000 in question came out of a reserve fund set up specifically for LRT projects. Spending it on anything else — no matter how noble — would be a mismanagement of funds.

More importantly, it was the right decision because the functional alignment study will answer so many questions about LRT that have so far gone unanswered. MacKay based some of his argument Tuesday on the fact that St. Albert has not done a feasibility study, but those answers he’s looking for are exactly what he’ll get by spending this money.

Hopefully, some good can come out of all of this. Hopefully city council can see just how badly some residents feel that some kind of train whistle mitigation is needed, and it will become a hot-button topic either during the upcoming civic election campaign or during budget deliberations. Who knows — depending on the findings of the LRT study, there may be more money and resources to put toward that project.

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ISSUES Villeneuve Airport Area Structure Plan

Delay LRT Functional Alignment Study

Capital Partnership Program

Election Signage Bylaw Amendments

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The proposed ASP for the Villenuve Airport will prepare the airport

for growth that will come from the shutdown of Edmonton’s Municipal

Airport. This is important to the economic growth of St. Albert, as

this transition will bring exponential commercial development.

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This was a request made from Sturgeon County, so city

council followed through with the proposal to review. There will be more discussions on

this motion.

By postponing the LRT Functional Study to 2040, the proposed funds

could be used to focus on the pressing issue of the train whistle cessation program and implement

a solution. The remainder of the money would be returned to the

Stabilization Reserve.

This program will provide grants for the development of

buildings and facilities that will support community growth and enhancement through economic development or beautification of

surrounding areas.

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“This is the first stage in conceptualizing the LRT to St. Albert. Before we start constructing, there’s many more decisions and points along the way. The intent is to provide the

long-range plan and without that, we really don’t know how to proceed in terms of planning

for LRT.”

— Wes Brodhead

The bylaw governing the Capital Partnership Program will come into

effect on Jan. 1, 2014.

“I know that the noise of the train whistles is important too, but this is a very long-term and very important project for our community to move forward, to grow and become part of something. It’s mandatory. We need to look at our transportation needs for the future.”

— Lynn Carolei, Chamber of Commerce chair

“The City has a process in place for spending on operational and capital purposes. It would appear that the Capital Partnership Program is a needless duplication.”

— Bill Tuchak, resident

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An amendment to the land-use bylaw and traffic bylaw will prohibit election signs smaller than 4 feet by 4 feet

along the St. Albert Trail area and public right of way.

“The City, in essence, will act as a catalyst to enable community groups to lead the project development process. Projects should directly relate to new facility construction or a significant expansion.”

— City manager Patrick Draper

This will be in effect for the 2013 election in St. Albert. The

Election Handbook will be changed to reflect the updated bylaw changes to both land use

and traffic bylaw changes.

“The major issues with the proposed Villeneuve ASP are that the ASP is inconsistent with the growth plan objectives of directing growth to priority growth areas and reducing the regional footprint, and there are potential servicing shortage and cost implications.”

– Marcel Figueroa, City long range senior planner

“I believe that council can lead some of the continuous improvement on signage along the Trail. This is a combination of whether we support the freedom of signage or cleanup

along the Trail — which trumps which, In this particular case, since a lot of the Trail work is meant

to clean up some of the signage matters, I support this.”

– Nolan Crouse

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“The difficult thing I’ve always found is trying to find some savings at the City, and creating a policy to vision a $40-million or greater fund certainly doesn’t accomplish that.”

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The LRT study will go ahead as planned at a cost of $500,000,

with completion expected sometime in 2015. Council also approved the terms of reference

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There’s a lot of work that goes into the smiles and laughter that come every year with the International Children’s Festival.

The 32nd annual edition of the festival kicks off Tuesday in St. Albert, and production manager Adam Mitchell is hard at work making sure the venues are ready to go.

Mitchell and his crew — which balloons from four for most of the year to almost 30 as the festival approaches — have six main stage venues to prepare, along with numerous other smaller venues like Toddler Town in Lions Park or the Enmax Outdoor Stage just outside St. Albert Place.

“It takes a village,” Mitchell said, noting that that contingent includes carpenters, painters, outdoor site crew, venue installation crews and the actual technicians who run shows.

Some of the main stage venues, though, are in facilities used or owned by other

community groups, like École Father Jan or the St. Albert Curling Club.

Mitchell said that the co-operation of the community is essential to the success of the festival.

“We cannot do what we do without community involvement and co-operation,” he said. “We have supporters from every angle. Within the City [of St. Albert] ourselves, all the departments help make this happen — public works, engineering, planning, all the way down to facilities, building maintenance, even the sign shop. … We work really hard to maintain those relationships, to express our gratitude, to celebrate the fact that what we’re doing does have a significant impact on St. Albert’s image to the rest of Alberta.”

Sandy Kordyback, principal of École Father Jan, said that having the Children’s Festival in their gym is “wonderful.”

“It’s a lasting partnership, and it’s something we really value,” she said. “Our students are always excited to be able to

participate in the Children’s Festival and have a venue so close.”

This is Kordyback’s first year as principal of École Father Jan, but she said the disruption to students has been minimal as preparations have continued.

“We’ve met well ahead of time and laid things out; they told me what they need from us in terms of getting the setup all organized, times and dates,” she said. “They’re very respectful of our children. ... They bring their equipment over and set up during the day when kids are in classes, and they use separate entrances.”

Given the time of year, physical education classes that would normally occupy the gym can easily head outside and still have their needs met.

Meanwhile, at the curling club, this is the first year that the City has built two theatres in the facility, with one to become the home of the St. Albert Children’s Theatre each year during the festival.

“[It’s] the culmination of several years of work and some strategic capital spending, which allowed us to build a second venue in the curling club. The intention at the end of the day is hopefully to have built a semi-permanent home for the Children’s Theatre,” Mitchell said.

The setup in the curling club means that there’s less work in setting up a second show in the facility each year.

Other artists have very specific needs for their performances, and it takes a lot of preparation to make sure everything goes smoothly, but Mitchell is up to those kinds of challenges.

“While we have to acknowledge the limits of [the] venues, we try and program shows that can be handled by the venues themselves … and then we attempt, within reason, to advance that show as if it was coming into any permanent venue,” he said.

Of course, every festival is different, but Mitchell said the production crews always make note of what things went well and try to capitalize on those in future years.

“We’re always trying to improve,” he said.

While Mitchell doesn’t get too many chances to go out and see the performances during the festival — he said he more often checks out the rehearsals — he does get a few chances to bring dignitaries like city manager Patrick Draper and St. Albert MLA Stephen Khan into the shows, and seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces in the audiences makes all the work worthwhile.

“We brought [Draper] into the back of the Dinosaur Petting Zoo last year right at the climax of the show, and it blew his mind. It was great,” Mitchell said. “We had the same experience with Stephen Khan, who had a blast watching the kids’ reaction to that show.”

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderChildren’s Festival production manager Adam Mitchell sits in a theatre constructed inside the St. Albert Curling Club. Crews are putting the finishing touches on the venues for this year.

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderBrad Weir, venue crew chief at the St. Albert Curling Club, hangs a light in one of two theatres built in the facility.

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After nine years as Edmonton’s mayor, Stephen Mandel is stepping aside. And, for one, St. Albert’s mayor will be sad to see his counterpart go.

Mandel made his announcement Tuesday morning at the Art Gallery of Alberta in downtown Edmonton, ending weeks of speculation over his political future.

Meanwhile, Crouse — who just announced on Thursday, May 16, that he would run for re-election this October — said that Mandel’s passion for Edmonton was “unprecedented.”

“The one thing he has done — although not just him alone — is transform the thinking of Edmonton from having this

inferiority complex compared to Calgary to a superiority complex,” Crouse said. “I believe that, from a legacy point of view, the amount of work he’s done to bring spirit to the city will be remembered.”

Mandel, 67, spent one term as a city councillor for Ward 1 before being elected mayor of Edmonton in 2004.

Crouse and Mandel worked closely together on the Capital Region Board, and while Crouse said Mandel wasn’t easy to work with sometimes, he

stuck to his guns at all times.“There are times when he was

easy to work with and there were times when he was not,” Crouse said, “because he was very strong, very opinionated. He was the

catalyst for many things, and as a result, you had to be on your best day to be able to keep up with some of the things he was expecting the region to do. A strong Edmonton makes for a strong region.”

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After 12 years on council, a teary-eyed Mayor Stephen Mandel revealed Tuesday he won’t seek re-election this October.

The decision ended months of speculation for Edmontonians, fellow councillors and potential mayoral candidates who have been patiently waiting to learn whether or not Mandel would try his hand at a fourth term.

Mandel — with his wife Lynn, daughter Rachel and grandson Chase in tow — took the stage at the Art Gallery of Alberta to a hearty round of applause and choked back tears as he told the crowd he’s stepping down, the first mayor to do so in 45 years.

“It’s been a difficult decision,” Mandel, 67, told the standing-room only crowd.

“I think that it is time to open up the door to new leadership.”

Though there’s always “more to do” in a growing city, Mandel says the change to a four-year term for council members weighed heavily on his mind — he would have been into his 70s had he won a re-election bid.

“I found myself the last little while tired or not, not doing the kind of things and having the ideas that kept my staff moving ahead,” he said shortly after his speech and the resultant standing ovation.

“I’m just getting tired, I need a rest.”And his council colleagues say he has every right

to one.In his nine years as mayor, Mandel has worked

tirelessly to improve relations with the province, tackle homelessness in Edmonton, reduce crime, expand the LRT system, spearhead a redevelopment

of Edmonton’s municipal airport land and secure a new downtown arena.

Coun. Kim Krushell — who dissolved into tears while being interviewed Tuesday — said she had a feeling when the arena deal was closed, Mandel would finally feel able to step down from his post.

“At the moment, I’m emotional and kind of sad,” she said, adding she had been urging Mandel to run for one last term.

“But as soon as that deal finished, I knew that the chances of him running were slim.”

She hailed Mandel as a visionary mayor whose unique approach to his leadership role helped unify council and bring about major change for Edmonton.

The praise flew both ways, as Mandel took the time to thank his fellow councillors, city managers and staff members.

He even took a moment to tearfully express his gratitude

to his chief of staff, Patricia Misutka, who he affectionately referred to as “My Patty.”

Though he says he needs a rest, Mandel has yet to unequivocally deny recent speculation that he could be gearing up to make a provincial political bid.

Mandel previously postponed his decision to retire after he grew concerned by recent provincial funding cuts for universities and push-back from neighboring communities on the city’s annexation plans.

When asked Tuesday what his “appetite for provincial politics is,” he skirted the issue, saying “my appetite for now is just to get the next four months done.”

Mandel first joined city council back in 2001 as a councillor, representing west Edmonton.

In 2004, after just one term as councillor, he stole the mayor’s seat from incumbent Mayor Bill Smith.

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While some cowboys will be out partying Saturday night at the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition, others will be up early Sunday morning to feed both their stomachs and their souls.

Four St. Albert churches — Sturgeon Valley Baptist Church, Grace Family Church, Life Church and St. Albert Alliance Church — are teaming to put on the first-ever Wake Up St. Albert breakfast starting at 9 a.m. Sunday at the Kinsmen Rodeo Grounds on Riel Drive. The event will feature a pancake breakfast and a performance by country music group High Valley.

Lead organizer Brian Siewert said that, with all the festivities happening under the big top at the rodeo grounds all weekend, he figured a Sunday morning event would be a great fit.

“Our desire was to put on a really good event in St. Albert and build into the good things that are already happening here,” Siewert said.

And as the event gets closer, he’s getting very anxious to get it off the ground.

“We’re very excited. It’s a big project; it has meant we’ve had to bring in quite a bit of money to bring in a band like High Valley and have all sound equipment,” he said. “But we’ve had a lot of local sponsors and businesses step forward and provide the funds for that.”

While the tickets to the event are free,

a collection will be taken, with proceeds going toward the Stop Abuse in Families (SAIF) Society and Young Life St. Albert.

“Young Life is doing great work in local schools here, connecting with young people,” Siewert said. “And then SAIF is doing a great job — we support what they’re doing and love to help them.”

High Valley is made of three brothers — Brad, Bryan and Curtis Rempel — who hail from La Crete, Alta., and have won numerous awards from the Gospel Music Association of Canada.

“They grew up just farming up there, and then started to sing and do music together,” Siewert said. “Two of them are down in Nashville now, and really doing some fantastic things. Their music career is really starting to take off.”

Wake Up St. Albert and the recent Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast are two examples of local churches starting to work together more to put on events, something that Siewert is glad to see happening.

“I think it’s critical to our local community, because when you work together, more can be accomplished, but also for the causes the churches are about, which is talking about God,” he said. “People wonder why churches don’t work together more. So it gives a unified message when churches work together and bless the community.”

Tickets for Wake Up St. Albert are free and are available through the event’s website at www.rodeobreakfast.com.

Photo suppliedCountry gospel band High Valley — featuring the Rempel brothers from La Crete, Alta. — are set to provide the entertainment at the first-ever Wake Up St. Albert breakfast on Sunday.

Photo: ANDREW MACLEOD, Special to the LeaderPaul Kane High School students Andrea Payne and Corissa Tymafichuk led the charge Saturday morning at the first-ever Free2Walk event in Lions Park, raising awareness about human trafficking and money for the Not For Sale campaign.

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If Dallas Smith’s name doesn’t ring a bell, his voice just might.

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“It’s really cool. I’m 35, and I get a second crack at [a music career] in a completely new genre? It’s pretty amazing,” Smith said.

But he admits that country music was

something that he always listened to growing up, and just seemed like a more natural fit.

“It was a lot of female country, like Reba [McIntyre] and the Judds and all that,” he said. “But my dad was a classic rock guy, and as I’ve gotten older, country music has got a real classic rock feel to it. It’s got a lot of rock guitars in it.

“As soon as Keith Urban got into the mix, I really started gravitating toward country radio. That influence came late in my life, creeped its way back in. All throughout the good last half of touring with Default, I was in the back of the bus, warming up for shows, singing along with Keith Urban and Rascal Flatts.”

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Finger Eleven, Smith said he was “completely miserable with what I was doing” and texted producer Joey Moi.

“I said, ‘Country record?’ And he texted back simply, ‘Are you ready?’” he recalled. “Two weeks later, we were in Nashville getting the record going.”

When music fans checking out his country songs realize who he is, Smith said the reaction is pretty consistently one of surprise.

“People are slowly figuring it out as I go around and play some of the old songs,” he said.

There were plenty of such “a-ha” moments recently when Smith got the chance to open for the legendary Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band for a couple of dates through Western Canada, including in front of a crowd of more than 15,000 at Rexall Place.

“That’s something I never would have dreamed I’d be doing, [mainly] because of the genre difference,” Smith said, noting that he talked with Seger one day in catering for about 15 minutes about “everything except music.” “But it was cool to get up in front of that many people. And it’s a really good opportunity for me, because a lot of those fans don’t necessarily listen to country radio,

so it was a good opportunity for me to get up in front of a different demographic, a different audience.”

Meanwhile, the reception from country radio has been very good — so good, in fact, that Smith is ready to commit to country music full-time and turn the page on Default.

“I’m having an absolute blast,” he said. “It doesn’t mean I won’t do anything with those guys later on, but from what’s going on and what I’m feeling, it was 10 or 11 years together as a band, and I’m definitely moving on to something different.”

For now, most of Smith’s music is only available in Canada, but he just recently headed to Nashville to try and open up the American market.

“It’s quite an amazing thing to be able to do that once — with Default, we toured the U.S. and sold a million records down there, toured pretty much all over the world,” he said. “But now I have a second chance to do it on a different project; who gets to do that? It doesn’t happen very often.”

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Things are looking anything but bleak for Bleeker Ridge.

The four-piece hard rock band from Orillia, Ont., are getting set to release their new album, Four, on June 4, but first, they’re heading to St. Albert to play the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition on Friday, May 24, alongside Finger Eleven.

This isn’t the first time Bleeker Ridge has shared the stage with Finger Eleven; in fact, they’ve also played bills with the likes of Airbourne, My Darkest Days, Papa Roach and Buckcherry.

That’s something that continues to amaze lead singer Taylor Perkins.

“We used to listen to all these guys, and we eventually started playing with them,” Perkins said. “Every time we get a new show with a new band, it’s kind of surreal.”

With the new disc, Bleeker Ridge joins some pretty heady company among artists who have an album named Four — Led Zeppelin, Beyoncé and Foreigner, just to name a few — but Perkins isn’t feeling too much pressure to live up to those.

“This whole record, we’re trying to stay away from any kind of pressure. We’re just trying to do our thing,” he said. “We thought it’d be a good name. It’s pretty simple. We went back and forth with a bunch of names, but we kept coming back to this one.”

The album marks a return to a grittier, harder sound that Perkins says they got away from since recording their first album in 2004.

“The last album, it was getting a little polished. But now we’re not focusing on trying to write a hit or anything like that; we just wanted to make a really good album,” he said.

The album was funded through PledgeMusic, a crowdsourcing website for musicians that’s similar to Kickstarter, where people can donate to bands to help them pay for projects. Perkins says

crowdsourcing is changing the way music is made.

“It’s definitely letting musicians start to make their albums again, even if they’re not signed ... they can go straight to the source,” he said.

Bleeker Ridge were able to meet their funding goal in only about three months, which was a surprise. But, he added, it shows just how devoted the band’s fans are.

“It’s crazy. A few years ago, we’d show up to a bar and play to the two or three people that were in there. But slowly — extremely slowly — we started to get people coming in,” Perkins said.

So far, they’ve released two songs from the album as singles: “Last Cigarette” and

“Sleep.”The band started about 10 years ago

when two sets of brothers — Perkins’s brother Cole plays guitar while Dan and Dustin Steinke play guitar and drums, respectively — when they were in their early teens, playing bars around Ontario even though they couldn’t legally order a drink in them.

“We’d play on school nights; we’d play on Wednesdays and Thursdays. And we’d play until 2 a.m. because we’d have to play four- or five-hour sets,” Perkins said. “And then we’d have to go to school the next morning. It was weird, kind of like living a double life.”

Having brothers in the band means there

are still some sibling shenanigans going on, but they take it all in stride.

“Usually me and Cole will fight, or Dan and Dustin will fight. But we don’t take ourselves too seriously at all, which is good,” said Perkins, the elder statesman among his bandmates at 24. “Usually, if two brothers are fighting, the other two are making fun of them for fighting.”

Bleeker Ridge hits the stage with Finger Eleven, Naked Beauty and Dead City Dolls on Friday, May 24, at the Kinsmen Rodeo Grounds. Tickets for the Rainmaker Music Festival are on sale through Ticketmaster or at Riverside Yamaha and the Crown and Tower Pub in St. Albert. Find out more at www.rainmakerevents.ca.

Photo SuppliedBleeker Ridge — which consists of two sets of brothers from Orillia, Ont. — take the stage at the Rainmaker Rodeo alongside Finger Eleven Friday.

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Nightmare a dream for music schoolGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Adapting a popular Disney movie for the stage has been anything but a Nightmare for Curtis Labelle.

This weekend, Labelle — a musical theatre teacher at Visionary College in St. Albert and Edmonton — and his students are bringing his adaptation of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas to the stage at Cité Francophone Theatre (8627 91 St. NW) in Edmonton, the culmination of a year’s worth of work.

“You know what — I’m insane,” said Labelle, who is also directing the play, with a laugh. “Every single day, I have over 50 people volunteering on this, and they’re like, ‘You’re insane.’ But they all love it, and they’re all coming to the table because they want to be part of the production.”

Labelle said he was drawn to The Nightmare Before Christmas mainly because of its broad appeal.

“I wanted to adapt something, so I put it out there and said, ‘What do you think about if I adapted The Nightmare Before Christmas for stage?’” he said. “And here we are opening [this] week!”

The Nightmare Before Christmas was first released as a movie in 1993, and tells the story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who accidentally opens a portal to Christmas Town and decides he wants to bring the traditions back with him.

Labelle said he tried very hard to stay true to the story that so many people know and love.

“We’ve kept everything the same, but just adapting it so it can be done on stage,” he said. “Some of the scene changes — movies are a lot easier than on stage, because you can cut from one scene to another, whereas on stage you have to figure out how to make it work.”

Labelle also wrote music for a 12-piece orchestra and designed the sets for the production, and is overseeing the creation of more than 100 costumes.

“It was absolutely huge,” he said. “I love theatre.”

Students from the Visionary College musical theatre program have been hard at work learning their lines for the show, which caps off their year. And Labelle said

“They’ve really risen to every expectation I’ve ever had,” he said. “I can’t be more happy. It’s going to be a

wonderful experience. They all deserve the world.”

The singing and dancing come naturally to these students, so Labelle has kept the dialogue in between the songs and outside the seven main characters fairly simple.

“There’s hardly any lines. It’s all method acting, character acting. I’ve said to them many times, if you’ve taken 20 years of singing lessons, throw it out the window, because I want character voices — evil and creepy,” he said. “The whole idea is not sitting down and reciting lines and working on dialogue, working on delivery … What this show calls for is, when you walk on stage, I need to believe we’re in Halloween Town.”

The musical theatre program at Visionary College, Labelle added, is going strong, with numbers steadily increasing over the past few years.

The curtain rises on The Nightmare Before Christmas Friday at 7:30 p.m. and again at both 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Tickets are $20 each, or $15 for students and seniors, and are available by calling Visionary College in St. Albert (780-460-4430) or south Edmonton (780-757-4433).

Photo: Sun Media News ServicesThe musical theatre program at Visionary College brings Jack Skellington and The Nightmare Before Christmas to the stage in Edmonton this weekend.

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Leader file photoA group of thrillseekers ride the midway during last year’s edition of the Rainmaker Rodeo and Exhibition.

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Some employers in St. Albert are not happy about recent changes to the federal government’s Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program, and they let Brent Rathgeber know all about it on Friday.

The Edmonton- St. Albert Conservative MP met with about 20 local employers Friday at the St. Albert Chamber of Commerce office on St. Albert Trail to hear their concerns over changes to the TFW program that were made in late April.

Chamber president and CEO Lynda Moffat said it’s a crucial issue for local businesses, most of whom feel the process for bringing in workers should be made easier, not tougher.

“They’re mad. They’re not just concerned, they’re really angry, because this is having a big impact on their ability to keep their doors open,” she said.

But overall, both Moffat and Rathgeber agreed that the roundtable was productive, with a lot of good discussion and many industries represented, including retail, hospitality, health care and construction.

“The common thread among all their stories is that they cannot fulfill their human resources needs with domestic labour. They’ve tried, they’ve demonstrated to Service Canada that they cannot fulfil their HR needs locally, and therefore need temporary foreign workers on a temporary or, more likely, on a more permanent basis,” Rathgeber said. “These are all growing businesses, and the announced changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker program seriously compromise their ability to grow and to service their customers.”

“I think the overall gist of it was that it’s a good program. It helps [employers] to be able to run their businesses,” Moffat added. “And the things the federal government is proposing now would be very, very, very harmful to their efforts and almost put us back in the critical situation we were in before the

recession.”Rathgeber admitted that there

have been abuses of the program — including a high-profile attempt by RBC to replace Canadian

information technology workers with TFWs — but those who follow the current rules shouldn’t be punished as well.

“We don’t need new rules. We just need enforcement of the rules that exist,” he said.

With many fast food restaurants and retail stores, St. Albert is very reliant on TFWs — more

than Moffat even realized at first.“When I started looking for

people to come to this roundtable, it was shocking to me how many [wanted to come],” she said.

One of the major objections of the Chamber was the suspension of the Accelerated Labour Market Opinion, which allowed established TFW program users to get a decision from the federal government in three to five days rather than the standard 90 to 180 days.

However, that part of the program also allowed TFWs to be paid up to 15 per cent less than their Canadian counterparts.

Moffat and Rathgeber both said, though, that TFWs in Alberta are paid equally, and the suspension of the ALMO only hurt employers.

“This rule that did exist on paper … was largely a myth. The rule existed, and in other markets, it might have been a reality. But in this market, I don’t think it was a reality,” Rathgeber said. “It’s such a competitive labour market …

even amongst those bringing in temporary foreign workers, to attempt to pay below the prevailing market rate is just not going to allow you to attract individuals.”

In fact, one of the biggest recommendations Rathgeber — who also noted that several Alberta MPs held similar roundtables in their constituencies over the past week — intends to take back to Ottawa and to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney is the need to regionalize the rules for TFWs, much like they are for Employment Insurance.

“Alberta is the hardest-hit province of any” by these changes, Moffat said. “I don’t think, in any provinces in the east, they have any understanding of the impact of this program.”

While foreign workers may be a temporary solution, a long-term fix to the labour shortage in these industries is also needed, which could come in the form of

a streamlined citizenship application process to make these workers permanent residents of Canada.

“Employers were going to

have to file a transition plan with their LMO as to how they’re going to wean themselves off their TFWs and revert back to a Canadian workforce. And that’s a bit pie-in-the-sky for a lot of the employers I met with,” Rathgeber said. “Their needs are not for temporary workers; they have structural shortages and they need permanent employees. The only remedy for that … is they need to be able to convert their good TFWs into permanent residents and eventually into citizens.”

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SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Yahoo Inc will buy blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion cash, giving the Internet pioneer a much-needed social media platform to reach a younger generation of users and breathe new life into its ailing brand.

The deal, announced on Monday, is a bold bet by Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer to revitalize the company by co-opting a web property with strong visitor traffic but little revenue.

The combination of Yahoo and Tumblr creates an online powerhouse with roughly one billion users, which will draw in more advertisers and help Yahoo keep visitors on its properties for longer periods of time, Mayer told Reuters in an interview.

“Tumblr in terms of users and traffic is an immediate growth story for us,” she said.

Analysts say Yahoo appeared to be overpaying for a business that has never posted a profit, makes a fraction of Yahoo’s sales, and may not contribute significantly to revenue for years. But the company, rebuffed by the French government when it tried to pay $1 billion for video site Dailymotion earlier this year, had to do something to plug a hole in its social media efforts.

Yahoo made clear it was sensitive to concerns that it might damage Tumblr by making it less irreverent or more corporate.

“Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business,” Yahoo said in a statement.

The deal will make Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp, 26, a multimillionaire.

Tumblr is one of the Web’s most popular hubs of so-called user-generated content, drawing young people who use the platform to post pictures and text. It has more than 100 million blogs in its network, ranging from “White Men Wearing Google Glass” — a collection of photos poking fun at the early adopters of the wearable computing devices — to housing-focused “The Worst Room.”


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Digital literacy is widely defined as the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. It may once have been the domain of computer geeks but, in today’s workforce, digital literacy can give job seekers of all kinds a competitive edge.

That’s why Damian Matheson decided to add Ryerson University’s new “digital entrepreneurship and innovation” boot camp to his resumé.

“I was about to graduate with a BA and wanted a leg up on the thousands of other students graduating with a BA. I thought digital skills would set me apart from the crowd.”

Matheson graduated from Ontario’s University of Guelph, where he studied criminal justice and public policy with thoughts of one day becoming a lawyer. But he started having doubts about that career path and enrolled in the 12-week digital specialization program which Ryerson offers at both its Toronto campus and online.

At the time, Matheson’s technical skills were limited to Microsoft Office and Facebook. Now, he’s launching FoodStory.ca, an online service that will bring Toronto’s farmers’ markets into the 21st century by listing

market event dates, showcasing products and even offering local delivery.

“Instead of handing out my resumé, I’m actually accepting resumés,” Matheson says. “You’re only going to get ahead with digital skills. Without them, you’re going to get left behind.”

According to a white paper from the Information and Communications Technology Council, digital literacy drives

commerce in all successful countries in a borderless digital world and underlies the 70 per cent of the Canadian economy that is the services sector.

“Digital literacy is the fundamental requirement for effective participation in the world’s economy ... it can be acquired, polished and wielded as a competitive weapon,” the council says in the paper. “The Canadian workforce needs

digital literacy in order to retain flexibility and mobility of career and job openings. A worker who is digitally illiterate today is a worker condemned to ever-shrinking choices of employment.”

Recruiter Greg Arbitman, president of ReCareer in Toronto, says being digitally savvy is a “given” in today’s economy. But it’s not enough to have a great online profile. He encourages new

grads to “go the extra mile or add extra value” in order to stand out.

Digital is making inroads everywhere. “Objects are now becoming digital — our bikes, our chairs, the desks we use,” says Michael Carter, co-ordinator of Ryerson’s digital specialization program. That raises questions about things such as social-media management and data storage.

Carter describes Ryerson’s digital skills in the global economy course as a must-have skill in addition to reading, writing and arithmetic, says Carter.

“One hundred years ago we needed to be able to read and write. Today, I suggest everyone needs to understand at least a little about what it means to be digital and be connected.”

The course offers hands-on training to make students better digital communicators. Among other things, they make online videos, create informational apps and learn basic programming. A second course is offered in digital entrepreneurship and innovation.

“The key point in both courses is that the workplace is made up of individuals of all different skills, talents and areas of knowledge,” says Carter. “To be digital doesn’t mean you’re just an artist or just a business person or just a programmer. You can be an archaeologist or an emergency room nurse and come up with digital ideas.”

Photo: Sun Media News ServicesDigital literacy used to be the domain of computer geeks, but no longer. Digital literacy is now a key job skill in nearly every field.

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Documents

city of

leah kongsrude

mosquito populations

large mosquito

shallow ponds

average year

bacteria pellets

mosquito control programs