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The Perron Street clock tower is once again providing valuable data to engineering researchers at the U of A.

GLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

The clock tower on Perron Street in St. Albert is not just telling time anymore — it’s telling engineering researchers at the University of Alberta important things about how brick structures behave over time.

Although their project is only a few months old, researchers were at St. Albert Place on Tuesday afternoon to present some of their preliminary findings to Mayor Nolan Crouse and senior City of St. Albert staff, along with other project stakeholders.

This research could bring about changes to building codes across the country and to the way brick structures are designed to prevent structural failures caused by the bulging and expansion of the bricks.

“These sorts of failures are not common, but they are dangerous and expensive, and we’d like it to not happen,” said Adam Lohonyai, a PhD student in structural engineering at the U of A.

“[The normal explanation for bulging] is based on the assumption that it expands in a way that is similar to what we’ve observed in the laboratory, but field conditions are very different,” he added.

The instruments used in the tower include 36 thermistors, which measure temperature, 12 linear displacement sensors and two combined temperature and humidity probes.

So far, since October, the experiment has shown that both the bricks and concrete blocks used to construct the 21-metre-tall tower have shrunk, in some cases by almost three millimetres.

But Dr. Yasser Korany, an associate professor of structural engineering with the U of A, said that the data collected so far has only been during colder months, and they expect things may be much different during the summer.

“We haven’t been into the summer season and high temperatures, and that’s when we’ll start to see expansion, and that’s the problem that’s the most significant,” Korany said.

Nick Trovato from Read Jones Christoffersen, an engineering firm in

Edmonton that has partnered with the U of A on the clock tower project, said that the project had been “stimulating and exciting” for them.

“For us, it’s important to get a grasp on what is

happening to these buildings ... [so] we can deal with the design of these buildings and, in the end, not only does it keep us out of trouble, it benefits you as the users of these buildings,” Trovato said.

The clock tower was originally built in 1995 as a partnership between the City and the U of A for similar research purposes. Each of the four walls was constructed with different amounts of styrofoam insulation and air space between the brick and concrete blocks.

Some of the bricks used in the construction of the tower were from the brickyard owned by former St. Albert mayor Fleuri Perron, which eventually shut down in the 1930s.

However, the data had to be manually collected, and although there were findings published, the monitoring equipment fell into disrepair.

But it was Lohonyai and Korany who came along late last year and starting things up again, updating the monitoring equipment to the latest

standard. There is even a 12-volt battery in the tower so data can still be collected and transmitted in the event of a power outage.

The new instruments in the tower can transmit data wirelessly, and the results are published in real-time on the Internet.

“That gives us snapshots of daily events,” Korany said. “Perhaps it is a rainy day and we want to see how that is impacting the walls. Instead of downloading an Excel file and sifting through data and processing it to get the answer, we can go on the site, look at the display of the movement of the wall and right away see ... what’s happening to the wall.”

The real-time data can be viewed online at perron-clocktower.rjc.ca.

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0:00Despite two wins — one

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While it was originally built as a research station, the Perron Street clock tower was not used as such for many years, but it is now once again collecting data for engineering researchers at the University of Alberta. See story, page 3.

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St. Albert city council is giving themselves and City of St. Albert staff one more kick at the can to find a suitable location for a mountain bike skills park in the city.

With their choices narrowed down to two — Mission Park or Liberton Park — the issue of the skills park location was before councillors Monday afternoon. But while Mission Park was quickly out of the running due to its historical significance, councillors weren’t sure Liberton Park was the right choice, either.

Sensing the Liberton Park option would be voted down, sending City staff and volunteers back to square one, Mayor Nolan Crouse instead made a motion to postpone the final decision until June 24 to give more time to review other sites and get more feedback from residents and businesses near the proposed site.

“If we do this and it fails, fine. But let’s give it one last shot. ... We can tell it’s contentious in the community, and we can tell it’s contentious on council. But let’s give it the good old college try one last time while this council is still on shift,” Crouse said.

Some councillors expressed their support for the skills park, but were prepared to vote against the recommendation before them due to the location.

“[Staff] think the optimal site is Liberton, but I’m not convinced that it is,” Coun. Malcolm Parker said. “It’s not so much if we need a bike park in the community; it’s the location. ... I know we’ve got the money in the budget and it’s been there for a few years now, but just because it’s there doesn’t mean we have to spend it. And if we are going to spend it, let’s do it right.”

Coun. Cathy Heron was also worried about how the bike park obstacles would interfere with tobogganing in the park in the winter. But City recreation services director Monique St. Louis said the park could be designed to leave lanes open for winter sliding.

St. Louis added that she felt parking would not be a problem as most of the users would bike there.

Other councillors were ready to move forward with the plan as it stood on Monday.

“I believe firmly in the idea that a city, to be vibrant, also needs to support youth within the community and provide opportunities for them to engage in social activities and fun activities within the community,” Coun. Wes Brodhead said.

“It would be a big mistake not to go forward with this at this time,” added Coun. Len Bracko.

The skills park would cost approximately $200,000 to construct and include a pump track, a jump trail and progression jumps. The money was first approved in the municipal budget in 2009, and has been carried forward since.

Several members of the public took to the microphone in council chambers to speak on both sides of the issue.

Many were opposed to the Mission Park site and not the idea of a bike park itself, and were relieved to hear council would not go ahead with the project there.

“Even before the creation of the park [in 1929], the area had been conserved as an open space in the centre of the community.

This commitment has been honoured for over a century, and the society implores council to continue this commitment,” said Ray Pinco of the St. Albert Historical Society, also noting that construction could contribute to soil

erosion in Mission Park.Others expressed concerns over the public

consultation process associated with the project.

“Stakeholders were not adequately notified, and area residents received a postcard without the location stated. The postcard was mistaken for junk mail,” said resident Andrea Marko. “The City advertised the bike park open house ... without mentioning the locations.”

Avid St. Albert bikers Brady Van Keulen and David Bahry told council that the bike park could attract riders from all over the Capital Region and have a positive impact on young people.

“Not only did [biking] teach me that hard work pays off, but introduced me to a passionate and active group of kids who have become my lifelong friends today,” Van Keulen said. “This bike park in St. Albert has the same potential to teach our youth the value of hard work and reward them with a free, progressive, healthy activity.”

“Think of the positive impacts this will have on kids, on youth and families that do not do the inside-the-box physical activities, the socially acceptable activities,” Bahry added. “Think of the majority of kids looking for a simple and fun place to be active.”

If the location for the bike park is chosen in June, City staff will then move forward on detailed design for the obstacles. The earliest it would likely be ready to open is summer 2014.

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Photo: glenn cook, St. Albert leaderCaleb Caines, 11, tries his hand at milk jug curling on the recreational ice surface at Flagstone Park Sunday afternoon during the City of St. Albert’s Winter Fun Day event.

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Pink hair has started to show up all over the Capital Region, and Tammy MacDonald couldn’t be happier.

MacDonald is the executive director of the Hair Massacure, the annual head-shaving fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern Alberta, the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation and Ronald McDonald House whose “victims” are marked by pink locks weeks beforehand. This year’s edition is scheduled for Friday, Feb. 15, at the Ice Palace at West Edmonton Mall, and MacDonald is busy with preparations.

“We’re scrambling,” she said. “We’re busy this year.”

Part of that hustle and bustle is the fact that four other Hair Massacure events are happening across Alberta this year, including Red Deer, Calgary, Fort McMurray and Grande Prairie.

But even though it’s hectic getting everything organized, MacDonald is overwhelmed with the support.

“We’re literally chasing this event that’s growing,” she said.

The Hair Massacure started in 2003 when MacDonald’s daughter Kali, then three years old, lost her hair for the third

time while undergoing chemotherapy treatment for leukemia. Kali’s father Gord organized co-workers at Canada Post and raised $37,000.

The totals steadily grew as the event did, and in 2010, it cracked the $1-million threshold.

In the event’s 10th edition in 2012, the event attracted more than 2,000 participants and raised $1.3 million.

This year, MacDonald is aiming even higher.

“We already have 1,100 people registered and we haven’t even launched our kickoff yet,” she said last week.

“I would love to see it at least $1.5 [million]. I’m hoping for more; I always do,” she added. “I don’t want to jinx myself with a higher figure, but I have a higher figure in my head.”

But, looking back, MacDonald is still amazed at how much the event had grown in just a decade.

“We’ve infiltrated the province. That doesn’t mean I think everyone knows about it; for sure, they don’t. But there is an acknowledgement of our event from the north right through to the south,” she said. “I’m trying to get my head around that. That’s very cool.”

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Lodge thankful for TVGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Residents at a local seniors’ lodge have a company that specializes in ears to thank for a new treat for their eyes.

Staff and residents from North Ridge Place and North Ridge Lodge gathered on Friday afternoon to thank the owners of Discover Hearing for their donation of a new 60-inch high definition television, which will be situated in the recreation room in the basement of North Ridge Place and serve nearly 100 seniors living in both facilities.

“It means movie nights and social time together,” said Marjorie Bungay, housing administrator for the Sturgeon Foundation, which oversees both facilities. “It keeps residents from being in their suites alone watching television; they can come down and do it together. Our program co-ordinators are wonderful — they set them up with popcorn. It’s a real social bonding time.”

For Discover Hearing owner Carmelle Lovasz, seeing the gratitude of the seniors and being able to enrich their lives was an “awesome” feeling.

“To give them that benefit, to relive some of the old movies and [enhance] their lifestyle is excellent,” she said.

The old TV at North Ridge Place was constantly breaking down, Bungay said, so

they started raising funds to buy a new one.“And it was heavy — every time we moved

it, it required six guys and a truck,” she joked.Meanwhile, Discover Hearing has run

clinics at both facilities for years, and when Lovasz heard through her daughter Nicole that they were raising funds for a new TV, she stepped up to the plate.

“When she told me that, I said, ‘Nicole, forget it. Don’t worry about it,’” Lovasz said, noting that lodge staff had initially asked to just have their names placed in Discover’s referral program, through which they give away a 42-inch TV every year. “‘You just tell [the lodge] that we’re going to sponsor them and we’ll buy them a TV.’ ... It was just a given.”

With the generous gift, the lodge was able to take the money they had already raised and purchase a new fireplace for the rec room, which also includes a pool table, an air hockey table, books, puzzles and two pianos.

In addition, sparked by the TV donation, the Sturgeon Foundation has started up a movie library to be shared among all of its facilities.

“Our executive director went out and bought, on his own dime, a series of movies to get it started,” Bungay said. “And we put out a challenge to the other sites to do something similar.”

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Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert Leader(L-R) Discover Hearing staff members Edie Kronewitt, Nicole Lovasz and Carmelle Lovasz join Sturgeon Foundation housing administrator Marjorie Bungay in front of the new 60-inch TV at North Ridge Lodge on Friday.

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Two days before Christmas, I had a giant list of things

to get done. These are tasks that had accumulated over days, if not weeks: wrapping gifts, washing dishes, doing laundry, scrubbing the toilet, that sort of thing.

It was a list I figured would take right up until dinner on Christmas Eve to take care of, but, as it turned out, once I got going, things started getting crossed off pretty quickly.

That left me with a little bit of time on my hands, so I delved into the PVR and decided to get caught up on recorded programming that had piled up over about the same amount of time as it took for the to-do list to accumulate, if not longer.

It was an eclectic

mix, from a fascinating documentary on Bo Jackson brief-yet-brilliant career in both pro baseball and pro football in the late 1980s and early ’90s to a Christmas special starring comedian Russell Peters that I hadn’t realized was recorded last year but still managed to remain entertaining and timely.

But the one program that stuck with me was an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. If you’ve never seen it, Bourdain — the host, writer and renowned chef — travels the world to sample

local food and culture away from the usual tourist traps, each episode focusing on one particular country or area.

This episode saw him travel to Haiti, which was still reeling from the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck there in January 2010 — as it still is today — and preparing for a presidential election, over which there seemed to be more cynicism than excitement.

The images were jarring, as they have been since the earthquake: people living in tent cities, walking by crumbled buildings that have yet to be cleaned up. Even what was meant to be a gesture of goodwill, the producers buying out a local food stand to feed local kids who may not

have eaten in days, turned into a chaotic scene where older boys wound up hitting younger ones with belts — a microcosm for the failed aid that has been sent to the country over the years.

What I came to realize, though, is just how good we have here in St. Albert. Property tax increases may seem like a big deal, but at least we have homes that are made of brick and mortar, not tarps. Holes drilled in a recreational lake may seem like a big deal, but at least we have clean water to drink.

I might not be on the next plane to Haiti to lend a hand, but I certainly am more grateful that the biggest problems I have are finding the time to wrap gifts or wash dishes or do laundry or scrub the toilet.

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Bike park a worthy project

Waiting, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers once told us, is the hardest part. But for proponents of

a mountain bike skills park in St. Albert, they are likely happy to wait until June to see if city council will support building the park in Liberton Park, rather than have to go back to square one.

St. Albert city council voted Monday to delay their decision on the Liberton Park location until June to allow staff more time to consult with councillors and with residents and businesses near the park, as well as to have a second look at other sites that might have been passed over.

As several people, both on council and in the gallery, said on Monday, the idea of a mountain bike skills park in St. Albert certainly has merit. Any spontaneous use facility in the city has merit, especially given the emphasis the current council has placed on developing youth assets. But it was abundantly clear that the other site under consideration, Mission Park — or Seven Hills, whichever you like — was not the right site, and it was encouraging to see common sense prevail on that front.

There have been rumblings about the $200,000 price tag, which does seem steep, but if you’re going to take on a project, you may as well spend the money to do it right.

Louder rumblings, though, have had to do with why those who wouldn’t use it should have to pay for it with their tax dollars. But St. Albert helps maintain soccer fields in the city, and not everyone plays soccer. The City built a facility for the 50+ Club, and not all taxpayers are over 50. The list goes on.

Projects like this bike park, and even the proposed dog park near Servus Credit Union Place, might seem like they are catering to a minority, but in fact the whole community benefits. The bike park will give young people a productive outlet and keep them out of trouble. And the dog park gives dogs a place to play off-leash where they aren’t bothering others on the trails.

Whether council supports the Liberton Park location or sends them back to the drawing board, a bike park is a worthy project and the volunteers behind it — to paraphrase Petty once more — ought not to back down.

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Foundation gala comes back home

MP all ears at budget consultationGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

The Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation is hoping to see old friends at a new venue during their biggest annual fundraising event coming up this weekend.

Saturday is the foundation’s Friend Raiser Gala, which is being held at the Moonflower Room at the Enjoy Centre for the very first time this year after several years of holding the event at various hotels in Edmonton.

“We are so pleased to be bringing it home. It has been a long time coming,” said foundation executive director Katrina Black. “We’ve had tremendous response to the fact it has come home.”

More than 400 tickets have already been sold for the gala, putting the foundation close to selling out the room. Guests will be welcomed with a champagne reception before a three-course gourmet dinner, with both live and silent auctions. CFCW radio host Danny Hooper will be the master of ceremonies for the evening, and entertainment will be provided by Bella Rouge.

“To me, it’s like a big reunion every year,” Black said. “All of our friends come out, and they bring new friends.”

Black added that, regardless of the location, the Friend Raiser Gala has always received a great response.

“We have such an amazing community; they are so supportive of us,” she said. “We’re blessed with the foundation we have, because our hospital takes care of everybody. It’s not just a segment of people we take care of. From the moment you’re born to the moment you unfortunately pass away, we’re there for you.”

Once all the bills are paid, the foundation is hoping to raise about $100,000, which would go toward the foundation’s main goal of providing enhanced equipment above and beyond the basic budget

at the Sturgeon Community Hospital.

“We provide the icing on the cake, the state-of-the-art [equipment] for our patients,” Black said.

Over the last year, the foundation has funded patient transport ventilators, cardiac monitors for the close observation unit in intensive care, and a transport unit for the neonatal care unit.

“All of these are fundamental in patient care and providing the very best for the people that use our hospital,” Black added.

These enhancements are beneficial not only for patients, but for families and staff as well.

“We’re providing [staff] the very best to work with, and for patients and their families, it’s phenomenal,” Black said.

Tickets for the Friend Raiser Gala are available by calling the Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation office at 780-418-7361.

“To me, it’s like a big reunion every year.”

Katrina BlackSCHF executive director


Brent Rathgeber was all ears on Friday morning.

The Edmonton-St. Albert Conservative MP was at the Best Western Plus hotel on St. Albert Trail Friday morning to meet with representatives of the local business community and gather their feedback as the federal government prepares its budget for delivery later this spring.

This is the fourth year that Rathgeber has held such pre-budget consultations, and he said it was one of the most productive.

“I thought this was the best yet,” he said. “This group was really good for whatever reason, a good cross-section of the St. Albert business community. And I thought there was some very good interaction between myself and the members.”

By the sounds of things, he added, the local economy has steadily improved over those four years.

“By 2010, things had sort of stabilized and beginning to turn around, and in 2011 and 2012, there was optimism,” the MP said. “Now, in January 2013, things are just about back to where they are before the recession of 2008.”

One of the main topics Rathgeber wanted to broach was whether or not the federal government should run deficits to spend money spurring on private sector businesses, like the recent announcement of $400 million in new venture capital.

“The local business community, generally, is concerned about debt, as am I,” Rathgeber said. “The projected deficit for this year is $24 billion or $25 billion on $600 billion of already accumulated debt. So, generally speaking, the business community would favour debt repayment and the lowering of taxes over stimulus money or attempts to diversify the economy.”

But, he conceded, elsewhere in the country — like Ontario, where the car industry has been hit hard lately — he might get a different answer.

Another issue that came up during the

consultation was the federal government’s rules on qualification for home ownership that have changed a number of times over the past few years.

“The concern is to not replicate what happened in the United States, when they had the mortgage bubble crisis where too many people walked away from their mortgages. The suggesting is that some of these people should never have qualified for mortgages in the first place,” Rathgeber said.

“They’re looking for some sort of predictability with respect to these matters so they can project 12, 24, 36 months into the future,” he added.

Rathgeber will take the input gathered and draft a memo to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty for his consideration as the budget is drafted.

While his specific input might not be reflected in the budget, Rathgeber said the consultations have yielded positive results, especially changes to the Employment Insurance system that will require recipients to look for work every day and accept commutes up to an hour long.

“These are very small changes, but I think positive changes,” he said, “and I’m still working toward a system that regards Employment Insurance as a short-term bandage solution as opposed to … sort of a permanent part of an individual’s income.”

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderMP Brent Rathgeber chats with members of the St. Albert business community on Friday morning.


Campbell dog park begins to take shape

Food Bank fundraiser makes cents


St. Albert’s newest dog-friendly park is starting to take shape.

City council received an update on the progress of the park, slated for a dry storm pond site just north of Servus Credit Union Place, at their regular meeting Monday afternoon, with staff providing a preliminary design and the results of the public consultation process that took place over the past few months.

City recreation services director Monique St. Louis said that, between a public open house in November and survey completed online, a vast majority of respondents were in favour of the design.

“[The concept design] included one shelter, two benches, three signs, two garbage cans, some fencing and a small pedestrian foot bridge,” St. Louis said.

The pedestrian foot bridge would go over the drainage swale in the middle of the site, which can’t be mowed. The fact it is a drainage site also restricts the amount of landscaping and tree planting that can be done there.

The north lot at Servus Place would provide the parking for the site.

Council directed staff to move ahead with the Campbell Park site in June after rejecting plans for a dog park along Levasseur Road, near the Heritage Lakes subdivision.

Most of council was also in favour of the preliminary design Monday, but the inclusion of a chain link fence around portions of the site irked Mayor Nolan Crouse.

“I hate the idea of a fence, of a cage,” he said. “Why is it we cannot build a fence

that is dense hedge, that is botanic in this botanical arts city?”

St. Louis said that the chain link fence would be temporary in areas until hedges grew dense enough to keep dogs from getting through, and would be permanent

in some of the higher-traffic areas.“If we could find a larger site where

there’s more room to roam for the dogs, it would be less of an issue. ... The intent is trying to balance the aesthetics of our city with the safety of the dogs,” she said.

City staff will now get to work on developing a project charter for the park, which will be considered during 2014 budget deliberations. The park is expected to cost about $100,000, which will be funded through dog license fees, and have an annual operating cost of about $2,400.


The local branch of Servus Credit Union is hoping spare change will create some real change for needy families in St. Albert.

With the Royal Canadian Mint ceasing the distribution of pennies as of Feb. 4, the St. Albert branch, located at 565 St. Albert Tr., started collecting the one-cent coins on Jan. 22 to help get them out of circulation and donate them to the St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village.

St. Albert branch manager Douglas Lamb said that branches in Edmonton proper started an initiative to collect pennies for the Edmonton Food Bank, but the St. Albert branch wanted to do the same for their local food bank.

“We weren’t really included in their master plan,” he said. “However, when I heard about it, I said, wait a minute — we have the St. Albert Food Bank and we want to be a part of it. … There are a gazillion of these things out there, so what better place to [donate them]?”

Staff at the branch are also getting in on the act, bringing in pennies on their casual Fridays.

For St. Albert Food Bank and Community Village executive director Suzan Krecsy, even the smallest bit of help is welcome.

“The amount doesn’t really matter as much as the awareness, and we really

appreciate that,” she said. “Making sure our clients and their needs are put forward all the time really means a lot. Every cent counts; every single cent counts.”

Servus doesn’t have a set goal to collect, but Krecsy said the funds raised will go toward the purchase of food for families.

She added that, at this time of year, food banks across Canada tend to experience a slowdown in food donations after a busy holiday season.

“We were very fortunate at Christmas and throughout the holidays. St. Albert is always so generous,” she said. “But things start slowing down now. They’ll pick up again around Easter, then slide a little, then pick up again when the kids get out of school. Then it’s quite slow until September, when we have our big food drive.”

Although many charities are going after pennies as they are taken out of circulation, Lamb is confident there are enough of the copper coins left out there to help the Food Bank.

“I think there are probably more pennies than you can possibly imagine. ... I think the penny drives should continue on,” he said.

“We’re trying to create awareness of the fact it is coming to an end, and what we can do to get rid of them in a fashionable way and help somebody. And I think the Food Bank’s the right place,” Lamb added.

The St. Albert Servus branch will be collecting pennies until March 4.

“I hate the idea of a fence, of a cage.”Nolan Crouse

St. Albert mayor

Photo suppliedBalbina Fernandez (right), 13, a student at Vincent J. Maloney Junior High School, poses with Lt.-Gov. Donald S. Ethell after receiving her Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal at Government House in downtown Edmonton on Tuesday, January 22.

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Artwork courtesy City of St. AlbertA preliminary drawing mapping out amenities for the proposed new dog park in Campbell Park, just north of Servus Credit Union Place.

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Doll ‘pumped up’ for International BowlGLENN COOKSt. Albert Leader

Tanner Doll is getting another chance to showcase his football skills on an international stage.

Doll, a St. Albert Catholic High School graduate who is in his second year with the University of Calgary Dinos, is one of 26 Canadian players selected to Team World, which will face off against Team USA in the fourth annual International Federation of American Football International Bowl, taking place on Tuesday in Austin, Texas.

“I’m pumped up,” said the linebacker. “It’ll be my third time going to Texas in the last year. It’s exciting; it’s a fun time. You get to represent your country and play beside guys who are from different countries, so that’s pretty cool.”

Doll suited up for Team Canada at the IFAF Under-19 World Championships in Austin last July, helping Canada to a 23-17 win over the United States in the gold medal game. IFAF games are played under American rules, with four downs and 11 players on the field

at a time.Canadians make up almost

exactly half of Team World, which has 54 players total. Doll said that speaks volumes about the calibre of players Canada is churning out.

“[That says] we can play ball,” he said. “What I’ve come to realize by playing in these [tournaments] is that Canadians are very skilled, but we have a different style than the U.S. We’re very mobile and, at this age, when we play in the box, we’re much more physical.”

Other players on Team World hail from countries like Japan, Austria, American Samoa, Sweden, France, Mexico, Denmark, Brazil, the Netherlands and Spain.

While he lined up against some of those players at the World Championship in July, Doll said

it’ll be easy to set any rivalries from that aside in the International Bowl.

“We’re competitive and we have a common goal of beating the United States,” he said.

There will be some scouts in the stands at the game, but Doll said he’s not too worried about impressing them.

“That’s not what I’m focused on. Those scouts are for the [National Collegiate Athletic Association in the U.S.], but right now, I’m happy where I’m at with the Dinos,” he said.

This past season in Canadian Interuniversity Sport, Doll said he got off to a slow start, but he was proud to be part of a program that captured its fifth straight Canada West championship.

“I didn’t play my best ball [at the start], but with the help of the coaching staff, I was able to grow and overcome the adversity I put before myself,” he said, adding that he’s already looking forward to next season. “I was very happy with that; I know how to deal with that now. It was a great experience.”

“When we play in the box, we’re much

more physical.”Tanner Doll

U of C Dinos LB

Leader file photoTanner Doll (40), seen here at the IFAF World Championships in July, is one of 26 Canadians selected to Team World for Tuesday’s International Bowl.

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ENTERTAINMENT


From Wayne Gretzky to Pope John Paul II to the St. Albert Farmers’ Market, Victor Post captured the world on film. And now the Musée Héritage Museum is honouring the St. Albert photographer with their newest exhibit, Catching the Light.

The exhibit opened on Tuesday and details Post’s extensive career in photography, including everything from portraits of some of the most famous people to ever set foot in the Capital Region to panoramic views of the scenic Sturgeon River valley.

Museum curator Joanne White said it’s amazing to think that someone so accomplished was based in St. Albert.

“He had a studio over on Perron Street, and he worked out of his parents’ basement for many years, because he started quite young,” White said. “He always worked here and always loved taking wedding photos here.”

Post, who attended Paul Kane High

School, passed away in 2001, and in 2010, his family approached the Musée Héritage Museum about possibly setting up an exhibit of his work.

Those discussions eventually led to the family donating thousands of prints and negatives to the museum’s archives.

“It’s wonderful. There’s a lot of local St. Albert material, but there’s also his view of the world and bringing that all to people,” White said.

Sifting through those photographs and digitizing them has been tough for the museum’s archivist, and also made it tough for White to decide what to include in this exhibit.

“It’s been difficult,” she said with a laugh. “But, as the work

is processed, the archivist divides it into subject areas, so we looked at the different subject areas ... and picked some things from each of the areas.”

Other major figures and events Post photographed include Princess Diana, Liberace, former prime minister Brian Mulroney, the 1978 Commonwealth Games in Edmonton and the 1988 Winter

Olympic Games in Calgary.The exhibit also explores Post’s interests

besides photography, of which White said there are many.

“In high school, he actually won science fairs nationally and got to go to an international science fair for his work on lasers,” she said. “As a young man, he was really into science. He scuba dived, and was a pilot.”

In fact, she added, when King Hussein of Jordan visited Alberta, he and Post began chatting about a shared passion for amateur radio.

While the exhibit will appeal to photography buffs, White said there are still many people in St. Albert who remember Post fondly and have been itching to see the exhibit come together.

“There have been a lot of people coming in saying they knew Victor and they’re really looking forward to seeing this and remembering this friendship,” she said. “But it’s also for people to realize there was this amazing, interesting person that worked here and produced all this great photography.”

Catching the Light is on display at the Musée Héritage Museum until March 31.

VictorPostPhotographer

Photo: Musée Héritage Museum Victor Post fondsA young Wayne Gretzky was just one of the many famous subjects Victor Post captured on film.

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Tegan and Sara have a change of heartJASON MacNEILSun Media News Services

Change — like age — is unavoidable. Sometimes it’s even welcomed.

So it should come as no surprise that alt-rockers Tegan and Sara Quin, now in their early 30s, felt the need to branch out after spending nearly half their lives touring and recording professionally.

Most importantly, the Calgary-bred twins needed to make things fresh for their album Heartthrob, which came out Tuesday.

“(After) 15 years of making music Sara and I are at a point where we got to feel excitement, we got to feel challenged,” Tegan says. “I can’t go into a studio and just record a song — that’s not good enough anymore. I want to go into the studio and I want somebody to tackle me to the ground, rip out even more ideas and throw it down.”

Wanting a producer who “worked in pop music” and “with female vocalists,” Tegan and Sara ended up with three: Greg Kurstin, Justin Meldal-Johnsen and Mike Elizondo.

“As someone who is kind of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) and wanted a whole plan, it was a little bit, ‘I wonder what we’re doing?’” Tegan says. “We would work for two weeks and then leave the studio and go with another producer for two weeks. I would just think the whole time, ‘Well, what stage is ‘Closer’ (Heartthrob’s lead single) at?’

“A lot of people have been focusing on the sound of the record but honestly all Sara and I care about first and foremost is the songs. I just believe in the songs so much. I just truly thought these were the 10 best songs we’d written.”

Most striking about Heartthrob is its sound, rich in ’80s electro-pop hues and quite diverse from their previous guitar-leaning albums. It probably shouldn’t come as a shock given recent collaborations as Sara worked with Theophilus London last year while the twins teamed up with DJ Martin Page for the dance-friendly single Body Work. In short, “Closer” — which “emulates Ace Of Base” and “early ’90s” pop — ensures Heartthrob is a perfect summer driving album despite its

dead-of-winter release.“Closer” originated from a test

Sara tossed at Tegan to write outside her comfort zone, something both did throughout Heartthrob’s writing process.

“I usually write (material) which is self-deprecating, self-loathing, sad, heartbroken,” Tegan says. “She’s like, ‘You’re none of those things so stop trying to be that person you used to be.’ I was being nostalgic, tapping into that first love where you are just happy to be sitting next to somebody and just being close with them, talking on the phone with them all hours. The song is all about not consummating the act.”

Meanwhile, the closing “Shock To Your System” is another surprise, one Sara wrote and partly inspired by the Drive soundtrack.

“She talked a lot about how film was really influencing her, how music is used in film to exaggerate certain emotional moments,” Tegan says. “I had challenged her to write more songs like (2007 single) ‘Back In Your Head.’ Like, ‘Write a f---ing pop song, already! Carry your g-ddamn weight in this band, write

another hit!’ She wrote ‘Shock To Your System’ from the perspective of you telling her to get it together about love or life.”

Tegan and Sara have already played some of the new tunes while supporting The Killers late last year. Tegan says by far “All Messed Up” is the “shock” that has audiences turning heads.

“Sara and I are up there belting the s--- out of it and it’s right at the top of our range so we just have to do it,” Tegan says.

“At the headline shows it’s gotten a standing ovation and we never had that happen, a standing ovation in the middle of a set. I’m just like, ‘F--- yeah this is awesome, it’s really cool.’”

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STURGEON COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINVESTING TODAY FOR A HEALTHY TOMORROW

At the Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation, we’re proud of the role our hospital has played in the growth and development of the City ofSt. Albert, Sturgeon County and North Edmonton. Our region offers one of the best standards of living in our province and our country and we feelfortunate to be one of the cornerstones that have made our community what it is today.At the Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation, we are encouraged by the advancement in health care and how our hospital has enhanced thepersonal well being of everyone in our community. Our passion, hard work and fundraising efforts help grow our organization’s reach and keepdonations dollars within our community and families.The Sturgeon Community Hospital Foundation raises funds to support the four key areas within the Sturgeon Community Hospital including:• Enhanced family care• Purchase of leading edge medical equipment• Support of further innovation• On-site and community education

Choose to become a Friend of the Foundation.Thanks to the generous support of our community, the residentsof St. Albert, Sturgeon County and North Edmonton receivesome of the finest health and personal care in our country. Aswe move towards the future, we look forward to upholding ourhighest level of service and growth into new areas of care forour community. Of course, we couldn’t do it without you – andwe thank you for your commitment to the Sturgeon CommunityHospital Foundation.Discover a giving program that works best for you. You maydirect donations to specific programs, equipment or the areaof greatest need.Donations are all sizes are deeply appreciated.· Annual campaign· Gift Every Month program· Corporate sponsorship· Memorial and Tribute donations· Planned Giving· Sponsor a Brick· Special Events/Third party events· Volunteering

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HEALTH

Recording artist singing a different tune on fitness

CARY CASTAGNASun Media News Services

His big break came when he was … uh … big.

Really big. As in 400-plus pounds.Los Angeles-based recording artist

Papa Joe Aviance first tasted success in the house/dance music industry when he released a collaboration with Austrian songstress Lula Grelhada in 2008 called “Last Night a DJ Saved My Life.” The Kult Records track landed on Billboard magazine’s Top 100 dance chart, debuting at No. 24.

Within a few weeks, it hit No. 6.Meanwhile, the video — in which the

six-foot-two Aviance enjoys a prominent role — quickly garnered more than 20,000 hits on YouTube.

“For dance music, that’s like really big,” Aviance recalls in an interview with Sun Media. But in the view of the charismatic Michigan-born musician, there was a big problem. “I was heavy in the video. I didn’t really like the way I looked in the video,” he explains. “I was like, ‘Twenty thousand people are watching me look like that? Uh-uh. I’m done. No more.’

“The fact it was my first single ever and it hits the dance charts, that was a sign for me. And I was like, ‘If this is your one chance to do this, you’re not going to waste it. If you want to do this, you can’t look like that anymore.’”

That was the tipping point — the day Aviance faced the music.

“(The next day) I grabbed a trash can, went to the fridge and I cleaned out everything that was going to get in my

way of losing the weight,” he says.Aviance then went to the grocery store

and stocked up on healthy fare: fruits, veggies, nuts and high-protein meats such as tuna, chicken and lean beef.

He also stopped drinking soda cold turkey, opting instead for water and iced tea.

Aviance eventually discovered that he could buy many of his diet staples — including healthy snacks — at a local 99-cent store, busting the myth that nutritious foods are expensive.

Along with the sudden changes to his diet, Aviance also started going for neighbourhood walks — with his favourite dance music reverberating through his headphones, of course.

“I couldn’t even walk around the block without mounds of sweat,” he notes. “Now I walk up to five miles a day out in the neighbourhood. The sidewalk is my treadmill.”

Aviance has also been known to do “a little bit of jogging,” as well as hiking and bike riding.

And these days, the 41-year-old weighs a fit 200 pounds.

Aviance says it took him about 18 months to lose the bulk of his 250 pounds.

He feels so much lighter and happier.“This is a whole new life for me. I’ve

never been this thin before my entire life and I’m not going to go back,” he says. “I’ve trained my brain. I’m so used to eating right that I now eat in moderation. Instead of eating the whole piece of cake, I eat a slice.”

But he admits he still has his moments.“Trust me, it’s hard. I’m not going to lie.

I’ve had my hard days,” he adds, noting he sometimes has to cover his eyes during TV food commercials and he rarely sets foot in the “chip aisle” at the grocery store. “Out of sight, out of mind.”

Aviance’s newfound commitment to health and fitness has seeped into his music. His most recent dance tracks are titled “Live For Life” and “Get Up And Dance.”

While keeping the pounds off, Aviance is now committed to inspiring others to get fit through his annual Live For Life Tour.

Last year, he visited four U.S. cities, encouraging people to get off the couch and join him for a walk. This spring, he’s slated to travel to 10 U.S. cities.

The key to adopting a healthy lifestyle, he says, comes down to will and desire.

“Stay positive and focused, and realize that you’re stronger than you think you are and remember you’re on a mission.

“If you let the stresses of other people weigh you down, then you’re not going to accomplish your goal,” he advises. “A lot of people think their weight is a life sentence. It’s not. You can change and I’m living proof of that. Whether it’s two pounds or 200, you can do it.”

SUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – All smokers know the slogan: “Sooner or later, you’ve got to quit.”

Now, a new study has rolled out numbers that just might light a fire under smokers hesitant to stub out.

Turns out if you quit before you’re 40, the health risks will be nearly the same as if you’d never lit up.

Quit in your 20s to early 30s, the Toronto researchers found, and you’ll gain about a decade of life.

But delay swearing off smokes until middle age or your senior years, and the returns diminish.

“Quitting smoking before age 40, and preferably well before 40, gives back almost all of the decade of lost life from continued smoking,” lead researcher Prabhat Jha said. “That’s not to say, however, that it is safe to smoke until you are 40 and then stop. Former smokers still have a greater risk of dying sooner than people who never smoked. But the risk is small compared to the huge risk for those who continue to smoke.”

In the study, Jha and his colleagues from the University of Toronto and St. Michael’s Hospital looked at smoking and smoking-cessation histories of 113,752 women and 88,496 men aged 25 or older who were interviewed for the U.S. National Health Interview Survey between 1997 and 2004.

The smoking data was compared to the causes of deaths that occurred by the end of 2006.

The study, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, found smokers who quit between 25 and 34 gained about a decade of life, while those who quit between 35 and 44 gained about nine years.

Quit smoking before 40: study

Yoga may help with mental healthSUN MEDIA NEWS SERVICES – Yoga has a positive effect on psychiatric problems, from mild depression and sleep troubles to schizophrenia, a review of more than 100 studies has found.

The review, published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, found that yoga influences key parts of the body that are thought to play a role in mental health in similar ways to antidepressants and psychotherapy.

The review found that yoga, a 5,000-year-old Indian practice, had a positive effect on mild depression and sleep complaints, even for people not taking medication for those concerns, and improved symptoms for people with schizophrenia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who were taking medication.

Yoga was found to have benefits for all mental-health conditions included in the review except eating disorders and cognition problems.

The authors say that although the results are promising, more research is required because all studies on yoga so far have dealt with small samples.

“Whether it’s two pounds or 200, you can do it.”

Papa Joe AvianceRecording artist

Photo: Sun Media News Services

ST. A LBERT REAL ESTATE MARKET REPORT

*The above area market averages represent the trailing 3-month averages, except where otherwise indicated, of single-family homes only as of the Friday prior to publication week. Data is provided by CRAIG PILGRIM of RE/MAX Real Estate (St. Albert), member of the Real Estate Association of Edmonton.Data does not include condos, townhomes or apartments, and does not differentiate between styles of homes. All efforts are made to ensure data is accurate for information purposes, but please consult a licensed real estate agent for additional market information.

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JAN. 31, 1990The first McDonald’s restaurant opens in the Soviet Union, with

large crowds lining up in Moscow for a taste of Big Macs and fries.

FEb. 1, 1884The first-ever portion of the Oxford English Dictionary is

published. The final portion would not be published until 1928.

FEb. 2, 1887 Groundhog Day is celebrated for

the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Penn.

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Business just wasn’t blooming for Jardin Yoga and Spa, so the search is on for a new investor at the Enjoy Centre.

The owners of the Enjoy Centre issued a press release on Friday saying that Jardin Yoga and Spa would close effective Saturday, Jan. 26, and that they are actively looking for new tenants for the 1,500-square-metre space.

The Enjoy Centre took control of the space and renamed the spa last August when previous tenants Health Hub Holdings, owners of the Water Garden Spa and Wellness Retreat, had their lease terminated due to non-payment of rent.

“This closure was not unexpected,” Enjoy Centre co-owner Bill Hole said in the press release. “We’ve been working on a transition solution since last fall when we took over the lease from the Water Garden group. Jardin’s management was only an interim solution. We’re now officially looking for a new tenant.”

The Holes also took over operations of Prairie Bistro and the Prairie Baker in August, renaming them the Glasshouse Bistro and The Bakery at the Enjoy Centre, respectively.

Hole said that they are looking to maintain the space as a spa, as $2 million has already been poured into the existing facility.

“With 500,000 people through the Enjoy Centre annually and an existing spa client base of over 7,000, the potential to grow this business into something very special is superb,” he said in the release, which also noted that there is an additional 158 square metres available for expansion, if the new tenants so choose. “We’re very optimistic and eager to find the right investor.”

Interested investors should contact Cam Picketts of Colliers International at 780-420-1585.

The Enjoy Centre is also home to Hole’s Greenhouses, Beautiful Home & Gift, Le Belle Arti, Liquid Harvest, Amaranth Whole Foods Market, Hillaby’s Tools for Cooks, Sandy View Farms and a floral studio.


After nearly five months of renovations, the McDonald’s location on St. Albert Trail is far from your typical burger joint anymore.

Owners Rob and Karen Chiasson finally re-opened the location, just south of St. Albert Centre, on Jan. 21, with a new layout, new décor and plenty of new amenities designed to enhance the experiences of both staff and customers.

So far the response to the changes from customers has been positive, Karen said.

“It’s been a great reaction. Lots of great feedback and comments, [like] it’s very comfortable and it’s a great place to come with the family, especially with the cold weather we’ve been having,” she said.

The St. Albert Trail location is one of the first in Canada with a third drive-thru window, designed to let traffic keep flowing even if an order is held up.

The orientation of the building

itself has also changed to allow for more efficient parking and drive-thru lanes, as well as to maximize the frontage on St. Albert Trail.

There is still a play area for kids in the restaurant, but it has doubled in size and features new interactive touch screen games for toddlers. For parents, the restaurant now has free wireless Internet and many of the tables also have adjacent electrical outlets to plug in laptop computers.

While being part of a big chain like McDonald’s means a lot of the design choices were laid out for them, the Chiassons said there was a little bit of room for individuality.

“We do core designs we have to adhere to, but we can select from a number of different décors,” Rob said. “When it comes to seating and furniture, the colours and types of furniture are chosen, but there is the ability to make some areas a little different.”

When the location first closed in August, the signs that went up were advertising a December 2012 re-opening. But Rob said there were a few challenges and delays.

“Being so close to the river, the soil was a challenge. We had to take out some of the soil and bring in appropriate fill to give some stability to the soil,” he said. “And then we hit some weather issues.”

The Chiassons own all four McDonald’s franchises in St. Albert, and have renovated each one since taking over about 15 months ago. That includes the location in Wal-Mart, an interior and exterior renovation at St. Albert Trail and Villeneuve Road, a mostly exterior renovation at the Tudor Glen location, and the complete reconstruction on St. Albert Trail.

While those are big projects behind them, they don’t expect work to let up anytime soon.

“There’s always something going,” Karen said. “Recruitment’s a big focus right now, and then there will be training involved with that, and working on operations.”

“We’re happy with the improvements we’ve made in execution over the past year,” Rob added, “but we recognize there’s still a long way to go.”

Photo: GLENN COOK, St. Albert LeaderOwners Karen and Rob Chiasson stand in the newly renovated McDonald’s location on St. Albert Trail.


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A time-honoured nursery rhyme may pay tribute to the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, but according to a new report, opportunities in traditional occupations such as butchers, bakers and tailors are disappearing.

At the other end of the labour spectrum are jobs that go unfilled for long stretches due to a lack of skilled applicants, a report from CIBC World Markets finds. That “labour market mismatch” or “job mismatch” is among the job trends that will characterize 2013.

Job mismatch describes the preparedness of the workforce. “It’s jobs without people and people without jobs,” says Kristina Hidas, vice-president of HR research and development with the Human Resources Professionals Association. “We have a workforce that’s highly educated and has a highly-developed work ethic but if that doesn’t address the needs of the labour market then it’s a mismatch.”

Being attentive to the realities of the labour market is key to overcoming the disconcerting trend. “It’s very hard to predict — you hear something different almost every day — but one can spot trends,” Hidas says. “Certainly there’s a skilled labour shortage. There is certainly a trend that our population is aging.”

There are more than 300,000 open job vacancies in Canada and they require specialty skills that require technical training or post-secondary education, says Byrne Luft, vice-president of operations with Manpower Canada. A lot require the so-called STEM skills: Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

According to the CIBC report, 25 job groups have shown signs of consistent skill shortages. By far, the largest skill shortage was found in health-related occupations, the mining industry, advanced manufacturing and business services. Put together, those occupations account for 21 per

cent of total employment in Canada.“Time and again, we see that engineering, sciences and

skilled trades is really where the future of employment lies,” says Hidas. “On the academic side, engineering remains a growth sector and a sector in which one can find

a job with relative ease.“Any aspect of science that supports

the reality of our aging demographic will be in demand.” Skilled trades should be a first career choice. “If you have a skilled trade, you will be able to work in that trade for as long as you want to,” she says.

The CIBC report identified 20 occupations that fall into the surplus

category, including labourers in manufacturing, office managers and clerks, along with secondary and elementary school teachers. These jobs account for 16 per cent of total unemployment in Canada.

From a competency-based perspective, a number of soft skills are in demand. “Employers are looking for individuals who can make interpersonal connections,” says Luft. “There’s the notion of sensitivity training to understand each other’s cultures. Others would argue there are generational differences ... Some believe skills required in customer service are lacking.”

Because of the huge amount of data available at our fingertips, analytical skills are critical. “People need to be able to take that data, analyze it and come up with a summary in a very expeditious way,” he says.

Time management skills in today’s “age of velocity” are also highly valued. “We’re moving at very fast speeds and have to prioritize what we need to do in a given day,” says Luft. Those skills underscore the need for resiliency and discipline, and the ability to manage stress. “If you’re too connected or working all the time, your productivity can be impacted ... How do you manage your stress so you can stay productive at your workplace?”

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