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FLYING BY - Nathan Stayer, 15, performs the butterďŹ‚y stroke during the last practice of the season for the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club recently.

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Dancers gain many skills at Red Deer studio BY ERIN FAWCETT Red Deer Express There are a multitude of beneﬁts for children who

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director of JD’s Fabulous Feet, said they continually see progression in their students year after year. The dance studio is gearing up for its 18th season. JD’s offers both recreational and competitive dance. “Our recreational dancers learn at the same level as our competitive dancers and I think that’s really important,” said Dionne. There are about 200 dancers each season at JD’s. With eight instructors, the studio offers a variety of classes including jazz, tap, ballet, lyrical and hip-hop. The studio also offers a Zumba class which is open to both dancers and adults

as well. “We have two sessions during the year for Zumba and then we also have summer sessions as well. You can either sign up for the session which is once a week for 13 weeks or just do a drop-in,” said Dionne, who has been dancing since 1976 and teaching full-time since 1987. “It’s become a really popular class and the more people you have the more fun it is.” Dionne said enrolment at her studio begins at the age of three and there are many beneﬁts to children involved in dance. “It teaches children and youth discipline, quick

thinking skills, ﬁtness of course and it’s great for children who are shy – it really brings the best out of them.” Parents can also watch their children progress as the studios at JD’s Fabulous Feet are equipped with two-way mirrors. “That is a really big thing at our studio – an open door policy. Parents can sit and watch any class.” Dionne, who is with the Canadian Dance Teacher’s Association and serves as the national president, also believes it’s important to show dancers new experiences and opportunities. “I’ve taken kids to Chi-

cago, Las Vegas, New York and next year I’m hoping to do Disney. “We try and give the kids opportunities to show them what’s out there and what they can do.” Some of the dancers that have been taught by Dionne have certainly moved on with successful careers including one dancer who is currently the lead in 42nd Street at Stratford and another performing in a circus group in Montreal. Many have also become teachers as well. For more information visit www.jdfabulousfeet. ca. efawcett@reddeerexpress.com

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PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT - A group of beginner to intermediate dancers take part in a summer dance workshop at JD’s Fabulous Feet.

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Library offers multitude of programs for all ages BY KIRSTEN PALARDY Red Deer Express For parents looking for things to do with their children or things for their children to do, the Red Deer Public Library is a great place to start. Laural Grimes, children’s services coordinator, said the programs start for children at birth and there are now things for kids to do right up to age 18. “Getting kids involved at the library helps them begin speaking and quite often that’s the very ﬁrst thing,” said Grimes. There is a ‘Baby Times’ program that helps parents to learn to read with their children right from the very beginning and to interact with them. “It’s important that parents set aside time one or more times a day to spend with a book reading,” said Grimes. She said the programs then go into working with literacy and the importance of reading to children as they get older so they gain an understanding and appreciation for the written word. “When they get a little bit older then they can share a book with mom or dad where they read a page and their parent reads a page which then translates into them picking up chapter books and reading them on their own.”

She said the biggest thing that the library programs work towards encouraging is that parents should never quit reading to their children even once they’re in school. The library also offers a ‘Time for Two’s’ program for the second year of a child’s life. There are also programs set up that allow the children to attend in their pyjamas with their whole families, including older siblings, grandparents and parents. “We encourage the entire family to come and it turns out to be a really lovely time for them where we do story time and ﬁnger crafts.” Grimes said the next step for children is the three to ﬁve story time that encompasses a preschool story time of 45 minutes where crafts, story telling and conversation are all included. Also running right now is a model club that encourages literacy through means other than just picking up a book. “We get together and order models that are level one, no glue no paint, and the children and their guardians come here and we do an introduction of which model we’re doing,” said Grimes. She said the children have to read the instructions and follow along regarding when to take certain pieces out until they

need them. She said the goal of the programs at the Library is to encourage a literate community. “We have a lot of people that come to the Library with English as a second language for tours and they are offered library cards too.” Literacy comes in many forms, said Grimes.

“Even if we can get kids involved in model clubs or the chess club then they ﬁnd out that reading isn’t just sitting down with a book but they learn to play games and understand the rules and different forms of literacy that help them with their lives.” The Library is also now running a program for teens age 12

– 18 called ‘Steam Punk Summer’. “It’s all working together with the community to get to the bottom line goal of getting people to read and ﬁnd out how important literacy really is.” For more information on programs at the library visit www. rdpl.org. kpalardy@reddeerexpress.com

EAGER LISTENERS - Emily Grose leads story time with elementary school age kids at the downtown Public Library recently.

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Music in motion with the Red Deer Royals BY TANIS REID Red Deer Express The Red Deer Royals Marching Show Band has recently concluded a successful new member recruitment drive. According to Director of the Red Deer Royals Concert and Marching Show Band Rob Goring, normally between 25 and 35 young musicians join the band each year. This year there will be 55 youth from Central Alberta joining the ranks this September. This will bring the band membership number to approximately 120 members. Goring attributes the rise in the number of youth auditioning for the show band to two major factors -- a strong and focused recruiting campaign and word of mouth promotion by current band members and the families. In past years Goring has done an average of a dozen school presentations per year to promote the band. This year he made 22 presentations. “Our members and their families are out best promoters,” he said. “We also get really strong support from school recommendations.” Goring also attributes some of the draw to the band to be from

ALL TOGETHER - The Red Deer Royals head off the Westerner Days Parade this year. They also recently ﬁnished a Tanis Reid/Red Deer Express successful recruitment drive for new members. the string of successes the Royals has enjoyed both in Alberta and around the world in recent years. The Royals won gold medals at the World Championships for Marching Show Bands in Malaysia in 2011, in Italy in 2003 and in Germany in 2001. They also were Top Canadian Band and second overall in the 2010 and 2011 Calgary Stampede parades. The Red Deer Royals Marching

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Show Band has recently returned home from the World Championships for Marching Show Bands and from a performance at this year’s Calgary Stampede. The championships were held as a part of the 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede. This year the world championship was held at the Saddledome in Calgary. The event attracted 17 bands from all around the world.

For this competition the Royals performed a 10-minute ﬁeld show entitled ‘Scheherazade’, a show that tells the story of the One Thousand and One Arabian Nights. The 90-member band ﬁnished with a gold medal and was fourth overall. This performance garnered a mark of 87.6 points, the highest score they have ever achieved at the world champi-

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onships. The Royals have previously performed at the world championships on six occasions -- in 2011 in Malaysia, 2009 in The Netherlands, 2003 in Italy, 2001 in Germany, 2000 in Calgary, and 1998 in the U.K. The band has earned silver and gold awards in these previous competitions. “Following the Royals’ performance in the ﬁnals of the competition, many of the band members were extremely emotional,” said Goring. “They knew they had turned in a season best performance and were enormously relieved and justiﬁably proud.” After an award winning show for the world championships the Royals also put on a performance in the Calgary Stampede Parade. The Red Deer Royals were the top marching band in the 2012 Calgary Stampede and placed second overall. The winning band was from Taiwan. The Royals received a mark of 90.8, trailing the Taiwanese band that scored 92.2. The local band were the only Canadian band among the top seven groups. For more information about the Red Deer Royals please visit www.reddeerroyals.com. treid@reddeerexpress.com

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Reading Tails bringing books and kids together BY TANIS REID Red Deer Express A local program is not only helping children learn how to read but also gaining conﬁdence in the process. “Parents and librarians need a wake up call to put on the armour of literacy for our children and students,” said Laural Grimes children’s services coordinator at the Red Deer Public Library. It was with this in mind that in 2010 Grimes and then Children Services Librarian Donna Alberts along with St. John’s Ambulance, started Red Deer’s ﬁrst Reading Tails program. Reading Tails is a program where children who are having a tough

time learning to read at school can come and practice enhancing their literary skills by reading to therapy dogs for 30 minutes once a week for six weeks. Many children that participated in the program have achieved success and greatly improved their literary skills according to Grimes. June Thompson, one of the dog handlers for the program recalls a little boy, after completing a session with her and Margaret Rose, one of her therapy dogs, running out of the room and exclaiming “Mommy! I read a whole book!” This program has been proven to work, ofﬁcials have said. The statistics show that a child can im-

‘WE REMOVE THE CHILD FROM NEGATIVE THOUGHTS (ABOUT THEIR READING SKILLS) AND LET THEM JUST READ IN A JUDGMENT FREE ENVIRONMENT.’ LAURAL GRIMES prove by up to three reading levels in a six-week period. According to Grimes, success can be attributed to the postive atmosphere of the program. “We remove the child from negative thoughts (about their reading skills) and let them just read in a judgment free environment. “Therapy dogs are different from working dogs. Therapy dogs are trained to interact. They are there to make (the child) feel good and just to be a friend.” Therapy dogs and their handlers go through a

vigorous training process before they have the opportunity to work with kids in this capacity. Both the handlers and the dogs must pass a series of tests in order to work with others. There is additional training required for dogs and handlers to work with children. They must have at least one year being a therapy dog for adults before they can apply to work with kids. Thompson is a qualiﬁed handler who not only has three therapy dogs; she also breeds standard poodles to become therapy dogs. Over ﬁve years ago Thompson was looking for a place to volunteer when she found out about the St. John’s Ambulance program with the canines. Someone had once told her that when she was looking for volunteer work to look at her skill set and put that to work.

“I loved my dogs and training and showing them. This program with St. John’s Ambulance was a perfect ﬁt.” Thompson has now been a therapy dog volunteer for over ﬁve years and actively uses two of her standard poodles, Margaret Rose and Sachi, as a part of Reading Tails. Last year’s program was so successful that it will be running again this year.

This year Learning Tails is hoping to have up to four handlers available each night. This would allow eight children to participate in the program. Sessions will start this fall. Anyone looking for more information can contact Laural Grimes at 403342-9121, email lgrimes@ rdpl.org, or visit the children’s department of the downtown Public Library. treid@reddeerexpress.com

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Congratulations A PERFECT PAIR - June Thompson and her Therapy Dog Sachi work together to bring smiles to Red Deerians. One program they work with is Reading Tails at the Red Deer Public Library. Tanis Reid/Red Deer Express

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Red Deer Canadian Ukrainian Dance Club will be starting Wednesday, September 5th, 2012. Registration and Orientation Classes BEGIN at 6:00 p.m. at Festival Hall. EVERYONE IS WELCOME - Not necessary to be Ukrainian or have any dance experience. Adults do not need to be couples to join. For more info, call Irene 403-346-5712, Doris 403-347-2344 kvitkardukrdance@yahoo.ca

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Local swim team offers introduction to sport BY TANIS REID Red Deer Express Every year in September, the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club offers an opportunity for young aspiring athletes to participate in a competitive swimming pre-season prospects camp. This is Rookie Camp. This year the four-day introduction to competitive swimming will start Sept. 4th and through Sept. 7th. The camp is a great way to learn swimming skills and to make friends while improving ﬁtness.

“We want to be part of a ﬁt-for-life, sportfor-life kind of pattern,” said Head Coach Mandi Smith. Being a part of the Catalina Swim Club is a good way to start this pattern, especially when swimming plays into a child’s strengths. Rookie Camp is open to anyone, especially those who are 12 and under, who can swim at least one length of the pool (25m) without pause or assistance. Participants must be prepared to give their best efforts in this camp because the instruction and training will be challeng-

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ing. The swimmers will get a feel for stops and turns as well as all four stokes including butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle. This camp is coached not only by the coaches of the Catalina Swim Club but also some of the senior swimmers on the team. “It’s really cool because the older kids get involved,” said Smith. There is usually a two to one ratio for coaching; two kids for each coach. The camp is not solely available for youth wanting to join the competitive team, it is open for anyone who is curious about the program and to see if they are a good fit for the swim club. “If someone does not know about competitive swimming and even if they don’t go on to the competitive program this is a great way to find out about it.” According to Smith competitive swimming is cool because it has a unique trait that is different from most sports. Swimming is an individual sport but it is prepared for in a team environment.

“(The athletes) get the beneﬁts of both team and individual sports,” she said. “The training time is all together as a team but when you go to swim meets you compete at an individual level. “It’s a different kind of competition. You are not trying to win or lose; you are just trying to beat yourself from last time.” Each swimmer will be assessed on their aquatic abilities to see if they should qualify for the competitive team or for the precompetitive program. “We are totally honest,” said Smith. “If a kid needs more swimming lessons before they come see us we will say so and encourage them to come see us when he or she is stronger.” The goal is to set up each swimmer for success, to explore his or her natural abilities and encourage each athlete to strive to be the best that he or she can be. For more information contact Red Deer Catalina Swim Club check out www.reddeercatalina.ca. treid@reddeerexpress.com

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Child’s imaginations run wild at Tiny Toes BY KIRSTEN PALARDY Red Deer Express Children’s imaginations are constantly running rampant and Tiny Toes Castle Daycare has taken advantage of this fact with their themed surroundings. Sisters Annie and Alvina Zaidi, along with their mom Faiza, own and operate the daycare that opened in October 2010. Annie said when they opened there were not many daycares in the community and there was such a huge need for them. The location of Tiny Toes Castle (5, 255 Davidson Dr.) also provides a unique and different approach because they are in a strip mall in what would be deemed commercial space. “We designed the space in a way that it’s castle theme. We thought it would be a good change, daycares are very pretty but there aren’t many with a theme. The kids really enjoy the environment,” said Annie. Annie and Alvina have worked hard to make their daycare not only a child friendly area but also an environment where parents feel welcome and encouraged to ask questions. “Our philosophy is learning through play and we do also want to emphasize education as well. We work with child centred or child directed play,” said Annie. The sisters agreed that while they do have ideas that they bring to the table, they take into consideration what the children and the parents are interested in. “We try to bring the education aspect in to all the play activities that we do. We try to ﬁnd the balance between what we want them to learn and what they want to learn or are interested in,” said Annie. Annie also said that the children do have a set routine for meals and naps, but that they are provided options to take part in group activities or play independently. “We have circle time which is a struc-

tured activity where we decide upon a theme and we just have a topic of discussion,” said Annie. The circle time topics have ranged from stranger safety to ﬁre drills, the RCMP and community workers in Red Deer. “There are a wide range of topics that we discuss and it gives us an opportunity to have direct one on one interaction with the kids. We bring books and props and material that relates to each topic,” said Annie. Alvina said that part of the beneﬁt of circle time is that the children learn from each other. “If one week we are talking about under water and one child says an octopus has four hands and another says they have eight, then they’re learning from each other.” On Wednesdays, the children are invited to bring in a toy or picture and talk about it and tell the other children about it. “We get right in play down to the kid’s level and keep daily logs of the child’s day, those are things that parents really like,” said Alvina. The daycare sees children from 19 months to 12 years. They also have an outdoor play space that is well used by the children where they can play on the grass, play equipment, or take toys outside as well. “We wanted to ensure that kids are getting quality care because when we were starting we thought if people are going to pay us they should get their worth for their dollar,” said Annie. The meal plans at the daycare are comprehensive and work on a 12-week rotational plan where most daycares work on a four or six-week rotational plan. “We made recipe books for parents as well so they know what their children are eating and we are very conscientious about allergens,” said Annie. kpalardy@reddeerexpress.com

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