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Man fights off cougar PEOPLE IN BANFF WARNED AFTER COUGAR ATTACKS MAN NEAR TOWN BY THE CANADIAN PRESS BANFF — Parks Canada officials are advising people in Banff to be on alert after a man told them he fought off an attacking cougar with his skateboard. Bill Hunt, the resource conservation manager for the Banff field unit, said the man was attacked Thursday and originally reported the incident anonymously. But Hunt said officials tracked him down to get more information in order to find the cougar. “I think he was reluctant to contact us right away because he’d be in trouble for striking an animal inside a national park. But of course, in that situation you’re in defence mode and it’s totally appropriate,” Hunt explained Sunday. Hunt said the man told them he was listening to music through earbuds while walking between the townsite and an industrial area when the cougar attacked. “He was hit from behind, knocked to the ground and instantly reacted properly. With a cougar, the correct thing to do is fight back hard and convince that cougar that you’re not going to be available for prey,” Hunt said.
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Evan Munro, 5, and his brother Connor Munro, 3, climb into the front seat of their great-great grandfather’s McLaughlin-Buick on Saturday at the opening of Roseneath Garage at Sunnybrook Farm Museum with their parents Steve and Taryne Munro.
Going vintage at Sunnybrook VINTAGE VEHICLES TAKE UP RESIDENCE AT SUNNYBROOK FARM MUSEUM BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF A 1911 McLaughlin-Buick automobile that at one time chugged down the dirt lanes of Red Deer finally has a cozy place to call home at Sunnybrook Farm Museum. The new Roseneath Garage was open to the public on Saturday to house artifacts donated to the museum. The McLaughlin-Buick, donated in 2009 by Judi McIntoshRobertson and family of Red Deer, was originally owned by her
grandfather Julius McIntosh. The car was purchased from Parke Motors, the first auto dealer in Red Deer, and is believed to be one of only two in existence in Canada. “We finally have a home worthy of our 1911 McLaughlin-Buick automobile,” said museum executive director Ian Warwick on Saturday at the ceremony that attracted about 40 people. The vintage auto has been in storage until now. “We’re trying to tell the story of Central Alberta and the people who lived here.
“It’s certainly a piece of local history. “It’s the same vehicle that was used by Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1910 when he came and visited Red Deer.” Julius McIntosh, a bricklayer by trade and descendant of John McIntosh who discovered the original McIntosh Apple, came to Red Deer in the early 1900s and literally built Red Deer. His work included the McIntosh Tea House and many other historic brick buildings in the city.
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Great inspiration led to teaching career HUNTING HILLS MATH TEACHER CITES HER OWN ‘VERY GOOD’ MATH TEACHER; WINS TEACHING AWARD BY SUSAN ZIELINSKI ADVOCATE STAFF Red Deer teacher Shari Jensen was among 20 recipients of the 2013 Excellence in Teaching Awards at an education celebration in Edmonton on Saturday. Winners were chosen from among 129 semi-finalists from across the province. Award nominees are chosen for their leadership, creativity, innovation, collaborative work with colleagues, and positive learning environments they create. Jensen, a math teacher at Hunting Hills High School, said having a very good math teacher when she was in Grade 12 put her on her chosen career path. “It just clicked for me and I thought that’s what I’d like to do for other people,” said Jensen, 41. She said she tries to make math fun, engage students in an easy-going environment, and downplay the difficulty. “There’s a lot of kids that just come in and say, ‘I’m bad at math.’ No you’re not. You can do it.
‘MAYBE I’M JUST NOT OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW HOW IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO. OUR GIRLS ARE STRONG. THEY’RE DOING VERY WELL. I ALWAYS HAVE VERY STRONG GIRLS AND VERY STRONG BOYS.’ — RED DEER TEACHER
SHARI JENSEN
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Hunting Hills High School math teacher Shari Jensen, left, has been awarded an excellence in teaching award. “Everybody can do it.” And Jensen said that includes girls bucking the mathgender stereotype. “Maybe I’m just not old enough to know how it was 40 years ago. Our girls are strong. They’re doing very well. I always have very strong girls and very strong boys.” Advances in technology and
tools in class provide more ways to show how math works. The more ways there are, the better chance of students understanding, she said. “When I started we were using white boards. Now we’ve evolved into SMART Boards. Any three dimensional shape, or any movement of an object, or anything that’s happening, I
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“I have a kid right now in Math 31 who started out in Math 9. He came in and was struggling in math and he fought his way all the way through it and is now sitting in calculus. He just bought in and worked hard and made it.” Jensen spends lunch hours in her classroom so students know they can get extra help if needed. She said Hunting Hills’ nine math teachers make an incredible team.
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can show them what’s happening. They can get a good picture of what’s going on, better then they used to.” Jensen, who taught math and science at Lacombe Junior High School before joining Hunting Hills in 2000, said she has seen students excel in math even after a difficult start.
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