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MONDAY, JULY 8, 2013
JAMBOREE
Scouts set for plenty of fun THOUSANDS CONVERGE AT CAMP WOODS BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF Thousands of badge-swapping, pin-trading, firestarting, stilts-walking, ziplining, castle-storming scouts have arrived at Camp Woods and, along with all of the above, they are set for a week of much fun and excitement. The Canadian Scout Jamboree got underway Saturday night at the camp northwest of Sylvan Lake, with about 6,500 11-to-14-year-olds descending on the 100-acre space for the first national scouting jamboree in six years. On Sunday, scouts enjoyed the first full day of programming full of activities, games, and relentless badge-swapping efforts. Shortly after swinging their flails into all the dried cow patties they could find on the land leased for programming up the road from the camp, a group of scouts from Victoria raved about the badges they
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Jacqueline Thoman, left, runs into Sarah Rostron in the ‘suit up the armour’ activity at the Canadian Scout Jamboree at Camp Woods northwest of Sylvan Lake on Sunday. Thoman and Rostron, of Edmonton, are part of the only Girl Guides troop attending the week-long event. had already acquired through some enterprising While the Scouts movement became completely trading. co-ed in 1998, today only about 20 per cent of scouts Alexander Sabourin was proudly holding a badge are female. from Morocco, while others spoke of their new badgThoman’s Edmonton troop is 100 per cent female, es from places like Hong Kong, Japan, and Thailand. though, as it is the only Girl Guides group to attend Jakob Silva had this year’s Scouts picked up a rare soljamboree. ‘AT THESE EVENTS YOU SEE A LOT OF id-coloured “ghost” With the next naUNITY ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BUT ALSO badge that he was tional Guiding getquick to praise. together two years INTERNATIONALLY.’ Jordan Borselliaway, and with 100 no, meanwhile, had years of Guiding and — GIRL SCOUT JACQUELINE THOMAN already collected Scouting in Alberta “hundreds of pins” to celebrate in 2013, in the 24 hours since the troop arrived at camp. Thoman, a troop leader, said it was natural to bring While the Victoria scouts were preparing to her cadre to the event. “storm the castle” as part of one of the organized ac“At these events you see a lot of unity across the tivities, Sarah Rostron and Jacqueline Thoman slid country, but also internationally,” said Thoman. on some duct-taped together foam pads and had a sumo wrestle of sorts. Please see SCOUTS on Page A2
PEREGRINE FALCONS
Baby falcons arrive in tower BY MYLES FISH ADVOCATE STAFF
cal debate over oil transportation, and Canada’s rapidly expanding oil-by-rail industry which has seen a stunning 28,000-per-cent increase over the past five years. The search for victims in the charred debris has been hampered by the fact two of the train’s cars continued to burn Sunday morning, creating a no-go zone and concerns of other potentially fatal explosions.
Red Deer birders rejoice — three new baby falcons are now part of the city’s skyscape. Over the last three years, the peregrine falcons who regularly nest in the Telus communications tower on Hermary Street in Highland Green have developed quite a following. A few dedicated watchers have made a habit out of visiting the area around the 111-metre tower, taking photos and videos, while hundreds more have gone online for voyeuristic views inside the birds’ nesting box through live webcams in place since 2010. This year those webcams have been riddled with technical difficulties, and the online watchers have missed out on viewing the ever-exciting hatching season. But the webcams were functional for long enough for watchers to notice the four eggs laid, and now spotters have found that from those eggs at least three eyasses (baby falcons) have come forth into being. A video posted to the Red Deer River Naturalists’ live stream page — still utilized by enthusiasts posting updates despite the feed being inactive — on Saturday showed three mostly white baby falcons poking their heads out of their shelter Anne Hermary does not call herself a birder, but is repurposing the telescope she used to use for stargazing to gaze at the local accipitrine stars. She spotted two babies as early as June 26, having eagerly anticipated such a sighting after viewing the four eggs on June 1 before the webcam went down.
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The downtown core lays in ruins as firefighters continue to water smoldering rubble Sunday, in Lac Megantic, Quebec after a train derailed, igniting tanker cars carrying crude oil.
40 missing in train disaster FIVE CONFIRMED DEAD BY THE CANADIAN PRESS LAC-MEGANTIC, Que. — About 40 people were declared missing amid a rising death toll in a Quebec town that saw its downtown core obliterated by the fiery explosions of a runaway train. Five people were announced dead one day after explosions and fireballs razed much of Lac-
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Megantic, as tanker cars filled with crude oil hurtled down a hill and derailed in the middle of town. Authorities warned Sunday that a higher death toll is inevitable. After viewing the devastation, Prime Minister Stephen Harper likened what was once the heart of Lac-Megantic to a ”war zone.” The incident has also shone the spotlight on the contentious politi-
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ASIANA JET WAS FLYING TOO SLOWLY
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Pilots of Asiana Flight 214 were flying too slowly as they approached San Francisco airport, and then tried to abort the landing seconds before crashing, according to federal safety officials. A6
Federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau popped up at an unexpected place on Sunday as he continues to drum up political support from voters. A3